| OCR Text |
Show REPUBLICAN GAIN IN THE ELECTION Republicans made gains in four states in the elections held yesterday. yester-day. They added a governor In Massachusetts, Mas-sachusetts, made general gains in New Jersey and Kentucky and won an additional congressman In New York. Maryland returns Indicated that the Democrats had gained a governor. The votes of the Empire state gave suffrage suf-frage emphatically denial in the voting vot-ing yesterday. A majority of well over 200,000 New Yorkers voted against the proposed amendment to the state constitution to this end. At the same time they defeated even more unequivocally the proposal to adopt a new state constitution. The vote against this measure was made at a very late hour last night at least 250,000. Republicans retained their majority majori-ty in the assembly, naming 98 of the 150 members. They also won all of the congressional elections, made nacessary by deaths In three districts, the Twenty-sixth, Thirty-first and Thirty-sixth. The voters of .Massachusetts denied women the right to vote by a majority ma-jority of over 100,000. Samuel W. McCall, Republican, defeated de-feated Governor David Lv Walsh, Democrat, Dem-ocrat, in the race for governorship. Mr. Walsh was seeking re-election for a third term. The vote was close and at one time Mr. Walsh was in the lead. The vote in 110 precincts out' of a total in the state of 1.140 gave McCall 226,920 and Walsh 223-729. 223-729. It was apparent also that the Republicans Re-publicans had olected the whole of the state ticket below governor. The Republicans, furthermore gained 12 aca.iB in ui jsJHiature, The Progressive vote in tho state was almost negligible, but the prohibition pro-hibition candidate for governor got a comparatively heavy vote. Pennsylvania administered another severe defeat in the aspirations of women to exercise the suffrage. The majority against this measure was estimated es-timated safely at 150,000. The Republicans Re-publicans elected a mayor of Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, Thomas B. Smith. In Maryland, another state electing elect-ing a governor, incomplete returns to a late hour indicated a Democratic victory. E. C Harrington vas leading lead-ing the Republican nominee O E Weller, by a margin which indicated a .final majority of from 5,000 to 7 000 The" county vote was very late ' Albert Al-bert C. Ritchie, Democrat, for attorney attor-ney general, was far ahead of the ticket in Baltimore and the legislature legisla-ture doubless will be Democratic Prohibition Defeated. Prohibition measures were voted upon in Ohio and Virginia. The returns from tho first stato showed the defeat of the measure by a majority of about 40,000 while Virginia, on the other hand, elected a state legislature pledged to enact measures in 1916, prohibiting the sale of Intoxicants. In Now Jersey the next house oY the assembly will havo 37 Republicans Republi-cans and 23 Democratic members. The Republicans gained two Btato senators in yesterday's contest and the next BenateTwill be Republicans 13; Democrats, 8. Tho proposal in the city of Detroit that the municipality purchase the local street railway was rejected. The fight on this question was bitter. The official count from 130 precincts out of 202 was 18,570 votes for the proposal, pro-posal, and 19,967 against it. Democrats Ahead. Kentucky, voting for a governor, showed no decisive result up to a late hour. Both sides claimed the victory, vic-tory, but unofficial returns from 92 counties out of 119 In the state, showed show-ed A. O. Stanley, Democrat, some 13,-000 13,-000 ahead. |
