The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-11-10
OYER A MILLION AND
 ONE.HALF PLURALITY
THE USPREoEDEN TOTE FoI
 ROOSEVELT.

Those for Grant and Mckinley Double.
 -PennsyIvania Alone Gives the Re,
 markable Plurality of About 4s5,Oos
 Missouri and west Virginia Seem
 to Have Gone Republican Beyond
 Doubt-Rooseveit's Popular Person,
 aIity Evidenced by Results in yari,
 Ous stntes.
 New York, Nov. s.-With the electiol returns still incomplete, the plurality of President Roosevelt in the nation. according to all indications tonight, will exceed 100000. the greatest plu- rality ever given an American candi- date. The nearest approach to this vote was in 1896, when Mckinley re- ceived a plurality approximating s50,- GOO, and in 1872, when Grant received 7s2.9S1 plurality.
 Tonight the interest centers in Mis- souri and Maryland. Late returns in- dicate that the former state is in the republican column so far as presiden- tiaI electors are concerned, but that James w. Folk, the democratic candi- date, has been elected governor. In Maryland the presidential vote will probably be cast for President Roose- welt. In other states 1t is simply question of pluralities.
 The solid south was broken by ths probable detection of Missouri, this sec tion of the country usually having thir- teen states In the democratic column. The figures tonight show but twelve states, with 133 votes, for Judge Parker. President Roosevelt carried all the northern states swept them, in fact and tonight he had 34S electoral votes. ! The banner state is Pennsylvania | Twenty-four hours after the polls clos | ed the returns from this state indicated that Roosevelt's plurality would reach 1885, GOO. Next came Illinois, where the president pooled approximately 235,0O0 more votes than did Judge Parker. Ohio gave Roosevelt 100000 and New 1 York 174,00O The New York city re- turns are still incomplete, but the amaze4cent over the result has not sub sided. Judge Parker carried Greater New York by only E1oOO votes. 1 In general, tfae situassea is chiefly iFlS 1 teresting tonight because of the fact l that the tickets in many of the 1ates l were cut. President Roosevelt ran ahead of his ticket in many localities, l notably in Massachusetts, where he ses cured plurality of S6,O00 votes, whiig l the republican candidate for governor was defeated by 35,oO0. Tn that state l the legislature is republican, and the I entire republican ticket, with the ex- ception of governor, was elected. In Missouri circumstances are similar Tn Nebraska the definite announce ment that the legislature is republican disposes of the stories that William J. Bryan had aspirations for a United States senatorship In this state, too. the governorship is in doubt and it will require official returns to determine who is elected. Both sides claim a vic- l tory.
 l There is a curious situation in Minne- sota, where Roosevelt secured 125000 l plurality, but where a democratic gov ernor and republican lieutenant-gov- I ernor were elected. The election of a
 democratic governor is the second in
 the history of the state.
 I Chairman Babcock, of the republican
 congressional committee, has been re-
 turned to congress from Wisconsin, but
 Chairman Cowherd, of the democratic
 congressional committee, was defeated
 in Missouri.
 l The situation in Colorado presented
 an interesting phase tonight. Roose-
 welt has carried the state by probably 2. 15,O00, but the governorship is still in
 doubt, both sides claiming victory