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Show ELECTORS MEET AND CAST VOTES For the First Time In Sixty Year Ohio la Found In the Democratic Demo-cratic Column for Chief Executive New York, Jan. 15. Presidential electors In all the states met today at the various state capitals and formally for-mally announced the votes of their respective states for president and vlco president of tho United States and chose their official messengers to carry the votes to Washington where they will be delivered to tho president pro tempore of the senate. The returns will bo canvassed on" February 12, In Joint session of the senate and house, when Woodrow Wilson will bo formally declared elected president of the United States. Ohio, for tho first tim0 In sixty years, cast a solid vote for the Democratic Dem-ocratic national ticket. Tho twenty-four twenty-four votes of tho stato went to Wilson Wil-son and Marshall. Tho last previous Democratic president it voted for was Franklin Pierce In 1852. Marshall Makes Pledge Vlco President-elect Marshall at Indianapolis, In thanking the fifteen electors of Indiana for the votes they 4 K. cast for him and President-elect Wilson, Wil-son, pledged himself anew to help carry out the provisions of the platform plat-form adopted at the Baltimore convention. con-vention. "I assure you there will be no dispute dis-pute In the incoming national administration, admin-istration, for I do not Intend to oppose op-pose President Wilson," he said. This was the first time slncel892 that Indiana1 cast Ita electoral vote for a Democratic president. The electors of Maryland met at Annapolis In the old senate chamber where George Washington resigned bis commission as commander-in-chief of the continental army, and cast their eight votes for Wilson and Marshall. Tho four Republican presidential electors of Utah! cast their votes for President Taft for president and Nicholas Murray Butler of Columbia university, "Now York, for vice president. presi-dent. Mrs. Margaret Zano Wltcher will be the messenger. Kentucky's Thirteen An addition to Woodrow Wilson's collection of lucky thlrtecns was mado by tho thirteen electors of Kentucky Ken-tucky when they met today, the 13th to vote for Messrs Wilson and Marshall. Mar-shall. Resolutions declaring for a continuance contin-uance of the Progressive party and calling for a national convention were adopted by tho thirty-eight Pennsylvania electors who voted for Roosevelt and Johnson. This was tho first time In more than fifty years that the electoral vote of tho state went for candidates other than regular reg-ular Republicans. In concluding the meeting the electors sang "My Country, Coun-try, 'Tls of Thee." The four electors of Vermont cast the vote of the stato for President Taft for president and Nicholas Murray Mur-ray Uutler for vice president. The meeting of the five electors at Providence, R. I., was opened with a prayer by the Rev. John C. Vic-hcrt. Vic-hcrt. The vote- went to Wilson and Marshall. |