Omaha daily bee., 1905-11-10
PATTIsoWs PLURALITY GROWS
Complete Returns show Democratic
Candidate for GOvernor of Ohio
Has 41,TOS Plurality.


COLUMBUS. O., Nov. 9.-Pattison's
plurality for governor is 4l7O5. according
to the official returns reported to the
county seats and telegraphed to the Column
bus Dispatch today. all counties being in
cluded.
Only scattered reports on the minor state
candidates have yet been received but
these indicate that at least some of the
republicans pulled through by safe plural
tiles and in view of the size of the de-
fection from Herrick II is possible that
the republicans may have chosen all state
officers below governor
The answers to Chairman Dicks mes
sages came in slowly but the average
difference between the vote for Herrick
and that for the nearest other republican
kept well up and the feeling OF confidence
at republican headquarters gained steadily.
AS Pattison's plurality was only l,105, it
was only necessary that the minor republi-
can candidates should average about 500
votes to each county above Herrick and in
several counties the difference exceeded
1000
At republican headquarters this morning
a majority Of two in the house was claimed
and the senate was said to stand eighteen
to eighteen, with the chances Of the re-
naming senator favorable to the republi-
cans. This however. is not admitted by
the democrats
Governor Herrick tonight gave a state
nient 10 the Associated Press which says in
part:
The people OF Ohio by a substantial plu-
rality have defeated me for governor
bow to their will and trust that their well
fare may. be the only aim for the new ad-
This overthrow Of the republican party in
Ohio was not caused hy business depression
or industrial adversely anywhere in the
state; IL was not caused by any mismanage-
ment or corruption in the state govern
ment; IL was not caused By any discomfort
on the part OF the people with the record Zee, I'i
! the administration of state affairs during
| the last fourteen years.
The greatest danger now confronting the
| American people is the readiness, in re-
! sponse to some sudden whiIn or pretext to
| desert party principles and follow some in
! cerity often with hypocrisy, to represent q
| cause that is higher than party fealty. This
| spirit offers the most fruitful field Cor n
! demagogue and the iconoclast, and while
| some good men may be swept into power
| upon a popular wave that over-rides prtn
cfples, the strain upon our institutions ant
| the bottom of our government VIII leave
| the structure weaker rather than stronger
| I discharged my duties as governor o
Ohio with an eye and purpose devoted
| solely to the nest interests of all the people
My conscience is clear. What I did will
respect to the BrannOck law was done II
! the interest of Justice and morality and in
! tended TO strengthen that measure as
! temperance law. / would do the sam,
! thing over again. The unconstitutiona
measures 1 vetoed would veto again: tn
! eXtravagant appropriations that l decline'
l TO approve / would 4eclne to approv
because they disapproyed of my actor
with respect to these measures they acte
wisely, for had been & ven second tern
motives and I would nave pursued tn
same course whenever z e occasion arose.