Arizona republican., 1910-08-16
WIDELY VARYING CLAIMS
It is Only Certain That an Enormous Vote Will Be Cast. And that Bell Will Be the Democratic Can didate for Governor.

San Francisco, Aug. 14.-Assembled in myriads at the polling places to- morrow, the voters of California Will hold conventions for the nomina- tion Of state. congressional, legisla- tive and county candidates. No general election has attracted more interest than this first test of the efficacy of the direct primary under the new California law, and in no previous balloting has it been more difficult to forecast results.
 Pro primary claims of victory are as numerous as the candidates and the figures given at headquarters show remarkable differences of opin- ion of real or pretended. If the re- suits are close in the contests for theprincipal nominations il may re- uuire a day or two to determine the winners If the returns show Landslide" in any direction, def mite idea of main results may be had early tomorrow evening.
 With Theodore Bell assured of the deraocratic nomination for governor without opposition and few other pl1ccs on the democratic ticket con tested the interest of the voters of that party is confined 10 local Ccn- tests.
 The managers of the five candi- dates for the republican gubernl- torial nomination made final claims tonight and accompanied them with a.IalN teal details. F1cn professed confidence that his c',' q would be returned the winner. LB the camp of IIiram Johnson, the insurScnt asDi- rant. it was asserted tha- Johnson would come up to the Tehachapi witl a plurality of 15.G0J and that hc would more than msiniain his lead in central and northern Califor- mia. overcoming through support of the farming districts the plurality that his opponents might receive Tn the more populous centers. Johnson is confident of defeating Philip stanton in Los Angeles, the latters home city and breaking nearly even in San Francisco the Curry strong hold.
 The Lincoln Roosevelt press ora tors throughout the state have hc' n
 
 straight insurgent ticket and the Johnson managers profess confl- dence that the entire ticket will go through
 Curry's lieutenants base their claims upon the splendid organiza- ton that Curry has built up through ont the state and it is declared that the vote tomorrow will be filled with surprises in districts where the op- position has been considered the strongest. It is asserted that Curry will have a clear majority Tn san Francisco and will run uniformly ahead of Johnson throughout the central and northern counties and that his excellent organization iR-the southern counties coupled with the strong support controlled by DICK Ferris. his running mate. will bring him up to the Tehachapi close on the heels of the Lincoln- Roosevelt nominee
 stanton bases his hope entirely on the support expected in southern California. which district supplies but one candidate against four from the north. Stanton expects sixty-fve per cent of the republican, vote III Los Angeles, his home county. and he expects to have a big lead Tn every other county of the southern group He figures that the southern California vote alone will give him the nomination
 At Anderson's headquarters, it is claimed that the candidate of the regular republican organization will draw a majority of the stalwart vote and that this will be sufficient to offset the Lincoln Roosevelt strength. It is asserted that Anderson is the only one of the four stalwart candi- dates who has developed sufficient strength to defeat Johnson. Ander- son has had the almost unanimous support of the organization of the press