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Show UTAH DEMOCRATS MAKE CLEAN SWEEP ENTIRE STATE TICKET SUCCESSFUL SUCCESS-FUL AND ELECTORAL VOTE WILL BE CAST FOR WILSON. Elected Judges and District Attorneys in Every Judicial District and Carries Car-ries Every Senatorial and Representative Rep-resentative District. Salt Lake City. The Democrats ot Utah won a sweeping victory at the polls on November 7, the national and state ticket having a substantial plurality. plu-rality. Not only will the electoral vote of Utah be cast for President Wilson, iiut the state officials will be Democratic and the next legislature will also be Democratic. Simon Bamberger, who defeated Ne-phi Ne-phi L. Morris, will be the first Democratic Demo-cratic governor of the state of Utah. Senator Sutherland was defeated by William H. King, who ran second to President Wilson. Complete unofficial returns from every county in the state show tiat President Wilson carried the state by 29,789, more than double the estimates made by the Democratic state committee com-mittee before the election. The other state candidates ran close to the president. Judge William H. King, who was elected United States senator to succeed George Sutherland, was next to' President Wilson on the ticket. He was given a plurality of 23,814. Dan B. Shields, attorney general-elect, general-elect, defeated Harold P. Fabian, the Republican nominee, by 22,947. -State Treasurer-elect D. O. Larson ran next, with a plurality of 22,639. Then came the next secretary of the state, Harden Har-den Bennion, with a plurality of 22,-508. 22,-508. Joseph Ririe, state auditor-elect, received a plurality of 21,135. Governor-elect Simon Bamberger ran 18,438 votes ahead of Nephi I Morris, and Elmer E. Corfman was elected to' the supreme bench over Chief Justice D. N. Straup by 19,950. President Wilson carried every county and almost every voting district dis-trict in the state. The Democratic state ticket carried all but a few counties coun-ties in the state and these were lost by narrow margins. The Democrats elected judges and district attorneys in every judicial district dis-trict in the state. They carried every senatorial and representative district in the state, electing nine state senators sen-ators and forty-six representatives. The complete unofficial returns show the following vote: For president Wilson, 83,577; Hughes, 53.7SS. For senator King, 80,545; Sutherland, Suther-land, 56,731. For supreme judge Corfman, 77,-888; 77,-888; Straup, 57,938. For governor Bamberger, 77,956; Morris 59,518. For secretary of states Bennion, 79,140; Kelly, 56,632. For attorney general Shields, 78,-912; 78,-912; Fabian, 55,965. For state treasurer Larson, 78,923; Madsen, 56,824. ' For state auditor Ririe, 78,172; Jensen, Jen-sen, 57,037. For superintendent of schools Gowan, 131,437. For congressman. First district Welling, 38,780; Hoyt, 28,880. For congressman Second District. Mays, 39,409; Mabey, 27,791. The Democrats elected all of the precinct officers in Salt Lake county. Garfield county for the first time since 1896 returned a plurality for the Democratic ticket, and every Democrat Demo-crat on the county ticket was elected. The county has been represented in the legislature since 1898 by a Republican, Re-publican, but turned the tables in the last election and sent a Democrat to the lower house. There were 410 Socialist, 17 Social-Labor, Social-Labor, 13 Progressive and 11 Prohibition Prohibi-tion votes cast in Utah county. B. W. Lyons, said to "look just like President Wilson," and a Democrat, led a procession at Tooele, Saturday night in celebration of Mr. Wilson's re-election and of the election of the bulk of the Democratic county ticket. Mrs. Sophia Mallet, candidate for recorder on the Socialist, Progressive and Democratic tickets in Toeole county, coun-ty, was elected by 23 votes. Barbara Forrester was elected recorder re-corder of Carbon county. Governor-elec Simon Bamberger will leave for a rest in California within the next few days. He will probably be gone two weeks. Judge William H. King has been deluged with telegrams and letters of congratulation from all parts of the United States. Every member of the president's cabinet has wired congratulations and a great many members of the senate and the house have telegraphed him of their gratification grat-ification on learning of his election. |