Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1914 — G.O.P. LANDSLIDE WINS NEW YORK [ARTICLE]

G.O.P. LANDSLIDE WINS NEW YORK

Whitman Defeats Glynn by 140,000 and Carries Entire State Ticket Along. d.N. WADSWORTH TO SENATE Republican Nominee Has Plurality of 100,000 Over James W. Gerard— Sulzer Has 100,000 Votes — Davenport Somes in Third. New York, Nov. 1. —Incomplete election returns indicate a Republican landslide in New York that has elected the entire state ticket, including both branches of the legislature, besides regaining more New York seats in congress.

All parties were surprised by the small plurality for the Democratic ticket south of the Bronx, which will hardly reach .50,000 for Governor Glynn, the Democratic nominee for governor. On the other hand, District Attorney Charles S. Whitman, the Republican nominee, swept the upstate counties with greatly increased pluralities and will come down to the Bronx with a grand total of 200,000 or more. It is possible late returns will make his plurality in the whole state 19,1)00 or more. Next to the head of the ticket interest centered in the race for United States senator. There were many signs of the popularity of the Democratic candidate, James W. Gerard, whose work as American ambassador M Berlin during the war had brought him much into the public eye and even the Republican leaders were in doubt about that contest, but the landslide swept in James W. Wadsworth, the Republican nominee, with 100,000 or more votes to spare.

Sulzer Gets 100,000. Ex-Gov. William Sulzer, who ran for governor as an .independent, is estimated to have something like 10'1,00.) vqtes. while Frederick M. Davenport. tlie Progressive candidate for governor, is credited with a total vote of >o,ooo. based on scattered returns.

Great importance was also attached to the vote for delegates to a convention which will revise the state constitution. Reform factions of all kinds as well as the Republicans, feared that if the Democrats elected a majority of the delegates control of the convention would fall into the hands of Tammany. While returns are too meager to make conclusions certain, it Is supposed that the Republican landslide has carried along enough delegates to clip the claws of the tiger in the constitutional convention. Returns up to midnight indicate that the Republicans have gained 13 congressmen in this state with a probability of increasing that number to 15.

Sulzer Is Delighted. Sulzer supporters indulged in a celebration at his Broadway headquarters when they heard that Glynn had been defeated. They gave all credit for Whitman’s victory to their leader: and the former governor expressed the same view thus: “The verdict of the people speaks for itself. Without money, without newspaper support and without organization I have elected Whitman, beaten Glynn and made Roosevelt like 30 oents.” Whitman had nothing to say except that “the result speaks for itself.” He left his headquarters early with Mrs. Whitman. The oply word forthcoming from

Governor Glynn was liTs telegram to Mr. Whitman sent from Albany. “I congratulate you on your victory” it said. Tammany Concedes Election. Early in the evening Tammany admitted that Whitman had carried New York state for governor and Wadsworth for United States Senator. Whitman’s plurality was admitted by Secretary Smith of the Tammany organization as around 150.000 for the entire state.