Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1900 — M'KINLEY AND ROOSEVELT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

M'KINLEY AND ROOSEVELT.

Republican National Ticket Wins by a Good Majority. William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt have been elected President and Vice-President, respectively, by a majority of electoral votes larger than that given in 1896 to McKinley and Hobart. The Republican tendency throughout the nation was strong enough, apparently, to secure the election of a Congress which will be Republican in both bouses. The State of New York, in spite of the strenuous efforts made to secure an overwhelming Bryan vote in New. York City, has given .the Republican candidates a large plurality. Illinois, Michigan, Min-

uesota, Indiana and Ohio have given a aimilar result, and although the Republican plurality in Massachusetts has been strikingly reduced, owing doubtless to the strength of the anti-imperialist sentiment there, it is still decisive. Maryland has had a Republican landslide similar to that of four years ago. In the great West beyond the Missouri the Republicans make gains. They have held California, Oregon and North Dakota, which they carried four years ago They have carried Kansas, South Dakota. Washington, Utah, Wyoming, Idaho and possibly Nebraska, all of which were for Bryan in 1890. So far as incomplete returns indicate at this writing Mr. Bryan failed to win the electoral vote of any of the States that were classed as doubtful. Practically nil the States that declared for MeKinley in 1886 did the same at this election. Mr. Bryan made heavy inroads into the Republican majorities of four years ago in nearly all the Eastern States, especially those of New England. In Massachusetts the McKinley majority was reduced practically 100,000 as compared with four years ago. The city of Boston .gives Mr. Bryan a small plurality. The New York Democratic leaders fulfilled their pledge to carry greater New York for Mr. Bryan, but the State vote was overwhelmingly Republican. There was a phenomenally heavy vote throughout the entire country. Ont of the forty-five States and three territories Mr. Bryan failed to make substantial gains anywhere except in the East. Even there the cutting of Republican majorities was insufficient to give him the electoral vote of a single State that declared for Mr. McKinley four years ago. In the West most of the States that rolled up big free silver majorities in 1890 were apparently less cnthsuiastic for Mr. Bryan this year. The Southern vote was normal and there were no defections tn this section from the Democratic columns. President McKinley has broken all records and upset all traditions in American politics. He is the first man to defeat twice in succession the same opponent in the presidential race. He is the first President since Grant to secure a second term immediately following his first. Mr. Bryan repeated his performance of pleaded his cause before more than a thousand audiences and spoke to several million voters. Whatever criticisms his opponents have made of his governmental theories and policies, all unite in admiration of his indomitable will, confident spirit and marvelous physique. A campaign that would exhaust the average man seemed to tire him but slightly. Few men could endure the exertion, physical and mental, which was required of Mr. Bryan during the campslgn. McKinley carried Ohio by tul'y 80,080.

MARCUS A. HANNA. Chairman of the Republican National Committee.