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Show Returns Show State Overwhelmingly Democratic CORLESS IS mm Bourbons Control Both Legislative Branchca by Great Majorities; Amendments Adopted COMPLETION of th counting of ballots oast at Tu'ftday's flection and the compilation of result from scratch! tickets stamped with even firmer certainty cer-tainty Utah's alignment with tha national na-tional administration and lh Imo-c Imo-c ratio party. At no tint wis tha sweeping Bour- bow victory recorded In th early report re-port from carta! n dlatrlcta lhrttnd a tha count was completed In all districts dis-tricts Hnd tha scratch ballot a ft cured out. The aama wide margin of plurality plu-rality was maintained generally throughout tha county, with slight gains and losses being made hy certain cer-tain candidates In various districts as a result of, (ha scratching. . AMENDMENTS CARRY. Although all counties of tha atata have not mads final reports, thers Is Indication that sll three constitutional amendments carried Tha prohibition amendment and Jhe direct tax amendment amend-ment carried by wtds margins In Halt laks county, while the mlns tag amendment was lost In thts county . hy 4tv. narrow margin of 111 votes. Tha final figures for tha city and county show 1351 for and 1017 against tha prohibition amendment; IftM votes for and MM against tha direct tax amendment, or question No. I. Kor tha mine tax amendment, thers were cast 2fi0 votes for and 1? l against It. lepHe tha defeat of tha mlna tag amendment In this county. It is conceded con-ceded by leaders of both part lea that tha measurs will hava carried by a eubstantlal margin whan ths final figure fig-ure am r I vrl Fitim nil itlatrir-f nf Thurman 11117, a majority of 4411 over the 11,701 votes received In the eounty by J. W. Cherry, Republican candidate for the ten-year supreme Judgeahip. Judge Valentine Gideon received re-ceived 1.S47 votes In the county and A. J. Weber, lemocrafic Judge-elect for the six-year term, M.&45, both having hav-ing won by substantial margins over their Republican opponents. A feature of the final count was the result In Tooele county, which whs practically conceded to fpry by the lemocratlc state . committee. Con-greaaman Con-greaaman Maya received approximate-ly approximate-ly 10i0 votaa as against 0 cast for Hpry. CONCEDE WATTIS' DEFEAT. Counting nf the ecratched ballots In Weber county has now fruat rated the hopes of the Republicans of electing W. If: Wattle to congrens over Milton It. Welling. While the final count haa not yet been completed, defeat of Mr. Wattls has been conceded by Republican Republic-an leadera. Returns from all counties of the state Indicate the election of only one i Republican, Senator Ion B. Colton of ' l lnta to the state senate and five Republicans Re-publicans to the lower house of the legislature. Including ftenator Colton, eight members of the. senate were re-e'ected re-e'ected ' the state. "The vote against th prohibition pro-hibition meaaure was heavier than expected ex-pected In Halt ljake. However, the outside counties are also expectedto increase this margin materially. tt 000 VOTES. Tha anticipations of both parties were disrupted In tha number of votes cast In tha county, a much lighter vote being expected. Klnal figures show that slightly less than ix.tKM) persona voted In tha eounty Tuesday. Perhapa at no other election aver held In the a late waa there ao much scratching. Hhertff John 0. Cor leas emerged with the highest number of votes cast for any candidate to hla credit He received re-ceived m tha city and county 14.147 votaa aa againet U,t7 for C. L Hchet-tler, Hchet-tler, hla Republican opponent Thle 1 give Corleas ft majority of 401. Congressman Jamee H. Mays revolved re-volved the next highest number of rotea with a total of 14,144, a majority of 44lt over hia opponent, former Oover-renr Oover-renr William Hpry. The latter waa the low maj. on the Republican ticket In the eounty with 11.467. K her Iff Cor lea won over Mays for high honors with twenty-one votaa. JUDICIAL TICKETS. Voting on the Judicial tickets In Bait Tfak fovnty rave Jndre ftwnviel R |