Imperial Valley press., 1932-09-01
ROBINSON
COIN TO
ASSEMBLY
Incumbent Reelected At
Primary By Defeating
Jackson.
RESULT UNCHANGED
Missing Precincts Fail To
Disturb Standings OF
Candidates.

With SO of Imperial county's so
precincts unofficially complete, leav-
ing only 19 votes still to be counted
from the Palo Verde precinct, Sam
uel E. Robinson today had been
elected state assemblyman from this
district by a total vote of 3497 as
compared to total of 1855 gath
cred by both opponents, Henry L.
Jackson, with 2796 votes and Ray
D. Johnson with 459 votes.
A. Y. Preble was elected super
visor from the third district with
584 votes over the 436 given Con-
nelly, his only opponent.
Interest centered on the race be-
tween A. c. Finney, incumbent, and
r. D. McPherrin, candidates for the
superior court bench, and r. w.
Greer and j. E. Simpson, Democra-
tic candidates for the nomination
for state senator. Both races are
so close that the lead undoubtedly
will be decided by count of ab-
sentee ballots, of which there are
925 to be opened by the board of
supervisors next Tuesday.
Although McPherrin and Finney
will take part in run-off at the
general election, their battle for
the lead was watched with interest.
With SO precincts in it became ap-
parent that McPherrin'S only hope
to take the lead lies in the absentee
ballots, for Finney polled 1898 votes
as against 1881 for McPherrin. s.
P. Williams definitely was out of
the race, with only 1881 votes.
Greer held lead of 81 votes,
which only can be obercome by the
absentee votes since Palo Verde
precinct could not give Simpson q
lead over him for the Democratic
nomination. Greer had 1901 votes
by the revised count, while Simpson
had 1910.
At BrawIey Graham and Walters
will run off the election for super
visor.
Latest returns made little diff
ference in the results given in yes
terday's Press.
Utley Makes Good Run
Another feature of the election
was the sweeping lead of Ernest r.
Utley over all other Democratic
congressional candidates in Imper-
ial county. The San Diego vote.
however, overcame Utleys major
ity in this county, and he was not
nominated. Utley issued a state
ment today thanking Imperial
county voters for their efforts in
his behalf.
Ben Hulse, Republican candidate
for state senator, was another who
piled up a huge lead which in
creased with every precinct.
Democratic and Republican votes
to be expected in the absentee bal
lots give the Republicans something
of a majority, there with 575 Re-
publicans casting absentee ballots
and $50 Democrats voting by this
method. In the Palo Verde precinct
there are IL Democratic and eight
Republican votes.
The count of SO precincts for
countrywide candidates follows:
U. S. Senate (R). Shortridge,
1924; Grail, 1121; Shuler, $50;
Tubbs, 449; and Youngworth, 1856.
U. S. Senate Cd. McAdoo, 2745;
Shuler, 665; Wardell, 2l6; Abbott,
ITO; McCarty, las; and Hale, "a.
Congressman (R). Bacon, 1892;
Burnham, 1902; Austin, 765; Chand-
Ter, ITS; and Barnson, 1l8. Con-
gresham (D). Utley, 2544 Hurley.
554; Chandler, 1873; and Crouch, 70.
State senator (R). Hulse, 1880;
Gruwell, 657; Watson. $40; and
johnson, Alt. State senator Cd.
Greer, 1901; Simpson, 1910; Mccall.
578; and Cox, 442.
Assemblyman (R). Robinson,
1920; and Jackson, 1456. Assembly,
man Cd. Robinson, 1877: Jackson,
1910; and johnson, 459.
Superior court judge, non-partis-
an. Finney, 1898; McPherrin, 1881;
and Williams, 1881.