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Show REPUBLICANS MAINTAIN SUPREMACY STATE ELECTIONS SHOW LITTLE CHANGE IN SENTIMENT FROM A YEAR AGO. Fuslonlsts Drive Tammany Out of Power Id New York Do crats Wrest Maryland From Republican Moorings Nebraska Nebras-ka Increases Republican Lead-Returns Lead-Returns of Other Stp.tes. - In Tuesday's election the. ..Republicans ..Republi-cans maintained, their supremacy in every state they carried a year ago, except Maryland. Only a portion of the states held elections, but those voting vot-ing show that public sentiment in the nation has not greatly changed since last year. The greatest interest of the contest centered in New York City, where the advocates of reform defeated Tammany. Tam-many. Following is a summary of the results: New York. Seth Low, former presidentof Columbia Colum-bia university, and four years ago the Citizens' Onion candidate for the first mayor of Greater New York, was elected the second mayor of Greater New York, Tuesday, by a plurality ranging anywhere from 30.000 to 40.- 000, defeating Edward M. Shepard of Brooklyn, the Democratic nominee. The campaign was an exciting one, and the vote, though somewhat less than in the presidential election a year ago, was the largest ever polled in a municipal muni-cipal contest in this country. In addition to the canvass for mayor, public interest largely centered in the nomination by the fusionistsof William Tra vers Jerome for district attorney, and Mayor Robert A. Van Wyck, by the Democrats, for justice of the supreme su-preme court, who were voted for in the territory contained in New York county. coun-ty. Returns indicate that Jerome has been elected by a comfortable plurality and that Mayor Van Wyck has been defeated, the latter running behind his ticket from 15,000 to 20.000. Reports received from various sections sec-tions of New York state show that the Republicans will retain control of the lower house of the state legislature, the number of Republican and Demn- cratic assemblymen not differing materially ma-terially from the figures of preceding years. Connecticut. Delegates to a constitutional conven- tion were elected, Republicans electing wiiOUt two-thirdj of the members. Iowa. With a very light vote Congressman Cummings was elected governor by 90,000, the state ticket winning by substantially sub-stantially the same vote. Kentucky. The legislature will be Democratic by about 53 to 35. For the first time in years the Populists did not elect a member to the assemblv. Maryland. The Democrats will have a majority of six on joint ballot in the legislature. The city of Baltimore went Republican by, a small majority. Massachusetts. Governor Crane, Republican, was reelected re-elected over Josiah Quincy, Democrat by a majority of 70,000. The city of Boston went Democratic by 7,699. Mississippi. Mississippi was carried by the Democrats Demo-crats by about 30,000 on a light vote. Nebraska. The Republicans carried the state by about 10,000 majority, making a gain of about four votes to the precinct over last year. New Jersey. Tbe Republicans elected the governor by a majority of 10,000, and will control con-trol both branches of the legislature. Ohio. Governor Nash, Republican, was reelected re-elected by a majority exceeding 60,000, and the Republicans scored 102 of the 143 members of the legislature. Pennsylvania. The Republicans elected the entire state ticket by about 70,000. The vote in favor of the constitutional amendment amend-ment for ballot reform was overwhelming. overwhelm-ing. Rhode Island. The- Republican state ticket was elected by an average majority of 6,000, a net loss of 2,500 from last year. South Dakota. The Republicans elected all of the eight district judges by majorities which give them the state by about 8,000. Vlricliila. The Democrats carried the state by about 25,000 and will have an overwhelming over-whelming majority in the legislature. |