Show PT FT FARM LABOR STRAW VOTE REVEALS LACK OF UNITY FOR CITY POSTS that the members of 0 the local unit of 0 the farm and labor league lack back much ot of being united as to who should be elected tor for city boffl j I dais was forcibly demonstrated fill in I 1 a straw vote taken by those pres ant nt at the regular meeting last fri day night though only fourteen members member of the league were present to pato ja in the voting there were seven seren I 1 names voted tor for as mayor awen ty five for councilmen ten tor for recorder and seven tor for treasurer john W gurr headed the list for mayor with tour four vot john W bentley received six as the high voto vote tor for councilman john page with three votes tor for recorder was the only ane one ahead ot of john gurri gurr for or the same office watte itie dellal della 1 ell with two votes was high fir br he treasurers treasur ers post time rime of 0 the voters apparently having no choice tor for this office no regular nominations were made tor for the test ballot slips of paper being handed out with the 11 request that voters make up their I 1 own ticket president john IV beni beni i explained that it was in no sense a political move since the thea I 1 I 1 league Is not in politics but that members had urged a straw vote merely with a view to getting an idea as to who nho the members favored without reference to their politics tho the vote was so scattered however that it failed to convey any thing other than that the members were not a unit in their ideas as to who would bo be good city officials j those thosa who were voted tor for tor for the respective offices and the number of votes received by each as babul I 1 1 abed by the tellers are as follows 1 for mayor mayon john W gurr 4 J T 2 george morris 2 clair rowley john page john wj bentley and L N marsden jr one each for councilmen john W bentley 6 dave richards 3 leonard E vans 2 john gurr 2 john page 2 1 lawrence adams 2 roy denson 2 2 dan macfarlane Mac 2 evans evansa james C robinson john rasmus u 8 1 sen sell george A lowe edward davis W L adams sam orton joe jensen marlo mario john pendleton david matheson arthur joseph sam durham mor rs freeman hyatt oscar orton ond and R L penton fenton one each for recorder john pago page 3 john gurr 2 dick benson verda adams wendall bayles marlo mario tophal mrs twenty orton getta orton orion and clarence denson benson one each I 1 for treasurer della delia mitchell matchell Ml 2 clarence benson ida haltermann Halterman 1 john page clair hulet dena ney and mrs luclus lucius 11 banson crison one each edward ventley who had been affiliating with ith the league walked out on them when the matter of a straw voto veto received favorable consideration tile he said the league was supposed to keep out of poll polities politics and that he had a political party of hi s own to lo affif affiliate late with and andi propose to be mixed up in ill and other political schemes I 1 |