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Show County Joins In Democratic Sweep Departing markedly from the strong Republican trend of recent years, Beaver county was swept back into the Democratic column Tuesday in the Bourbon landslide which characterized the voting in Utah. Only two Republicans were elected in Beaver county and these, County Commissioner Ernest G. Joseph and County Attorney George C. Miller, both of Beaver, Bea-ver, had no Democratic opposition on the ballot. George C. Murdock of Beaver, who, in 1942, won election as state representative by a majority of 259 over Wesley W. Farrer, his Democratic opponent, this year lost to Hyrum L. Lee by a majority of 299 votes. It was much the same with Ivan McKnight of Mil-ford, Mil-ford, candidate for long-term county commissioner. Two years ago he defeated Arthur O. Williams, Wil-liams, Democrat by 228 votes, while this year he lost to William G. (Smoky) White, popular Union Pacific engineer, by a majority of 190. As was the case throughout the state, strong opposition to Governor Herbert B. Maw, Democratic Demo-cratic candidate to succeed himself, him-self, developed within the party here in Beaver county and a majority ma-jority of 240 votes wasi run up for J. Bracken Lee, his Republican opponent, op-ponent, in the face of a plurality of 173 for President Roosevelt. There was a considerable number num-ber of absent voters' ballots cast in the county, especially in the two Miilford districts, including quite a number of service men's votes, cast on the regular Beaver county absent voters' ballots. These were printed by The News and furnished to County Clerk William A. Miller almost as quickly quick-ly as those in Salt Lake county and in ample time to be voted by service ser-vice men in the most far-taway places. Despite this fact, it is reported re-ported that there were two federal "bob-tail" ballots voted in Milford district 2. Contrary to usual custom, the two proposed constitutional amendments amend-ments this year received a good vote and both carried in Beaver county and throughout the state. Nearly 40 per cent of those voting in Beaver county took cognizance of the amendment questions, which is a very good response; and amendment No. 1, relating to nonpartisan non-partisan election of judiciary, carried car-ried by a vote of nearly three to one; while amendment No. 2 earned ear-ned by a vote of better than three to one. The latter will make possible pos-sible an increase in the salaries of members of the state legislature from the present $4 a day. The exact rate of pay will be a matter for the coming legislature to decide, de-cide, but a "ceiling" of $300 a year is set by the phraseology of the amendment. |