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Show Wins With UOS Electoral Votes Tlio United States today went Democratic. Woodrow Wilson of Now Jersey will bo tho twenty-eighth president pres-ident of tho United States. Ho carried car-ried thlrtysovcd states with a total of 408 electoral votes tho largest ofcr given any candidato for president. presi-dent. Thomas It. Marshall of Indiana will go into olllco with him to preside over ov-er tho senato as vlco president, Theodore Roosevelt, head Bull Moosd of tho hojv, Progressive party was tho "runner up" In the fight tor the presidency. Ho carried six states with a total electoral voto of 104. This reckoning gives Illinois to Roosevelt, but tho contest between him and Vllson is so closo that the state may bo said to bo in doubt. William Howard Taft was third In tho race. Tho majority of tho voters vot-ers in threo states, Utah, Vermont and Idaho expressed' their confidence In him and when tho electoral vote is cast ho will get a total, of .12, and I he may get now Hampshire, making It 10. Besides tho presidency and vlco presidency, tho Democratic party nl-bo nl-bo retained tho lower .housot of con-, gross by an overwhelmingly majority. And on top of thai it probably cap- tf)rC(1 tho United Sj&tcs senate. Two hundred and sixty-seven Democrats, Dem-ocrats, 148 Republicans and 20 Progressives Pro-gressives is tho promised lineup of tho natlonaHiouso of representatives. That gives tho Democrats a clear majority ma-jority of 09 over all. Tho indicated complexion of tho now senato is 51 Domocrats and 43 Republicans. Those figures may bo changed by moro complete returns, for they assume that tho Illinois legislature leg-islature has gone Democratic and will elect two senators of that faith. |