Los Angeles herald., 1910-11-09
RETURNS SHOW
CALIFORNIA To
Be REPUBLICAN
Incomplete Count Indicates That
G. o. P. viii Send Solid Dele
cation to Congress
VOTE CONTAINS SURPRISES
Democrats Fail to Get Expected
Support in San Francisco
and Gain in Southland
WALLACE is RUNNING AHEAD
Supreme Court Candidates Poll a
Bigger Tally Than Head
of Winning Ticket
WALLACE is RUNNING AHEAD
Especial to The HeraIdl

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.-At mid
night the vote indicates the election OF
Hiram w. Johnson as governor of CAL
ifornia by a comfortable plurality. IL
is also believed that the entire Re
publican state ticket has been elected.
Supreme Court Justice H. A. Melvin
and NJ c. Sloss nave been reelected.
Congressman Kahn has beaten wal
tor Macarthur in the Fourth district
and Congressman Hayes has been re-
turned over Thomas Z. Hayden In the
Fifth district.
l. G. Zumwalt, Democrat Is giving
William Kent a close contest, with the
chances favoring Zumwalt in the Sec
ond. Congressman Englebright ap-
pears to have carried the First dis
trict over Judge Raker, although the
result is by no means certain. Con-
gressmen Smith and Needham have
been reelected in the Eighth and
Sixth respectively, and w. d. Steph-
ems won the Seventh district, giving
the Republicans seven out of eight
congressman If Zumwalt beats Kent
While it was conceded that johnson
would have a big vote in Alameda
county the Democrats were surprised
when the plurality rolled up was 5000.
When the early returns on San Fran
cisco began to come in it was seen
that it was a close race between Bell
and Johnson. By midnight, with 10000
votes counted, Johnson was in the lead
fifty votes. The votes counted at that
hour stood as follows: Johnson 1850,
Bell $780, Wilson 1000. 1t had been
freely predicted that Bell would carry
San Francisco by approximately 5000
votes SO it seems that the defeat of
the Democratic ticket was occasioned
in this city, where Bell was believed
to be strongest.
A great surprise was the tremendous
vote polled in the state by J. Stitt
Wilson, the Socialist nominee, who
received 5000 votes in Alameda county
, alone. His vote in San Francisco
county will be very large.
The tide of victory today was not
all one way, for Bell cut into Repub-
lican normal pluralities in the north
and even in the south.
Los Angeles county went for john
son by about $500, but the smaller
counties responded to Bell. Yolo gave
him $50 majority, Solano 1000, Napa
HOO, Colusa about 400 and Sacramento,
the home of Johnson, was also carried
by the Democrat. In the San Joaquin
valley the vote was close, Fresno and
SAN Joaquin counties going for john
son and Kern swinging into the Bell
column. Advices from Eldorado, Am
ador, Placer, Tuolumne, and Nevada
counties indicate that Bell has carried
those sections by a small vote. AL
though there are hopeful signs in the
north for Bell, it does not seem prob
able that anything can occur to
cause a sufficient change to alter the
material results. The Democratic
state central committee does not con-
cede Johnsons election. 1t was an
nounced at headquarters in the
Crocker building at 1890 this morning
that the returns up to that time had
been so fragmentary and mixed up
that it was impossible to say that the
Republican leader had a clear lead
The total vote counted in 567 scatter |
ing precincts out of 300 in the state
gives Johnson 24,470, Bell 1899.