The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-07
NATIONAL ELECTION.
Sweeping Success of the Republican
Party.
Taft and sherman Get 327 Electoral
Votes; Bryan aud ern 156-The
Solid south Broken-Re-
publicans Retain Con-
troll of Congress.

OsCIMdCiuiAIS FlGtOEy IL uiO bdtIOddl
election which took place last Tuesday,
and for the third time William Jen-
nings Bryan of Nebraska, as Demo-
cratic candidate for president of the
United States, went down in defeat.
According to the returns received
up to this writing, William Howard
Taft of Ohio and James S. Sherman OF
New York, Republican nominees for
president and vice president, respect
lively, will receive 327 votes in the
electoral college, while Mr.. Bryan and
his running mate, John w. Kern OF
Indiana, will have only 1855 votes.
The thirty states which contr. butte to
the Taft and Sherman majority are as
| follows. California, Connecticut, Del
aware, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana. Iowa,
Kansas, Maine, Maryland, Massa
chusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mis-
souri,, Montana, New Hampshire, New
Jersey, New York, North Dakota,
Ohio, Oregon. Pennsylvania, Rhode
| Island, South Dakota, Utah. Vermont,
Washington, West Virginia, Wiscon-
sin and Wyoming.
The sixteen states that gave their
Electoral votes to Bryan and Kern
we're Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado,
Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisi-
ana, Mississippi, Nebraska, Nevada,
North Carolina, Oklahoma, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vir-
gioia.
Maryland and Missouri, the former
with eight electoral votes and the lat
ter with eighteen, have been in doubt,
and the official count may be required
10 determine the result, but latest re-
ports indicate that Taft and Sherman
have carried both states by a small
plurality.
+ Thus it appears that the "Solid
South" is no longer solid, and that
TAFT has made inroads upon it in 1908
as Roosevelt did in 1904. Besides the
success achieved in Maryland and
missouri, the Republicans largely in
creased their vote in nearly all the
other southern states, notably in Geor-
gia, A1abama, Florida ard Texas,
while. even in Louisiana, without any
special Republican effoit save in the
first and third congressional districts,
the vote given to Taft and Sherman
was nearly double that cast at the
april election for the state ticket
headed by Henry N. Pharr, in behalf
of which q canvass of the entire state
was made.
The Republicans will continue to
control both branches of the national
congress by a slightly decreased ma
jority. Returns up to yesterday indi-
Gated the election of PIG Republicans
and lis Democrats to the house of
representatives, giving the Republi-
cans majority of Il. The vote in
several districts is very close and the
final figures may show some little vari-
alton from these totals. The Republi
can majority in the present house
is 81.
J. Among tie surprises of the election
were the overwhelming Republican
:msjorities in all the eastern states.
There were confident hopes expressed
by Democratic leaders hat their party
would carry not only Connecticut and
Rhode Island, but possibly Massachu
sets as we'll, while their expectations
of victory in New York amounted
almostto positive conviction. All of
these states gave very large. Repub-
lican, ma orities, ranging from 16 900
in, Rhode Island to upwards of 200, 900
in New York. Even New York city,
where the normal Democr attic majority
is usually from $1,000 to. 150. 900, a
majority Of approximately Is, 600 was
cast for Taft and Sherman on Tues
day. New York and New Jersey each |
gave Taft larger maiorities than
received four years ago, |
when a Republican wave of unprece-
5ented proportions swept the country.
Ohio, which was claimed by the
Democrats as a doubtful state, rolled |
up plurality of IS, 600 for her fayorite
son Taft. Judge Harmon, Demoer attic
candida ate for governor, was elected by
about 20, 900 plurality, evidently be
,ause many thousand of the anti-prc-
addition Republicans of the state
scratched Governor Harris on account
If his pronounced prohibition views,
1ut all the other state candid ates and
i large majority OF b 9TH houses of the
legislature were elected by the Repub
leans, thus insnring "a, Republican
uccessor to United States Senator
foraker when his Term expires.
Indiana came nearer giving material
Qnsolation to the defeated Democracy
han any OF the pivotal States. electing
hat party's candidate for governor
nd eleven of its nominees for con-
ress out of the thirteen members to
.hich the state is eItitled. This is "a
ain OF seven congressman for the
Democrats. The state legislature is
cry close, with an apparent Demo
ratio majority, on joint ballot, but the |
lectoral vote Of the state goes to Taft {
nd Sherman BY 10, 0oomai ority $
West Virginia, which was claimed !
5 doubtful for tRenty-four hours after !
'e polls closed, was swept clean by /
le publieans, who got the eleetora :