| Show bourbon landslide engulfs en omle s nation tion sweeps roosevelt to victory over hoover utah republican ticket lost county candidates all elected MICE WINS the country has gone democratic registering their insistent demands tor for a change of administration the people of the united states this week swept into power the bourbon candidates from practically every state in the union and piled up a majority for frank lin D roosevelt over president hoover such as never was witnessed by the present generation the electoral vote for roosevelt was against hoovers 59 while it required only to elect the popular vote for the democratic presidential candidate was while hoover polled only votes from the people roosevelt won precincts precinct 3 out of every ev e state west of the alleghenies gh en 1 went for roosevelt while hoover retained the support only of pennsylvania connecticut deleware new hampshire vermont and maine even california Cali forma home of hoover and kansas home of vice president curtis went democratic veteran republicans in I 1 congress such su cb as watson of indiana smoot swoot and colton of utah jones of washington and moses of new hampshire all suffered crushing defeats the entire state democratic ticket in utah was swept into power by the avalanche blood won over for governor ard and thomas over smoot for united states senator by nearly votes each colton lost to murdock for united states congressman by approximately votes olof R democrat won over henry E beal incumbent district attorney to a majority of nearly 1500 judge nephi J bates republican defeated sterling K X heppler for the district judgeship by approximately 1300 the vote was to heppler carried sevier county however by a majority of 79 votes the other counties in the district particularly kane and garfield gave bates substantial majorities james R barker democrat lost to J E magleby for state representative by the narrow margin of only 44 14 votes 0 C bowman of kanab republican defeated heber J meeks to for state senator the two republican candidates for sevier county commissioners G A staples of monroe and edwin sorensen of aurora won out over james C jensen of salina and J elbert parker democrats by approximately votes each sevier county republicans elected their entire ticket in spite of the democratic landslide that engulfed practically the entire country owin owing g to the fact that complete election returns were not available from this county until late wednesday and even the state was very slow getting final tabulations the richfield reaper was unable to put out the extra edition promised on wednesday it was conceded ve very ry early tuesday that thai roosevelt was clec elected ted and president hoover sent him a wire of congratulation and promised lim him every possible assistance in carrying on the affairs of the nation the constitutional amendment carried in the state by a vote of to although sevier county registered votes against it and for it |
