Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1908 — STITES Of THE WEST [ARTICLE]

STITES Of THE WEST

All for Taft Except the DemO Cratic Candidate’s Own . State of Nebraska. nxnrois he-elects deneew Indiana Goes For The Ohioan By a Reduced Majority. Ohio Lined Up For Her Native Son and Michigan, Minnesota and Wisconsin Follow For the Ohioan.

Chicago. Nov. 4.—lllinois has been carried by the Republican party by a plurality of 170.000. giving the state's twenty-seven electoral votes to Taft and Sherman. The state Republican ticket has also been successful. Governor Charles 8. Deneen winding from former Vice President Adlai E. Stevenson by the same plurality. Chicago has gone Democrats by 25,000. revets lug the result in 1904. when Roosevelt carried Cook county by 126.080. The next state legislature will he Republican by a majority on Joint ballot Of 38, a loss of 24. This means the reelection to the United States senate of Albert J. Hopkins. There will be a decided change In the congressional representation of 1111aots. The present delegation from lhe State includes twenty-four Republicans and one Democrat. The figures In the Sixty-first congress will be seventeen Republicans and eight Democrats, six of the latter being from Chicago.

Speaker Cannon has been re-elected in the EigLteentb district. The voters of the state have indorsed the proposed constitutional amendment authorizing the state to issue bonds of 820,000.000 for the construction of a deep waterway beginning at or near Loc-kport. Til., to a pdiift at or near Utica, 111., in the Illinois river.