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Show CLERKS VOTE FOR PRESIDENT WILSON Straw Vote of Some of City Employees Em-ployees Shows Democrats in the Lead. A st ra w vote taken in the city of- fices yesterday gave W'oodrow Wilson fitty-pight out of ninety-seven votes for president and Simon Bamberger iit'ty-three iit'ty-three out of ninety-five for governor. Final tabulation of the votes showed that Mr. W i 1 so n got a pi u ra 1 i ty of t wen' v-three and a majority of nineteen nine-teen votes, while Mr. Bamberger got . a plurality of fifteen and. a majority r of eleven. Jp The vote stood: Wilson 53. Hughes f Benson 4. for president, and La m- . V berger ".', Morris 3i, MciJugh 4, t'or y go ernor. The vote was accomplished by the carrying of an improvised ballot box through the ollu-es by W. M. Knerr of the city recorder 's office a nd A. V. Saddler of the city auditor 's office. The votes were counted in the office of City Audit or . A. Bock in the presence of .witnesses. |