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Show RESULT OF ELECTION REPUBLICANS REMAIN IN CONTROL CON-TROL OF SENATE, BUT DEMOCRATS DEMO-CRATS CAPTURE THE LOWER HOUSE. Cannon Re-elected to Congress, But Will Brobably be Succeeded as Speaker by Champ Clark of Missouri, Who is a Candidate. As a result of the decision of- tlie voters at the polls on November S, the Democrats will have a majority in the next house of representatives, being assured of a working majority of 30. The senate, however, will remain in control of the Republicans. In the senate the Republicans will have seventeen sev-enteen new members, with thirty-four holdovers, giving them a total of fifty- i one. The Democrats will have fifteen new senators, which with twenty-five holdovers, makes a total of forty. Speaker Joseph G. Cannon was reelected re-elected to congress from Illinois, while Champ Clark, the Democratic leader, will again represent a Missouri district. dis-trict. Clark has announced his candidacy can-didacy for the speakership, and will probably be Speaker Cannon's successor. suc-cessor. Democratic governors were elected in. Now York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Connecti-cut, Massachusetts, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Idaho, Wyoming, Colorado, North Dakota, Alabama, South Carolina, Caro-lina, and Texas. Republican governors were elected In Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Michi-gan, Minnesota, Nebraska, South Dakota, Da-kota, Wisconsin, California and Neva-3a, Neva-3a, while a fusion candidate was victorious vic-torious in Tennessee. The next New York legislature will be Democratic, and will select a Democratic Dem-ocratic senator to succeed Senator De-pew. De-pew. The next Iowa legislature will be Republican, and the progressive Republicans Re-publicans claim they will be in control con-trol and will select a successor to the late Senator Dolliver. In Utah the Republicans were victorious, vic-torious, Congressman Howell being reelected, re-elected, while D. N. Straup was reelected re-elected to the supreme bench. The next legislature will contain 15 Republican Re-publican senator and 3S Republican . representatives, while there will be two Democratsin the senate and seven sev-en in the houseS- Only-ne county in the state failed to endorse "Congressman "Congress-man Howell. In Salt Lake City, the American party was victorious, but the Republicans carried the county. ' - The Democratic candidate for Governor Gov-ernor of Idaho was victorious by a narrow margin, but the remainder of the Republican ticket was elected. Both branches of the legislature are Republican. In Indiana the Democrats will have a majority on the legislature, on joint ballot, of 32. This means that Senator Sena-tor Beveridge will not be returned to the sonatf .Tohr. w rn will probably prob-ably be elected senator. ivvfctve utuOwau. congressmen' and eight Republicans have been elected in Illinios, Cannon being one of the congressmen returned, although al-though a bitter fight was made against him. Illinois' present representation . consists of six Democrats and 19 Republicans. Re-publicans. The Democrats elected all their cfjndidates in Cook county. The proposed prohibition constitutional constitu-tional amendment was defeated in Florida. Missouri has emphatically declared against state-wide prohibition. The Democrats will have a majority of 50 in the legislature on joint ballot. ' The state ticket is being claimed by both parties. In Nebraska the next legislature will be: House, Republicans, 44; Democrats, 56. Senate, Republicans, 12; Democrats, 21. The Republicans have elected a governor ajid state officials of-ficials and three congressmen, and the Democrats have elected three congressmen. con-gressmen. In Kansas the Republican state ticket was victorious, eight Republican Republi-can candidates for congress winning. The Republicans will have three of the ten New Jersey congressmen, an exact reversal of the present representation. repre-sentation. Sereno Payne, author of the Payne tariff bill, had a close call for re-election, but will again represent his district. dis-trict. The Republicans of North Dakota carried every office except that of governor. The legislature is overwhelmingly over-whelmingly Republican. California remains in tile Republican Repub-lican column. Hiram W. Johnson has been swept into the office of governor by a plurality of 25,000, and has carried car-ried the entire Republican ticket to victory. |
