The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-11-07
Few . Surprises Are
 Furnished. MINORITY WILL BE STRONG Candidate of Democracy Wins Out
 in Minnesota. Patterson Shows H. Clay Evans Under in Tennessee, While Rhode Is- land Will Have Democrat
 for Governor.

Elections were held yesterday in forty-two States, and while the results in a number of instances were of un- usual interest. it may be said in that generally speaking there were no great surprises.
 Throughout the South the Democrat ic State and Congressional tickets have been elected by the usual majorities In the West and East those aligned two years ago in the Democratic col Democrats making gains in some in- stances and Republicans in others. The Republicans retain control of Con- gress by a good majority.
 Perhaps the widest interest in the elections centered in the remarkable fight for Governor which had been waged in New York State between Charles E. Hughes. the Republican candidate. who throughout the cam paign has had the support of President Roosevelt. and William Randolph Hearst, who has been running as the regular Democratic and Independence League nominee. The latest returns losing yearly all ~st the pr'HclpaiN cre ies of the State WAS successful by about 50.00o plurality. The rural dis tricts brought about the Republican victory.
 Tn New York city the .Tammany-In- dependence League judiciary ticket was successful with possibly one ex- ception, over the candidates named by the non-partisan Judiciary nomina- tors"
 Massachusetts has reelected Curtis Guild, Republican, as Governor, over District Attorney John B. Moran of Boston, who was the candidate of the Democratic party, the Independence League and the Prohibitionists.
 Tn Chicago it Is estimated the 1nde- pendence League boiled 10000. but there was a Republican plurality for the State officers. .~.
 Pennsylvania has elected Stuart. Re- publican, Governor over a fusion op- position by the usual Republican plu- rality.
 Michigan. Iowa, New Hampshire. North Dakota, Connecticut, Minnesota, Indiana and Wisconsin have rolled up Republican pluralities, although thero was some falling off from the usual vote in Iowa. Nebraska shows big Republican gains Ohio also shows Republican gains over the Patterson vote of last year. The Republicans expect a plurality of 75,000 n the State.
 Democrats fin Oklahoma.
 . The constitution of the lew State of
  crats The Indians voted the Demo- cratic ticket almost solidly, Oklahoma also went strongly Democratic in choosing delegates to the constitution al convention.
 New Mexico and Arizona lave voted favorably on the proposition to enter jointly as a single tax
 Governor Hoch of Kansas has been returned by a slightly reduced major ity. -.
 Congressman Nicholas Longworth was reelected.
 Congressman J. w. Wadsworth. for many years chairman of the House Committee on Agriculture at Wash ington, was defeated in the thirty fourth New York district.
 The Republicans carried Utah. Wyo ming and Washington and eeem to have lost Nevada. while both parties are claiming Colorado. ..
 Texas takes it's usual place in the Democratic column and Wyoming seems to have been carried by the Republicans.
 Congressman Babcock, of Wiscon- ain. formerly chairman of the Repub- Ican Congressional Committee. failed of election.
 Tn Rhode Island, James H. Higgins Democrat, elected Governor.