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Show DEMOCRATIC PARTY SWEEPS TO POWER IN CEDAR CITY MUNICIPAL ELECTION TUESDAY A ii ik t Win Posts On City Council $ it Hf M UUHIIIHJULJ ;')MH,.iMMf.l,l I u .J qiHIIILIIIM - ti r.: IIALDOW E. UtUlSlENbEN i'f :! :., KUMEN S. GARDNER f r $ " " S ' 4 s. - ' X. ' :! ' .. ' m - ! h , " f - ; ' r.: K ;r v f A . A.m., ' ' --m.. -, iril FRAXK MILNE V . ?.y HAROLD R. SARGENT William L. Mntheson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Donlel Matheson, has moved his family to Ccdnr City to make thrlr home. Mr. Matheson has lived in California for nearly twenty twen-ty years, and was a master welder In the ship yards during the war. Ho also served as a welding Instruc-tor Instruc-tor during that period. The Democratic party, campaigning campaign-ing on a promise of providing a non-partisan election of municipal officers In the future, and profiting from dlssentlon In the Republican ranks, swept to a landslide victory in the municipal elections Tuesday, placing Its entire ticket in office. Mayor Myron F. Hgbee, nominated for re-election by the Republicans was defeated by Gronway R. Parry, ' Democrat, who in two previous campaigns cam-paigns had f aUed to win the position ' of Mayor of the city. Parry received 1281 votes as compared to 642 for Higbee, a majority of 639. Tha only close race In the entire election was for the position of 4-year term councilman, with Haldow Hal-dow E. Chrlstensen, Democrat, former Iron County Sheriff, winning win-ning over Dr. L, V. Broadbent, Republican, Re-publican, with a majority of 69 votes. The vote was Chrlstensen 985, Broadbent 926. The three Democratic nominees for two year term councllmen won by substantial margins, Kumen Gardner, 'Tank Milne and Harold Sargent winning places on tne city council for the next two years, defeating de-feating Douglas Clark, Elwood Corry and Parson U. Webster, Republicans for the positions. Francis W. Betenson and Ellen A. Slmklns, Republican Incumbent Treasurer and Recorder, respectively, respective-ly, were nominated on both party tickets, and each received nearly 1900 votes. A total of 1923 votes were recorded, record-ed, an unusually heavy vote with no apparent major Issues at stake. The surprising things of the election was not so much that the Democrats Demo-crats were elected, but rather the margin and the fact that they carried car-ried the majority In all parts of the city. Cedar City Is normally a Republican Re-publican stronghold, and to have the voters swing so completely over to the Democratic candidates was rather unaccountable. The vote in District No 3 was the mast surprising of all. This area has been predominately Republican In all elections for many years, having been the seat of the Republican party's greatest strength in city and county elections. However, the only majorltieh the Republicans gained were In this district, Dr. Broadbent received 337 votes to 202 for his opponent, Elwood Corry getting 309 votes as compared to 239 for Frank Milne, and Parson Wehster. defeat ing Harold Sargent by the slight margin of 270 to 250. The remaining remain-ing Republicans fell behind In this area, and every other district gave majorities to all Democratic candidates. candi-dates. There has been much speculation as to the cause of the sweep of the Democrats, and there seems to be no single outstanding Issue to turn the tide, but rather multiple of contributing con-tributing factors. The usual whim of the voters for a change, undoubtedly undoubt-edly had something to do with It since the Republicans had dominated dom-inated the city government for many years. There was a certain amount of antl-admlnstratlon feeling evident, since the only two Incumbents seeking seek-ing re election, Mayor Higbee and Councilman Webster, received the smallest votes. Another factor that undoubtedly entered Into the final results was the fact that all Republican candidates candi-dates for Mayor and Council, with the exception of Webster, reside In one section of town, all within a very small radius of District No. 3, and In addition the holdover councilman, council-man, Morris C. Roberts, Is also a resident of the same area. However, How-ever, the District failed to supports sup-ports Its own candidates. The fact that the Rbubllcan candidates all came from one district emphasized the appeal of the Democratic Dem-ocratic promise of a non-partisan election under a plan that would assure a representative on the council for each district. The nonpartisan non-partisan idea had been well received re-ceived from the first from both Democrats and Republicans and this undoubtedly had its effect on the final outcome. Whether this prom-Iso prom-Iso will or can be kept will remain to be seen. A considerable Amount, of the criticism crit-icism against the adftnlstratlon was apparently the result of dissatisfaction dissatis-faction with appointive officers, particularly par-ticularly the police department, most of whom have been In their positions for long periods. Whether such criticism or dissatisfaction Is (Continued on Back Pan) Democrats Sweep To Power In City (Continued from Front Page) justified or not, it was an influential influen-tial factor in the election. The question of city zoning, oi rather the enforcement of cit zc, Ing, was undoubtedly a contributing contribut-ing factor, since the present administration admin-istration has been forced to take action against alleged violators of the ordinance, creating 111 feeling among many citizens adversely affected. af-fected. In addition many people have not been converted to the advisability ad-visability of zoning and have blamed blam-ed the Republicans for Imposing unnecessary regulations upon property prop-erty owners. However, there can be but little doubt that the greatest damage wa caused by rifts in the ranks of the Republicans, many of them because of personal differences with elective elec-tive or appointive officers. No party can remain strong with dlssention within Its ranks, and In this election a number of party members openly fought the administration, partial larly before the primary. Much has been made of the Issue of the need for a change in city appointive ap-pointive offices, and it will be Interesting In-teresting to see what replacements are made, and how long the new appointees will receive the support of those whom they serve. |