Show ' 3:' JT- cTljt 5alt £akcNoviZVibunc 1941 Wednesday Morning I 8 Maw Lee Run Neck and Neck Thomas Reelected to Senate t You can tak it from who know — the candidate themselves — political campaigning is far more than the generaland ly assumed cigar hand-out- a Granger Lead Stringham in Race For Congressional Position Maw Holds baby kissing It’ a lot of hard work Though they have differed on many subject during the cam- paign Democratic and Republican candidates alike Tuesday agreed on that point J Bracken Lee Republican “Just gubernatorial aspirant after taking it easy" at Price morncasting his ballot Tuesday ing described the speeohmaking appearances etc as “the hardest kind of work I know’ Herbert B Maw his Democratic opponent wholeheartedly agreed Telephone and personal calls any time of the night or day having to smile and appear fresh after a series of tiring appearances and the general fatigue resulting from traveling “make the Job a tough one” Senatorial contestanta Adam 814 in Close Contest (Continue From Pace One) backers Lee failed to get theeH King) in the U S senate margin he was expected to get j In 1936 when the Roosevelt main some of the outlying counties Jority was 85691 the late Gov The scratch for the GOT guber-- J Henry H Blood won by a margin rr tonal candidate was general j0f 29 "38 in & three-wa- y contest except for xery few spots but the And in 1940 there was & spread Repubhcan ote was not as heavy of approximately 50000 between a surveys had mdtated it might the Democratic party and the be majorities If the Republicans succeed In gubernatorial The state likewise has & conw nrng a congressional or state sistent record of heavy voting It cffce it will be the first reversal alternates with West Virginia in cf a solid string of Democratic vic- first and second place for the tories extending back to 1932 of eligible voter who do ran for register and vote when President Roosevelt Jus first term In 1930 the Republicans elected per-centa- ge two congressmen and a supreme Utah Judicial Posts Go To Democrats court justice and then lapsed into the role of the minority party The 1932 landslide which was rot generally anticipated in this state early m the year gave the state to Roosevelt by a majority cf 31999 The total major party vote that year was 201545 Gathered Momentum The new deal tide gathered momentum from 1932 to 1936 ard in second term bid President 1 Roosevelt carried the state by The total major party vote was 214801 At that poirt the trerd began to charge but only slowly In 1940 the total major party vote rose to 247 428 but the Roosevelt shrunk to 61 126 In that major ty Sen Abe Murdock ran election ahead of the president piling up a majority of 63 568 Gov Herbert B Maw on the other hand slipped through with a modest 10 806 margin The nearest approach the GOP Trade to wmnrg a major office in the state from 1932 to 1944 was in the 1942 congressional election whn J Bracken Lee came within 269 votes of rosing out Rep Walter K Granger in the First con- j J Du- chesne and Uintah counties William Stanley Dunford Democrat and Joseph E Nelson Republican were the only two candidates to fill two vacancies on the bench by agreement among members of the bar Both therefore art assured of election although Mr Dunford had polled 12112 votes and Mr Nelson only 8327 votes in returns from 98 of 148 districts Return from the Third Judicial district comprising Salt Iake Tooele Summit and Daggett counties showed Clarence E Baker heading the Democratic slate of candidates for district Judges with 40 224 votes as against 23802 votes fon Dean E Flanders heading the Repubhcan slate of Judicialo candidates One hundred seventy-twof 292 districts had reported With little variation similar figures held true for the other candidates on the two tickets from this district Brigham E Robert Democ ratio candidate for district attornej 23polled 40125 votes aa 855 votes for LaMar against Duncan Repubhcan candidate for in 19 no 1904 l&hi? ard 1912 Demc in 1916 Repubhcan in 1920 1924 and 1926 and Democratic in 1932 1936 and 1940 The state acquired a reputation ocrat Walter K Granger Take commanding lead la First congressional district J Robinson (D) wins reflection in Utah’s Second congressional district Rep Rep V E E Monson tary of state Utah’s Republicanism fir cause it was ore of the two states whicn voted Pepubiican in 1912 when the late Treodore Roosevelt made his bid for another term on the Bull Moose ticket tion Mayor J Bracken Lee of Trice GOP candidate for governor cast the No 1 ballot in his voting district in Price And Mrs Lee cast the No 2 ballot In the Second Judicial district comprising Weber Davis and Morgan counties Charles G Cowley Democratic candidate for had 17066 votes and John A Judge Hendricks the other Democratic candidate for judge had 16759 votes compared with 8955 and 9162 vote respectively for John C Davis and H A Soderberg Repubhcan candidates for Judge Glenn W Adams Democratic candidate for district attorney had 16979 vote a againat 8869 vote for Parley Norseth Republican candidate for district attorney These figures were from 73 of 119 voting districts State The state has log shown a inclination to scratch Ths is shown by the fact that the voters twice elected the late in g pro-pouno- ed when George H Dem governor the remainder of the- - state ticket went Republican that for many years it kept a Republican l Reed Frnnot) and a Democrat (William Dewey Takes Kansas Lead Utah Prisoners Show Keen Election Interest Inmates of Utah state prison were barred from actual participation irt the national and state election Tuesday but their confinement didn’t keep them out of the oral debates particularly on the presidential vote Warden J E Harris reported no straw vote waa Although taken among the prisoner Warden Harris said the prisoners expressed as much interest in the election as the man In the street but that state candidates were not of much concern to the Hk V" Election Judge Gets Her Bird y Inmates juSt&L To fill un- - Wins re Lester A Wade James If Wolfe election to state supivm Mrs Mary B Hamilton an expired term In Utah high court court election judge at the Mill Creek lodge polling place 39th South and 5th East Tuesday announced an unorthodox but — she hopes — reliable method of determining outcome of the election 7 Mrs Hamilton who lives at 39SO-7t- h East advises parlor 2750 precincts m Tuesday's genprognosticators to place a piceral election gave Dewey 19713 ture of their favored presidential candidate in the window — to 10737 for Pres Roosevelt then sit back and If thing P Andrew Gov Republican happen as they did for her & Bchoeppel running for reelection was far out in front of his Demolarge pheasant will fly through Next kill and cratic opponent State Sen Robert the window Returns cook the pheasant induce a S Lemon of Pittsburg from 240 precincts gave Schoeppel member of the opposite party to break the wishbone with you 23 095 Lemon 10439 adYe With returns tabulated from 202 Sounds complicated? Mrs mit Hamilton but M that S Sen U Clyde precincts Reed Republican incumbent held the way it works Mrs Hamilton had a large a lead of 12850 to 7889 over the Thurman picture of Thoma E Dewey in Democratic nominee her front window last Saturday Hill In hi race for a second term he heard a loud All sx Republcan candidates Sudd-nl- v crash followed by a queer for congress five of them incumnoise She ran to her bents had early leads over their thumping living room and found a large Democratic opponents State Sen ‘A threshing about on top Albert M Coie only Republican pheasant Mr of The Dewey' photograph rot row in congress defeated Rep bird made an excellent Sunday Will return Headed Reese M Reese Ferrell II Adams W P Lambertson in the Repubdinner entree and Mrs Hamilton to former state treasurer lican primary last August state auditor for position saved the wnhbore post t Tuesday she asked a Democratic coworker to break tbe wnshtsme with her Mrs Hamilton won Tuesday night she Nov 7 UPi — tin early reports but Homer Cape- INDIANAPOLIS was listening intently to elecy tion returns— the acid test for iGov Dewey held a slight lead over hart Republican nominee for the Nov 8 Pres Roosevelt in Indiana Tue- United States senate was trailing her unique method of PHILADELPHIA Wednesday UP — FTea Roosevelt sday mght after dropping behind Gov Henry F Schricker Demoswept Philadelphia by a 117754 cratic nominee and Ralph Gates majority Tuesday but returnsRepublican nominee for governor from upstate Republican strorgwas behind Sen Samuel Jackson holds early Wednesday slashed h:s Penney! van a margin to 47352 With 722 of the state' 4016 The unofficial tabulation was' precincts reported Dewey had more than half complete 1 189817 votes and Roosevelt With 5550 cf the state- 8202 DemoDALLAS Nov 7 (Pi— In unhad 176914 to Capehart regulars precmct reportrg the president Schrlcker's 187244 in 712 reportcratic group The totals: Roosehad polled 1207337 ballots against precedented numbers Texans cast their ballots Tuesday and 88174 velt Dewey 15208 1160935 for Gov Dewey ing precincts Gates had 157027 Texas regulars 18514 returns to the Texas election and Jackson 171822 in 608 prePhiladelphia gave the president Gov Coke R Stevenson was cincts bureau at 9 p m (CWT) indi455 412 and Dewey 337 65S cated they favored a fourth term All top ticket races were U S Sen James J Davis Releading his Repubhcan opponent B J Peasley 62560 to 4416 Ftoosevelt the reelecclose Returns were late publican former U S secretary for Pres running In the only congressional race because the general assembly exof labor slumped behind in hns tion of all state officers and the 3 where the Republicans waged an tended the closing tme of the return to congress of a comrace for reelection polling all-oin 3768 of the 82‘2 precincts plete Democratic slate campaign Rep Hatton polls two hours and also because V Sumners was leading Charles 57 7 for his Democratic 14 a record vote was mdnated from of the Returns state's agarst one 254 The Indiana gave Wendell Willkie counties I) Turner 23215 to 7KI9 complete opponent Rep Fraoris J Myers mashowed electors pledged to the district include Palin countv 25403 plurality over Pres RooseRoosevelt' Philadelphia In nine congressional district velt in 1910 ami Gov Schricker leading by nearly 3 jority w the lowest ac nrded him president was the only Democrat elected to to 1 those pledged to Gov Democratic nominee were In the three time he ha earned state office Thomas E Dewey and the Texas tha nation a third city TOPEKA Kan Nov 7 UP — Gov Thomas E Dewey Repubhcan presidential roTriree amassed a growing lead Tuesday night in h:s bid for Kansas' eight electoral votes ard the GOP candidates for governor U S senator and congress were ndrg along with him Returns from 229 of the state's Amendment Missed By Several Voter Giles Attorney general leads ticket as tote Grower A In one Salt Lake City business office a voter remarked that he almost forgot to vote on the two constitutional amendments And a dozen associates all cf whom indicated that they favored the amendments confessed they did forget to vote on them getter Pennsvlvania ’ - Texas Voters Favor Roosevelt Election by Three to One anti-Rooseve- j 783-79- ut lt ! 187-30- one-thir- Most state department in the capitol operated with skeleton staffs Tuesday as employe took time out presumably for political activity cyn behalf of their bosses up for reelection Release of the employes waa a state law giv“justified” under two-holeave ing workers a from their jobs to attend the polls Most of the capitol employes apparently “stopped the clock” when the two hours were up and continued with their ur “politicking” The law requires that state departments remain open between stated hours except on legal holidays Voter Spurns ‘GOP’ Amendment S L A voter entering a polling place to vote the Democratic ticket was reported to have been overheard saying: “I’ll vote for that first amendment but not that Republican amendment” The “Republican amendment” amendment No 2 to increase legislators’ pay and happens to be placed on the ballot under the column of Republican candidates The first amendment nonpartisan judiciary waa under the Democratic column Neither amendment is a partisan measure having been supported by members of both Is parties Houses Held By Democrats Roosevelt Victor In Arizona Vote su- in- - Clare Luce Leads In Early Vote Nov BRIDGEPORT Conn 7 Late reporting rural town S Rep Clare Boothe Luce U put (R) in the lead Tuesday night by 94505 votes to 85825 for Miss Margaret E Connors (D) in returns from 16 out of 23 towns In Connecticut’s Fourth congressional district including the populous city of Bridgeport Mrs Luce assailed throughout the campaign by Miss Connors particularly for her views on foreign policy and singled out by Vice Pres Henry Wallace for a full day's tour of her district on the eve of election had trailed ('PI — early in the night The blond playwright made a strong campaign charging among other things that the Roosevelt administration had been ‘‘year of humiliating failuie" and attacking Wallace as a ‘‘carpetbagger’’ pudiated” by his own party “re- Overseas Yanks Get Election Returns by: Special Services NEW YORK Nov 7 (75— The army budgeted 50000 words of election news for its overseas troop Tuesday night to assure G I Joe and his officers in foreign theater result of the presidential election as quickly as they were received by civilians at home Half of the budget was sent by radio and half by cable and News Service which Army serves army overseas! newspapers assigned approximately 30 men to work around the clock on the election story Principal spots served included Ixindon Rome Paris Alaska Australia Cairo China the and other spots Philippines where American forces were The news sources for cable news were A P U P and stationed INS One of the' features of the arrangement was a voicecast on a transmission to London Paris Alaska Hawaii and Australia Facilities for this transmission were set up by the army communications system signal corps In addition there were short wave voice broadcasts For coverage of the Pacific area returns were carried on the half hour on six 50000-wawest coast transmitters the point-to-poi- nt tt armed forces radio service a Short wave on the eaat coast relayed news across the Atlantic ed trana-mitter- Both proposed constitutional amendments 'submitted to the voters at the election Tuesday were approved by an overwhelm ing vote a late tabulation showed The vote was approximately three to one on each amendment On No 1 which will permit the legislature to adopt aome means of chooaing judges other than the present method of election on party tickets the vote at the time of the latest tabulation stood at 24695 for and 7344 against The vote on No 2 which wiil open the way for an increase m Legislators' pay from $4 to 110 a day was 22508 for and 7603 against No 1 proposed Amendment changes in the constitution to permit the legislature to change the manner of selecting supreme court and district judges on a nonpartisan basis It waa sponsored by the Utah State bar and earned l the indorsement of both it r'0 major-politica- parties The amendment itself did rot seek to set up a procedure for selecting the judiciary but merely to remove constitutional restrictions which prevent any change by legislative action Amendment No 2 proposed a constitutional amendment to permit the legislature to increase the pay of legislators from the present $4 per diem plus mileage to a maximum of 1300 per year plus Three hundred dollars mileage per year would amount to $10 per y biennial da'y for the regular session The amendment would 60-da- not permit payment to the legislators for special sessions or tim which the regular session might run over the constitutional regular session This amendment also had the indorsement of both major political parties and of numerous organizations A similar amendment waa submitted in 1942 nd defeated by a 60-d- L&- Illinois Gives Upp cr Hand To Roosevelt t x CHICAGO Nov 7 UD— Early returns In Illinois — the majority of them from the Democratic strongholds of Chicago — gave Pres Roosevelt a lead Tuesday night although he trailed hi challenger Thomas E Dewey in the normally 'Republican downstate territory Reports from 266 of the state's 8748 precincts — 200 of them in Cook county (Chicago) — gave the president 72808 and the New York governor 40722 In returns from 66 precinct outside the city Dewey had the advantage over Roosevelt by 13-8- 80 to 9345 Gov Dwight H Green Republican running for reelection was behind Thomas J Courtney Democratic atate’a attorney at Chicago in the initial tabulatlona— but in that race also most of the returns were from Chicago and the governor had a margin over his adversary in the downstata of them in Chicago 4 gave Courtney 55531 and Green 32057 The same early pattern waa apparent in the duel for a U S aen-a- te seat matching Sen Scott W Lucas Democrat bidding for a second term against Republican J Richard - ay vote of 59127 to 32638 160 ' New E Allen Bateman perintendent of public stmetion “ 5 districts Reports from" 212 precincts — — that w-a- it Hoovier State Gives Dewey Edge Nearly all freshmen and sophomores at the University of Utah were too young to vote in this election but nevertheless their voice was heard Tuesday With (Continued From Page One) had the lead in the senate face from the Tenth district comprising Sevier Garfield Wayne Kane and Piute counties The four Democratic candidates for the state senate from Salt Lake county had a wide margin Tropic Juror Hopeg and there seemed to be no question of their election They are: Vote Isn’t Close Taylor P Brock-ban- k It’s a long way to the tropics L E Elggren Warwick Lamoreaux and whether you mean Tropic of Grant Midgley Mr Lamoreaux is Capricorn or Tropic Utah in a former member of both the Garfield county John Johnson house and senate and Mr Midgley grand juror from the southern is now a house member The way things appeared at the time of the early Wednesday tabulation there will be 19 Democrats in the senate and four Republicans There will be 10 new members 11 holdovers and two rePHOENIX Ariz Nov 7 P)— elected Sen Farr and Sen Claude Hirschi (R) Washington Rep Thomas E Dewey waged an unex- Sol Selvin (D) Tooele had a contest but pectedly strong losing wide lead in the race to in consistently Democratic Arizona Tooele and Juab countiesrepresent in the Tuesday night on the basis of early senate Four of the prospective new returns but the balance of the Re- senators are without previous behind ticket publican lagged far legislative experience — Mr Hous11 returns from preton Mr Complete Elggren Mr Brockbank cincts and incomplete from 78 of and Grant Vest a Democrat who the state’s 438 gave Pres Roose- was slated to represent Duchesne and Uintah counties in the senate velt 10039 Dewey 7561 vi- - liaigjjg Roosevelt Carries s Bracken Lee "Wife Cast First Ballots district attorney be- El- secre-wi- na reeelec- - Spur ‘IT Politic Skeleton Staff Run Offices at Capitol and One Salt Lake City voter called The Tribune to complain that the airing on the pencil in the booth in which he marked his ballot waa so short that he had to go through some gymnastic to reach the circle under the Democratic rooster He wanted to know if it was a plot to encourage people to vote Republican - ‘Soap Box’ Orators Short Pencil String Irks Democrat Republican hard work In the Fourth Judicial district compnsng Utah Wasatch Democratic five times and Republican seven times on president- - It went Democratic in 1896 (Bryan and tha silver issue) Republican d and Price Mayor candidate gressional district Since Utah was admtted to the union in 1896 the state has voted rock-ribbe- candidate for reelection Bracken Lee GOP candidate atill were locked in a vote battle according to incomplete returns early Wednesday the explained Judge of the grand Jury Tuesday It seems that the Judge promised to release all members of the grand Jury in time to reach their home voting district but failed to realize that until the invention of rocket planes it’s a long time to Tropic from Salt Lake City Good citizen Johnson only hopes the vote is not so close that his ballot would make a winning-losin- g decision both mentally and physically All candidates for every office emphasized however that their opinions were not to be taken as complaints Rather they said the they felt the hard work waacould only way by which they present their platforms to the public And as they sat back Tuesday to await the final decision the most expressive word spoken was the one syllable exclamation: “Whew!” S Bennion In one of the closest gubernatorial races In many years Gov Herbert B Maw left Democratic Utah rain dampening everything on the campus except their spirits these extemporaneous speakers wore Dewey buttons and participated in soap box oratory or “again and again” extolled the qualifications of the president The approximate 1000 stud dents (about of the student body) who are old enough to vote were the targets of most of the campaigning but many political arguments arose among the campaigners where betting ran rampant The voting upper classmen bundled up nke something that stepped off the Gripaholm just left school early to cast their votes One freshman when asked if he had voted yert summed up the attitude of the under-age- d portion of the student body by replying ‘Tm too young but I’m sure doing my talking!” bert D Thomas Democrat also expressed the opinion that campaigning is no “soft job” On the contrary they agreed it is (Continued From Page One) attorney was assured of election no Democratic since there 85-69- jUtalms Adopt Amendments By Bi g Vote Rivals All Agree on This! f Is Rigorous’ Campaigning to town tnose Lyons Returns from 294 precincts — 225 of them in Chicago — gave Lucas 80142 and Lyons 42776 Like Dewey and Green Lyons set the pace downstate where Repubhcan leaders expected to gather a heavy harvest of votes to offset the Democratic showing in Chicago A tremendous turnout of voters was reported from all sections ef the state with indications that the record of 4262196 established in 1940 may be equaled or exceeded County Judge Edmund K Jarecki who has charge of the election machinery in Cook county estimated an e high total of 1970000 to 2000000 ballots were cast in Chicago The city peak of 1787801 was attained four years ago all-tim- Id H Idaho Rivals Mail Ballots BOISE Nov 7 (TV— Most of Idaho’s top state and congressional candidates voted by absentee ballot in Tuesday’s general election Gov C A Bottolfsen Republican candidate for the U S senate mailed his ballot to his home at Arco where he operates a weekly newspaper and W H Detweiler the GOP candidate for governor had his absentee vote counted at Hazelton Glen H Taylor of Pocatello the Democratic nominee for the senate however voted m his home precinct at Pocatello Charles C Gossett the Democrats choice for governor likewise cast his ballot at a Nampa precinctRep Henry Dworshak of Burley and Phil J Evans of Preston Republican and Democratic opponents for the second district congressional post voted absentee ballots as did Rep Compton L White of Clark Fork Democratic incumbent in the First district White’s opponent Repubhcan ft L Brainard of Kellogg returned to his home to vote - 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