Heppner gazette. [volume] (Heppner, Morrow County, Or.) 1892-1912, 1910-09-29

by q plurality of $500 to 1000 owe
Grant B. Dimick. of Oregon City
with Ernest Hofer, of Salem, thir
and Albert Abraham, of RoseburR
fourth.
More nearly complete returns fron
Multnomah County and the state a
large do not materially change tn
forecast on the remainder Of tn
ticket. These returns seem to indi
cate conclusively the defeat of RALPH
W. Hoyt. the assembly candidate TO
State Treasurer. by Thomas B. Kay
by a majority Of several thousand.
Mr.. Hoyt in Multnomah County
has received majority over Kay o.
more than 1900, but the returns from
other counties so far received show
that Kay is leading throughout the
remainder of the state and has over
come the Multnomah lead and has l80C
advantage over his opponent. The
returns for Multnomah County are
more nearly complete than from the
other portions of the state, so that if
the proportion of votes cast for the
two is maintained in the smaller
counties Kay will increase this lead
materially.
On the vote so far as counted, f.
W. Benson, assembly candidate for
Secretary of State. has a lead of
more than 5000 over G Wingate, and
his majority will probably roll up to
more than 10. 600.
For Attorney G eneral, A. M. Craw-
ford. on the latest returns shows
majority over J. N. Hart. the assem-
bly, candidate. of about 10, ,00o which
will be increased by the belated re-
turns.
W. S. Duniway, the present State
Printer, has also defeated w. ].
Clarke, assembly candidate, by wide
margin. Duniway now shows a
majority of more than 5000 over
Clarke, and each later report increases
DuniwaY's lead
The clolsest contest is between o.
P. Hoff, assembly candidate for Com
missioner of Labor Statistics, and G.
Mr.. Orton. The total returns SO far
as complied give Hoff 1882 and
Orton 1887. While Orton IS thus
shown to have slight lead. an
analysis of the count indicates the
election of Hoff. Mr.. Hoff ran behind
Orton about 1000 votes in Multnomah
County, but on the returns SO far
from the other counties is
nearly up with his opponent.
If the counties Of smaller popula-
tion show on complete count the
lame relative difference between the
.wo men Hoff will have won the con-
test by about ESQ votes. Orton has
had his principal strength in the town
md city precincts and from these the
vote is more complete than from the
country districts, where Hof has
Ihown the greater strength.
For Representative in Congress
rom the First District the Incomplete
'eturns give W. @. Hawley a major
ty over B. F. Mulkey of l646. but in
hese figures less than two thirds of
he vote cast is represented. On the
inal returns. estimating the vote on
he way it is shown in the incomplete
gures, Representative Hawley will
70 nominated for reelection by a
majority over his opponent by approx
mately 5000.
In the Second Congressional Dis
rict Representative Ellis is defeated
or nomination for reelection by
etween 28OO and 5000 by A. W.
.afferty, as now indicated. On the
ote so far reported Laferty has
aad of 1898, including the votes of :
II counties reported.
In this plurality over Ellis, how
YER. 1854 is represented in the nearly
Omplete returns from Multnomah I
ounty. indicating that in the other =
ounties Lafferty has run some ahead I
{ Ellis but not very strongly. The =
lurality of 2S00 to 5000 that it is {
5timated will be shown in the COM
lete returns is based on the theory I
lat outside of Multnomah County s
lere will not be a wide divergence J
stween the totals cast for the two 9
,ndidates.
In the incomplete return Q. ]. Reed
about 1000 behind Ellis and George
Shpehred about 1000 behind M. i
eed.
Oregon Republicans have thus
one administration candi-
lte in Representative Hawley and
IA insuFOaDt in Mr. TaHertv