Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1908 — THIRD DEFEAT FOR WILLIAM J. BRYAN [ARTICLE]

THIRD DEFEAT FOR WILLIAM J. BRYAN

Republican Candidate for President Carries New York, Ohio, Indiana, and Other So-Called “Doubtful States.”

THE ENTIRF. REPUBLICAN COUNTY TICKET ELECTED

Halleck Carries All Four Counties in Senatorial District, and Brown Defeats Gerber for Representative.

WATSON IS DEFEAT£D

Republicans Elect Eight Out of Thirteen Trustees in Jasper County —Some Close Races.

New York, Nov. 4.—Taft and Sherman "were elected president and vicepresident of the United States Tuesday. They h§ve 298 electoral votes assured, to 172 for Bryan and Kern, and 13 in doubt. ' Practically no change is indicated in the complexion of the national house of representatives. The United States senate will retain its present Republican majority. Gov. Charles E. Hughes has been re-elected in New York state by about 76,000 plurality, and Gov. Charles S. Deneen was re-elected in Illinois. Indiana went for Taft by from 15,000 to ,18,000 plurality. Bryan apparently carried Nebraska. Ohio returns were seriously delayed owing to the immense size of the ballot, but Taft carried the state by a majority ranging from 50,000 to 76,000. Taft Carries New York City. Taft carried New York city by about 11,000 plurality, this being the first time the city has given its vote to a Republican presidential candidate since 1896, when Mr. McKinley had a small plurality. Mr. Taft received a greater plurality in New York state than President Roosevelt did four years ago, the indications pointing to 202,000 for Mr. Taft as against 175.000 for Mr. Roosevelt.

Hisgen, the Independence party candidate for president, received about 28,000 votes in Greater New York. The indications are Democratic governors have been elected in several of the middle western states that have given their presidential votes to Taft. Mr. Taft exceeded Mr. Roosevelt’s plurality in New Jersey and in Massachusetts as well as in New York. Mr. Taft carried practically every so-called doubtful state except Nebraska, where the indications pointed to a Democratic victory. Mr. Bryan carried Nevada and Montana, in addition to the solid south, which includes Missouri. Returns from Colorado and Maryland were too meager to form a definite conclusion as to their ultimate alignment. Republican Pluralities Reduced. Some of the figures relating tp the Republican slump In certain states regarded as certainly Republican, are little short of amazing. Pennsylvania’s immense plurality of over 500,000 four years ago has been cut in two. Illinois, whioh gave Roosevelt 305,000 in 1904, has gone for Taft by about 170,000. The highest claim of the Republicans for Indiana is 15,000 as against a plurality of 93,000 for Roosevelt. lowa, which gave Mr. Roosevelt 15t«000 plurality in 1904, has dropped down to about 40,000 for Taft. The return of Missouri to the Democracy on the presidential ticket wiped out a Republican plurality of 25,000 four years ago. Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey were striking exceptions to the generally reduced Republican pluralities, x ' There was a shrinkage in the Democratic vote in aeveral of the southern states, notably in Virginia and North Carolina.

Chairman Hitchcock’s Statement. At 10:30 o’clock Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of the Republican national committee met the newspaper representatives in his rooms at national headquarters and made the following statement: “The returns speak for themselves. There seem to be no longer any doubtful states. The electoral vote will show that my estimate was correct. It looks now, I think, as If I must have underestimated it. The returns have exceeded my expectations. “The plurality iu Indiana will be less than I expected. That in Illinois is far more than anticipated. And so it goes: where one state has not quite come up to the figures I had expected some other state has gone ocrats and two Social Democrats in the senate. While Taft carried the city of Milwaukee by about 1,500, Aylward (Dem.) for governor led- Davidson (Rep.) by about 1,800 votes. Michigan Governorship x in Doubt. Detroit, Mich., Nov. 4.—While Taft has carried Michigan by a majority estimated at about 100,000, the election for-governor is in doubt with Hemans (Dem.) leading Gov. Warner (Rep.) by 7,000 to 10,000. Many country districts in which Warner expects a heavy vote have not reported. Hemans has broken into the Republican upper peninsula by carrying Marquette City. There are no early indications of pronounced Democratic gains in the legislature. Johnson Wins In Minnesota. St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 4.—Gov. Johnson spent the evening at the state Democratic headquarters in the Gilfillan building, where the returns were read to him. When informed that the St. Paul Dispatch (Rep.) conceded Ms election by 25,000, the governor said: “If that is true, as the Dispatch concedes, I am pretty well satisfied. It has been a hard fight and I am glad It’s over. If those figures are true 1 consider It a great victory, and am much pleased. Of course we won’t know definitely until definite figures come in, and when they do I may have something more to say.’’ St. Louis, Nov. 12. —Chairman Dickey of the Republican state committee, claimed Hadley’s election as governor but declined to give figures. State Chairman Rubey of the Democratic committee, asserted that Cowherd’s plurality was safe. He estimated it at 16,000 to 20,000 and asserted that Senator Stone won the sen atorial fight by “a large plurality.”