| Show SW WEEPING NG VICTORY VIC ORY FOR WILSON AN AND MARSHAL L democratic candidates carry 37 states with Electo ial vote of tho the three cornered fight for the presidency has resulted in an overwhelming wh elming victory for woodrow wilson of 0 new jersey who will be the awen ty eighth president 0 of the united states thomas R marshall of indana go into the office with him to preside over the senate as vice president wilson and marshall were the victors in thirty seven states with a total of electoral votes this la is the largest electoral vote ever given any candidates theodore roosevelt the progressive candidate was second lit in tho the race carrying six alx states stales sta les with a total electoral yoto vote of at taft wits was third getting betting a total ot at twelve electoral votes utah idaho and vermont expressing their confidence in tho the president walle it la Is possible por sible later returns may throw new hampshire into tho the taft column giving the republican candidate sixteen electoral votes voles besides the presidency and biec pres dency the democratic party also retained the lower house of congress congre sg by nn an overwhelming majority and on top of that it captured the united states senate two hundred anil and sixty seven democrats republicans land and twenty pro gres Is the promised alre up of the national house of representatives that gives the democrats Deroo crata A 6 clear majority of 99 over all the indicated complexion ot of the new senate Is fit bl democrats Demo crits and 43 42 republicans the capture of congress in both its branches brancho 3 was waa not the limit of the triumphs 0 of the democrats thirty nine states elected governors and in those states thirty democrats were successful and eight republicans RepublIc aus and one progressive won the last lit in washington speaker champ dark clark of missouri has been re elected ile ho will undoubtedly preside over the next house unless induced to enter the cabinet tup t a foe fee uncle joo joe cannon alter after thirty eight years yeara in the house was defeated by frank T allair Ol lair down to defeat with uncle joe cannon went ebenezer hill in the fourth connecticut district representative hill 1111 for eighteen years yeara has been one of at the republican tariff experts in the house and 6 a mem bero the ways and means committee the only Socialist in the present house hoi victor 4 berger of wisconsin WILS was defeated tor for election reelection re by representative william 11 stafford a republican nominated on a fusion ticket with the democrats Democrate supporting him democratic gains in congress have been made as follows follow st five in new jersey one in indiana two awo lit in texas one in louisiana one in florida one in georgia five in connecticut one in alabama one in iowa and eight in new york in wisconsin iwo wo more elected nominally on a ticket from republic can districts though they wore were actually named by a emlon following A number of the republican HVOS returned were given the Pro gres endorsement indorsement Indor A gain of two Demo democratic cralle seats in tho the united states senate was vas secured kythe by the returns from delaware and new mew jersey tho legislature 0 of rhode island will be democratic insuring a democratic successor basc assor to wetmore Wet note mote republican retired many hundreds of tb turned he democratic party who had pro baay voted tho the republican ticket tho the democrats hold held their strength however bo and made steady general gains over the bryan vote 0 of four years yeara ago but the republican party split over the chicago convention between taft and roosevelt divided the yale voe that Is the answer to the tabulated voto vote that shows governor wll son eon carried more states and got a larger electoral vote than was ever given any president bufore b the roosevelt vote was simply the progressive republican vote plus a very sm small all percentage ot of the demo craela yote vote the tatt taft vote ibe th conservative republican vote vota minus a email percentage of antl roosevelt votes la in certain stater which went avent to wilson there was waa one gratifying thing about the election there was no 0 cf V c 1 1 I 1 it z X doubt about the general result from he time the first returns began to omo in flashes flashed of a few precincts rom massachusetts and now new york the issue to the laymen as aa well 13 to the expert gu guessels guessers essers those early returns showed that wilson allson was hold ng the democratic vote while tatt taft and were splitting the san can vote something like even and that hat settled the case congressman william sulzer was elected governor ot of now new york over rob job E hedges the republican noal lee who in turn led oscar osca straus candidate andl date p of ohp et with the assurances that the demo bratle candidates tor for the the solid south had bad been elected the election or of oscar W un ler wood chairman or of the house ways waya ind and means committee and father of the he tariff measures that made up the greater part of the tha work of the nt democratic house was made certain william barnes barnea jr chairman of the republican state committee issued the following statement the result of the election in the state of now new york demonstrates one thing that the rooseselt Roose Nelt olt movement was waa simply a republican bolt with all of the frantic efforts that were made to secure votes from people heuple generally the result shows that practically none but former republicans joined tho the roosevelt movement the decisive victory of tatt taft and hedges over roosevelt and straus Is a demonstration that the republicans of new rork cork desired the of 0 president taft and that the delegated from this state properly expressed the tha preference of the republicans when a large majority voted tor for taft at chicago the three cornered presidential contest sent to the polls voters who took an unprecedented interest in the outcome of a campaign that has been waged with unusual bitterness Itt erness in addition to the election of president dentandt and vice president and members of congress thirty three states voted tor for governor and thirty six tor for legislatures which will fill vacancies in the united states senate generally favorably favor favo ablo ralle weather conditions prevailed in certain sections section of the middle west particularly in southern illinois overcast skies and threat W 1 I I 1 1 4 14 N NO 1 11 iam 1 4 N I 1 nal 4 A M E theodore roosevelt second in the race president taft wins in three states ened end rain augured not well for the polling of heavy votes iotes but electors notwithstanding continued their steady march to the polls contrary to general expectation in view ol 01 ot the fact that party lines have Q been so BO closely drawn practically BO disturbances were deported from any section of the auntry few arrests tor for violations of the election laws were made president taft acknowledges defeat Chic cincinnati trin a tt president tatt taft at ai 11 tuesday night conceded the election ot of governor wilson lie ile issued tho the following statement from it his I 1 a brothers homo home hern here the returns insure the election of Go governor wilson to the presidency this means an early change in the tha economic policy of the government in reference to the tariff it if this change can be made without halting prosperity I 1 sincerely hope it may bo be the vote veto tor for mr roosevelt the third party candidate and mr debs the socialist candidate la is a warning that their propaganda in favor of fundamental da changes in our constitutional representative government had formidable support the pro president Adent sent a telegram oc at congratulation to president elect wll son to many friends on tuesday the president declared that no matter what the result ho he intended to remain a republican and to keep up the fight for the principles ho he believes are involved mr tatt taft has many times declared his intentions of returning to cincinnati cincinati n ati resuming the practice of law it if defeated and that intention was said pot biot to have been alterm al terea roosevelt wires congratulations oyster bay shortly before midnight n tuesday colonel roosevelt made the follo following wini statement the american people by a great plurality have decided in favor of mx ma ellson and the democratic party like all good citizens I 1 accept the result with entire good humor and contentment As aa for the progressive cause I 1 can only repeat what I 1 have already so many times sail the fat fato a of the leader for the knib being Is of little consequence but the cause itself must in tho the end triumph for its ita triumph Is essential to the ot of the american people ROOSEVELT at the same time he issued his statement colonel roosevelt sent the following telegram to governor wilson the american people by a great plurality have conferred upon you the highest honor in their gift I 1 congratulate you thereon president taft was smiling his brightest when he cast national ballot allot t and five other voting pap papers papera era devoted to local affairs in cincinnati ile he took the full allotted five minutes to record his vote the president was given a rousing reception hats off for the president tl shouted a man who waa just stepping out ot or the tha booth and who recognized tho the nations executive as an old townsman A generous cheer followed mr tatt taft voted in an upholstery shop at 2008 madison arpad the polling booth for his precinct governor wilson voted the straight democratic ticket at 10 15 in the interior of an engine house at princeton N J ile he was in the voting booth four minutes and remarked as he came out that the ballot yas so big la he had bad a hard time finding the democratic presidential electors colonel cast hla his ballot at oyster day bay in a fire truck house the party nominee for president heard the returns at his home on sagamore hill bill governor johnson the vice dennial nominee on the ho progressive ticket could not return to california in time to vote as he filled out colonel Roosevel ts speaking engagements in the east after tho the colonel had bad been shot governor johnson lyent the day in ne new york city governor marshall democratic candidate tor for vice president cast his bis vote in iii IMana indianapolis polls he walked to the polls with a friend the vacancy on tho the republican ticket caused by the death ot vice president sherman was not filled tind and mr Sher shermans mans name remained on the ballots ballota |
