The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1906-11-09
REPUBLICAN, CANDIDATE FOR
GOVERNOR OF NEW YORK
STATE ELECTED.
MEARST STRONG IN CITIES
BUT THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS
PILED UP BIG MAJoRITIES
AGAINST HIM.

complete returns from all over the
state, Charles e. Hughes, the Repub-
lican candidate, has been elected gov
ernor of New York over William Ran
dolph Hearst, the nominee of the Dem
ocratic party and the independence
league, by approximately a plurality
of 10000. Two years ago Governor
Higgins was elected on the Republican
ticket by $4,000
There is some doubt expressed as
to the fate of the Democratic and In
dependence league tickets outside of
Mr.. Hearst, several of the New York
newspapers that have been supporting
Mr.. Hughes declaring that there was
@ chance that the subordinate officers
of the Democratic and Independence
league combination had been elected.
The latest figures seem to indicate
that Mr.. Hughes plurality above the
Bronx will exceed 10000. To Offset
this Mr.. Hearst's plurality in Greater
New York will probably be from $4,000
to $4,000.
In Brooklyn, where Senator Patrick
McCarren made bitter fight against
Hearst the latter carried the borough
ny a small plurality, probably 1000.
At one time it seemed that Hughes
had been successful in Brooklyn, but
the late returns all strengthened the
Democratic candidate
Manhattan Supported Hearst.
Mr.. Hearst has been given major
ity of nearly 10000 in Manhattan and
the Bronx Queens county, which in
cludes Long Island City, has gone for
Hearst by from 5000 to 5000 and Rich
mond (Staten Island) has also given
the Democratic candidate plurality.
AS was generally expected, Mr..
Hearst showed his greatest strength
In the cities throughout the state and
took out of the Republican column a
number Of the most important munich
palities which heretofore have been
Republican Among the cities which
gave Hearst plurality were Buffalo,
Rochester, Utica, Troy, Elmira, Rome,
Little Falls and Johnstown.
All Of these except Utica and Rome
were Republican two years ago. Mr..
Hughes did not gain a single city.
The Republican ticket was successful,
but sustained serious losses in SYRIA
Cuse, GlOverSville, Amsterdam, Ithaca,
Schenectady, Watertown and Platts-
burg.
AS result of the scratching and the
voting for the same candidates under
different party emblems, the returns
for the subordinate officers on the va
rious state tickets are so complicated
as not to be available at present
Great interest centered here in New
York in the campaign waged for the
judiciary ticket named by a committee
of lawyers, headed by Joseph II.
Choate and Former Judge Alton B:
dence league joint ticket has won
over the nonpartisan candidates by
big pluralities.
Grady Defeated Rock.
State Senator Thomas F. Grady Of
Tammany Hall has been reelected
over Thomas Rock, who has been
known in the campaign as Eight
Hour" Rock and who claimed he had
been "tricked' by the Independence
league.
Throughout the state there has been
notable falling off in the vote of
1904, which was a presidential year.
The Republican ticket showed the
greatest loss in this respect, especial
ly in the cities.
In claiming the election Of Mr..
Hughes by large plurality Republic
an State Chairman Woodruff said:
81 knew all along we had lost the
labor vote. Every possible thing was
done to recover it, but think without
avail"
Mr. Hughes said:
81 am very much gratified If am
elected, as now seems to be the case
feeling is not of citation but of respon-
sibility"
There were many odd turns to the
balloting. Here in New York it was
Richmond borough that defeated Mr.
Hearst for mayor year ago and it
was Brooklyn, with a big plurality,
which helped to make the race so
close. Mr. Hearst barely carried
Brooklyn this time, but ran ahead in
Richmond
While both the state senate. and as
sembly will be strongly Republican,
the Democrats are claiming that they
have made gains The complexion of
the New York congressional delega-
ton, Il is believed, will undergo but
slight change, if any.