Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1905-11-13
MANY SURPRISES IN
TUESDAYS ELECTIONS
Ohio Democrats Elect Governor bV
q Surprisingly Large
Majority.
Weaver and jerome Win HdndiIV
and Hearst Starts
Contest.

Washington, Nov. Selection re-
turns. received by the Associated Press
up to 2 O'Clock this morning show that
the Democrats have carried the may
orally campaign in New York city, the
state ticket in Pennsylvania, the state
ticket in Virginia and the city ticket
III Louisville, while the Republicans
have made q clean sweep in Massa.
chusetts and Chicago and Cook county,
and have carried their tickets in New
Jersey, Rhode Island, Nebraska and
Maryland.
In New York, Hearst had plurality
in the borough of Brooklyn Of almost
10000, with fourteen election dis.
tricts missing. The returns indicate
Mo Clellsn's election by several thou.
sapd plurality. Bird S. Coler was
elected borough president Of Brooklyn
on the Municipal Ownership ticket.
The New York election shows that
municipal ownership will be consid-
cradle factor in the city's politics.
In Ohio the result is still doubtful,
though the returns up to late hour
indicated the election of Pattison, the
Democratic candidate for governor.
The suffrage amendment in Mary land
was defeated overwhelmingly.
Massachusetts elected a Republican
governor by a majority approaching
that Of Douglas. the present Demo.
cratic governor.
Washington, Nov. 9.-The election
of John M. Pattison, Democrat, as
governor of Ohio by approximately
40, 900 plurality over Myron T. Her
rick, the present Repu blican governor;
Democratic working majority In
both houses Of the Ohio legislature;
an immediate appeal Of William R.
Hearst, the municipal ownership can.
didste for the New York msyorslty, to
the supreme court to contest McClei-
lan's election in that city on the basis
Of alleged evidence Of wholesale illegal
acts at the polls; a plurality Of only
3.4s5 votes for Mcclellan, and the i'm.
mediate contest by the fusionists in
Louisville in the courts against the
election of Democratic municipal off,
GERS and of the legislature, were the
developments Of the election aftermath.
McClellsn's plurality is the mini
mum on record for successful mayor.
atty candidate in New York. Mr..
Hearst's managers claim evidence Of
illegal acts against 1000 inspectors of
election and that 10000 Of his adher.
ents were turned back from the polls
because their names had already been
voted.
In Louisville the fusion party man
ayers claim a non election in fourteen
precincts because of the disappearance
Of election paraphernalia, that Demo.
cratic workers confscated the ballot
boxes in fourteen other precincts and
allowed classification of returns, and
allege activity Of "thuRs" and re-
peaters.
Republicans Lose Ohio.
All through Ohio the belsted returns
showed Republican losses, and toe Re-
publicans concede that Pattison's plur.
ality reaches 25. 900. The Democrats
claim that Psttison's plurality approx.
imates 30, 900, which would elect the
entire Democratic ticket. Repu blicans
concede between two and five majority
in the senate and from ten to fifteen in
the house, while the Democrats claim
five in the senate and twenty. seven in
the house.
The City party (reform) plurality in
Philadelphia is 43, 1888 for sheriff, and
the fusion candidate for state treasurer
carried the city by over 10000 plur-
ality. The upheaval was the greatest
in Pennsylvania for many years.
The Maryland legislative situation
is in doubt.
In Rhode Island, the Republican
gubernstorial candidate has plurality
estimated at 5000, and Providence
elects Republican mayor for the first
time in many years.
Possible Contest In massachusetts,
In Msssac husetts Democratic threats
are made for a recount of the vote for
lieutenant governor. The Repu blicsns
in Massac husetts have 23,216 plurality
for Guild for governor, though Draper,
for lieutenant governor, got less than
1900 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 anti. Mormon vic.
tory is made complete by the election
of the entire American party city ticket.
The Kentucky legislature, which
will elect a successor to Senator Black.
burn, apparently will include thirty.
one Democrats, five Republicans and
two doubtful in the senate, and seven.
ty nine Democrats, fourteen Republi.
cans and seven doubtful in the house.