Albuquerque morning journal., 1922-11-09
COP. WINS IN
CALIFORNIA BY
WIDE MARGINS
Johnson Is Elected Senator
and Richardson Govern
or; Results in Many
Other States in Doubt.

san FRANCISCO, NOV O. INSSuAt9 W .
the general election in many Of the .
far western states were in doubt to-
night, due principally to heavy .
vote and lengthy ballots. In sew
oral Of the states the returns were
so meager and the candidates were
running so closely that it was eX-
pected that an official count will
be necessary to decide the winner. |
California remained in the re-
publican column with the election
of Friend w. Richardson as gov
ernor and Hiram w. Johnson as
United States senator, In the
3.723 precincts out of 6,681 in the /
state, Senator Johnson polled 6l2,- /
1872 votes to 1l5,534 for his dem
ocratic opponent, William j. Pear j
son. Richardson in 3,759 pre- F.
cincts received 293. 615 votes and
Thomas zee WOoWinc, democrat, .
I2121S4. Upton Sinclair, socialist,
received 26.32S votes in the pre-
cincts counted for United states
senator
Arizona Democratic.
Arizona went democratic. re-
y
Congressman Carl Hayden 10
Washington and electing George w.
p. Hunt as governor and an en-
tire state ticket, according to lat
est returns. Colorado returns were
meager but they indicated that
William Sweet, democrat, was in
the lead for governor by q few
hundred votes over Benjamin |
Griffith. republican. /
Slightly more than half Of the
precincts in Idaho reported c. c.
Moore. republican, leading in the.
race for governor. Moses AleXan-
der democrat. and "A former gov
ernor, was third man in the race,
with II. f. Samuels, progressive, |
the second man,
Wheeler in the Lead.
Burton X. Wheeler, the demo-
cratic candidate for United states
senator in Montana, had a com
Portable lead over Carl w. Rid |
dick republican congressman, who
sought the senatorial toga, in the
returns from more than half of the |
state. Nevada was another west
ern state that went democratic al |
most entirely. But one office, in
spector Of mines. was not claimed |
by the democrats after the latest |
tabulatious. Key Pitman was re-
turned to the United States senate |
and Charles $. Richards. democrat, /
will represent Nevada in the low
er house. James C. Scrugham de-
feated John II. Miller, republican,
for governor, by about 3,500 votes
Senator Pittman had a lead Of
more than 5000 over his repubi-
can opponent.
Landslide in Oregon.
Oregon was the scene Of a dem
Ocratic landslide. Walter NJ. w.
Pierce. democrat. defeating Cover
nor Ben W. Olcott, republican, by
/ 2C,062 in the 1903 Of the 1872 pre-
cncts in the state. Returns indi-
Gated the Oregon voters adopted
the compulsory school act, which
its sponsors proclaimed would not
permit any private schools. includ-
/ ing parOChial schools in the state.
| The act provides that children over
eight and under 16 years are to be
sent TO q public school during the
entire school year.
William Il. King, democratic in
cumbent. had n lead of 700 votes
over Ernest Bamberger republi-
can, in the race for senator from
Utah, when the returns were last
tabulated.
POindcNtcr Trails Dill.
Senator Miles PoindeXter. with
! 45j precincts missing out Of 2,44G,
was trailing c. c. Dill, democrat,
| in Washington. in the senatorial
contest by 4,027 votes. The re-
| publican state chairman in Wash
| ingtOn announced he would be sat
isfied the returns were correct
from Pierce, King. and Spokane
counties until a complete recheck
| had been made.
1t was reported that officials of
Pierce county had discovered dis
crepances in the early count.
Pierce county returned a plurality
to Dill. Election officials. it was
said, counted only ''scratched'
| tickets for the unofficial returns
made to the county auditor, disre-
garding the Straight" tickets,
which PoindeXter's managers de-
clared, were in the ma iority for
the republican ticket. The King
county auditor announced he would
begin a recheck of all poll books
turned in.
Wyoming, according to votes
counted, elected w. E. Ross. dem
ocrat, as governor. over John w
Hay. republican. Ross had a lead
OF 900 votes with half of the state
reported.
Many congressional results re
mained unsettled until "a hours
after the polls closed. The Ninth
district was the only one in Cali
fornia that was in doubt. but inl
Idaho, Montana, Utah and Wyom-
ing definite figures were lacking
on the entire congressional tickets
The Fifth district in Washington
the first in Oregon and the Second
and Fourth in Colorado were still
undecided.
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