The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1904-11-16
THE ELECTION.


The general election last Tuesday
resulted in the greatest landslide for
the republican ticket since the organ :
ization of the party, Not only was
every doubtful state carried by Presi-
dent Roosevelt but the ranks of the
solid south were broken and Missouri
joined the republican ranks. The
democrats did not carry q single north
err state and the south is no longer
solid for them since Missouri has brok-
en- away. Twelve states were carried
by the democrats and thirty-two by the
republicans. while four territories
elected republican commissioners TO
Congress. Roosevelt will receive u
total of 343 votes in the electoral col
lege. as against 1873 for Parker. while
Roosevelt's plurality the nation over
will exceed 100000.
The highest estimate made on the
number of electoral votes which Roose-
welt would receive was 314. This esti-
mate was made by Chairman Cortelyou
of the Republican national committee
aud was considered 200 high even by
leading republicans, 292 being the gen
eral estimate, The result proved, how
ever, that all estimates we're too low.
Parker's vote in the electoral college
will be smaller than that received by
Bryan either 10 1896 or 1900.
Before the election. New York, Con
nectcut, Maryland West Virginia,
Indiana, Nevada, and even Illinois.
Wisconsin aud Nebraska were claimed
oy the democrats as doubtless states
But these all went for Roosevelt by
good, safe majoities. New York went
for Roosevelt by an overwhelming ma
iority of 10000: West Virginia, the
home of the democratic candidate for
president, was carried by the re
publicans by 100000; Indiana, the
stronghold of Tom Taggart, the demo-
cratic national chairman, rolled up q
plurality of IS, 1000: while Nebraska can
no longer be placed in the list of doubt
fulless states in the face of its record of
Is, 600 plurality for Roosevelt.
Another surprising feature of the
election is the number of states which
went for Roosevelt and yet elected
democratic governors. Massachusetts
gave the republican national ticket a
plurality approximating 10000 and
elected the democratic candidate for
governor by 10000. Colorado. Mime
sofa and Missouri also elected demo.
cratic governors. In Minnesota the
state was carried ty the republican
candidate for president, the democratic
for governor and the republican candi-
date for ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; while in
Missouri. sJoseph W. Folk, candidate
for governor, was the only democrat
who succeeded in carrying the state.
This independent spirit exhibited by
the voters is one of the encouraging
features of the election. 1t show4that
the voters have learned how to scratch
intelligently, and the day is probably
past when corrupt state ticket can be
elected on the strength of the national
ticket. or vice versa.
The promise which Governor Cum
Minis made to Roosevelt and Fairbanks
that the Hawkeye state would give
them bigger percentage of its vote
than any other state in the union was
more than made good by the record
breaking plurality of 100000 Not only
that but Iowa has again returned to
her distinction of having solid repub-
llcan delegation in Congress. The
doubtful Second district, now repre-
sented by Democrat Judge Wade
made the center of the fight in Iowa
and was carried by the republican can
didate. A. f. Dawson by something
over two hundred votes. The biggest
received by. any Congressional
candinate in the state of Iowa was the
ore approximating 10000 for Judge
Conner Of the Big Tenth district.
In the general landslide, number of
strong democratic counties in this state
went republican. even to the county
tickets. The most notable of these, at
least to our readers. is Crawford. Be-
fore election the democrats claimed
the entire ticket by majorities ranging
from 800 TO 600, with the possible ex-
ception of county attorney. They con-
ceeded the possibility OF Klinker's
election, but were confident that Con
nor would be able to stem the tide.
EARLY returns on the night of election
indicated that the county had made
flop" and the democrats went to bed
early, couceding the county to the re-
publicans with the exceptions Of Faul
and Collins, and possibly MeKim,
whom they thought it impossible to
beat. But the complete returns dashed
even this last hope from the democrats