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Show GOP Ticket Wins; Tax Proposal Is Badly Beaten Though Beaver county' has gone pretty well Republican in recent elections, so far as county officers were concerned, the county has given giv-en varinsized majorities to Democrats Demo-crats heading the ticket on several sever-al occasions. This year, however, only a single contested county office of-fice went to a Democrat, and the county went Republican at the head of the ticket by majorities ranging from 115 for Woolley for supreme court justice, to 178 for Lee for congressman. James A. Kelly of Fillmore, Republican, won the state senatorship over J. W. Pace of Delta, who carried both Milford districts by nice majorities, majori-ties, however. While the race for representative representa-tive in congress from the first district appears to have been won by Walter K. Granger, incumbent, over J. Bracken Lee of Price, the majority given Granger amounted to only three or four hundred votes on unofficial tallies, and (both have 'intimated they will contest con-test the election if the other is shown to have won by the official canvass, which will not be undertaken under-taken for some three weeks. An interesting sidelight on this race is the fact that Granger failed to carry his own town, Cedar City, or any of the southern Utah counties, coun-ties, his own included, with the exception of Washington county. The proposed constitutional amendment, which would have permitted per-mitted the state legislature to raise members' salaries from the present $4 a day to a figure not exceeding $10, was again defeated, largely the victim, probably, of the definite feeling against the companion proposal to levy a license tax on chain stores. Interest in the chain store license li-cense tax question became keen all over the state by the day of election and it appears to have gone down to defeat by a statewide state-wide vote of more than two to one. In Beaver county, it was voted down by a score of nearly 4 to 1. Milford voting district No. 1 disapproved the measure by a vote of 3 to 1, but in Milford district dis-trict No. 2 it was little short of a' massacre! This district is made up of voters residing east of Main street and including South Milford residents and ether living- outside the town limits. Here the vote was 106 to 14, or approximately IVi to 1! These odds against the proposal probably will stand as something of a record among the larger districts of the state, though Adamsville, casting 24 votes, registered only a single vote in favor of the tax! Elsewhere on this page appears The News' regular tabulation of votes, including the district figures fig-ures on state senator. While these figures are unofficial, past tabulations tabu-lations have proved to correspond very closely with those set up in the official canvass. |