Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1908-11-28
OFFICIAL COUNT
IS NOW COMPLETE.
State Canvassing Board Ends
The Check On the Vote
OF Utah.
FIGURES, TELL MANY STORIES
Surprising Increase in the Voting Pop
ulatlon-Hybrid Tickets Result iii
Loss on Presidential Balloting.

with All the votes cast IN the recent
general election totalled and checked
by the state canvassing board. VIII
liam Howard Taft for president leads
w. j. Bryan for the same position by
1S56S votes. After the election this fig
urc was placed at 10000 by the first re-
turns, and it has increased steadily
with the receipt of more definite in
formation.
The tremendous increase oyer the vote
of four years ago is another feature
brought out by the totals. 1t amounts
to $4,000 votes, a sum greater than
the entire voting population OF Salt
Lake county n decade ago
The american party activity in
Salt Lake county 'withits multiplicity
OF tickets. resulted in the casting of
1000 votes on which mo choice for
presidential electors was registered.
! Tor that reason the Howell plural
ity exceeds that Of Taft ii reaching Il
total of 2i,451. sEsa.i
The vote on the. amendments found
the totals favoring the first amend
ment and opposing the second and
third. The first amendment, becomes
part of the Constitution on Jan. 1,
without further action. 1t had pre-
Niously passed the legislature as
resolution, and had been submitted
for popular approval. Only one fourth
of the voters consider the amend
nlents worthy of notice. The first car
ried by plurality of 3,Sl3, with 49,
$50 for ana 1909 against. The second
polled 1929 favorable votes and 1850
unfavorable The third lost by 6462,
the most decided vote of the series
An incident of the voting was that
the first amendment. which carried,
was the only one on which an active
opposition conferred Its aim was to
Increase the states revenues while the
aim of one Of the others was to increase
expenditures, and the third to give pow
er to change county boundaries to the
legislature, and to create new counties
THE COMPARATIVE VOTE.
In only three counties OF Utah did
Bryan poll less than Parker. In the
other q counties the Democratic vote
gained over It's vote against Roosevelt
inS 1904. In Wayne. the Democratic
loss was 81 votes, in Piute, Il votes. and
in Morgan votes. The counties In
which gains We're made We're Beaver,
121; Boxelder. 2s6; Cache,S60; Carbon,
&73; Davis, LOG; Emery. 1856; Garfield,
80; Grand, 30; Iron, AZ; Juab. 2iB; Mil
lard, SO; Rich, 45; Salt Lake, 1855; San
Juan, 10; Sanpete, 566; Sevier, Si2:
Summit, A, Tooele, l69; Uintah, 3;
Utah, 761; Wasatch, 329; Washington,
+
In only one Utah judicial district was
q Democratic judge elected. This was
in the Fifth where Joshua Greenwood
ran ahead OF Henry r.. Adams by ABS
votes and secured the election. The
district is composed of Beaver, Iron
Juab. Willard and washington coun-
ties. Greenwood secures 4,S51 totes to
AIS for Adams. his Republican oPpon-
cnt. Beaver and Iron gave Adams |
pluralities. but they We're wiped out by
pluralities for Greenwood in Juab
Willard and Washington. For district
attorney, L; II. Ryan (2.) was elected
With a plurality of 705.
In the First district, composed OF
Boxelder, Cache and Rich, Willard w.
Vaughan secured 6,45S votes to 5.195
for Justin p. Call Democratic cnndi
date. His lead was substantial IN each
county. and his plurality was 1888, For
district attorney, Benjamin r. Call,
(F,,) led Frank K, Nebeker. CD by
93 votes.
The Second district. composed of Nor
gan, Davis and Weber selected j. \.
Howell for judge with a plurality Of
Nathan j. Harris (R.) for district at
torney over Gideon Valentine, CD, I
with a plurality Of SSS. The Republic
cans led in all three counties.
In the Third district. composed of |
Salt Lake. Tooele and Summit coun-
tIes''t fioi ~, ANitAlaiN i-' Wis '.ib
Armstrong led their Democratic rivals |
by a margin of $4,000 votes, and their
a"Amercan'' rivals by Ss,56s.
FOURTH DISTRICT.
Utah, uintah and Wasatch counties
comprising the forth district, had s.
05T votes for John Il. Booth for Judge.
9T7, while for district attorney II. 70.
C,lutr Jared not quite SO we'll defeat-
ing A. b. Morgan Cd by $50. The
Republican lead was noticeable in all
three counties.
The Sixth district went for Chldis-
ter (R) by the very narrow margin
OF 20 votes saved out from plurali-
ties in Garfield. and Kane counties.
Sewer the big county of the district,
went slightly for Hayes tD) as did
& also Wayne, and Piute. Jos. H. Erc.t
4 son for district attorney led S. l..
Page, CD BY fT9 votes.
1t was in the Eleventh. that Ferd-
inand Erickson, incumbent Judge,
went down to defeat before H. II.
Christensen (Ft) in most spirited
contest, Christensen led in Emery.
and Sanpete. while Erickson was
ahead in Carbon, Grand and San
Juan. The final lead of Christensen
over Erickson was 2i1 votes.
A table showing the vote of each
county on leading candidates is print
ed herewith. Tho vote for state sup
erintendent Of public instruction.