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Show HEAVY VOTE I IN CALIFORNIA Bright Weather and Sharp Contests Draw Large Primary Crowds SAX FRANCISCO, Aug 29. Gm-oral Gm-oral fair weather, a record roglstro-tlon roglstro-tlon sind a sharply contested raco for an. important nomination ware factor!) combining today to Indlertlr a heavy vote in California's prlmnrv The posts for which nominations are to be made comprise everything from I niu. Stales senator to justice of the peace, inclusive. The registration g overwhel mindly Republican, '.127,046 persons a plur-i allty In every county and a majority in most having signified their nlleg- j iance to thai inrty Tin' recorded Democrats strength was 309868; the Socialist 82,611 and the Prohibitionist 21,250. Those who declined to state their political preferenoea when res Istering, numbered 178,789, nnd the, remainder of the total of 1,452,292. wer.- ' lassed as "mhvellnnrons'' in the I official record. The contest attracting most attention atten-tion Is the contest between Hiram Johnson, incumbent, nnd ' B, Moore, for the Republican nomination for senator, t'pton Sinclair of Pasadena Cal . Writer, Is unopposed for the Socialist So-cialist senatorial nomination, and the democrats also have u candidate In the field without opposition The racc3 for the Republican gubernatorial gub-ernatorial nomination, and for the lieutenant governorship on the same ticket also are receiving much interest. inter-est. These were contested Igorous-ly Igorous-ly by Governor William D, Sl phena and Friend W. Richardson, state treasurer, trea-surer, and C C Young, Incumbent, and Joseph Aromlnger. respectively. MattiBOn R Jones, Los Angeles attorney attor-ney and Thomas I.e.- Wool Wine, district dis-trict attorney for Loa Angeles, arc seeking the Democratic gubernatorial nomination nnd Jones also seeks Prohibition Pro-hibition endorsement for the office. Alexander Horr of San Francisco, Is unopposed for the Socialist nomination nomina-tion V S Webb, attorney general and a Republican, is the only candidate hav-lag hav-lag things all his own way. The polls open at 2 a. m and close i Rt 7 p. m. |