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Show IEVERIDGE IS LEADING NEW ana x nr urn m m is IN PRIMARIES Former Progressive Runs Well Ahead of President Harding's Friend T. Dl A N APODIS. May 3. (By The 1 Associated Press). With approximately approxi-mately eighty-five per cent of the Republican Re-publican vote represented, Ex-Senator I Ueveridge had a lead of 17,789 votes over Senator New ln their contest for I the nomination of United States sena- J tor. For 2.802 of the 8,382 precincts ln ithc state BoverSdge's vote was 159. 8G5 I against 142. OS'S for New. Returns : were missing from 5R0 precincts, including in-cluding 93 In Marlon county, ilndlan-lapollsi ilndlan-lapollsi where the return! favored I New. The ,.ampaigns of the aspirants for Ithc nomination brought out few clear I cut issues. Mr. Beveridgc made an adroit attack on the present system i of federal taxation, but apparently carefully avoided offending the pres-( ; ent administration. There was no appeal made by either candidate foi the ex-service vote on the subject of the bonus. Foreign relations are also dealt with definitely by both men and Without definite pronouncements. The appeal to the voters was for the most part confined to the records made by the candidates. In their re-spective re-spective terms In the United Strife senate tnough the adhesion of Senator New to the full platform of the present administration was stressed stress-ed in all quarters. CITY ELECTIONS SEATTLE May 3 Municipal elections elec-tions to fill offices and decide civic (measures were held in several northwest north-west cities yesterday. Or Edwin .1 Brown, dentist and attorney, was elected mnvo.- of Seal- nic o . r state Senator Dan Landon. I Two women were elected to the city council. Mrs. Henry Landes, wife n(' a professor in 111'- I iu isity of Wa " Ingfon. and Mrs. Katlu-r 0 A. Miracle j l .i nes woman A r f.-renduni bill; proposing that the municipal street railway b maintained by taxation was: defeated. In Spokane the voters adopted n new sl i car franchise, providing for a six-cent fare and eliminating jftney buns competition in Tacoma, Clair Bowman wan elected City commissioner oer John L Murray, by a single vote, according to complete unofficial returns today. H Roy Ryson was re-elected as another an-other city commissioner. I |