Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 266, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1912 — WOODROW WILSON IS ELECTED [ARTICLE]

WOODROW WILSON IS ELECTED

Chosen President of Med States. DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE Party Sweeps Country In Battle ot the Ballots. SOLID SOUTH IS STILL SOUD Roosevelt Runs Second Country Over, With Taft Third. New York, Nov. 6. —Woodrow Wilson, whose experience in active politics Is only a little more than two yearn old, will be the next president of ths United States. He carried thirty-eight qf the fortyeight states. He will have a vote of 412 out of 531 in the electoral college, 146 more than enough to elect, and a majority of 293 over all his competitors. His popular majority in the states lie carried is indicated to be 2,149,000. His plurality over the pluralities of Taft and Roosevelt is 1,182,000. .Colonel Roo&evelt ran second, and the returns indicate that he, will have 102 electoral votes. The early returns also show that he carried six states —Illinois, Pennsylvania, lowa, Kansas, South Dakota and Washington. * Taft’s indicated electoral vote is seventeen from four states —New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah and Vermont. Returns Come Slowly. Returns from any of the western states, from which any accurate notion can be obtained of how the states of the plains and beyond the Rockies have voted for president and vice president are exceptionally slow In arriving. The ballot machines of Minnesota have rebelled against the liberties taken with them by the splitters of tickets and a legal question has arisen as to whether votes put into them after 9 o’clock, the hour for closing the polls, are legal votes. New Mexico, which the Progressives thought as sure for Roosevelt, has apparently been carried by Wilson. California is safely for Roosevelt, but North Dakota, which the Democrats thought was safe for Wilson, seems to be equally divided between Taft and Roosevelt Wilson Has Electoral Majority. But in spite of the slowness of returns from the plains and mountain states of the west, there seems to be no doubt that Woodrow Wilson, with the solid south and the solid east, or almost the solid east, behind him, will not only have a plurality of the popular vote, but will have a majority in the electoral college. Results In the several states ars summarized as follows: New York —Carried by Wilson with between 150,000 and 200,000 plurality. Congressman William Sulzer defeated 6traus and Hedges for governor. Illinois —Roosevelt Is victorious by plurality of 100,000. Edward P. Dunn* (Democrat) is elected governor over Charles S. Deneen, present incumbent. Indiana —Claimed for Wilson a£nd Ralston (for governor.) lowa —Gives electoral vote to Roosevelt and makes Clarke (Republican) governor. Michigan—lncomplete returns Indicate state is solidly for Roosevelt Massachusetts —Gives Wilson 80,000 majority and re-elects Governor Foss by 70,000. Pennsylvania—Conceded to Roosevelt. ' California—Carried by Roosevelt Mississippi—Ten electorial votes for Wilson by large majority. Florida —Wilson gets all six electoral votes of state. North*' Carolina —Democrats elect state ticket and congressional delegation, and give Wilson at least 20,000 majority. South Carolina—For Wilson by about 60,000. ± - Nevada — Wilson carries state, party Ones being ignored In the voting. Georgia—Strong for Wilson. State officers and legislators all Democrats. Arkansas —Wilson carries stater by plurality greater than that of Bryan

in 1906. Virginia—Wilson carries the state by 40,000. , Delaware —Gives substantial majority for Wilson. Legislature is Democratic. Kentucky—Congressional delegation Is composed of nine Democrats, one Republican and one Progressive. Missouri—Swept by Wilson and Major, Democratic candidate for governor. Congressman Borland safely elected. ' Nebraska Apparently carried bj Wilson. *c?.- ■ - - Wisconsin—Large plurality for Wilson is Indicated, u ' Vermont —Gives its electoral vote to RnossTcit '' Minnesota—Claimed for Wilson* by 39,660.