The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1906-11-15
STRIKING RESULTS
Of ELECTION Gay
Hearst Loses Fights il New
York, Massachusetts,, lin
els and California.
GAINS MADE in SENATE
Republicans incrcaoe Their Lead There
Dryden, eabcock, Wadsworth,
Lacey and Mccieary Are
Defeated.

Chicago. Nov. 9.-"Raymonc." IN til,
Tribune. summarizes las Tuesday
election as follows:
II was q spectacular election aftel
all. The people did strange things will
their ballots OF Tuesday. and the resul,
of their voting will be felt In diffearnl
sections OF the country for many 9 lsnf
dag
There WIS q vast amount OF scratch,
Ing. The Observation-Disclosures was ont Ii
force, and the people tool It upon them.
selves to enforce their own IDEAS IN
way not often seen in this eountry
even In an eff year.
Machines were smashed everywhere
men OF national reputation. were retired
! from politics. Heart was beaten IL
NEW York state, congress is safely re-
publican, and there We're q dozep other
features any one of which would be
enough to make the election Of 1900
notable from q political point OF View
! vi course the fight in New York state
against Hearst oversiaadowcd every
thing else IN he way OF popular inter-
est.
Hearst Lost Everywhere.
More than that. Hearst was singular
~ unsuccessful everywhere. His per-
political crony, John b. Moran,
the noisy district attorney of Boston,
was beaten out of his boots for gov
ernor OF Massachusetts. The Hearst
ticket in Chicago Was left III of sight,
and n similar fate befell his candilate
for governor in California. If Mr..
Hearst chooses to be II candidate for
the presidency, which is something he
has declared oyer his WI signature he
viii not take under consideration, he
VIII rot ba Dilta tn c-s14 INafnpa =, ~,
cratic national convention with any
thing IN the way of a clean bill OF
heaitn so far as Tuesdays election is
concerned.
So far as national affairs are con-
cerncd, he thing in Tuesdays election
which probably will excite the greatest
interest, aside from the Hearst defeat,
VIII be the backsliding OF Missouri. 1T
was My Two years ago that the "Mys-
FERROUS Stranger left his unexpected
tracks IN the waste places between the
democratic and the republican columns.
re was welcomed as newcomers gener-
any are IN politics, and the enthusiasts
NC republicans of Missouri predicted
tnat the state was unalterable in its
adhesion to republican policy. They
elected a republican to the United
states senate and then sat down and
glofled in their political greatness.
But they will glory no more. The
0SA SAa HUI CDIlG TO
stay. The Stranger has gone back to
ms Old associates, and Missouri has be-
come a democratic state once more by
q safe majority, electing q large per-
centage of democrats to the house Of
representatives, n probably insuring
the ELECTORAL vote to the Democracy
Two years from now.
Republicans Gain in Senate.
Late returns indicate an
gam for the republicans in the United
states n Out OF Colorado comes
the news that the legislature is almost
certainly republican. This e the de-
Ieat OF Senator Patterson. He was the
one democrat IN the senate Who dared
to stand up publicly and praise Roose-
Welt and, his policy. He stood by the
administration IN several tight places.
ana he seemed to have deserved a het.
ter fate. He will be succeeded in all
probability by q republican OF the name
OF Sifnon Guggenheinn.
me senate will contains sixty-one re-
Puplicans, more THAI two-thirds OF the
Whole thus making possible the rati}i-
callon OF treaties and confirmation of
appointments without calling on the
minority. -
The term of w. A. Clark. the multi
11lliionaire of Montana, expires next
va l Al one time he said he would
not be q candidate for reelection h1t
iateiy he has reported to have chanped
ms fnlld. He will probably change his
iillhd back again, however, upon learn
ing Una according to the latest re-
turns, the republicans viii have a ma
Jority in the legislature.
Idaho has elected IL republican Io,;s
lature, thu retiring senator T,,hois
democrat. '
Glun cutIoo's for Dryden.
Ther Will be a change in tho nor
sohh@l OF the senate from New ,Jerst3v
Inc opposition TO Senator DRYDEN tl3a
!tLe insurance president, has been par
tlcaitfly fierce. lie mas a primary nom
I4atton pehlnd him, but the majority !
I'm 'ie I~epupllcahs IN the legislature
WIZ ne so small thai other candidates
are sure to spring up among the repI1b-
!!eallS, and he viii have to fight FIR tie
IHe, with n possibility of losing his
after all. hE'
Talking of the senate reminds one
' ala t"o ne" members Of that BODY
VIII soon have to be for fr,ot,,
the new state OF Oklahoma. They viii
llonaDly De democrats, Arizona and
New Mexico will remain outside of The
iotd iof many years to come.
ne nance are that no republican
adfnillstration will propose statehood
or them until they get down on tboir
knees and ask for it. The United STATES
senate is surely republican for p,opy
TO come, so that the prosr,ect ~
statehood for Arizona and New Mex-
lco Is extremely remote, no mater yUhat
might be the result of the next p~esi.
Dental election. NS
Several Big Lights Go Out.
Tuesdays elections retired from mol
.licS several Of the best known mo,
on the republican side of the house Of
representatives. Wadsworth of Naw
York. McCleary of Minnesota. Babcocls
OF Wisconsin n Lacey Of iowa viii
be on he rolls when the clerk calls
Inc house Of representatives TO order
Tor the beginning of the sixtieth con-
gress. Wadsworth's case is more or
less OF q peculiar type. His son mar
'led the daughter Of Secretary Uay
ana President Roosevelt was person,
ally instrumental in making his son
speaker OF the New York assembly.
Baocock in Wisconsin and Lacey In
owa were the victims of unfortunate
fights. Babcock and Senator
Spooner have for a long time in Wis
eonsln been the leaders of the stalwart
move, which has fought La
foHette IN season and out of season
Babeock was marked for slaughter Nv
Lato.ette's friends many years ago.
he always managed to secure an eIee.
.ion. In spite Of the fact that much Of
ms time during the campaign was TAX
n IlYn III fir \