The Hood River glacier. (Hood River, Or.) 1889-1933, 1914-05-21
PRIMARY DRAWS
SMALL VOTE
REPUBLICANS CHOOSE WITHYCONBE
Smith Leads Bennett for Democratic Cub
ematOrial Choice Shoemaker Gets
ClerkShip Nomination

No election in the history of Hood
River county has never been quieter
than last Fridays primaries. Usually
on election night the streets are crowd
ed, and crowds of expectant citizens
throng the polling places. A large
number OF citizens have always hereto
fore assembled at the rooms of the
Commercial club to hear the returns.
But on Friday night the streets were
pretty well clear by 10 O'Clock and by
midnight, except for the lights in the
buildings where the elections had been
held, and the tired voice of the jud ge
calling off the names of the candidates,
no one would ever have known that an
election had been held here. A light
vote was cast throughout the county.
The count came in slowly. The cleo
tion board of the West precinct at the
city hall did not finish their task of
counting out until rosy fingered dawn
was painting the eastern sky"
Hood River county and the state at
large gave DR.. James Withycombe a
large plurality for the governorship.
Moser was second choice of the Repub.
Leans with Crawford third, followed by
Dimmick, Carter, Geer ana Johns.
For Democratic nomination for gov
ernor DIR. c. j. Smith led the field, he
having received a plurality of about
800 votes over Judge A. s. Bennett,
of The Dalles. Judge Bennett carried
Hood River county by the plural
ity of SO votes.
The progressive vote, state wide, as
SO small as to be negligible. Gill re-
ceived the nomination for governor.
Hood River county lost out on the
nomination for joint representativeship
for the twenty-ninth district. A. |.
Mason received the smallest vote of
the four candidates in both Hood River
and Wasco counties. Stranahan's vote
was heavy in this county, but the plu-
ralities of Kelly and Anderson were so
heavy in Wasco county that his local
vote could not overcome them, and the
two Wasco men received the nomina-
tion.
The Democrats, writing in the names,
nominated M. H. Hill and Frank G.
Dick, the latter of The Dalles, for rep
resentative.
The Republican nopinations for
county officers we're: Commissioner,
Ed Hawkes.; sheriff, Thomas f. John
son clerk, Kent Shoemaker; assessor,
Jasper Wickham coroner, DR.. H. l..
Dumble; surveyor, Murray Kay; JUS
tice of peace, A.C. Buck. and constable,
E. S. Olinger.
Ralph W. Williams received the nom
ination for Republican national COM
mitteeman. George Nj. Brown was the
choice for attorney general; John H..
Lewis. state engineer; o. 7. Hoff, la
Dor commissioner Frank j. Miller,
railroad commissioner. II. Nj. Esterly
received the Democratic nomination
for national committeeman.
X. A. Booth received practically the
unanimous Republican vote for United
States Senate on the Republican ticket,
he having no opponents, and N. J. Sim
mott received like tribute in the sec
ond congressional district.
Democratic nominees we're: County
commissioner, J. H. Dunlop, of Cascade
Locks; sheriff, Thomas F. Johnson,
who won over both Pendergast and
Fart by small plurality; county clerk,
j. n. Hazlett, Shoemaker, however,
receiving a comparatively large Demo
cratic vote; assessor, Sam W. Hepp-
ner: corener, DR.. V. X. Abraham.