Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — RESULTS OF EJECTIONS. [ARTICLE]

RESULTS OF EJECTIONS.

' Elections were held Tuesday ip forty-two States, and while the results tn B"number of instances were of unusual Interest, It may be said that generally speaking there were no great surprises. Throughout the South the Democratie State and congressional tickets have been elected by the usual majorities In the frost ;iml Ea Ft the States that were aligned two years ago in the Democratic o| Reiliublican columns show no material change, the Democrats making gains in sonic instances and the Republicans in others. The ,Republicans retain control of Congress by a good majority. Perhaps the widest general interest in the elections centered in the reniarkable tight for Governor which has been waged in New York State between Charles E. Hughes, the Republican candidate, who throughout the campaign ha < had the support ’of President Roosevelt, ayid William Randolph Hearst, who has been running as the regular Democratic and Independence League nominee. The latest, returns available ttt the.times this, is .written show that Mr;. Hughes, while losing nearly all of the principal cities of the State, was successful by about 60,000 plurality. The rural districts brought about the., Republican victory. In New York City the Tam many-Independence League judiciary ticket was successful, with possibly one exception, over the candidates named by the nonpartisan "judiciary nominators.” • ;-Massachusetts hayrcriocted Curtis Guild, Republican, as Governor over District Attorney John B. Moran of Boston, who was the candidate of the Democratic party, the Hearst League and the Prohibitionists. In Chicago it Is estimated that the Hearst ticket polled 40.000 votes, bit there was a Republican plurality for the State oHieerS; Pennsylvania has elected Stuart, Republican, Governor over a fusion opposition by the usual Republican plurality. Michigan, New Hampshire, Nortn Dakota, Connecticut, Minnesota, Indiana and Wisconsin have given Republican pluralities. Nebraska shows a Republican plurality. Ohio also shows Republican gains over the Pattison vote of last year. For the first time in years the result in lowa, on the face of the early returns, in doubt. ' The .constitution-ofthe -new State ofOklalroma will be written by Democrats. The liidi'ai:s~VdW' : tlW' Democratic ticket almost solidly.' Oklahoma also went. s! rough- 1 icmovrn-ti<' in vhwishig delegates to the COiretiWttOimT'Cofiveution. On the New Mexico-Arizona joint statehood proposition Arizona voted against it, thus defeating the plan, ' The'Republicans carried Utah, Wyoming and Washington, and seem to have lost Nevada, while both parties claim Colorado. Montana seems to have ueen carried by the Republicans and Texas takes Its usual place iu the Democratic column. In Rhode Island. James 11. Higgins, Democrat, was elected Governor. . -t ... ■ The returns show that the next Congress will be Republican in both branches. The political complexion! of the Senate shows a Republican gain of one In Colorado. There art- two or three close legislative contests, but they are chiefly between individuals, and the Senate will stand nearly as at present, with fifty-eight Republicans and thirty-two Democrats, leaving a Republican majority of twenty-six. The returns indicate a Republican membership in the House of Representatives of about 227, which is a majority of 68 over the Democrats. This is a decided KepublicaH loss from the results of last--year, when they had a majority of 112? Particular interest, so far as the congressional situation is concerned, has been maul tested all over the country in the results in Missouri. Illinois, Pennsylvania, New York and Ohio. The question in Missouri was whether the I Republicans could maintain their hold upon the State. The returns indicate that they have not carried enough districts to justify them in claiming that Missouri Is now a Republican State and that it will probably cast its electoral vote for a Democratic President next year. In Pennsylvania, where the heavy loss was anticipated, the result is due to the fact that a fusion ticket, representing both Democrats and Republicans, ~ wmria~ttie field in opposition to the regular Penrose Republicans. In Illinois the Republican losses in the congressional districts were perhaps caused bjfc-a return to the normal basis before the McKinley wave of 1900. The situation in Illinois Is no different from that of the country at large, and the Democrats have resumed their position as a strong minority party in the House of Representatives. The election of a House of Representatives with a large Republican majority makes practically certain the election of Cannon as Speaker of the House In the Sixtieth Congress. Congressman Babcock of Wisconsin, formerly chairman c' the Republican Congressional Committee, failed of election. Congressman J. W. Wadsworth. ■ for many years chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture at Washington. was defeated iu the Thirty-fourth New York District. Congressman Nicholas Longworth was re-elected in Cincinnati.