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Show SENATOR SMOOT HAS fl PLURALITY OF 15 IN STATE Salt Lake, Nov 0. United States Senator Reed Smoot's plurality con tinued to grow yesterday when the complete returns from all of the counties in the state began to come in San Junn county gave Senator Smoot a plurality and Millard county, which on Wednesday night was reported re-ported as having given a small plu lality against Senator Smoot, was announced an-nounced as a tie yesterday, each of the candidates for the senate receiving receiv-ing 116.. votes in that county. Congressman Joseph Howell has been elected In the First congressional congression-al d,strict and Judge William H. Mc-Gartj Mc-Gartj has been re-elected to the supremo su-premo bench. E. O. Leatherwood has apparently been defeated for congress by less than 200 votes in the Second congressional district There are still some precincts to report in this district dis-trict Dr E G Gowans received the greatest plurality of any of the candidates can-didates running on the state ticket of either of the parties He defeated A. C. M?(heson, for state superintend ent of ijublic instruction by 3665 votes. Judge W M McCarty received re-ceived a plurality of 2505 votes and J. H Mays has a plurality of 195 votes in the Second congressional district. dis-trict. In the First congressional dls trict Joseph Howell has a plurality of 2375 otes These figures are com piled with five districts in Boxelder county and several remote districts in southern Utah missing The legislature of the state will be Republican. The holdover senators sena-tors are sufficient to give the Republicans Re-publicans a majority in the upper house of the legislature without the newly elected Republican senators In the lower house of the legislature the Republicans have elected twenty three lh mhers, and the Democrats. Progres Sivec and Socialists nineteen members. mem-bers. Four counties are yet to be heard from In Piute, Uintah and Duchesne, the result as to the representative repre-sentative is in doubt. The returns received from the county clerks in the four counties hae not given any additional light on the result of the legislative vote The election in the three counties mentioned has been close for the legislative tickets and the result will not be known until tne official count Is made The Republicans Re-publicans claim that they have elected elect-ed tweuty-slx representatives In tbe state and that the Democrats have elected twenty. In Tuesday's election, with about twelve districts in all parts of the state missing from the returns on the senatorial contest, there were more than 107,489 votes cast. |