Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1918-11-08 | Page 2 | Democrats Win in Utah

DEMOCRATS WIN IN UTAH. State Ticket Elected by Comfortable Pluralities. Salt Lake City. The election Tuesday Tues-day resulted in n victory for the Demo cratic ticket. Incomplete returns Indicate In-dicate the election hy large pluralities plurali-ties of Congressmen Junius II. Mays from the Second district and Milton II. Welling from the First 'listrict. The next Utah legislature will he almost solidly Democratic, Willi a Democratic supreme court and the election of the , entire Democratic ticket in Salt Lake county. John S, Corless, Democratic candidate for sheriff of Salt Luke p county, was elected for n third term, All three of the proposed amend-T amend-T monts carried. The people of Utah I voiced their sentiments in favor of state-wide prohibition for all time in no mistaken terms. Handling of the illicit liquor traffic traf-fic in the state will he simplified to a considerable extent by the action cf Wyoming and Nevada, reports from which indicate that botli have voted "dry." Although the vote in the state and in Salt-Luke county was comparatively light, there was an unusual amount of scratching, which necessarily makes counting slow, Tills accounts for incomplete in-complete returns up to present time. t