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Show Favorable Weather Encourages Big Turnout Intensive efforts to "get out the vote" occupied supporters of all six candidates in the municipal mu-nicipal election late Tuesday afternoon as the. 7 p. m. "zero hour" neared. . ' Indication were that a moderately moder-ately heavy vote would be totaled to-taled before the Judaea flnMied their work Tuesday evening-. In MtTeral districts nearly double th votes eaat In the primary October It were reported. The preelection campaign had been so uneventful, however, that there waa little upon which dopesters could base any prediction aa to the outcome, and this accounted ac-counted In part for the continuation of active electioneering even Into the dinner hour. Balloting seemed heavier on the west than on the east aide of town during the daytime hours, which may have accounted In part for odds of two to one being posted on the lection of John B. Ma the son te succeed himself. Odds of 10 to T were offered, though, that P. H. Goggin, incumbent incum-bent commissioner of parks, would not bs reelected. Supporters of David K. Moffat and Lawrence A. Johnson, candidates candi-dates -for city commission posts, and Jerrold P. Beesley and Francis (Continues on Pas Klsnt) (Column One) INTENSIVE VOTE jRIVESPUSHED (Cootlsaed (ram Fate Oot - Piatt, bidding ror the auditor's post, claimed at least an "even chance" Tuesday afternoon. Fewer than 24.000 votes were cast In the primary, but a total of mora than 50 000 seemed likely if the early morning tempo should continue nntil the Dolling places close. The fair weather was hailed as a factor which may help to rlng out a heavier vote than was anticipated. Nothing more serious than a few complaints about workers election- eerinf too close ta the polling places was reported to the city recorder's office during the morning. From several quarters, however, came word that "mud slinging" had been injected into the municipal fight,, particularly in the Second ward, where circulars were being distributed. Until Tuesday the entire campaign had been unusual in that there had been no outward Indication of "mud slinging," but when It did appear, political observers noted, it came too late to give those involved any time to answer. Although local Interest was naturally nat-urally concentrated on the selection f two new members of the city commission and a city auditor, other municipal elections were being coa- ducted over the stats. In some communities, however, nu election was scheduled. The last state legislsturs, in providing for the direct primary, repealed the old election laws and did not provide anything in their place, so far as third class cities were concerned, and some cities are taking advantage advan-tage of this and retaining present officers until the new law takes effect ef-fect next year. Special election ordinances were adopted In other cities, however, so that legal elections could be held. Among numerous calls rsceived t the city recorder's offics, headquarters head-quarters for information on Salt Lake City's election, and the county clerk's offics, which was headquarters headquar-ters for information concerning elections In towns of the county, Wore ths following: Can election judges In a givsn district agree to accept the ballot of an invalid, confined to a wheelchair, wheel-chair, unable to enter the building where election booths are maintained? main-tained? The answer was "yes," If ths Invalid In-valid could be gotten to the door of the building and two Judges as watchers agreed to leave their posts beside the election booths, going to the invalid while ths ballot was . marked, to see that It was safely deposited in the ballot box. Another was: Can property owner of Central Park, who la also a bona fide residsnt and voter in Salt Lake City, vote at his horns election district and also vols In Central Park and sxpress himaelf upon the question of whether the town shall disincorporate? The answer an-swer la "no." Allowing the vote , in Central Park and Salt Lake City would be equivalent to the elector voting twice, despite the fact that the Central Park question Involves .... indirectly matters which may affect his property rights In that town, i s at t I |