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Show SWEEPING VICTORY FOR WILSON AND MARSHALL J Jm-& I j I the time the first returns began to come In. Flashes of a few precincts from MassachuKctti and New York f led tli li'-,;e to the laymen a well as to tlie expert g-.iensers. Tlioe early returns thoed that Wilson wai hold-It hold-It r the Democratic vote while Taft and Ilcoevelt were splitting the Republican Republi-can vote something like even. And that settled the case. Congressman WJlllam SuUer was elected governor of New York over Job E. Hedges, the Republican nominee, nomi-nee, who, In turn, led Oscar Straus, candidate of the Progressive ticket. With the asiurances that the Democratic Demo-cratic candidates for the iiouse throughout the "solid eouttT had been elected the election of Oscar W. Underwood, Un-derwood, chairman of the bouse ways and means committee, and father of the tariff measures that made up the greater part of the work of the present pres-ent Democratic bouse, was made certain. cer-tain. William Barnes, Jr. chairman of the Republican sUte committee, issued the following statement: "The result of the election In the state of New York demonstrates one thing: that the Roosevelt movement was simply a Republican bolt. With! all of the frantic efforts that were made to secure votes from people generally, gen-erally, the result fhows that practically practi-cally none but former Republicans Joined Join-ed the Roosevelt movement "The decisive victory of Taft and Hedges over Roosevelt and Straus la a demonstration that the Republicans of New York desired the renomlnation of President Taft and that the delegate! dele-gate! from this state properly expressed ex-pressed the preference of the Republicans Republi-cans when a largo majority voted for Taft at Chicago." The three-cornered presidential con-teat con-teat sent to the polls voters who took an unprecedented Interest In the outcome out-come of a campaign that baa been waged with unusual bitterness. In addition to the election of president presi-dent and vice-president and members of congTes, thirty-three states voted for governor and thirty-six for legislatures legisla-tures which will nil vacancies la the United States senate. Generally favorable weather conditions condi-tions prevailed. In certain sections of the middle west, particularly In southern south-ern Illinois, overcast skies and threatened threat-ened ralq augured not well for the ' Colonel Says Fight Will Go On. Oyster Day. N. Y. The only thing vblch I accepted ai a settled fact at Una mo re Hill Is that the fight la to to on. What methods Colonel Roos-relt Roos-relt will adopt aro' unknown even to lme f. "Of course the fight will go m." be said with an air or finality. 'In the end the cause mail triumph." rioee friends of Colonel Roosevelt said te was not surprised at Governor W.I-aa W.I-aa election because he was at no lme confident, they asserted. Wat the w tarty would be able to win lu Irst fight Plans for th Future. Columbus. O. Defeated, but far from discouraged. President Taft al ready has formed plan for holding ' together and atrengthen:ng the Repub-Hcsn Repub-Hcsn party. The plan are Indefinite. 11 but he said Wednesday night to r friends that th party will contlo'ie 1 to exist; that It will be a active In the past, and that there la no reason to believe that Ita chance of future success wero not excellent. Tbe f president is convinced that the task 9 of President-elect Wilson will not be ' easv. 4 |