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Show (ELECTED Carries the State by 2,000 Gowans Also Wins. II 5alt Lake. Nov 6. Lnited States I Senator Reed Smoot Is reelected to 1 the lnited States Senate by the peo- I pie of T'tah with a probable plurality nf a!nut 2000 votes A compilation of 1 all returns t.. reach Salt Lake at a late hour b'st night indicates that tho voters of the First congressional district, dis-trict, comprising all of the counties in the State of T'tah excepting Tooele. 1'tah, Davis and Salt Iake counties, live re-elected .Toseph Howell to Con jrpss b a plurality of 180( votes. Fudge William M McCartv has been r elected ti the supreme bench of the state bv a plurality of more than 2 -I rotes and A. C Matheson, Repih-Hcan Repih-Hcan candidate for for superintendent public instruction, hap been debated de-bated in the state by a plurality somewhat some-what larger It may reach 3500 if the vote continues to run against him in the counties unreported as it has in the counties which have been heard from. In the Second congressional district K. O. Le2therwood apparently has been defeated for confess by J. H. Mnys, fusion candidate. Although the totaL in the four counties comprising the dlstricl BhOW that he has been defeated by lr,1 votes there is a chance f bis election as there are fifteen fif-teen unreported districts In Utah, Davis and Tooele counties. As these counties have been soin for him by fnir majorities it is expected that he : t least will make the rare more clo?e, j and bis ardent supporters assort that 1 be will be elected. Technicalities! will enter into the congressional contest con-test in the Second district, as in Utah county more than 200 ballots which v f ro marked under both the Demo-cratic Demo-cratic and the Progressive emblems. It is estimated, were counted as votes tor the fusion ticket. Under the law these ballots are spoiled, but the election elec-tion judges in Utah c-iunty counted 1 them as Democratic votes It Is said an Investigation will be made as to 1 whether these votes should have 1 been thrown out, it Is not believed, however, that there will bo any en test over the Second congressional district. dis-trict. Weber. Box Elder and Summit counties coun-ties In the northern part of the state returned a sufficient plurality In themselves them-selves to Insure the re-election of Senator Sen-ator Smoot and the counties of Kane, Garfield, Iron, Piute, Duchesne, tho youngest of Utah's counties. Sevier, Sanpete, Wasatch an, Washington counties rallied around the banner of the senior senator from I'tah and rolled up the majority which insured his re-election Srnoot Movie Beaver 40 Boxelder . . . 286 Cache 257 Carbon 48ft Davis . 407 Emery 16 Garfield 347 Grand 41 Iron 433 Juab 187 Kane 826 Morgan 208 Rich 43 Salt Lake 1200 San Juan 30 Sanpete 198 Sevier 382 Summit 348 Tooele lf6 I intah 175 Utah 73 Waeatota ... 300 Washington 25 ber 1350 Chief Justin. . m. McCarty has been re-elected to the supreme bench I ny a plurality over Frank B Stephens Democratic and Progressive nominee, Slightly in excess of that received by Smoot. 1'or state superintendent of public I instruction Dr E G. tlownns of We-ber We-ber county, the non-partisan candidate who was endorsed by the Democrats an.l Progressives, ha6 defeated A C. Matheson, Republican incumbent, by a plural It that will probably reach 5000. James If Mays the Democratic and Progressive nominee in the Second congressional district has defeated District Attorney E O. Leatherwood id publican, hy about 500 otes Loath crwood carried Davis, Tooele and Utah counties by small pluralities, bu1 Mr. Mays plurality in Salt 1 al:e county was sufficient to wipe out Leather wood's lead iu he other counties. |