Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-11-09
Chairman Niedringbaus Says His
Majority Is Not Less Than
Twenty thousand.
FOLK IS ELECTED GOVERNOR.
Indications Are That Legislature VIII
Be Republican on Joint
Ballot.

st. Louis. Mo-, Nov 9.-Slow prog.
ress has been made toward an accurate
count Of Missouns vote but partial
returns up to n o'clock today showed
remarkable Republican gains in st.
Louis and throughout the state In
many counties the usual Democratic
plurality was cut In half The POST
Dispatch, Qnd, Dem) az that hour IN.
cllred largely toward the conviction
that Roosevelt had carried Missouri
and the Republican state committee in
sisted that anal returns would show
Republican majority Of 10000 on the
national ticket,
That Joseph w. Folk, Democrat, has
carried the state for governor WAS the
claim made generally but figures ON
the state result were lacking. The
Democratic state committee asserted
that FOLK viii show a majority OF 10000
Complete returns show that st. Louis
has gone Republican with the eXcep-
ton that she rallied for Folk Demo-
Cat, with a plurality OF over 10000
With all the Democratic municipal cam
didates save one defeated by pupllties
ranging from 800 to 1900, Folk cur
ried ~ Louis over Cyrus Z, Walbrldge
by a plurality OF lO.0SS one of the
hardest fought political contests IN the
election was that for secretary Of state.
The returns show that samuel X. Cook,
Democrat, and present incumbent In
office, Is defeated By John H. Swanger
by "a plurality Of 1926
Tho national ticket result In st. Louis
was close, but Rooseyelts plurality Is
2CSS, the vote being Roosevelt $685.
Parker $3.50
The indications are that the leglsla-
ture viii Do Republican by two or three
votes ON a Joint ballot The Legislature
win elect q successor to United states
Senator IT, NJ. Cockrell.
The prosecution and wedding out Of
b0odlers and boodling, brought to light
under Democratic administration, IL
believed to have helped in great part IN
floating a Republican wave over Mis-
souri,
Thomas x. Nledringhaus, the Repub-
llcan state chairman, when seen, was
highly elated over the result.
MY prediction OF last night has PROV
cd 10 be q good one, he said. There
was a Republican landslide and Il could
not miss Missouri
we have carried the state for Roose-
Welt by no less than 10000, ana ! believe
that Walbrdge has come 20 close to the
election that Mr. Folks hair must be
standing on end.
1--WE have carried the legislature.
In St. Louis the result Is startling,
but IL Is no surprise TO me.
II cannot speak accurately as we
know but little OF the figures as yet"
FOLK ELECTED
Kansas city, Nov. 0-1'he Times On
dependenD at a. m. says:
AT this hour, with increased Demo.
cratic losses In the county the indi-
cations point more strongly TO the
probability that Roosevelt and Fair.
banks have carried Missouri and that
the plurality for Joseph w Folk, Dem.
orat, for governor over Cyrus = Wal
bridge, Republican, win be something
like 20 00O
1T Is also becoming more than
possibility that the next legislature,
which will elect successor to Senator
Francis NJ. Cockrel Democrat, will be
Republican,
Returns from the country are COM
ing In slowly and figures viii be late.
william s. Cowherd. chairman Of
the Democratic national congressional
committed Is defeated by Il C.. Ellis OF
Kansas city. from the Fifth Missouri
district by a plurality Of about 1900
REPUBLICANS CLAIM STATE.
Kansas city, Nov 9.-The Star Und),
at 1915 q. m, claims that the Repub-
l!cans have carried Missouri for the
national ticket, but gives no figures and |
claims the election OF Folk, (Dem), for
governor.