Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1907-11-07
HELD SIGNIFICANT
Roosevelt Will be Forced to Ac-
cept Third Term as Re-
suit of Election
DECLARES TIM WOODRUFF
New York Leaders Believe Hearst is
Politically Dead-iliinois Vote
Decisive.

Washington, Nov president Roose-
welt today issued a statement regard
ing the elections held Tuesday, in
which he says he regards the elections
as extremely gratifying and on the
whole the showing made was an i'm
provement over what It was four years
and eight years ago.
New York, Nov 7.-Chairman Tim
|6thy l.. Woodruff of the republican
state committee, who wired the presi-
dent that Tuesdays republican victory
in Kings county was due to Mr.. Roose-
velt's strength in Brooklyn, said last
night that he believed the demand
would be such that the president would
be obliged to accept a denomination
Chairman Woodruff had been asked
where he stood on the presidential sit
uation, when he replied: Il propose to
adopt a new policy, the policy of 81
lence, but | don't mind expressing my
opinion.
Will BE Swept Into Office.
81 am firmly of the opinion that the
demand for the denomination of Theo-
dore Roosevelt will be so strong next
spring that the president will be oblig-
ed to accept denomination. Every
indication points to his being swept
into office by an overwhelming vote.
| Under the leadership of Roosevelt
in the nation and of Hughes in the
state, the rank and file of the Inde-
pendence league will, in my judgment,
vote hereafter with the republican
party"
| Call Hearst Dead One.
The secondary results of the elec-
tions, particularly as may affect the
political fortunes of party leaders, were
threshed out at many political meeting
lplaces last night. Tammany Leader
iCharles F. Murphy sees in the defeat
of the republican and independence
fusion league in New York county the
retirement of William R. Hearst as i
factor in local politics. Republican
Estate Chairman Timothy L. Woodruff
lalso believes that Mr.. Hearst has beer
'everlastingly eliminated" as a politi
lcal consideration and that the indie
lpendence league vote will now go tC
the republicans. Mr. Woodruff bases
his prediction upon the result in Kings
Icounty, where the independence league
vote was lost sight of in the republi
can victory over the democrats. Or
the other hand, the league vote did no
go a great way in helping the republi
cans in Manhattan, where the fusioI
: ticket was beaten by the straight Tam
many candidates.
saloons ROut Most Decisive.
Springfield, ILL.,, Nov. 7.-Additiona
returns from the Is counties whicl
held elections under the new local op
ton law Tuesday show that the vic
tory of the anti-saloon forces was NOR,
!. sweeping than first reports indicated.
OF 65 precincts in the counties o
Calhoun, Cass, Menard, Morgan an,
Scott, in central Illinois, 5S voted OF
the saloon proposition. Fifty-two be
came anti-saloon territory by that vote
only six precincts in five counties Civ
ing majorities for saloons.
/ Beardstown is the only town in tn
3 five counties in which the proposition
2 to abolish saloons met defeat. This
, accounted for by Ernest A. Scrogar
attorney for the Illinois Anti-Saloo
: league, by the limited number of worl
ers at Meardstown in behalf of the o.
ganiZation.
Eighty Per Cent of Territory Goes Dry.
Seventy-one saloons ir 5S precinct
I in central Illinois will have to clos
( their doors within 80 days. There ar
] now in this section approximately 10
saloons, and the territory converted
by the prohibition advocates is estim
ted at so per cent of the total territor
;, in which the proposition was submit
= ted to vote. This includes rural q
!, well as urban precincts
In IS counties under precinct orgal
:, ization there are 339 saloons; 220 {
: this number will be wiped out.
C Republicans Get New Jersey.
r. Trenton, N. J., Nov. Frank
katzenbach, Jr., democratic candida-
for governor of New Jersey, last nigl
n conceded the election of John Fran
n. lin Fort, his republican opponent, al
:. made the following statement:
From the incomplete returns fu
= nished l believe that Judge Fort h;
- been elected. have sent him my co
. gratulations. 1 greatly appreciate Il
support given me and the efforts
= my friends in my behalf"
. The latest figures give the state
% Judge Fort by about 1000.
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