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Show OREGON PRIMARIES f OR STATE TICKET PORTLAND. Or.. April 18. Direct primaries, pri-maries, preliminary to the election in June next, of both Democratic and Republican Repub-lican parties will occur throughout Ore- fon today for the purpose of nominating tate executive and Congressional tickets, tick-ets, and for selecting a candidate for nomination for United States Senator. .The primaries are perhaps Important in a measure as possible indexes to the result re-sult next June, but this is discounted in a large degree by the fact that undoubtedly undoubted-ly other candidates will be nominated later by petition, who barring the prestige pres-tige Indorsement by a regular party organization or-ganization is supposed to carry, stand an equal chance with the successful nominees nomi-nees today. |