Show democrats win national victory in tues bues election utah lah goes democratic iron county predominantly republican roosevelt carries all but ton ten states slates willyce gets gelt large popular vote tuesdays election developed into another sweeping victory for the th democratic party partly franklin D I 1 roosevelt was returned t to the presidency with an overwhelming majority ot of votes piling up a total otal of and election him to a tradition smashing third term as ai the nations chief executive his re publican rival wendell L willkie piled up one of the largest popular votes for a loosing candidate in hii history though he carried only ten states with an vote of 82 his popular vote was while that of the president was wai only some four million higher according to returns with the president thousands of democrats throughout the nation were s wept swept into office in the tide of his popularity the victorious party maintained a substantial ma bority in both houses of coutress cou coutress cou gress gress but gave some ground to the republicans public ans in the senate the dem cratic party were assured of no less than seats in the house with only necessary essry for a majority incomplete returns on 36 seats in the senate gave 21 to democrats 11 II to republicans and one to senator la follette the wisconsin progressive ive democratic governors were elected in several states and state legislatures isla tures were made democratic herbert B maw won a victory over both his opponents for the Governo governorship whip of rec receiving ehling more votes than both the other canoS daies combined abe murdock democratic candidate foru S senator won over his opponent philo T farnsworth republican with a plurality of votes a larger vote than was cast for the president walter K granger won a close contest over his republican rival leroy B young for representative for congress from the first utah district reese M reese incumbent s tate state auditor who ran for state treasurer on the democratic ticket piled up the largest vote of any one candidate in the state will L hoyt incumbent judge of the fifth judicial Judici at district won over durham morris to retain his position on the bench though iro county supported morris whole heartedly giving him a lead of votes in the county the largest num ber of votes given to any man in the county claude hirschl republican ican won an easy victory over glenn E snow for state senator from the alth senatorial ellis pickett won easily to succeed himself as district attorney though the nation went decidedly Demo cartic that party in iron county succeeded in electing only two candidates they were the two incumbent county commissioners warren H bulloch chairman of the board and S F bud leigh bulloch defeated H marvin jones for 4 year Commissi Commiss ioner iloner by a margin of votes and mr leigh debear cd raymond H lunt by the very narrow margin of 91 votes L N marsden was elected to the lower house of the utah legislature over lehi M jones democrat by the margin of votes R J shay republican nominee for county attorney defeated his opponent john AT foster democrat by a margin of votes A complete tabu tabulation lalion of votes for iron county will be found on the back page of this issue |