The Coconino sun., 1920-11-05
COCONINo COUNTY AND FLAGSTAFF JOIN NATION IN TENDERLY LAYING
 COX AWAY ON SHELF (Continued from page 1.)

Had Williams stayed by all Of the
 republican county candidates, Rudd
 would certainly have been elected
 treasurer and Mills would likely have
 been elected recorder. Many Williams
 republicans voted with the democrats for Rittenhouse, democratic candidate
 for supervisor; Gold, democratic can
 didate for county attorney, and for
 Henry Aphold, democratic candidate for treasurer, as was to be expected,as Rittenhouse lives there and both Gold
 and Aphold had lived there until a
 couple of years ago; but the Williams vote against Mills was surprise and
 is hard to understand.
 Whether the next holdover of the
 board of supervisors will be Flag
 staff republican or Williams dem ocrat is still to be decided. Whom ever gets the highest number of votes when the returns are all in will be hodover. Neither Campbell nor Rit-
 tenhouse have any cinch on it just
 now, the margin between them being
 so narrow that the vote of one or two precincts may decide.
 Coconino county had mighty ef- ficient set of public officials before the election. Of course, republicans will contend that the average has been made higher by the election. Certain it is that the taxpayers have not made an unwise choice, taking everything by and large, and while, believing af- ter-election comparisons to be invidi- ous The Sun will not indulge in any, The Sun does believe, however, and has no hesitancy in saying so, that there will be no lowering in efficiency per centages as result of the new official lineup.
 The Flagstaff republicans stayed up nearly all night watching the returns. Were they sad? Huh! If they were they're the darndest dissemblers ever. First, they grinned when the national returns began coming in, and it was Harding, Harding, Harding. Then as it became evident that New York, Ohio, Illinois and practically every other northern state was safely re- publican, they began to slap each oth- CT on the back. About the time it be- came evident that the election was veritable burial of democracy under a tremendous national republican land- slide, they became exuberant and be- gan shedding mock tears for such democrats as could be found; though, truth to say, the latter took the blow serenely, because they had been pre- pared for the inevitable and because most of them didn't care much any how, being pretty tired of Wilson and the plague of notions.
 But when it became evident that the state, county and town were going re- publican-oh, boy! you tell 'em!
 About that time, which was shortly after midnight, the democratic head quarters silently shut up shop and as silently the various candidates and committeeman wended their way home.
 But there was no sleep for the re- publicans. At both the Masonic Tenn pie and the republican county head quarters, where Western Union in struments were installed, the crowds hung around, unsated, enthusiasm mounting higher and higher, beds and sleep things forgotten.
 There was no election at Roosevelt, where Billy Rudd would have got just about all of the vote. So far as known last night all the other pre- cincts held elections, though there is some doubt about Long Valley.
 McDonald's Mill and Parks returns are in, but are sealed. The law pro- vides that they cannot be opened here for examination until the second Mon day after the election, on which day the board of supervisors meet to can vass the vote. Therefore, it may not | be known with any degree of certain | ty until then whether Rudd or Aphold | has the treasurership, or whether | Campbell or Rittenhouse will be the | next holdover of the board of super visors. The impression that some people have that the high man in the election is necessarily chairman is The chairman is elected by the board.
 The following precincts are still to be heard from: Long Valley, Loys, Valley and Bly,.
 Fredonia results are known as far as the vote for president and the county officers is concerned, having been received by wire, and are includ- ed in the table on this page.
 There is one thing that the repub- |ican candidates can congratulate over, both those who won and those who lost, and that is the fair, honest, clean way they cam paigned. They pulled together. They helped each other. They did not sling mud. And this clean sportsmanship is one of the things that helped win the great victory. They deserved to win; so they did win.