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Show King, Robinson R-Elected; Entire County Tictzet Is Swept Into Office Here j Heavy Scratching For Republicans Re-publicans Nullified By Demo Majority In one of the most decisive off-year election victories ever recorded here, the entire Democratic county ticket was swept into office Tuesday, keeping pace with the trend in the state and nation, where the New Deal was extended an overwhelming vote of confidence. confi-dence. Astounding Victory Few political observers can remember re-member a non-presidential election elec-tion in Utah county In which one party so completely dominated the results as the Democrats did in Tuesday's landslide. The decisive manner in which every Democrat won over his Republican opponent oppon-ent in every instance, indicated that the tide which resulted in the record-breaking Roosevelt land- slide in 1932 was still running high. Heavier voting than had been anticipated marked the election. Approximately 16,500 votes were cast Tuesday, as compared with 13,913 votes in the 1930 off-year election, and 20,049 in the tre- mendous 1932 Roosevelt landslide. ; Senator King, as was predicted was given a hard battle by Don I B. Colton, the Republican nominee, j although he emerged with a major- I Ity of 1600 votes in this county. 1 Colton's popularity, or the opposition opposi-tion to King, whichever way one wants to put it, was attested by a close vote all the way, however. Congressman J. W. Robinson, returned re-turned by the voters to serve a second term, ran slightly ahead of his ticket, and polled at heavier vote than he did in 1932. Sheriff E. G. Durnell was high , man on the winning ticket, polling poll-ing a total of 10,694 votes; with Hilton A. Robertson, Springville, four-year commissioner, close behind be-hind with 10,478 votes. Elmer Holdaway of Vineyard led the legislative leg-islative ticket, and was second high man with 10,561. Andrew Jensen, bishop of the Bonneville ward, was elected county treasurer treasur-er with a vote of 10,390. . Joseph Ririe, Democratic candidate can-didate for state treasurer, and James H. Wolfe, nominee for su- preme court "justice, maintained 1 the same strength on the whole as did Congressman Robinson. John E. Booth, state senator ' from Spanish Fork, was defeated for re-election. He ran behind his ticket in the county as a whole, showing the effects of a campaign launched against him hy the farm oureau. Other. Republicans seeking rc- , . election who went down to defeat were Frank Salisbury, county clerk, and Hugo Price, county surveyor. sur-veyor. Salisbury, who led his ticket, showed unusual strength during the early returns and held the lead until later in the night. The crusi of sira-gnt ucmocrc.tic ballots was too big a handicap to (Continued on Page Four) seriousness and high-mindedness about the entire campaign which indicates that the people of Utah county are awake to their interests inter-ests and determined to take the affairs of government into their own hands. "The precinct committees have approached their work with an attitude at-titude little short of a religious zeal. There has been a feeling that we are passing through a period when every citizen, regardless regard-less of the field of work he is in, should be willing to contribute freely of his time and energy and if necessary Tlis means to the cause of good government. The ; conspicuous absence of selfish politics is indeed reassuring." D URN ELL LEADS DEMO TICKET 'j (Continued from Page One) J overcome, even witn cne heavy scratching in his favor. Democrats who were re-elected besides Senator King and Congressman Con-gressman Robinson, were Hilton A. Robertson, Springville, who was named for the four-year term over Jesse N. Ellertson, former mayor of Provo. . Sheriff Durnell, W. Stanley Dun-ford, Dun-ford, Provo, county attorney and Lawrence M. Atwood, Manila, county assessor; Frank M. Ed-man, Ed-man, Salem; Jesse" Hall, Payson and Elmer Holdaway, Vineyard, re-elected to the lower house of the state legislature; and Eldred M. Royie, Elberta, member of the lower house last term who was elected state senator with Dr. H. M. Woodward, Provo- as his running run-ning mate. The Republicans carried districts No. 3, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 18 and 19, Coltqn winning over King in each instance, aitiiough some of the Democrats on the county ticket carried some of these districts. Colton also defeated King in Alpine, Salem and a few of the smaller districts. Contrary to pre-election predictions, predic-tions, Jesse N. Ellertson, former Provo mayor did not run as strong as Robertson in Provo. Robertson Robert-son carried every Provo district, tieing with Ellertson in districts 17 and 18, near the latter's own home. Dr. Hugh M. Woodward, county Democratic chairman, and candidate candi-date for state senator, had this to say: "I desire to take this opportunity to express my appreciation for the fine team work which has characterized char-acterized every part of the county organization. Special mention should be made of the efficient conscientious work of the chairwoman, chair-woman, Mrs. Frrmces G. Callahan, and all the Democratic women. "We feel that the splendid majority ma-jority given the Democratic party has been due largely to the intense desire and enthusiasm on the part of the whole organization to further furth-er good government in Utah county. coun-ty. There has been a . spirit of |