Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1920-08-26


days primary election.
Substantially the same precincts give
former United States District Attorney
3; K. Wheeler a lead Of more than f4 8; g.
600 over Lieutenant Governor W. w.
Mcdowell for the Democratic guberna-
torial nomination.
OF S74 of the states 1852 precincts,
complete returns gave Dixon 1860;
Wilson 12,S79; Attorney General S. G.
Ford 1928; Robert l.. Clinton 1884; D.
W. Slayton 1,401 and Ronald Higgins
Complete returns from S33 precincts
gave Wheeler 23,052; Mcdowell 13,947
and Thomas e. Carey 1926.
Attorney General.
For attorney general the Republican
candidates stood: Wellington D. Rankin
s,S94. l.. A. Foot 1885: William E.
r. V. Beaulieu 3674; Fred C. Gabriel
/ .3Ss; u. S. Gribhle 2.45O. On the Dem
ocratic ticket LOUIS S. Irwin, with 1T,460
votes, was leading A. n. Mcconnell with
1882.
Secretary OF State.
Republican candidates for secretary of
state were, in order: G. T. Stewart A.,
SO; Harry d. Barr S.O73; J. H. Bohl-
ing, Jr., 7,94S: Frank Cone 3977: r. A.
Haste with 22,076 was leading Herbert
NJ. Peet for the Democratic nomination
with 1851.
State Treasurer.
Results on state treasurer were:
Republican,. ". Walker 13,464, c.
]. McAllister S,s14. Thomas D. Butter
field S.211. N. D. Miller 6,2SS.
On the Democratic ticket, Ella Dorothy
Lord, indorsed by the Nonpartisan lea
que with &c, ,29o was leading r. n. Hawk
ins who had 1925
Auditor.
Geo. Fl. Porter had 1911 votes for
the Republican nomination for auditor
against 1904 for Chas. l.. Sheridan.
On the Democratic ticket Ole Sanvik had
1895 and Andrew G. Satire had 49,,
o79.
Railroad Commissioner.
Samuel NJ. Ross with 10,a43 votes was
leading the Republican candidates for
railroad commissioner. w. L. Collins
was second with 1O,S24: C. a. Rasmus-
Fatridge was fourth with 5.104 John
z. Meadors. the Nonpartisan league can
didate for the Democratic nomination
had 20. 767 votes, against 16,0S1 for Earl
J. Johnson.
Supreme Court.
Returns from S74 completed precincts
showed Albert ]. Galen and John Hur-
ly leading for the Republican nomination
for the six year term on the supreme
bench Galen had .15,414 and Hurry
II 1858. The latter was being pressed
closely. however, by William T.. Hollo-
way with 11,736 votes. Jesse Stevens
a6S. For the Republican nomination
for the two year term Frank B. Rey-
noIds with 1885 votes was leading
Frank n. Utter. who had 9,Sa3.
On the Democratic ticket, w. W. Pal
mer with 1906 votes and Harlow
Pease with 1852 were leading. Frank
Woody was close third with 14,022
votes and John w Stanton was fourth
with 12,01S
Lieutenant Governor.
Nelson Story Jr., was leading candi-
date for Republican nomination for
lieutenant governor with 1880 votes.
r. G. Linebarger. who had S.083, was
second; G. II. Williams was third with
1881, and John Oliver with 1858. was
fourth. Roland C. Arnold, with 20.762
had more than twice as many as either
of his two opponents, Frank Fl. Cooney
with 1924, and David Hilger with s.
900.
On the face of complete returns from
367 precincts in the First congressional
district Congressman John NJ. Evans
tonight had regained the lead in the race
for the Democratic nomination having
passed both Thomas j. Walker and Bur-
ton Watson, who had led him during the
day.
Evans, on these returns, had a vote of
6,6O6 as against 6.542 for Watson and
5,S07 for Walker. Mrs. r. G. MaeDon-a
aid was fourth with Lila
In the Second district NJ McCusker
league candidate. continued
to lead T. T. Carroll for the Democratic
for congress. McCusker had
9,S29 votes to Carrolrs 1883 in 515
precincts.
For the Republican nomination for
congress from the First district. " j.
on complete returns, from
351 precincts maintained his lead over
the field. He had 1851 votes to 4,o9t
for JOS. H. Griffin, his nearest con con
tender. and 2,9G2 for John Mclaughlin. /
NJ, Toanna S Gr;gv had 1887 votes.