The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1909-11-09
OFFICIAL FIGURES !
ON CITY ELEC1I|
Canvass Completed: q.
BranSford I IT Plurality Of 7S;, "
and Majority of 1OsS ~
MURDOCH is SECOND N
RACE, BEATING wall,
Every American Candida,. +,
Not Only a Plurality, HI hn,
a Majority. IVY
John S. Rransfora ....

John S. Bransford was cIc,,.,
OF Salt Lake City at the eIoa,:
on Tuesday, November . hy '
lty OF 1907 over Murdoch. II. ~
highest competitor, and by m.:9 3
over The combined opposition
these being The Official dn, "
clared by the canvassiug has
eanvassod the vote in tue con..r mail VI
Der Monday afternoon. Tho ,a|' ''''
cast WIS 26,6O9. This ~ m ~ol ID
plurality, as also majority sSmasguts,
world ~ large The contdenS.nnoww Snows bt
ers of the capital citv Of or ~ t.inal d
state have in the Amcr;caz tols d
Every other American cand;d.y- G%dny-
also elected by handsome phraii,nI' h,I' 2
hy maloritics ranging from y
1,SS3. The returns ave w. gl
tribute TO the American nggnit
returns in detail will be fpnrI' n
other column, ''aa Il 4
The canvassinc hoard III,
composed of tbe council o, saeo u
corder, convened in the connai u |
Der at II o clock noon. n !, ois
sencc of Presidents DAVIS If H., ~,
cll, but who came in later
nan Black was elected cba;,Mu. w
the canvassing board Con.
Stewart Martin and Mur1OsE
chosen tcllcrs. NV"
Where Challenges Were Ma,
There was one challenge in y.
No. J and this challenges S,s - s,a g'
by the election board. In Den. saNs
I there were three challenges. .a j.. =
passed by the board of ;nJ,~
one, George VI. Pane, refused =
after he Was challenged Tho =.
gwen beng that he Was nnds, J
Ia District No. . there wcrs c;,. II
sons whose right 10 vote Was n,. @
ed, The challenges were ,lI /.
ruled and the votes were rccn,i.
the Fifteenth district two per:a.. I
challenged, and both challepse !,
sustained. In District II two lar
We're challenged. but thcy nm;
their hnal papers and were, tS,5sj
permitted 10 cast their baDo,.
District ~ there gere th,ss i
lenges, which were sustained r h
board, While in District % tbsT
three and in District q Two vrs
lcngcd and tho five were swon II
In District ID the right OF fo,,
ers to record their votes was oue.,Sj
three were sworn in and one -u
fused by the board. In District sd
were two and IN District IS fbep
II challenges, all of which Wei. 4
tanned. One vote was challe1fl
District so, four in District 81 al
III District -, all of which Ue,e n
ruled and the votes were Tee,iytt
District ~ the right OF nine I'D
TO vote was questioned n
oyerruled and one was withdraw
the nine votes were received. n IN
trict Is there were three cbalas|
and there wa5 one in DistTic, Il. ii
were ovcrrulcd and the votes reHs|
In District - one vote cbalIenesi 4
sworn in and another, that Of G|
tine j.. Olsen, WAS challenged u
the voter declined 20 vote, as 4
dencc of sixty days in the distns
not been acquired. In Distris
was necessary 10 cast one blank
III order 10 lock the machine.
Where Ties Occurred.
In tho Fourteenth district Pa.
tlcd himself on the RepubEeal !
Democratic vote cast for BIZ /
each ticket, and the same u 4
of Lawrence III the TwentytE
Thirty.Sccond districts and Of y
in the Forty second,
In the Thirly-tbird district IN
for Edwards on the Republicar
and that cast for him on The
cratic ticket was apparently .r'i3
by the election officers in calili
the vote from the machine, ars
will account for his vote on "
publican ticket being larger 'al
other candidates upon the same
! Councilman Stewart of the fosi',
niclpal ward lives in the banns'
lean district Of the city.
Bransford IS Big Votes
Had Mayor Bransford Iecel5t
more vote he would have had O.
1000 more votes than be reeeiVn
wears ago. when LII voters h
their votes for him This Ya'
vote east for him was 1910
more than two years ago. III
When the canvass of the yoa
been completed, but before 'E
lions were made. recess u ~
was taken, and during thIs 'Ss
delicious luncheon was sprc1o IL
committee room. A,,H
/ The official canvass shows ~
doch was second in The mayolsg
having forty-six majority o~ IL
lace. n