The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1908-11-07
Doubtful
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New York.-Generel election returns
received up to midnight show the follow
ing results:
VIM. H. Taft is elected with approx
mately 29S votes.
Practically no change is indicated in
the complexion of the national house of
representatives.
The United States Senate will retain
its present Republican majority.
Gov. Chas. f. Hughes has been re-
elected in New York State by about
$4,000 plurality.
Indiana is in doubt.
Bryan has carried Nebraska.
Chic returns are very slow, owing to
the immense ballot, but Taft has car
ried it by a large plurality.
Judge Taft may have a majority in
the city of New York, the first time
the big city has given its vote to a Re-
publican presidential candidate.
Mr.. Taft will probably receive a
greater plurality in New York State
than Roosevelt did four years ago. He
has exceeded Mr.. Roosevelt's plurality
in New Jersey, and had a surprisingly
large vote in Massachusetts.
The Republican plurality fell off
heavily in the Middle West, a matter
thoroughly surprising to Republicans.
Speaker Cannon has been reelected by
his usual majority. Representatives
Payne of New York. and Dalzell of Penn
sylvania have been reelected, and the
house of representatives probably will
continue under its old regime. Mr..
Payne will nave charge of the new tariff
bill in the extra session, which Mr.. Taft
will call Immediately after March 4
next.
Missouri has returned to the "Solio
South" on the presidential ticket, and
elected Cowherd as its governor.
The first returns received were from
the scattering districts in Massachusetts,.
The heavy pluralities indicated there for
Mr.. Taft seemed at once to dissipate
any probability of a Landslide" for Mr..
Bryan, as many Democrats had claimed,
and the Republican managers at once
began to put out claims of victory.
Returns from the country districts of
New York State, where voting machines
are largely used, were the next to AZ
rive. It had been predicted for days
that Erie county, including the heavy
vote of Buffalo, might be taken as an
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try. This proved to be the case, so far
Mr.. Taft having a plurality of something
more han 1000 votes. Erie county,
surprisingly, however, gave Chanler a
plurality of more than 5000.
The opponents of Gov. Hughes were
quick to claim a sweeping victory, but
returns from the other large counties
and cities soon changed the complexion
of the returns completely. The vote in
Greater New York for Mr.. Chanler was
deeply disappointing to his friends, while
the heavy vote for Mr.. Taft, especially
in the borough of Brooklyn, completely
eclipsed the most sanguine hopes of tie
Republicans.
Gov. Hughes was cut heavily up the
State, but not so deeply as to imperlr
his election, once the drift in his favor
below the Bronx had begun to make
itself felt.
Some of the figures relating to the
Republican slump in certain States re-
garded as certainly Republican are little
short of amazing. Pennsylvania inn
cut in two. Illinois, which gave Roose-
welt sos 900 in 1904 has zone for Taft
by about 10000 The highest claim of
the Republicans for Indiana is $4,000,
as against a plurality of $4,000 for
Roosevelt.
Iowa, which gave Mr.. Roosevelt 1885,
900 plurality in 1904, has dropped down
to about 10000 for Taft. The return or
Missouri to the Democratic column on
the presidential ticket wiped out a Re
publican plurality of $4,000 four years
ago.
Shrinkage in Southern Vote.
Maryland. and West Virginia are con-
fdently claimed by the Republicans, but
the returns are too meager to justify a
classification of either State. Massa-
chusetts, New York and New Jersey