Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1905-11-10
Gratifying Result Of Election.

A Washington dispatch Of the Sth
inst. gives the following summary Of
results at the ballot box, Tuesday:
The election OF John NJ. Pattison,
Democrat, as Governor of Ohio by ap-
proximately 10000 plurality over My
ron T. Herrick, the present Republi-
can Governor; Democratic working
majority in both houses of the Ohio
Legislature; an immediate appeal of
William X. Hearst the Municipal Ow-
nership candidate for the New York
mayOIalty, to the Supreme Court to
contest McClellan's election in that
city on the basis of alleged evidence OF
Wholesale illegal acts at the polls; q
plurality OF 3,4S5 votes for Mcclellan ;
and immediate contest by the fusion
lists in Louisville in the courts against
the election of Democratic municipal
officers and members of the Legisla.
ture, were the developments in election
aftermath.
McClellan's plurality is the mini
mum on record for q successful Mayor.
ality candidate in New York. Mr..
Hearst's managers claim evidence OF
illegal acts against 1000 inspectors oil
election and that 10000 OF his adher.
ents were turned back from the polls
because their names already had been
voted. District Attorney Jerome has
announced that he will make . search.
ing investigation of the alleged whole.
sale frauds and has ordered the returns
from the Eighteenth and Sixteenth
Assembly Districts to be carefully
guarded. These are the home divi.
siOns of the Tammany leader, Murphy,
and Timothy Sullivan.
All through Ohio the belated re-
turns showed Republican losses and
the Republicans concede that Patti
sons plurality reaches 10000. The
Democrats claim that Pattison's plur.
atty approximates IS 900, which would
elect the entire Democratic ticket.
Republicans concede the Democrats
between two and five majority in the
Senate and from 10 to Is in the House,
while the Democrats claim five in the
Senate and ~ in the House.
The City party (reform) plurality in
Philadelphia is AZ. 1888 for Sheriff. and
the Fusionist candidate for State
Treasurer Derry carried the city by
over $4,000 plurality. The upheavsl
was the greatest in Pennsylvania for
many years.
In Rhode Island the Republican
Gubernatorial candidate has a plural
ity of 5000, and Providence elects q
Republican Mayor for the first time
in many years.
In Massac husetts Democratic threats
are made for q recount of the vote for
Lieutenant. Governor. The Republi-
cans have q plurality Of 23,l15 for
Guild for Governor, though Draper,
for Lieutensnt-G Governor, got less than
1000 plurality. The Democrats gained
three Senators and one Representative
in the Legislature.
Every candidate Of the Union Labor
party in San Francisco WAS elected by
. substantial majority.
In Salt Lake the antiMormon vic.
tory is made complete by the election
of the entire American party city
ticket.
The Kentucky Legislature, which
will elect successor 10 Senator Black
burn, apparently will include 81 Dem
ocrats, five Republicans and two
doubtful in tho Senate, and 70 Demo-
Gratis, IA Republicans and seven doubt
full in the House. The Democrats
elected Mayor in Louisville by $500
Nebraska was carried by the Repub.
| leans.