The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1906-11-21
OOun ..I. vuuua
Of THE RETURNS
FIGURES NOT new BUT INTERESTING
Congressman Jonc, Received Higher
Number OF Votes Than Any
Other Candidate on Ticket.

Two weeks aft a.i lie results ot
the election are known The official
returns are ready tar rae perusal af
the public some 81 the freaks ut
the ballot. hose hiB-s which ave
never anticipated. Weee Brought to
light in the official canvass Monday
The Democratic c1ad.d8te far
sheriff received G2l votes fot than
his republican opponent White Mr.
Wende, unuue Ter ,4s office oI
prosecuting attorney or tac same
ticket. beat kfUtz IS rs
Vita the ext ption IF the touf
precine ot Altalfa, Divide. Hopdale
MI. Adams Tampiee and the Third
ward of North Yakima. every one vi
the S4 precincts III the county saYe
Mr.. Wende .he majority. In two
precincts <rutz broke even and IN
two o,hers there was Just one vote
difference In all the rest Wende
was substantially in the lead.
Perhaps the hardest fought Office
on the whole ticket was the sher-
ifs Mr. Edwards was elected by
a good plurality. which was collected
all over the county He ran best in
the city. where. of the 125S votes
cast for this office. he received 743,
Weber 4S3, and Barnes, the So
cialist candidate, %. In the whole
county there were 4147 votes east
for this same office The socialists
got $50 of them, Weber 1859 and
Edwards 2OS4.
Edwards ran strong in his own
city, while Weber did not. In fact,
in every precinct in The county, with
the exception of East and West
unnyside and Mt Adams. the repub-
lican ran behind his ticket.
w. l.. Jones received the largest
vote cast for any one candidate,
polling 2S13. j. A. Jacobson
comes next in order, receiving 2S03,
with no opposition. Jones vote
indicates that every republican in
the county voted for him and about
a third of all others
In the whole county the total So
cialist vote amounted to 24S With
few exceptions these ballots were
void straight Mr. Everett polled
SS6 votes from the prohbitionists.
which was l S more than the other
congressional candidates on the
same ticket received.
The high man on the democratic
ticket was John Edwards. followed
by Dick Strobach for the legisla-
ture. At times during the count on
the night of election Mr.. Strobach
was in the lead and victory semed
certain Lee Johnson and Sam Cam
ron both beat him. the former re-
ceiving 6S5 and the latter GIG plu-
raltty. The error in marking some
of the ballots cost Cameron votes in
a few precincts
R. X. Nichols for clerk received
the largest plurality, with one ex-
ception, given any man on the tick
ct. This was due partly to his pop
ularity and partly to the fact that
his opponent is practically unknown
TO the voters, and did not make
much OF an effort to secure the place.
Nichols polled 1855 to the good.
while Mcintyre for surveyor beat
him with 1920 votes in the lead of
his opponent
Leaving Mcintyre out, Lee Tit
tie was the high man on the county
ticket, receiving 24S3 votes against
1886 east for Mr.. Case, the demo-
Graf. Mr. Case ran stronger than
Ley, the candidate for clerk on ac-
count OF his personal popularity.
Wilbur Croker polled a plurality
of 1856.
John sindall lead the man against
him with 80 votes.
Mcdonald from the Second dis
trict for county commissioner RON
y votes behind he plurality Of Lee
Title, receiving 1926.
Mr.. lie MAY from the Third dis
trict was hurt in local fight and
only cleared 9o3. Dr.. Frank and
Mr.. Jacobson had no opposition.
A great many of tine voters failed
TO vote on the amendments to the
constitution which CARED by vote
Of 595 to FAC for the first one and
$50 70 242 for the second amend
ment
BRILLIANT RECEPTION.