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Show ANALYSIS MADE OF ELECTION Republicans Control Both Houses; Direct Primary Law Pledged BOISE, Idaho. No;'. 20 Analysis of the results of the November 7 election, j which has boon the. favorite pastime of I Lrty leaders, politicians nnd editors I for the last week, has brought out jsomo Interesting sidelights. There were approximately 12G.000 votes coat in tho 'state. I First, while n governor was elected li C. C. Moore on an antl-prlmary P'&pK. the p.-ople elected a legislature Which while both houses will be In Control politically of tho Republican party, Is pledged to the enactment of a I-rlrt.ary law that will be satisfactory .to the people; and, second, the ltopub-Ilcan ltopub-Ilcan plurality In this state was re-duced re-duced somo 30.000 votes, which b a serious matter Irrespective of the boast "I party machinery men that they won a sweeping victory. Republican party leaders realize this. They are even now avtenrnptlng to find the remedy that Will bring back the lost plurality, for they sec difficulties ahead unless reuniting re-uniting of the functions of the party Is brought about. The state, board of canvassers has not mad" the official count of the returns re-turns in fact, county boards of canvassers can-vassers are but now ennuted in this work, Speaking in general terms, how- ;e . :. It ran be s..l, !,.,( .,( , . , (.clr,n held in this state 126.000 votes were caai dlvldl ig n governor as follows For C. C. More, successful Ilepubllcnn candidate, 50.000; H, F. Samuels Progressive Pro-gressive party candidate. 40.000; for M. Alexander. Democratic candidate. o5,000. Governor-elect Moore's plurality plural-ity I- approximately lOooo. What leaders of all parlies hive concluded con-cluded happened In the last election .-.. this; The primary sentiment In tlv state aroused by the campaign of I plted States Senator W L. ip.rah and the independent vote which cannot be i Is led as either Republican, Democratic Demo-cratic or Progressive divided. The bulk of that vote, whleh It has been N ire.i by unbiased observers prior to the election would go to Alexander, lodged Instead with Samuels, which accounts for the Increase In the Progressive Pro-gressive vote. The balance of It split, part goln? to Alexander and part to Moore. Republicans who could not bring themse)Yfi to vote on the Progressive Pro-gressive ticket because of its affiliation with the Nonpartisans and who disliked dis-liked to vote for a Democrat, con-eluded con-eluded that as long as most of the gislatlve candidates were pledged to the enactment of a primary they would vote for Moore nnd take a chance on tho bill parsing the leRlslature and being be-ing signed iy him. Republicans who wanted to VOtO thlr conl-tlons for the primary, Knowing that Moore had declined 6h the stump he would sign ' primary bill. .voted ior Alexander or for Samuels, who were pledged to Signing such a bill. Put they divided their vote and it was this division that resulted in the election returns that followed. |