Ogden Evening Standard | 1911-03-08 | Page 1 | Seattle is for Reform

SEATTLE IS I City Overwhelmingly M In Favor of Munici- M pal Ownership M Seattle, Wash.. March 8. Slow H headway was made in counting the ballots cast in yesterday's municipal H election. Returns from the precincts fl counted up to an early hour today In- dlcntc thnt the proposition to issue 1 $800,000 bonds to construct and oper- ate a municipally-owned street rail- H way on a north and south trunk high- H way carried by an overwhelming ma- H It is certain that a reform council H has been eleqted to the new body of il nine members, the three so-called Lib- jH oral candidates having been left hope- ll lessly behind All but one of the lf candidates who were active supporters H of Major George W. Dllllug in thf H lcccnt recall election, lu which ex- H Mavor Hiram C Dill was ousted from H offico, are certain of election. Oliver H T. Erickson, a manufacturer, is lead- H Ing the ticket, and Robert B. Hes- H kcth, labor candidate, is running sec- H ond Joe Smlthn newspaper report- jH er, who was strongly opposed because jH of his radicalism, is a few hundred H votes behind the lowest of the first H nine and still has a slight chanco of 1 Women voters took an active inter- H est in tho election. H