The San Francisco call., 1910-09-04
SPALDING HAS
HEAVY LEAD IN
COUNTY VOTING
Returns From 4S Heard From
Give Him First Place in
70 of These
San Diego Business Mems Sena-
tOriaI Committee Complies
Interesting Statistics
Especial Dispatch to The Coll]

SAN DIEGO. sept Immediately
e fter the fling of returns from the
ate primary election with the boards
Of. sAaervisors Of the several counties
-of the state ". d. Page, secretary Of
me San Diego businessmen's senatorial
committee. wrote TO the clerks of the
IS counties. inclosing blanks. and ask
ing Tor the Official result of the ad-
vlsory vote for United states senator
as certified
Up TO yesterday afternoon Secretary
Page had received official returns from
= s counties, and from these a ana lysis
of the votes has been made which
should be Of great interest at this time.
not only 10 the people Of san Diego but
10 the public Of the entire state.
From the returns thus far received
from IS of the total Of IS counties in
q alifornia Sp<lding has carried 26
counties. Works has carried 1e and
Meserve' has carried six. In points
Spa ldinE has scored 26 frsts. II seconds.
; thirds. Works has scored 16 frsts.
IL seconds, Is thirds Meserve has
scored frsts, IA seconds. IS thirds
WORKS LEADS IN VOTES
out of the total statewide vote of the
As counties from which official returns
have been received. Works has received
5S.541 votes. Spalding 5O.77s and Mes
erVe t4.96s, making q total of I49.Os2
Deduct all votes received by each of the
three republican senatorial candidates
in their home counties Of Los Angeles
and san Diego. and SpaldinE received
41S2f votes. "a Morks 35.273. Meserve
3I.747.
SpaIdings greatest strength was
shown in san Francisco. san Diego.
Sacramento and Riverside counties
Works greatest strength was in Los
q ngeles and Fresno counties. where he
GiTed 1902 votes out Of a statewide
= Of 53.541
MeserKp had very small nlllra lffv
In the six counties credited to him. his
vote In these counties ageregating
2-62e. closely followed by palding with
Z.oSS. Meserve led Spa aIding only by
four. votes in one Of these counties and
u votes in another county. AS Meserve
only carried six small counties out of
the IS from which official returns have
been received. he may be eliminated so
far s the primary advisory vote is con-
cerned.
.- If the spirit of the new primary law
is to prohibit large cities from
eternally controlling the choice of
United States senators By rolling up
huge votes for local candidates, then
it is clear that Spalding has on the
2 boVe showing by far the widest in
dorsement Of the voters Of California.
for he has certainly carried a majority
Of the counties Of the state.
HOME COUNTIES COMPARED
A word Of comparison regarding the
standing Of the two candidates IN their
home counties viii also be OF interest
Spalding carried San Diego county by
a majority Of 1851, 4 vote of four and
"a half TO one. while Judge Works car
-f 1Tae l.
OF only 46l votes While the returns
from IS counties indicate a plurality
for Judge Works in the state, most
Of which was obtained in Los Angeles
and Fresno counties. he only carried
Is out OF the 4S counties. while SpaId-
sing carried san Francisco and Sacra-
mento in the north and San Diego
and Riverside in the south, and with
them 26 counties.
Moreover, in the Is counties carried
by q orks. Spalding was a very close
second in II, only % votes behind in
one, seven votes in another, 25 votes in
another and I6 votes in another This
is most remarkable showing an5
plainly indicates that the sentiment Of
the state at large is most decidedly in
favor Of A G. Spalding for United
States senator
lit is too early yet 10 compute ac-
cUrately the vote by senatorial and
assembly districts but there is no rea-
son 10 doubt that upon the face of the
returns A 9. Spalding Of San Diego
has received the advisory vote, not
only of good majority of counties
but also Of senatorial and assembly
districts as required by the new pri-
inary law to constitute him the re-
publican candidate for United States
senator for the next California state
legislature.