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Show SMOOT ELECTED FOR FOURTH TIME AS U. S. SENATOR Colton and Leatherwood Will Go to Congress From State SALT LAKE, Nov. 3 The Republi-, Republi-, cans -"carried Utah from head of the ' tlrket down to the office of constable in rtually every county of th state according to returns compiled early today from 2 7 of the 29 counties i:i the state. The total number of pre- ln is reporting were 320 out of 650 in the state. The only possible exception lo absolute abso-lute Republican success came from Washington county where the Democratic Demo-cratic ticket was leading that of the Republicans by a narrow margin In this county eleven out of nineteen precincts pre-cincts had reported partial returns Standing of candidates at 9 o'clock this morning was fs follows from j7 out of 29 counties: For president. Cox 24.210; Harding Hard-ing 37.038. 1 For senator: Welling. Democrat. I 23.550; Smoot, Republican. 35.875. I For congress, first district: Colton, Republican, 14.771; Funk, Democrat. 9681. For congress, second district: Thomas, Thom-as, Democrat. 13,794. Leatherwood, Republican, 21,425. j For governor: Mabey. Republican, 36.083, Taylor. Democrat, 24.625 Senatorial honors have fallen to Reed Smoot for the fourth time ;ls the result of the election. He has served continuously since 1903 and been prominent In formulating the fin.u. il policies of the Republican win of the senate. The Republican congressmen-elect are both new men in national na-tional affairs B. O. Leatherwood. from the firM district, is a Salt Lake j attorney and has served as district attorney. at-torney. Don it Colton. a business man of Vernal, will represent the second sec-ond district. He has been a representative repre-sentative and senator in the L'tah legislature since 1902. 1 00 |