The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1908-11-07


men.
Iowa gave the Republicans a clean
sweep, except one congressman out Of
the eleven to which the state is entitled.
Taft's majority was $1,000, and the
strongly Republican legislature will
doubtless send Gov. Cummins to the
United States senate as the successor
of Senator Allison, deceased.
Pennsylvania gave 290, 600 Repub-
liean majority; Wisconsin, $4,000;
Kansas, $4,000; Washington, $1,000;
California, $1,000; Illinois, 10000;
Oregon, $4,000; Utah, $4,000; Idaho,
Is, 600 or more.
The majorities for Bryan and Kern
in the fractured ''solid south" ranged
from $4,000 in Arkansas to 165, 600 in
Texas. Complete returns from Louis
lana are not yet available, but the
Democratic majority is reported at
about A, 900. Unfortunately for the
best interests of the state all seven of
the congressman returned are Demo-
Gratis, and louisiana will again be
without representation in the congress
sional caucus of the dominant party,
where the legis lation Of the next two
years will be shaped. The presence
of even one Republican member in the
next house would has been of inesti-
mable advantage, but we seem not yet
to have reached the point where our
voters are capable Of exercising the
intelligent discrimination so manifest
in other states of the Union and sup
porting the men aud the policies that
promise the greatest good tosthe com
monwealth, irrespective of party lines
and partisan considerations.
Gov. Johnson, Democrat, has been
state went overwhelmingly Republican
otherwise. The Democrats claimed a
like result in Michigan for a while,
bat later returns told different tale.
Taft secured about $50, 600 ma iority in
Michig an and the Republican candi
date for governor $4,000. Taft's ma
i1rity in Minnesota was approximately
go, 900 and Johnson's $4,000.
Latest reports from Missouri aud
Mary land confirm the placing of the
former state in the Taft and Sherman
column by a comfortable plurality aud
the election of Hadley, the Republican
candidate for governor, by a much
larger vote, with the legislature sill
in doubt. In Maryland, however, the
contest is so close that it seems prob
able the state will repeat it's experience
of four years ago and give seven of
its electoral votes to the Democratic
ticket, leaving one for the victorious
Republican candidates for president
and vice president. Although the Re
pubiicans evidently polled small
plurality of the aggregate vote OF the
state, the fact that several hundred
voters only stamped the Eams of the
first Republican presidential electof
on the ticket, leaving the seven others
unstamped, IS likely to cause seven
Democratic presidential electors 10 be
credited with a few more votes than
their really victorious Republican |
competitors. This confusion and IN. |
justice arises from the peculiar pro-
vision Of the Maryland election laws |
prohibiting the designation of the re-
spective tickets on the Official ballot |
by party embiems to be stamped by |
the voter wishing to vote a full and |
straight ticket There is no evadinp |
the conclusion that this provision has
twice partially nullified the will of
majority of the people, and tha at the /
Republicans Of Maryland are entitled |
to the credit of having carried their |
state in the two last national elections.
Whatever may be the effect of last
Tuesdays crushing defeat on the fu- |
ture of the Democratic party as |
whole, it may be safely assumed that |
MIR. Bryan will not be for q fourth |
time selected as its presidential candi- |
date, and this conclusion would have |
been justified even though Chairman
N ack of the Democratic national com /
mittee had not made announcement
that Mr.. Bryan will not run for pres
dent again.
kilograms of eongratulation by the
hundreds have poured in upon Messrs.
TAFT and Sherman, and Frank 81, Hitch
cock, the brilliant young chairman of
the Republican national committee,
also comes in for liberal share OF
such greetings.
On Thursday Mr. Bryan wired to
Judge Taft: Please accept congnat-
and best wishes for the sue
,ess Of your administration, and the
candidate replied: ~ thank
you sincerely for your cordial aud
courteous telegram OF congratulation
aud good FISHES.