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WBMOHm Fear That Congressman Howell Will Be Defeated Cause of Alarm BUSY WITH STATISTICS Figures So Far Compiled Anything but Conclusive, It Is Said Cons Jerable oncern s felt by the Tepubl oan leade s 1 Utah over the election of a co gressnian from the lirst congress, o a) distr ct Congress man Howell is the Rei ubl can cand date for re election n the d str ct and the prel n marv est mate of the Ee publ cats as to the probable vote of the co nties compr s ng the d strict is the ocfEs on for the ajarm The Tep bl caDS estimate that they will airy ost of the cou,nt es in the d str ct bj the isual pluralities, but m -anpeto and Weber count eB they fear a, radical change in the vote that will equalize I epubl can n aior t es n other counties The lirst d str ct compr ses all or the count es in the state save Salt Lake Utah Davis and Tooele The Jtepub hcans bore to carry &alt Lake count by suf f cient plural ty to elect the en tire 6tate t cket and the cand date for congress from the Second d str ct The best est mate that the Kepubl can leaders have been able to agree on that outs de of ''alt Lake ount the Republicans and the fus on tts will have an even break In Salt Lake county therefore they are making the r greatest effort for success and are hop ng to carry the county by more than 1500 votes Outlook Is Jsot Bright In Sanpete anl Weber count es the Kepubl ans are 1 nd ng th ngs in poor sl ape fron the r ewpo nt both be au e of the un tv of the Democrats and 1 ro"resa es and the fact onal troubles of the Fepubl cans Lewis Larson Demo rat c and Progress ve cand date for congress s now cam pa gnin n the northern part of the ttate He expects to defeat Howell m the northern part of the state inelud rag Ca he county the home of the Re j. publ can cand date In the south Lax son s. tronf both because of h s per sonil povular tv and because of the feel ng prevalent that the southern half of the state should have repre , sentat on n congress rrespective of the m rol tical affil at ons of the man . anpete countv s the home of "Mr Sf I arson and h s adm rers are of the be CS Kef tl at ho will secure a plurality of B at least 1000 in that countv The Be publicans are atmttng that Sanpete Rinaji g ve h n a plural tv of 400 Two HEflears ago the vote was almost evenl HBffd vided anon" the Eepubl cans the gF Democrats and the Progress ves With Aa the De nocrats and Progress ves work Bfr ijng for the same andidates it would Ji seen that thev wo Id have a b g ad t vantage Jude King est mates that the comb nat on t cket will carry Weber hf countv bv at least 1000 votes Some Eepub) can guessers place the fus on plural ty at about one half Judge ggtt ing s est mate Estimates Are Gnen f One Repub can has figured out tie L robab e pluralit es in each of the coun fcjjfttes in Congressman Howe 1 s district flrjESrcaslng b s st mate on reporls from va h)us sections of the sta e and on the ESfngpte of tn o ears ao He e s h a f&tA Bea er even Bo Elder 00 Re SS i KBbllcan Cache 300 fus on Carbon gf s 00 Republican D chesne even S ffitaery 100 fus on Garfield 400 Re r publican Grand 100 fus on Iron 200 j Republican Jnab 00 Repub can Kane 300 republican Millard even i, Morgan 10O fus on Piute even Rich, even San Juan even Sanpete 400 fusion Sev er 200 Repub can Uin ta, 200 f s on 'Wasatch, even Wash inQton 100 fus on TVayne 100 Pe publican Weber E00 fusion Ills est mate gives Howell a plural! y of 200 in the entire district wh ch is too narrow a margin to bank on in his opin ion Naturally the est mates of the other side are the other -nay and Democrats and Progressives are maintainlrg tha Larson will be elected by upv ards of 000 otes Statistics Are Gnen An ana js s of the plum it es for eac p de as attorn n the estimate woull lndi a e that the political ooserver w o comp led tl e figures givs his ow party the better of tl e argument n most n stances Howe 1 carr ed Beaver countj tv.o years ago h 91 otes o er tl e Democratic cand da e lie the Progress ve cand date polled J0Z votes Add ng the Dem ocrat c and Progress ve vote together would gi e the fusionists a plurality of 12 otes Howell carried Box Elder b only 89 otes two vears ago yet the estimate gives him the county by 200 In Cache countj In 1912 Howell was beat en bv 413 votes while this time the es timate uts down tep urality against him lo 300 In most of the other coun ties the p uralltfes gi en are the same as tl ose of the 1912 e ect on in round numbers the guesser figuring t lat tbe gains to be made bv the fusionists wi 1 be offset bv Republican gains of Pro greesives who have returned to the Re publican part) Exceptions to Rule EKceptions to this ru e howe er are found in Sanpete and Weber counties Howell carried Sanpete two yeara ago 1 y 460 This year it is estimated bin pete w 11 go to Larson 400 Progres gives In b nj-ftc two years ago polled neu 1 00 ol Ttii.s ear the Pro gresslves are nowhere n the state so act e as thej are In Sanpete and they are declaring the are making grea rains wh e t e Democrats are mo e than hold heir own The Republican otc In Sanpe c the Progressives p e llrt be smal e than two years ago wl fch of o rse would give the comb! nation t k t a great majority In Weber ounty In 191' Howell re rei ed a plurality of 393 over Mathonlha Thomas the Democratic candidate whose vote wan on y two more tha Lewis Larson the Progressive candldat If the Democrats hold their strength in Weber ounty and two thirds of the Pro gressl cs ote t e fusion t cket and the other o c third the Republ can tlckt tn fusion sts w II carr Weber count) bv m re tan 600 vote? |