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Show HUMPHREY IN DANGER Insurgent May Win the First Congressional District Washington Seattle. Wash . Sept. 15. The result re-sult i.f th? Republican primary In the First congressional district is still In doubt, wit lithe chance favonng William Wil-liam Iv Humphrey, regular, He has a, substantial plurality of the total v-.te fco far reported, but the law provides that unless a candidate receives 40 per cent of the total vote, second-choice second-choice votes shall liw counted. At present he lacks nearly loo of attaining attain-ing 40 per cent. if the second ch .ice provision bovomes operative, Humphrey Hum-phrey will be overwhelmingly defeated. defeat-ed. Thomas P. Revelle. insurgeut, claims the election, saying that tho precincts yet to report will help him. |