Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1918 — SOME RESULTS OF RECENT ELECTION [ARTICLE]

SOME RESULTS OF RECENT ELECTION

THE REPUBLICANS, DRYS AND SUFFRAGETTES WIN. Final returns of the recent elections -show that drys have gained four states, suffrage two, and that Republicans elected governors to the Democrats’ nine. In the - Senate Republicans have forty-nine to the Democrats’ forty-seven, and in the house Republicans have 239; Democrats, 193; Independents, 1; Prohibitionists, 1, and Socialists, 1. Ohio, Florida, Nevada and Wyoming went dry and Minnesota, California and Missouri stayed wet. Michigan and South Dakota adopted euffrage, Louisiana -rejected it, and Oklahoma is stfll doubtful, with a possible majority of less than 500 either way. ,« The following states elected Republican governors: Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Idaho, lowa, Kansas, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Mexico, North Dakota, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Vermont, Wisconsin and Wyoming. The nine states electing Democrats were Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Nevada, New York, Ohio, Oklahoma, 'South Carolina and Tennessee.