Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1911 — JUDGE WORKS WINS TOGA [ARTICLE]

JUDGE WORKS WINS TOGA

Defeats A. G. Spalding Th Contest for California Senatorship. Judge Works, of Los Angeles, was elected on the first ballot to succeed Frank P Flint as United States senator from California. Judge Works received 92 votes on joint ballot; A. G. Spalding, of San Diego, got 21; Meserve 1 and John E. Baker 3 Works was the candidate of the insurgents, but at the direct primary, while he received a plurality of votes cast, Spalding carried the greater number of congressional districts.