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Show IT WAS A GREAT LANDSLIDE. The news carried this morning in The Trlbuno on the Presidential election elec-tion is great. The people of the country coun-try Jmyo endqrscd by an unprecedented majority, the niotto, No Humbug! Tho Democratic campaign was on such a scale that tho people could find nothing to take hold of; it dodged every ev-ery Issue: it said to evory man, "Mako your own platform, only for God's sake voto tho Democratic ticket!" It was a campaign of imbecility and cowardice, and tho American people have no uho for imbecility, and thoy hate a coward. The result of yesterday's yester-day's election definitely settles It that Bryan is and must remain the lcado'r of tho Democratic party. Ho is a positive pos-itive character, having something definite defi-nite to say, and whllo the peoplo of the East may not like the things he says, they cannot help admiring tbo man. Parkor is precisely his antithesis, antithe-sis, the very reverso of the sort of man tho American voter admires. But what a stunning blow it all is to tho professional politicians! Now York was doubtful,- with the Democrats Demo-crats confidently claiming it, and It votes for Roosevelt as' it did for Mc-Klnley Mc-Klnley in 1S9G, the majority counted by hundreds of thousands. And so in tho other so-called "doubtful" "doubt-ful" States; tholr majority for Roosevelt Roose-velt is so great as to disconcert every calculation and appall every opposition opposi-tion shoutcr. Indiana. West Virginia, New Jersey, Connecticut, all for Roosevelt, and so strongly for him that they excel in his support even what was expected of the admittedly staunch, strong Republican States. And the foremost politicians didn't know anything about it! Where is tho old-time political manager "with his ear close to tho ground," who could hear tho tread of the hosts of the voters vot-ers oven before they trod? Is real politics pol-itics becoming a lost art In America? Have we gone past the day when any one can forecast with reasonable accuracy ac-curacy the result of an olectlon? The business world seemed to know what was going 'on, for it has proceeded pro-ceeded during the past month or more precisely as If Roosevelt wero already elected, and It was a certainty that i present conditions' were not to be disturbed. dis-turbed. The returns at this writing (2:30 a, m.) indicate with tolerable certainty that Roosevelt will have three hundred and fourteen of the electoral votes, -with Parker one hundred and sixty-two, sixty-two, as follows: Roosevelt California 10, Colorado 5, Connecticut 7, Delaware 3, Idaho 3, Illinois Illi-nois 27, Indiana 15, Iowa 13, Kansas 10, Maine C. Massachusetts -16, Michigan 14, Minnesota 11, Montana 3, Nebraska 8, New Hampshire 4, New Jersey 12, New York 39, North Dakota 4, Ohio 23, Oregon 4, Pennsylvania 34, Rhode Island 4, South Dukota 4, Utah 3, Vermont Ver-mont 4, Washington 5, West Virginia 7, Wisconsin 13, Wyoming 3314. Parker Alabama 11, Arkansas 9, Florida 5, Georgia 13, Kentucky 13, Louisiana Lou-isiana 9, Maryland 8, Mississippi 10, Missouri IS, Nevada 3, North Carolina 12, South Carolina 9, Tennessee 12, Texas 18, Virginia 12 1C2. In, $),GtffBryan received 17G electoral votes to McKInley's 271; In 1900 Bryan received 155 electoral votes to McKInley's McKIn-ley's 292. McKInley's hlghost over Bryan, 137; Roosevelt over Parker, 152. Parker Is a much worse beaten man than Bryan ever was. |