Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1906 — NEW YORK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEW YORK.

Charles Evans Hughes defeated Willim Randolph Hearst for Governor of New York, winning the most remarkable

political campaign ever —fought in the Empire State. Hughes’ plurality, according to the returns available at this writing, ‘"ls about fiO.OOO, His vote above the Bronx is more than 135,000 in, excess of that cast for Hearst. Hearst carried the Greater City by 75,000. With a small plurality in the borough cf Brooklyn, where the McCarren

forces were in open revolt against the head of the Democratic ticket. The vote for Hughes is considerably less than that given .Higgins and the Odell faction is accused of The only large city that kept to TTepuliliAjii precedent was Albany. Hearst matte great inroads on the usual Republican majorities in any place where there waa any considerable labor element. The farmers stood by the Republican ticket. lOWA. Albert B. Cummins was re-elected Governor of lowa by a plurality of more than 20.000. Nine of the eleven Republican candidates for Congress have been elected. -D. W. Hamilton. Democrat, of the Sixth District, has defeated John F. Lacey. who was a candidate for re-election. The Republicans will have more than fifty majority on joint ballot in the Legislature next winter, which elects a United States Senator to succeed Jonathan P. Dolliver. It Is said there is no question of his re-election. MICHIGAN. With only about 75 per cent of the vote cast that waa recorded two years •go. Gov. Fred M. Warner, Republican, has been re-elected by about 90.000 majority in Michigan, a very heavy gain on his showing of two years ago. when his Democratic opponent made a remarkably strong campaign. The entire Republican State ticket Was elected by about the same majority as Warner. Possible two or three Democrats will gain seats in die Legislature. Michigan will send a solid Republican' delegation to Congress I KANSAS. The I Republicans elected the emit* State and congressional ticket In Kansas G<>v. Hoch is re-elected by a plurality of 3.500 and the balance of the Republican State ticket by pluralities of 25.000. The Legislature, which h. Republican, will name a successor to United States Senator Burton. TEXAS. The entire Democratic State ticket was elected in Texas by a majority of at least 250,000.

MISSOURI. Returns show that the Democrats have regained Missouri. It is only a question of how big the majority is, and it seem* '■ertain that it will not fall far short of 30,000. The Democrats elected twelve of the sixteen Congressmen, thereby regaining seven of the districts they lost in the landslide two years ago. St. Louis has gone Republican by a small majority. The Republicans elected two Congressmen from St. Louis and fifteen of the nineteen candidates in the legislative districts. Richard Bartholdt. who has gained a reputation in the peace parliaments of the world, was re-elected and Harry M. Osudrey, who was seated over James J. Butler at the close of the last session of Congress. will get another term. St. Joseph is Democratic. William H. Wallace. Democrat from Kansas. City district, is sent te Congres over E. C. Ellis, Republican, dow sitting in the House. SOUTH DAKOTA. Owing to the light vote cast in the State, the Republicans carried South Da kota by from 25.000 to 35.000 plurality, a falling off of from 15.000 to 20.000 from the vote of two years ago. Philo Hall and William H. Parker, Republicans, were elected Congressmen at large The Republicans will have at least eightyfive out of the 133 members of the Legislature. COLORADO. Chancellor H. A. Buchtel of Denver University was elected Governor of Colorado. His plurality is estimated at about 4.000. All the rest of the ticket went through with him. with the possible exception of Supreme Court Justice William H. Gabbert. The Legislature seems to be Republican. DELAWARE. Delaware went Republican by a majority estimated at 2.500. The Republicans wiJ! control the next Legislature,

ILLINOIS. - The HHnois —Repubhcau Stata ticket was elected with a plurality of ISOJjOO for" John FT'SSuisEiT furnishing 50,000. All the Republican State Candidates w r ere successful, Smulski running a little behind Francis G. Blair for superintendent of instruction, who has a plurality of 130,000, according to first returns —the largest Republican plurality ever given in an off year election, with one exception. A to.tal of 825,000 votes were cast throughout the State —the smallest vote-cast in a State election in fourteen years, and 251,000 less than in the presidential election of Nov. 8, 1904. In the Legislature the Republicans will have eighty-nine House members and they have elected twenty-three of the - twentyseven Senators. They had twenty-one of the twenty-four holdover Senators. The joint ballot which will re-elect Shelby M. Cullom to the United States Senate will poll 133 Republican votes out of 201. There had been no attempt on the part of the Democrats to secure control, of either body. A feature of the election was the heavy Prohibition vote. The large vote cast for Mrs. Caroline Grote, Democratic candidate for State Superintendent of Education, was also a surprise to the political managers. Mrs. Grote is the first woman candidate to run for the office in Illinois. INDIANA. The Republicans carried Indiana, but by a majority greatly reduced from that of two years ago, when the State gave Prenident Roosevelt a plurality of 92,000. The congressional districts show a corresponding falling off in the vote, with the Democrats making such marked gains in some districts that Republican supremacy is jeopardized. In the Eleventh District, which Fred Landis carried two years ago by 8,000 majority, and in the Eighth, which George W. Cromer carried by 7,000 votes, there were losses. Wabash county, in the Eleventh, gave a Democratic majority for the first time in its history, and Miami also went against Ldndis. The Republicans have carried the Legislature on joint ballot and will con trol both branches, though their majority will be’ greatly reduced. The issue in rhe legislative contests was over temperance laws, the saloonkeepers and brewery elements generally supporting the Demo cratic candidates.

WISCONSIN. Gov. Davidson, with the Republican State ticket, was elected in Wisconsin. The ■ Governor’s plurality is upward of 60.000, and the remainder of the State ticket but little behind, this on one of the lightest votes ever cast. From the returns it is apparent that not much over a two-thirds vote was cast. The apathetic conditions noted before the election were too pronounced to be overcome by the State central committees. The returns from the legislative districts indicate the Republicans will have about the same number in each house as they have had for the past six years, which gives them an overwhelming majority. OHIO. Early returns in Ohio indicate that the Republicans elected Carmi A. Thompson Secretary of State- and their entire State ticket. Republican gains in the Country precincts more than balanced their losses in the cities. In the congres sional fight the Republicans elected twen ty candidates, while one Democrat pulled through. The vote on the Republican judicial ticket in Cincinnati fell below that of the rest of the Republican ticket. MINNESOTA. Gov. John A. Johnson, Democrat, was re-elected in Minnesota by over 50,000 plurality. A. L. Cola, Republican candidate for Governor, ran far behind the balance of his ticket, the election of which is claimed by from 25,000 to 50.000 plurality. The returns on the Legislature indicate that the Republican majority will be considerably reduced. NEBRASKA. In Nebraska early returns indicated the election of Sheldon for Governor and the balance of the Republican ticket, with the possible exception of one or two minor offices. PENNSYLVANIA. The Republicans won a sweeping victory in Pennsylvania. Edwin 8, Stuart. Republican, for Governor, was elected by 60.0U0 plurality over Lewis Emery, Jr, Democratic and Lincoln party candidate. VERMONT. At the Vermont State election held Sept. 4 the Republican ticket, beaded by Fletcher D. Proctor, son of Senator Redfield Proctor, won handily. The majority. 15.000 for the ticket, waa the usual off-year Republican figure Id the Stat*.

C. E. HUGHES.