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Show SENATOR SMOOT RE-ELECTED Election in Utah Most Hotly Contested Con-tested In History of State. The election in Utah, the first in which a senator was elected by the direct vote of the pople, was one of the closest in the history of the state. Senator Reed Smoot has been reelected, re-elected, but his opponent, James H. Moyle, candidate of the Democratic and Progressive parties, gave him an awful close race. Senator Smoot's plurality will be about 2,500. Congressman Joseph Howell has been re-elected to congress, and Judge William M. McCarty has been re-elected to the supreme bench. A. C. Matheson, Republican candidate candi-date for superintendent of public instruction, in-struction, has been defeated in the Btate by a plurality of probably 4,000. James K. Mayes, the Democratic and Progressive nominee in the Second Sec-ond congressional district, has apparently appar-ently defeated District Attorney E. O. Leatherwood, Republican, by about 500 votes. Leatherwood carried Davis, Tooele and Utah counties by small pluralities, but Mr. Mays' plurality in Salt Lake county was sufficient to wipe out Leatherwood's lead in tha other counties. A tabulation of the returns in Salt Lake county from almost all of the districts show the election of all of the Democratic and Progressive candidates candi-dates for coUnty and lesislative offices by safe pluralities. In Weber county .he Republicans were victorious. In Cache county the Republican party lost. The state and county tickets went Democratic. In Rich, Morgan and Summit counties coun-ties iSenator Smoot and the Republican Republi-can state ticket received a majority of the votes cast. In Uintah county, however, the Democrats succeeded in getting a majority, but the Socialists captured the county ticket. Utah county, the home county of Senator Smoot, which two years ago was strongly Democratic, returned a plurality plu-rality of 79 votes, it is claimed. The Republican county and state tiaket3 carried the county. In Carbon county coun-ty the so-called Progressive ticket won. The southern counties of the state added to Senator Smoot's plurality. Iron county was the leader, giving Senator Smoot 431 votes. Garfield county gave him a plurality of 347. Kane county gave him 326 votes, Piute gave him 57, Wasatch gave him 368 and Duchesne returned him a plurality plu-rality of 100. In Washington county, Utah's Dixie, Senator Smoot was given a plurality plu-rality of 29 votes. The Washington county Republicans also were able to elect a part of their county ticket. The next state legislature will likely like-ly be Republican in both branches. The house will be very close, but the indications are that the Republicans will control it by one or two votes. In the senate the six holdover Republican Repub-lican senators make certain Republican Republi-can control of that body, though tha Democrats this time have elected six and possibly seven of the nine senators sen-ators chosen throughout the state. |