The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1906-11-09
HEARST PROBABLY LOSES
STATE BY FIFTY THOUSAND
New Nork City Gives Hearst a Majority Of Sixty
Thousand Brooklyn Gives
Majority for Hughes
Up State Vote Is Strongly for Hughes |nsurnq His Eec
tionLeadng Papers ConCede the
State to Republicans.

the Second congressional district
comprising Douglas, Sarpy and Wash
ington counties, indicate the election
of Hitchcock, democrat. for congress
over Kennedy. republican, by a safe
majority.
DeS Moines-Returns from Iowa
are meagre. The election of Cummins
in conceded by small plurality.
Des Moines, Ia.-Twenty- five pre-
cincts gave Cummins, republican,
1881; Porter, democrat, 2.425. The
same in 1903 gave Cummins, 3,71O;
Sullivan, 2,236.
West Virginia.
Wheeling, w. va.-The vote is very
light. The election of all five repub-
lican congressman is assured, though
by decreased majorities. Hughes, re-
publican, defeats Miller, democrat, in
the Fifth congressional district by
$500.
Republicans Gain in Philadelphia
IhlidueIpIid--SC scattering returns IN
the city indicate large republican
gains as compared with last year.
when Berry, fusion candidate for state
treasurer, had 35.147 plurality in
Philadelphia and SS,194 in the state.
Republican Gains i'm Michigan.
Detroit-Governor Warner, republi-
can, has carried by a majority of 647,
the cities of Lansing. Hillsdale and
Adrian, which he lost in 1904, by 112
votes. The vote is only two-thirds
that of 1904.
LOngworth Elected.
The Cincinnati Post says Longworth
is elected to congress. Ten precincts
give Thompson, republican candidate
for secretary of state. 1,430; Hoskins,
Loaf.
Speaker Cannon Reelected.
Eighteenth congressional district by
plurality Of about $500.
Montana.
Misunderstanding returns from
all counties indicate the election of
the republican state and legislative
tickets.
Joint Statehood.
New Mexico and Arizona voted IA
vorably on the proposition to enter
the union Jointly as a single state.
Rhode Island.
Providence-Indicati are that
republicans will control both branches
Of the legislature.
Governor Hoch was elected in Kan
sas by a slightly reduced majority.
One Democrat in Indiana.
Indiana elects five republican and
one democratic congressman.
Quiet i'm Washington.
Washington, Nov. 6.-Election day
has brought on Washington a Sunday
quiet. The situation here is anoma-
lous in that, while there is no locality
that possesses and feels so deep an
interest in the result of the political
max, there is no real outward local
manifestation of that interest. This
is due to the fact that citizens of the
District of Columbia are disfranchis-
ed, and are thus rendered incapable
of actual participation in the contest.
The departments have been empty
ing themselves of voters for several
loV fo6a ;v oil 4
lnent buildings the forces were re-
duced to the lowest medium possible.
Desks everywhere We're vacant, their
occupants having gone home to vote.
This applied as well to the higher Of
fcials. The example set by the pres
ident and by the heads of depart
ments in gcing away to vote was fol-
lowed almost uniformly by the clerks
of bureaus and subordinateS in all the
branches of government work. The
government service was not allowed
to suffer because of this exodus Of
voters, as the heads of departments
prepared for the lack of workers by
getting the routine work we'll in hand
Fand in such condition that a reduced
number Of employees could handle It.
The capitol building was practically
deserted. None of the official posi-
tions in that building is subject to
civil service rule and most OF them
are held as a result of personal po-
litical service. AS a consequence, the
occupants have in many cases been
quite as much occupied with political
affairs as have their superiOrs. OF all
the government bureaus the largest
quota OF voters left the government
printing Office. There are several
thousand men in. that Office and they
are about equally divided between
democrats and republicans.
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