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Show i California Defeats,; Proposal for Noh-i Noh-i 7 partisan Elections I !. San Francisco, Oct. 2C Governor III rum V. Johnson "conceded lato tonight to-night tho defeat of amendments providing pro-viding for nonpartisan' elections of Btato officers, which' were voted upon today, und predicted that the pcoplo wouM roverso ' themselves -on tho question. ' Returns at 11 o'clock from a majority ma-jority against tho amendments and Indicated tho probable defeat of all that were voted upon at today's elcc I tlon. From C47 precincts tho votoon tho main nonpartisan amendment ' was 11,572 for and 19.88C against. Tho vote was very light that In I San Francisco being estimated nt ' about 20 per cent of tho normal. Tho nonpartisan plan was tho main Issuo of tho election. It was advo-' advo-' catcd as a Progressive party measure and Governor Johnson and tho state administration campaigned vigorously vigorous-ly for It. A proposal to allow tho legislature to establish a system of rural credits cred-its seemed to bo running better than any other. |