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Show I " " : Good Turnout of County's Citizens j For Primary Vote! Utah's direct primary setup ; last Tuesday received its initial'' trial in a large-scale eleciton andj the response was generous and in- j teliigent. Fears that people wouldi hesitate to vote or would spoil! their ballots because of lack of understanding appear to have been unfounded. Likewise, they appear to have voted quite consistently con-sistently for numerous candidates who were believed to be little known in the community, indicating indicat-ing a determination on the part of voters to gain knowledge of those candidates of whom little was known. As a result, the vote throughout the state is considered to have been quite comprehensive. In Milford it is figured that the response was 70 to 80 per cent of the eligible vote, which is almost as large a proportion as that for a presidential election. Though the primary vote afforded af-forded ample reasons for surprise and disappointment in individual cases, the results were pretty much what had ibeen generally expected. ex-pected. Chief among the surprises of the election were the phenomenal phenom-enal showings made by Abe Murdoch Mur-doch of Beaver, present first dis-rict dis-rict congressman, in his race for the Democratic senatorial nomination nomina-tion against the veteran incumbent, incum-bent, William H. King; and that of Dr. Herbert B. Maw, non-machine candidate for the Democratic Democrat-ic nomination for governor on the Democratic ticket. Murdock secured se-cured the senatorial nomination with a landslide vote which tallied for him nearly two-thirds of the Democratic vote cast for that office of-fice and will not have to enter the run-off primary on October 1. His total vote will be shown to have exceeded 51,000, while King tallied some 17,000 and Delbert M. Draper, Drap-er, third man in the race, came out with about 10,000 votes. In the case of Dr. Maw, it will be necessary for him to enter the runoff primary, though lacking only a comparatively small num-iber num-iber of votes to avoid doing so. His primary vote will total some 38,000, while his closest opponent, Henry D. Moyle, probably will be shown to have some 17,500 votes. Philo T. Farnsworth jr., prominent promi-nent Salt Lake attorney but a native of Beaver, came out of the primary with a lead of some fiOOO votes over his closest opponent, oppon-ent, Oscar W. Carlson, in the Republican Re-publican race for the senatorial nomination, but will be forced to enter the runoff, due to some 10,-000 10,-000 more votes being divided between be-tween the other two candidates. Walter K. Granger, formerly of ; Cedar City, now a member of the state public service commis-son, commis-son, will be in the runoff primary with J. Francis Fowles of Ogden, very close second in the race for first district congressman, as his opponent on the Democratic ballot; bal-lot; while LeRoy B. Young and i Arthur Woolley, both of Ogden,! will fight it out for the Republican Republi-can nomination, though Young would seem to have the better of it,, having tallied nearly a two-to-one lead over Woolley in Tuesday's Tues-day's primary. The race for the Republican i nomination for governor promis-rs promis-rs to be the hottest fight of the October 1 run-off primary, Reeo Stevens, prominent stockman, dairyman and business man, lagging lag-ging only a few hundred votes oe-hind oe-hind Don B. Colton, ex-congressman. J. Bracken Lee of Price, who made the breaking-up of machine politics in Utah his campaign plea, made a phenomenal race for the gubernatorial nomination, showing show-ing that many of the voters were sympathetic to such a move. Incidentally, Inci-dentally, much of Mr. Maw's support sup-port for the Democratic nomination nomina-tion no doubt came from his pub: licly announced recogniton of the jrross unfairnesses of the present state administration and his pledge to correct such abuses. Perhaps the keenest disappointment disappoint-ment to Milford people in the primary pri-mary came about with the elimi- j nation of John Moore Williams! from the race for county attorney. Milford seldom makes a bid for a county office but that seems to j make little difference with the re-1 maindcr of the county; and, in j Tuesday's primary, with many of his friends in the Democratic primary, pri-mary, helping to put Beaver's Abe Murdock over, Milford's only |