Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 November 1908 — INDIANA VOTES FOR TAFT. [ARTICLE]

INDIANA VOTES FOR TAFT.

Thomas R. Marshall, Democrat, Is Elected Governor. Indianapolis, Ind., Nov. 4. —For the first since Thomas A. Hendricks was elected governor on the Democratic state ticket and U. S. Grant received the electoral vote of the state for the Republican national ticket, Indiana has given a plurality to the Republican candidate for president William H. Tafft, and elected Thomas R. Marshall, Democratic candidate for governor. Whether Marshall will carry the rest of the state ticket with him is a matter of conjecture. According to the latest estimate Mr. Taft received a plurality of about 15,000 and Mr. Marshall was victorious over James E. Watson. Republican candidate, by about 8,000.

The congressional representation from this state will probably be seven Democrats and six Republicans. The latest returns credit the Democrats with six and the republicans five members with two districts in douht —the Fifth and Seventh, with the chances favoring the Democratic candidates. The legislature is in doubt. Marion county, with its 12 members of the legislature, went heavily Democratic for the county ticket and carried down with it the Republican legislative candidates and possibly Congressman Jesse Overstreet. One of the Republican leaders who has been looking after the election of state legislators conceded that the lawmaking body is very close, but he adhered to the opinion that the lead the Republicans have in the 17 holdover senators will save it to the Republicans on joint ballot, and insure the re-election of Senator James A. Hemenway.