The news=record. [volume] (Enterprise, Wallowa County, Oregon) 1907-1910, 1910-11-16
Ar FTERMATH OF THE
OREGON ELECTION
Vests Plurality Over Bower
man Will Reach 6000--Pro-
hibitionists Lose Ground.

hibitioniStS Lose Ground.
Portland-Oswald Vests plurality
Tor governor OF Oregon will approx
mate 5000 West carried every coun-
ty carried by Chamberlain for United
states senator two years ago except
Lake; in addition he won Benton
Douglas, Marion, Tillamook, Wallo
wa, Washington, Curry and Yamhill
On complete returns received, nine
counties gave pluralitles Tor Bower
man and thirteen for west. The Bow
erman counties are as follows: Column
bIa, Coos, Gillian, Hood River, JOSE
phine, Lake, Umatllla, Wasco and
Wheeler. The other counties believed
10 have gone for Bowerman are Klam-
Hth, Lane, Morrow and Sherman.
Counties carried by West are as fol-
lows: Baker, Benton, Clatsop, Doug
las, Jackson, Linn, Marion, Multno-
nah, Polk, Washington, Yamhill, I'm
ION, Wallowa. Counties placed in the
West column by majorities as yet un-
determined, Ciackam"s, Crook, Curry.
Lincoln, Malheur, Tlilamook, Union
and Wallowa Grant county's vote is
very close.
Republican congressman.
w. c. Hawley and A. w. Lafferty,
republicans, were elected to congress
In the First and Second districts re-
spectively. Hawley has defeated his
democratic opponent, Robert Smith,
by 5000, and Lafferty has defeated
John Manning, democrat, by 5000.
w. R. King and w. Slater, non-po-
litical democratic candidates for the
supreme court, were defeated hope
iessly in every county.
The legislature will be strongly re-
publican, although there will be a
scattering OF democrats in both the
branches. The organization of the
senate and house will be in the hands
of the republicans.
Unofficial election returns indicate
conclusively the defeat of two OF the
U'Ren measures, and the probable de.
feat of the other two. The two U'Ren
measures certainly defeated are lie
official gazette bill and proportional
representation. The two in doubt are
the bill providing for primary election
Of delegates to national conventions
and the constitutional amendment
providing for verdicts by three-tourths
OF the jury in civil cases.
Tax Amendments All Lose.
All three of the proposed tax
amendments to the constitution have
been defeated, according to the in
complete returns. The initiative
amendment giving each county the
right to regulate taxation within It's
borders received a larger vote than
did either of the amendments pro
posed by the legislature.
The county bill, providing a local
method for creating new counties is
defeated. The vote indicates that the
total majority against the bill will be
about $500.
Home Rule Leads by 5000.
The home rule liquor amendment Is
nearly 5000 to the good in a tota
count of $4,000 votes. The vote OF
this measure and on the prohibition
amendment will probably run up to &
total of $4,000 to 100000. On the
home rule bill, therefore. approx
J mately nine-tenths of the vote Is rep
resented in the figures that give tn,
. present majority Of 3000 :.
Prohibition did not fare well In tn,
, general election. They lost consid
cradle territory in addition to tn,
proposed statewide measure, and il
addition the defeat was made NOR,
telling by the triumph of the home
! rule measure.
: None of the counties already we
. voted dry, but seven of the dry coun
ties went against prohibition Thes
were Gillian. Morrow, Malheur, Polk
Tillamook, Umatilla and klamath.
Leslie Butler has the distinction O
being the only prohibitionist candi
/ date to carry a county. Butler is
! banker at Hood River, and was
|. candidate for state treasurer. He re
! ceived SGT votes to the ATS give
J Thomas Mckay, republican.
|. Only One Normal Wins.
4 Only one normal school will receiv
: state aid out of the three that sui
: mitted the proposition to the electol
= ate. The successful school Is locate
8 at Monmouth; the Ashland and Wei
ton schools went down to defeat i.