Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 269, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1918 — ROACH’S PLURALITY IS 49,513 [ARTICLE]

ROACH’S PLURALITY IS 49,513

t REPUBLICANS jHAVE 34 SENATORS AND 82 REPRESENTATIVES IN NEXT ASSEMBLY. • Official tabulations completed in the office of William A. Roach, secretary of state, show that Mr. Roach received 301,207 votes at the election and that Herman L. Center, his Democratic opponent, received 251,694 votes. ’ Mr. Roach’s plurality was 49,513. The Republicans elected eighteen 'senators and the Democrats elected seven. This with the sixteen Republican holdovers and 'the nine Democratic holdovers gives the Republicans 'thirty-four senators and the Democrats sixteen. The Republicans elected eightytwo representatives and the Democrats eighteen. This givs the Republicans a majority of sixty-four. Thomas D. Barr and Ho ration Harryman, experts of the state board Of accounts, made the official tabulations.