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Show Over 50 Per Cent Of Voters Vote In Primary Rex Gardner And F. J. Bowler Stage Hot Race; Ilirschi First In Sheriff's Balloting Approximately 50 per cent of the voters of Washington county cast their votes on the Primary election held last Tuesday, out of the 3.000 votes cast last election, 1566 turned out to vote Tuesday. Politicals observers declare that this was as good as most of them expected considering that it was the first primary election to be held in this state, and since there wasn't the competition for a number num-ber of offices, there wasn't as much interest aroused as will be the case on. the November election. The greatest number of votes were cast on the Republican ticket with 877 voting for assesor candidates; the sheriff's contest drew the next largest number with 855 voting and 2-year commissioner followed with 689. On the Democratic ticket the clerk's and assessor's tied with 686 votes being cast for these candidates. Polling 562 votes, Henry Graff proved to be the best vote-getter of either party at the Primary election held last Tuesday. Newell R. Frei gave Mr. Graff a close race for first place honors when VlQ rrllp OO 'I'ha lncncf to he polled 520. The closest race developed between Rex Gardner and Francis Bowler in the commissioner commis-sioner race on the Republican ticket for the West end of the county. Mr. Gardner finally nosed (Continued on page eight) Primary Election l i ( Continued from first page) out Mr. Bowler by 14 points with 41S to 404. j Out of the five sheriffs running on the Republican ticket, Kenneth Hirschi took a commanding lead with 362 to his nearest rival, John P. Atkin with 170. D. C. Watson and Earl Childers each had 126 votes cast for them while Carl Moss got the nod from 71 voters. Since Mr. Hirschi did not secure a majority of all the votes cast for sheriff, it will be necessary to hold a run-off election. The other office which had a number out for it was the Assessor's Asses-sor's office with four candidates running for it on the Republican party. Of this group J. W. Imlay ! went out in front with a good mar- gin when he secured 328 votes to !J. Edward Gubler's 229: A. B. Andrus' 1S1 and James R. Bunker's 139. The names of Mr. Imlay and Mr. Tobler will also appear on the run-off ballot. j Judd Ahead Finley M. Judd was nominated for 4-year commissioner when he received 467 votes to 3S4 for Wallace Wal-lace Iverson. On the Democratic ticket considerable con-siderable interest -centered around the clerk's office with Alice Pendleton Pen-dleton and Clair Terry out for the nomination. Miss Pendleton got the party's okeh with 400 votes to 2S6 for Mr. Terry. Political commentators declare that Henry Graff must have a lot of friends in Ivins. since that district dis-trict never cast a Republican vote. It is the general opinion that Mr. Graff must have had them all lined up behind him. It will also be noted from the official report published in this paper, that there were a considerable more votes cast for Republicans than for j Democrats. Whether this means that the Republicans took more interest in-terest in the election, or that some I of the Democrats deserted their I party to vote in the Republican ranks is a question that has politicians poli-ticians pondering. Just what may happen in the run-off election is another question since under the Utah law there is nothing to prevent the Democrats from voting on the Republican candidates, there being no run-off required on the Democratic ticket. In a considerable number of states where the Primary is used, voters must state their party affiliations beforehand and are only given the ballots of that party to vote on. but under the lavr in this state it is not necessary for the voter to declare his politics and in consequence conse-quence the Democrats will very likely cast votes to help the Republicans Re-publicans pick their candidates in the run-off election. For complete returns see report appearing in this issue of the , News. |