The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-29
HE HAD PLURALITY in TIE
STATE OF OVER SEVENTY
TWO THOUSAND.
Debs Gets Nearly Ten Thousand
Albert e. Mead Has Plurality
Over Fifteen Thousand.

Washington, exactly 100,69S voters OF
the state signified their approval OF
the principlss and policies of the re-
publican party and the administration
of Theodore Roosevelt by voting for
republican electors on November ..
Opposed to them, 2S,015 voted for
democratic electors who would have
cast their ballots for Alton b. Par
ker. Roosevelt's plurality thus is 72,-
6S3
Accurate figures on the votes of the
other political parties are not at hand,
county seat correspondents not hav-
ing sent them in from the official re-
turns. However, twenty-four Of the
thirty-six counties of Washington, in
Guiding King. Spokane, Pierce and
nearly all the large ones, cast in the
aggregate S57S votes for Debs, the So
cialistic candidate for the presidency.
Only nineteen counties have reported
on the Socialist Labor national vote,
these including King, Spokane and
Pierce and they gave in the aggregate
1877. Twenty-one counties reported
the prohibition vote, and including
King, Spokane and Pierce, show an
aggregate vote for Swallow of 2745.
IF n1,ti inc
give Tom Watson, the populist cam
1idate for the presidency All votes.
Big Vote for Debs.
1t is expected that the full returns
will show that Debs, socialist, received
close to 10000 votes in this state.
The official count cuts down the plu-
rality of Hon. Albert E. Mead. the re-
publican governor elect, in the state
somewhat, but still leaves him far and
away ahead of what the republican
campaign committee claimed before
election and ahead of what republican
newspapers claimed the day after cleo
ton.
Altogether Mr. Mead received 74,006
votes, while George Turner received
5S,979 Turner carried a total of II
counties, getting gross pluralities there
of 77SS. All these counties were in
eastern Washington. Mead carried five
eastern Washington counties by a
gross plurality of 1890. Setting this off
against Turner's gross plurality, it
will be seen that Turner came to the
summit of the Cascades with 639S.
Had there been an even break in every
other western Washington county,
Mead would have won on the King
county plurality alone, that being
1896. Or the northwestern counties
of Whatcom, Snohomish, Skagit, San
Juan, Island and Clallam, without
having to call on Jefferson at ALL
would have wiped out the eastern
Washington Turner plurality with
nearly 800 to spare.
Legislative Table Correct.
The official returns further show that
the legislative table printed by the
Sound papers on the Thursday
morning after the election was abso-
lutely correct in regard to the numeri-
cal strength of parties in house and
senate and in error in but one place,
that where it announced that White,
democrat. had defeated Kenoyer, re-
publican, for the lower house in a
Whitman county district The table
stated that in Stevens county the
count had not determined whether
Gray republican. or Maloney, demo-
crat, had been elected to the house
Since then the official count has deter
mined that Maloney won by clever
votes, but a contest is talked Of.
The figures herewith presented are
as announced by the official canvass.
ing boards in the various counties
The only one open to question is tn,
set of figures from Chelan county. re-
ported as correct, but not absolutel,
1t is notable that in Kitsap count,
the Debs vote was S29, as against go
for Parker. A particularly heavy so
cialist vote, proportionately, was cas-
IN Stevens county, where 1913 voter
slgnified their desire to see Eugene v
Debs sit in the presidential chair
Pierce cast 1902 votes for Debs an,
249 Socialist Labor votes. Whitma,
county voted 81 for Debs. while tn
nelghboring county, Walla Walla
gave him only As. Yakima gave Deb
35l, Whatcom 703, Thurston. ga
Skaglt 2s4, Snohomish, 592, Lewis 267
Mason only 10, Kittitas 2s9 and Klicki
tat 124.
The following table shows tn
Roosevelt ard ?arker vote nv conn
ties, the highest tie for presidents