Salt Lake Telegram | 1932-07-20 | Page 2 | Incumbents in Montana Hold Primary Leads

INCUMBENTS IN MONTANA HOLD PRIMARY LEADS n Br By Associated Press Prud HELENA Mont July 20 Returns Return Returns arriving with tantalizing slowness from rom yesterdays yesterday's s 's Republican and Democratic primaries gave most Mon Mop tana ana office holders satisfying leads in their heir quests for lor nominations Only Congressman John M. M Evans opposed for lor the Democratic nomination nomina nomina- tion Ion In the First district by Joseph P P. Monaghan tf young Butte lawyer failed to establish a lead after alter incomplete reports had been received from about a a- a third of the precincts representing all but one of ol the counties in his dis Monaghan was about votes to the good Less close was the Democratic race racen in n the thu eastern district where Roy EAyres E E. Ayres of Lewiston had accumulated a lead of 1250 votes over James J J. OConnor O'Connor ol ot Livingston Republican candidates Mark D D. Fitzgarrald ol ot Stevensville in the First II and Congressman Scott Leavitt in the Second were unopposed With about a third of ol the votes counted In nearly half hall the counties Governor Erickson had a better than two wo to one lead over the nearest of ol ollis his lis three opponents Miles Romney Hamilton publisher for lor the lean lican gubernatorial nomination F. F A. A Hazelbaker lieutenant governor badan had bad hadan an m equally substantial margin over W. W S. S McCormack his only Monaghan had hod to Ev Evans s' s In n of ol the precincts in the distrIct district district dis dis- dis- dis for lor congressman In the gubernatorial contest precincts of ol 1441 In the state gave Erickson with Romney his nearest competitor polling Hazelbaker had against McCormack's McCormack's McCormack's Mc- Mc Cormacks Cormack's for lor Lieutenant gO gov