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Show the RUN-OFF and the general election. The election is especially especial-ly important and significant this year. Only by participation in the democratic process of casting a ballot can the citi.en demonstrate demon-strate an abiding belief in the American process of government. ELECTION OCTOBER 1 oming session: Elliott W. Evans, ity attorney, will be a Republican Republi-can candidate for state rcpre-entative rcpre-entative from the eighteenth legislative district in the general election, being unopposed in the primary. Bingham voters have shown themselves as interested in having representation in the legislature. Support of voters of ioth parlies, a generous "scratch vote", would mean Mr. Evans' probable election. Major interest in the run-off (enters on the following candidates: candid-ates: Republicans will choose between be-tween Philo T. Farnsworth and Oscar W. Carlson in the run-off to select an opponent to Abe Mu rdock. In the Second district congressional congress-ional race Representative J. W. Robinson is unopposed for the Democratic nomination, but A. Sherman Christenson and Reed H. Vetterli will fight for supremacy suprem-acy on the Republican ticket. Although Herbert B. Maw received re-ceived more than 48 per cent of Ihe total Democratic vote cast for the office of governor, he must face Henry D. Moyle for the nomination in the run-off. On the Republican side, Don B. Colton and Reed Stevens were close in the primary and a final reckoning will be made next Tuesday. For justice of the supreme court the Democratic aspirant had no opposition, while a run-off will decide between Joseph E. Evans and Harvey II. Cluff as the choice of Republicans. There are other interesting choices to be made right down to the county offices. The important import-ant thing is that in spite of personal per-sonal disinterest, the voter learn as much as he can about the candidates and use his best judgment judg-ment in making a choice, but a-bove a-bove all, that the voter go to the polls and vote in the primary, Next Tuesday, Oetober 1. U" run-off election will be held in Utah to complete nomination of candidates for the ncneral elec tion of November 5. It can be said without expecting expect-ing contradiction that the primary pri-mary election was a success. In Utah a total of sunie 122,000 voters vot-ers trekked to the polls to cast ballots. The final accounting was interesting in several ways. Pre-primary Pre-primary objection that only a rich man could expect to cam paign effectively can be discounted discount-ed as a study of the campaign expense figures filed by candidates cand-idates reveals that some spent out of all proportion to the support sup-port they received and others, with modest financial support, nevertheless garnered substantial substan-tial vote totals. The criticism of state party leaders that the primary puts into in-to the hands of a few cliques too much power is not to be taken seriously. Nominating conventions conven-tions are participated in by very few party workers, while the primary pri-mary drew 122,000 voters who made judgment by ballot on the candidates. Locally, in the Tenth precinct, there are 2848 registered voters. The senatorial races attracted 1308 voters, not an exceptionally heavy turnout, but indicative of general interest. Party workers reported many citizens hesitant about voting for fear the process would be complicated and difficult diffi-cult because of the large number of candidates and the size of the ballot, discouraging to the timorous. timor-ous. With more general acceptance accept-ance of the procedure a better showing can be expected. An interesting sidelight on precinct ten results was that the district proved to be over two to one Democratic. The Democratic Demo-cratic candidates for senator polling poll-ing 878 votes and the Republican Republi-can 430 votes. Another fact of interest was that Henry D. Moyle won a large plurality over Herbert Her-bert B. Maw, who received more than 48 per cent of the total Democratic state vote cast for the office of governor. Mr. Moyle received 408 to the 240 caul for Mr. Maw in this precinct. Bingham's candidate for election elec-tion as a Democratic state representative repre-sentative in the eighteenth legislative legis-lative district, James West, was given good support in his home precinct with over twice the vote total gathered by his competitors, competit-ors, Milton Bodell of Herriman and Lewis F. Mousley of River-ton. River-ton. Official returns nevertheless showed Mr. West was eliminated. Bodell and Mousley are to face each other in the run-off. The local candidate for state senator from Salt Lake county, Leland G. Burress, was low man in the county although high Republican Re-publican party candidate in his homo precinct. The elimination of Mr. West and Mr. Burress leaves only one possibility of a Bingham representative repre-sentative in the legislature the |