Show OTAH OY HIE the entire state ticket is elected and taft and sherman electors chosen by the opponents of democracy salt lake city the state of lined up in the republican column on tuesday the taft electors having a pi pl of 20 to 25 2000 estimated while Vv elham illiam spry was elected gov arnor having received 15 more votes than knight according to latest fig ires the legislature will be al most sol adly republican insuring the return of reed smoot to the senate joseph howell was returned to con gress by a hand ome majority while the entire state ticket has been elected A statement issued by william spry governor elect Is as follows I 1 am very well satisfied with the result it is an evidence that the people are satisfied to continue the era of prosperity which they have en oyed joyed under republican tra eions it Is also gratifying that so many republican members of the american party have returned to their former affil actions this is an evi evidence lence of 0 the beginning of the end for that party I 1 cannot but commend tle tl e stand which many of the democrats have taken in salt lake county and the magnificent public spirit and real patriotism which they have thus dis played further I 1 congratulate the 27 counties of the state on the splendid victory in which all have assisted in salt lake county the american vote was about 1400 1 less than a year ago and the republican vote in the city was nearly 6 more than a beem eai ago the democratic vote in the county was larger than cited the dem getting 7 tor for knight and 4 for burbidge in the city and polling over 1000 N votes otes in the county districts outside the city in salt lake city a total of over 97 7 votes were cast and in the county outside of the city nearly 10 were polled tatt taft carried the city by 4 spry by 3 over knight and 2 over street knight leads the democratic county and state ticket by about 3 and spry runs about 1000 1 behind his ticket the republican county candidates carried the city by from 1200 to 1800 1 over the americans |