Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1904 — SETTLED IN WEST VIRGINIA [ARTICLE]

SETTLED IN WEST VIRGINIA

Damnerati Connda Roosevelt a Plurality of Over 10,000. Parkersburg, W. Va., Nov. 10.—West Virginia seems to have kept pace with the rest of the Union at Tuesday’s election. Returns have been received to such an extent that the result can be definitely stated. The Democrats concede that Roosevelt has carried the state by over 10,000, while the Republican claim a Roosevelt majority the largest ever given to any candidate by the state, and that it may exceed 30,000. The Republicans also claim five representatives, the legislature and the state ticket. Dawson is elected governor by a plu rality probably exceeding 4,000. The legislature will be Republican in both branches without taking into consideration the hold-over senators. With several counties in doubt there are fifty-two Republicans elected to the house of delegates and twenty-seven Democrats. To the senate eleven Republicans are elected, two Democrats without doubt, and probably two others.

MISSOURI BREAKS THE LINE Solid Sooth No Longer-Only Democrat Sure la Folk, for Governor. St. Louis, Nov. 10.—With incomplete returns at hand and the result of the state and national election coming In slowly from the outlying counties Roosevelt has broken the “solid south” by carrying Missouri for the Republican party for the first time in thirty years. Eighty-five widely scattered counties out of 114 give the national ticket a plurality over Judge Parker Of 10,595. Joseph Folk (Dem.) for governor, running many thousands of votes ahead of the state ticket, is given a plurality of 30.926 in the same counties, which include the city of St Louis.

Carried with the Republican landslide are the candidates for congress in eight of the sixteen districts, a Republican gain of seven, and the semiofficial returns from the state legislative districts give a Republican ma jority of fourteen on joint ballot in the next general assembly. This will mean the defeat of United States Senator Cockrell for re-election. The returns on other than the heads of the respective state tickets are meager, and it is impossible to predict with any degree of certainty the outcome when the official vote is received. It appears, however, that the entire Republican state ticket is elected by small majorities. FIGURES FROM THE BADGER STATE Social Democrats Increase Their Vote Legislative Claims. Milwaukee, Nov. 10.—Tbe result of tbe election in Wisconsin shows that Roosevelt ran ahead of every ticket and carried tbe state by a plurality estimated on latest returns at 100,000; that ’Governor LaFollette has been reelected by a plurality of about 50,000. and that tbe congressional complexion remains unchanged from two years ago. The legislature is largely Republican and the question of whether Wisconsin shall have a primary election law has carried by a safe majority. One of the surprises in the election was tbe big increase in tbe \*ote of the Social Democratic party, the vote being 18,120—four times what it was in 1900. Tbe Social Democrats elected four assemblymen and one senator to the legislature. Tn the legislature Chairman W. D. Connor, of the LaFollette state central committee, says there will be eightymembers pledged to carry out the measures advocated bylGovernor LaFollette. Of this number sixty-three are assemblymen and/seventeen senators, or a majority /of each house. Chairman Goldin, of the stalwart Republican faction, claims that the stalwart and Democrats combined will control a majority of each house. Perhaps the greatest surprise of the election was the narrow margin on which Representative Babcock pulled through, his plurality of 8,000 two years ago being cut to about 300 this year, a result of the Republican faction fight.

ROOSEVELT HAS COLORADO State Ticket, However, li Claimed by Both the Great Parties. Denver. Colo., Nov. 10.—Roosevelt’s plurality iu Colorado has been increased by later returns and may run above 15,000. Republicans and Democrats claim tbe election of governor and representative-at-large, and the Republicans threaten to contest the state election on the grounds of alleged frauds in Denver. On the face of nearly complete returns Adams has carried Denver county by 4,500 plurality, and he appears to have a safe lead over Peabody without this county. According to the returns in The Times Adams’ plurality in the state is a little over 10.000. The Times concedes that the result is in doubt as to the other state offices, but claims the legislature to be Democratic In both branches. The Post says: “Late returns indicate clearly that the Republican ticket in Colorado —national, state and county has been elected by pluralities ranging from 2,000 to 10.000. A conservative estimate places Governor Peabody’s plurality at 5,000. He will carry Denver by from 1,500 to 2,000.” The Republican state chairman also claims Peabody’s election. Minnesota’! Governor a Democrat. St Paul, Nov. I.—While Minnesota has given Roosevelt 100,000 plurality she has elected Johnson (Dem.) governor.