Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 272, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1916 — All Precedents Broken In Victory of the Democrats. [ARTICLE]

All Precedents Broken In Victory of the Democrats.

Altogether it was a record breaking election —perhaps a turning point in American history. Political traditions were upset, precedents nullified and signs and portents discredited, says Arthur Sears Henning, in the Chicago Sunday Tribuner For the first time since Andrew Jackson, a democrat has been elected in succession. For the first time a president .has been elected without the vote of New York. For the first time Maine went republican in September and the country democratic in November. Jackson won the election by a combination of the south and the new west. Wilson was elected by a combination of the solid south, Ohio, and the newer far west. a Party lines were bent and shattered by the complicated issues of the campaign. The president received tremendous support from progressives, yet he also carried the citadel of the Old Guard, Utah, one of the two states won by Taft in 1912. In 1912 Wilson was elected with 1,300,000 fewer votes than the republicans and progressives combined. No advance in price on 'CRAWFORD shoes that we have in stock. Hilliard & Hamill.