Spirit of the age. [volume] (Woodstock, Vt.) 1845-1913, 1898-11-12


course feels highly elated at the result
VI the election. He says: Il most
heartily congrat tulate the people OF New
York upon their triumph. 1t was a
glorious victory. and l believe a thor
oughly popular one. 1t was due largely
to the brilliant canvass which Colonel
Roosevelt made and to the courage with
which he met all issues and all attacks.
The people were with him, believed in
him. and elected him. Our majority in
the legislature is far more than enough
to insure US Il sound money Republican
United States senator Iresret so many
Of the Republican sound money candi-
dates for congress have been defeated.
When sound money Democrats who
voted for free silver reflect they will see
how foolish they were to support any
but straight out and-out sound money
Republican candidate"
Providence, Nov. 1O.-Very little in
terest was shown in the congressional
election in Rhode Island. although the
weather was favorable. There were no
state issues. The vote cast was light
and the pluralities for Bull and Capron
are correspondingly reduced. Two years
ago Congressman Bull had a plurality of
$685. and Congress snlan Capron had S524.
Bulls plurality was this year reduced
to 5519, while that of Capron was cut to
266l. Bulls connection with the New
port municipal election affected his vote
in that city.
The proposed new constitution, framed
by commission appointed by the Re-
publican governor and composed of able
men of both parties, failed to receive the
three-tifths of the total vote necessary
for it's adoption. The country towns
went heavily against it and the large
favorable vote of the cities failed to over
come this by about 1000. The total vote
was 1859 for and 13, ,4S3 against.
The constitution was designed to re-
place the constitution adopted in 1912,
which replaces the charter granted by
King Charles ii of England in 1868. 1t
provided for increased representation for
the cities and senate of one member
from each city and town as at present,
with house of 100 members, apportioned
, on the basis of population. Both Demo-
cratic congressional district conventions
recently demanded constitutional con-
vention instead of constitutional COM
mission.
The cities, with the exception OF Central
Falls. went Democratic on local issues,
Mayor Baker being reelected in Provi-
dence by an increased plurality. Paw
tucket and WoOnsocket went Republi-
can last year.
Cnn,nr1 NJ TT Nov Q-Poturno
coming i'm unusually slow, and full re-
turns will not be available for several
hours yet. The new ballot law appar-
emily impeded rather than expedited
prompt counting of the ballots. There
Is no reason to change the estimate of
the early morning that Frank w. Rol-
lins (Rep.) is elected governor by 1000
or 5000 plurality, and that both congress
men are reelected.
The full vote of New Hampshire
shows that KnowltOn Oem.), for con-
gress carried the city by substantial
plurality.
/ New Haven, Nov. 9.-Today's cOmpila-
ton of the election returns in Connectl-
cut change the figures of last night in
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night from all of the 1853 towns in the
state stand today giving a Republican
majority of the state ticket of about 15
600, with the majorities in the four con-
Eressional districts following closely. A
few changes in the returns of the legis-
lature give the Republicans plurality
on the joint ballot of 126.
New York Nov. 9.-Revised returns, as
they came in early today, made practi-
cally no change in those of last night,
which showed the election Of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt (Rep.) for governor,
by plurality of from $4,000 to 20, 900 over
Augustus Van Wyck Dem.). AS com
pared with the election Of 1896, when
Black defeated Porter. this shows Il
Democratic gain of from 10000 to 1856
900. Roosevelt came to the Harlem rive,
with 100000 plurality, and Van Wyck
had but 81, 900 in Greater New York with
which to meet him. An analysis of the
vote outside of the city shows that
Roosevelt lost 6l,500. as compared with
Black. In the city his vote was 81 900
smaller than Blacks. In the country
districts, Van Wyck ran about 10000
and in the city about $4,000 ahead of