Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1900-11-08
IOWA 5 RECORD broken.
Returns Indicate a Plurality Of
Over One Hundred Thousand.
EVERYTHING REPUBLICAN.

Average Gain is go Votes per Precinct and
That Means One Hundred Thousand
Plurality--second District IL Close and
Claimed by Both PARTIES.
Des Moines, Nov. with limited
returns from 500 precincts, McKinley's
plurality, in Iowa will, it is thought,
be $4,000. The entire congressional
and Democratic losses are reported in
nearly every county.
Des Moines, Nov. Tt Is apparent
that Iowa is Republican by 100000
and that solid delegation of IL Re-
publicans will be sent to Washington.
Because of the late closing of the polls
all over the state. o'clock, but 623 out
of 2,137 precincts in the state have
been heard from. These give McKin-
ley 299,707 and Bryan 2O5,S42, a net
Republican gain Of 20 to precinct
If this ratio is maintained. and there is
little doubt it will be. McKinley's plu-
rality will be 100000, the largest on
record in the state. In 1896 McKin-
ley's plurality in Iowa was 65,552.
Chairman Weaver says: Iowa is
Mckinley by over 100000 and we have
elected all the congressman. Rumple.
in the I'd district, the only close dis
trict, is elected by $50 plurality"
Chairman Huffman of the Democrat
In tral ssyUn
cede the state to Mckinley by $4,000.
We claim the election Of yollmer in
the I'd district"
The entire Republican state ticket is
elected by the largest pluralities ever
rolled up in Iowa.
Returns show that heavy vote has
been cast all over the state. The re-
suit in the congressional fights cannot
yet be told. although the indications
are that all the Republican congress
men will be elected.
Polk county, in which is Des Moines,
will give about 5000 majority, an in
crease of about 1000 for the Repub-
licans.
There seems no doubt that the
amendment to the state constitution
for biennial elections instead of annual
ones has carried.
The vote on the state ticket in Iowa
is running very close to the national,
showing that most of the -embers Of
other political organizations who have
laid aside party lines, have left the
old party entirely and have voted a
straight ticket. The entire Republic
an state ticket has been elected by a
most complimentary vote.
Sioux City, Nov. 7.-Sioux City and
Woodbury. counties will go 1900 Re
publican. Lot Thomas of Storm Lake
is reelected congressman from the
18th district by an overwhelming ma
jority.
Clarinda, Ia, Nov. Hepburn Rep)
elected, 1000 plurality.
California.
San Francisco. Nov. 7.-While the re-
turns from the state at large and this
city are very incomplete, enough are
at hand to warrant the prediction that
Mckinley has carried California by
plurality of 10000. McKinley's plural
ity in this city will probably reach
1000. The Republicans have elected
congressman from the Sd, 4th, 9Th and
7th districts. The I'd and 5th districts
are running very close. No returns
have been received from the LIST dis
trict, but that has generally been con-
coded to the Republicans
Oregon.
Portland, Or, Nov. 7.-Oregon yes
terday gave Mckinley the largest plu-
rality ever given candidate for Office
in this state With more than half the
total vote of the state counted, the re-
suit is as follows: Mckinley 27.126,
Bryan 17,073. McKinley's pharlity
is 10,053. Multnomah county, which
includes the city of Portland, gave Nc
Kinley 5000 plurality, and it Is esti-
mated that the state outside Of this
city will return plurality of 1900,
making the Republican plurality insthe
state close to $4,000.
Massachusetts,.
Boston, Nov. 7.-As usual In presi-
Dental years, Massachusetts, went Re
publican yesterday by a substantial,
but considerably reduced, majority,
giving to President Mckinley Is votes
in the electoral college, while w. M.
Crane was reelected governor. nearly