Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1910 — JOHN A. DIX [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN A. DIX

Chosen as Governor of New York, in Democratic. Landslide.

than it did in Greater New York. In Greater New York the Democratic plurality was considerably exceeded *in the year when Bird S. Coler ran against former Gov. Odell. The Democrats carried Geneva, Hornell, Niagara Falls, Poughkeepsie, Elmira and many other cities of the third class. The Hearst vote in the state was also surprising*}’ small. In many of the former Hearst strongholds Hopper, candidate for governor on the Hearst ticket, ran ahead of Hearst, who was a candidate for lieutenant governor. In Greater New York the Hearst vote does not exceed 40 000. In Kentucky, Caleb Powers, thrice convicted of the assassination of Gov. Goebel, ard not long out of prison, was elected to congress by 3,000. carrying every county in his district except his home county of Laurel. Incomplete returns from Kansas indicate the election of . Gov. Stubbs. Uncle Joe Cm non, speaker of the house, is elected by the biggest majority the district has given for ten years. Sereno E. Payne, chairman of the ways and means committee, is elected by a plurality but little short of normal. John Dalzell, another of Speaker Cannon’s lieutenants, is reelected in Pennsylvania. J. Sloat Fasset, a supporter of Speaker Cannon, is defeated. The Republicans lose senators from Maine, where the election has already been held; Indiana. Missouri, Nebraska, Nevada. New Jersey, New York and Ohio. This result means the Republican majority in the United States senate will be reduced from 25 to 12. The house of representatives will be Democratic, probably by 29, the Democratic gain of 35. In the new house will be two Socialists from Wisconsin. cThe New York legislature will be Democratic on a joint ballot. The New York figures, subject to correction, are: Senate —Democrats, 27; Republicans, 24. Assembly—Democrats, 76; Republicans, 74. Democratic majority on joint ballot, 5.