The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-11-09
DEVELOPMENTS OF
THE AFTERMATH
What Review of Election Through
out Country Shows.
REFORM GAINS ARE LARGE
PRESIDENT AND CABINET RE.
cEIVE LATE RETURNS.

Washington, Nov. S.-The election Of
John NJ. Pattison, Democrat, as gov
ernOr of Ohio. by approximately 10000
plurality over Myron T. Herrick, the
present Republican governor: a Dem
ocratic working majority in both
houses Of the Ohio legislature; an i'm
mediate appeal of W r. Hearst. the
Municipal Ownership candidate for the
New York mayoraIty, to the supreme
court to contest McClellan's election In
that city on the basis of alleged evil
dence of wholesale Illegal acts at the
polls: plurality of 34S5 votes for Me-
Ciellan, and immediate contest by the
fusionists in Louisville in the courts
against the election of Democratic mu-
nicipal officers and members of the
legislature, were the developments in
Ioday'S election aftermath.
McClellan's plurality is the minimum
ON record for a successful mayoraity
candidate in New York. Mr. Hearsts
managers claim evidence of illegal acts
against l,o00 inspectors of election, and
that $4,000 of his adherents We're turned
back from the polls because their
names already had been voted Dis
that he would make q searching inves-
LEGATION of the alleged wholesale frauds
and has ordered the returns from The
Eighteenth and Sixth assembly dis
tricts 10 be carefully guarded. These
are the home divisions of Tammany
Leader Murphy and Timothy Sullivan.
Ugly Charges at Louisville.
In Louisville the Fusion party man
ayers claim a nou-eiectiOn in fourteen
precincts because of disappearance of
election paraphernalia; that Democrat
&c workers confiscated the ballot boxes
IN fourteen other precincts and allowed
Justification of returns, and allege ac-
tiyity of thugs" and repeaters.
All through Ohio the belated returns
showed Republican losses. and the Re-
publicans concede that Pattison's pIu-
rality reaches $4,000. The Democrats
claim Pattison's plurality approximates
10000. which would elect the entire
Democratic ticket. Republicans con-
cede the Democrats between two 10 five
majority in the senate and from ten to
fifteen in the house. while the Demo-
Gratis claim five in the senate and
twenty-seven in the house.
The City party (reform) plurality i'm
Philadelphia is 1888 of sheriff, and
the Fusionist candidate for state treas
urer Berry carried the city by over
$4,000 plurality. The upheaval was the
greatest in Pennsylvania for many
years.
49,. Maryland in Doubt.
The Maryland Legislative situation is
in doubt.
In Rhode Island, the Republican
subernatorial candidate has a plural
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elects Republican mayor for the first
time in many years.
In Massachusetts Democratic threats
are made for d recount of the vote for
lieutenant governor. The Republicans
IN Massachusetts, gave %, 116 plurality
for Guild for governor, though Draper
for lieutenant 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
a substantial majority.
In Salt Lake the anti-MormOn victory
is made complete by the election of the
entire American party city ticket.
The Kentucky legislature, which
viii elect a successorfto Senator Black
burn, apparently viii include thirty
one Democrats, five Republicans and
two doubtful in the senate and seventy
nine Democrats fourteen Republicans
and seven doubtful in the house The
Democrats elected a mayor in Louis
Vile by about $500.
Nebraska was carried by The Repub-
licans. Returns from other states and
cities show notable changes.
President Roosevelt ana members Of
the ca binet received the latest returns
from the various states and cities from
different sources during the day and
tonight. and showed keen interest iii
the results. Some surprise was evinced
here at the political revolution I'm Penn
sylvania and Ohio and at the close
margin OF the mayOralty vote I'm New
York.
superintendent of Elections Morgan
said tonight that while doubtless many
Illegal votes were east, he would eX-
made by the Municipal Ownership
league managers that they amounted
10 10000 He had made, he said, many
arrests. but only thirty of the prison
ers were held by the magistrates.
Attorney General MAYER said that nc
had information that Illegal votes were
cast in several assembly districts.
In any event, however" said the at
torney general. even should We dis
cover thousands of cases of Illegal vot-
ing. 1t would not affect the count for
the reason that the ballots cannot be
deducted SO far as we are concerned. /
our jurisdiction ends with the prose-
cution OF the criminals where the crime
Of illegal voting has been committed
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