The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-23
LANDSLIDE FOR THE PRESIDENT
SWEPT MANY YELLOW DOGS
INTO OFFICE.
l oval Support Given to the Republican
Party by the Members OF
Catholic Church.

Election experiences continue 10 FORM
the stock topic of conversation in this
city. Mr.. Charles H. Keep, an assist
ant secretary of the treasury says that
the people of Buffalo knew who had
been elected president at a quarter
before six, on their way to dinner on
Tuesday night At that time newspa-
pers on the streets showed that the
city had given Roosevelt a plurality OF
10000. as the voting machines told as
soon as the polls were closed at o.
clock. This majority was so over
whelming, unexpected and unappre-
ciated that no intelligent observer
could any longer be in doubt as to the
presence of a tremendous Roosevelt
tide The year before, when the state
had been a virtual tie between Color
and Odell, the democrats had carried
Buffalo by 100. Mr.. Keep, dining with
the republican leader the night before
election. found him hopeful of 5000
Roosevelt lead in the city. When the
returns showed actually about 10000,
is seemed certain that New York had
gone republican, and with it necessa-
rily the country.
The case in Wisconsin, where con-
fessed defauter was elected on the
state ticket by the Roosevelt tide, is
another of the peculiarities of the cleo
ton. This mans offense had been dis
covered after ne had been nominated.
LaFollette promptly removed him from
office, although one of his own adher-
ents, but as there was no way of re-
voking his nomination under the state
law, it was assumed that the voters
would take care of the matter at the
polls. The ballot was 50 large, however,
and the other complications SO many,
that this man has been swept into office
again, in the face of his misdeeds, by
majority Of 10000.
one of the surprises of which little
was known on election night now be-
coming more prominent as the fuller
strength of the various third parties,
chiefly that of Mr.. Debs. When the
hula 1atn Io
found that there is q gerat difference
between Mr.. Roosevelt's plurality over
Parker and his majority over all OPP
posing tickets. This does not imply
that the democratic party will neces-
sarily reorganize in such a way as to
catch these third party men. The
Parker nomina ton, and all the circum-
stances that attended it, proved ex-
tremely offensive to a very large body
of voters, and they sought such chan
nels as were at their command fol-
Voicing their protest. Roosevelt himself
obtained much of this vote, but Wat
son and Debs and others were remem-
bered by the more radical of the dis
satisfied elements
In the residence districts of New
York city, Parker made a gain over
the Bryan vote, which would have
carried the state for him handsomel,
had it been sustained. In certain O.
these election districts the Roosevelt
vote was practically identical with tina
for Mckinley, while Parker made 8
very heavy gain over Bryan. Thi
feeling among voters was what fooled
most observers of the outlook in New
York; among their own friends an,
acquaintanceS there was an increas
of Parker strength. The recovery O
the democratic vote among the bette
class of its old-time supporters wa
unmistakable. In the east side dis
ulcts the most sensational change
appeared, and this tendency seems t.
have been general throughout tn
country.
The fact that Roosevelt carrie
every ward in Chicago from the hig1
class residential sections to the poor
est quarters of the city, affords furthe
evidence of this. Any republican can
didate would have carried the bes
residence sections of that city. Roose
Welt, by his own personality and tn
good times issue, would have carrie
the middle grade wards as well. blu
The heavy cutting of Parker in tn
poorer quarters, operated to throy
them into Roosevelts hands too. $
that for once candidate has bee
elected who was the choice of eac
stratum of Chicago's variegated POM
lation.
The report of which something wa
heard during the campaign. that tn
influence of the Catholic church wa
thrown to the republican candidat,
seems to have been borne out bv tn