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Show Democratic Candidates Carry 40 States with Electoral Vote of 442. The three-cornered fight for the presidency has resulted in an overwhelming over-whelming victory for Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey, who will be the twenty-eighth president of the United States. Thomas 11. Marshall of Indiana In-diana will go Into the office with him to preside over the senate as vice-president. vice-president. Wilson and Marshall were the victors vic-tors In forty states, wlth a total of 442 electoral votes. This Is the largest electoral vote ever given any candidates. Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive candidate waa second in the race, carrying car-rying alx states, with a total electoral vote of 77. President Taft was third, getting a total of twelve electoral vote, Utah. 1 4a ho and Vermont expressing their confidence in the president. Michigan, Minnesota, Pennsylvania, South iXikota and Washington declared de-clared In favor of the Progressive electors. Besides the presidency and vice presidency, pres-idency, the Democratic party alto ro-taJned ro-taJned the lower houxe of congress by an overwhelming majority. And on top of that It captured the United States senate. Two hundred and ninety-six Democrats, Demo-crats, 120 lU-publlcan and sixteen Progressives is the promiai-d line-up tif the national houje of reprexenta-tlves. reprexenta-tlves. The Indicated complexion of the new senate la 61 lcmocrats and 43 Republicans. Repub-licans. The capture of congress m ooth Its branches was not the limit of the triumphs of the Democrats. Thlrty-alne Thlrty-alne states elected governors and In those states thirty Democrat were successful and eight Republicans and one Progresnive won the last In Washington. Speaker Champ Clark of Missouri baa been re-elected. He will undoubtedly undoubt-edly preside over the next house unless un-less induced to enter the cabinet But Champ's ancient and honorable foe,' Uncle Joe Cannon, after thlrty-elgbt thlrty-elgbt years In the bouse, was defeated by Frank T. O'Halr. Down to defeat with Uncle Joe Cannon Can-non went Kbenezer Hill In the Fourth Connecticut district. Representative Hill for eighteen years has been one of the Republican tariff experts In the bouse, and a member of the ways and means committee. The only Soclallat In the present bouse, Victor I Merger, of Wisconsin, waa defeated for re-election by Representative Rep-resentative William IL Stafford, a Republican, Re-publican, nominated on a fusion ticket with the Democrats supporting him. Democratic gains In congress have been made as follows: Five in New Jersey; one In Indiana; tw In Texas; one In Louisiana; one In Flerlda; one In Georgia; five In Connecticut; Con-necticut; one In Alabama; one In Iowa; and eight In New York. In Wisconsin two more elected nominally en a Democratic ticket from Republican Republi-can districts, though they were actually actual-ly named by a fmlon following. A number of the Republican representatives representa-tives returned were given the Progressive Progres-sive Indorsement. A gain of two Democra'ic seats In the United States senate was secured by the returns from Delaware and New Jersey. The legislature of Rhodo Ia-land Ia-land will be Democratic, Injuring a Democratic successor to Wetmore, Republican, Re-publican, retired. Many hundreds of thousands turned to the Democratic psrty who had previously pre-viously voted the Republican ticket Tho Democrats held their strength, bowever, and made 'eady, general galna over the Bryan vote of four years ago. But the Republican party aplit over the Chicago convention between be-tween Taft and Roosevelt divided the vo'e. That Is the answer to the tabulated tabu-lated vote that ahows Governor Wilson Wil-son carried more states and got a larger electoral vote than was ever given any president before. The Roosevelt vote was simply the Progressive Republican vote, plus a very small percentage of the Democratic Demo-cratic vote. The Taft vote we the conservative Republican vote, minus a email percentage of anti-Roosevelt votes m certain states, which went to Wilson. There waa one gratifying thing about the election. There waa bo doubt about the general result from |
