Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 November 1910 — JOHN A. DIX. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JOHN A. DIX.

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

the senate. The vote in this state is very close, and it may be a day or two before the contest is decided. Senator Dick’s defeat in Ohio is now accepted as a fact, and Senator Beveridge, Republican, has practically given up all hope in Indiana. The largest gain made by the Democrats in any one state was in New York where they turned a Republican majority of 13 into a Democratic majority of 9. One more Republican congressman in the New York delegations fell by the wayside. Cyrus Durey of the Twenty-fifth district acknowledges he was defeated by Theodore Aiken, his Democratic opponent. This leaves the delegation divided, 23 Democrats to 14 Republicans. Only one congressman was elected from the Greater City and he was W. M. Calder of the Sixth district. The Democrats elected twelve of thirteen Indiana congressmen, Edgar D. Crumpacker of the Tenth district being the only Republican in th’e delegation. He was re-elected by. a reduced majority. In Michigan, two veteran Republican representatives, Edwin Denbv of the First and Gerrit J. Diekema of the Fifth district, acknolwedged that they had been swallowed in the Democratic landslide.

The insurgents and regulars had their knives out in lowa and two insurgents. Charles Grilk of the Second district and Nathan E Kendall of the Sixth went down to defeat, while the standpat candidates was elected. Latest returns give Congressman Hitchcock, candidate for senator from Nebraska, a clear majority in both the houses of the legislature. In Kansas the insurgents carried all eight districts. The first Minnesota district, the district had been represented in congress for years by James T. Tawney, chairman of the house appropriations committee, elected Sidney Anderson, a Republican insurgent. •’ In North Carolina, the Democrats regained the three districts that the Republicans have held since 1908