The Harrison times., 1908-11-14
Popular Plurality OF
W II. Taft, l,O25,OOO
Republicans Make Surprising Gains Everywhere
According to Latest Returns Missouri Goes
Republican for Both President and Governor.

Latest returns, mostly official, in
dcate that William Howard Taft the
Republican candidate for president,
will have 1925 votes in the electoral col
lege as against 1888 for William j.
Bryan. This is majority of 19, al
most as great a victory as that
achieved by President Roosevelt in
1904 when the electoral vote stood 1886
to 140. The total vote in the cleo
toral college was increased seven this
year by the admission of Oklahoma to
statehood, which cast its first vote to
Mr. Bryan.
The great surprises of this election
are in the main:
The remarkable landslide to the Re
publican candidates.
A Republican plurality in New York
state of 100000 and in New York
City alone of $4,000.
A Republican plurality in Missouri
OF 5000.
A Republican plurality in Maryland
OF COS, the electoral vote of which
state may be split between Bryan and
Taft on account of the extremely close
margin which both parties seem to
claim.
The election of Democratic COVER
nors in Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana and
ether states which gave Taft over
uhaIpoinu nlurnlitiac
Taft's popular plurality Of 1,025,000,
According to the best information
obtainable, the proportionate numbers
of Republican and Democratic cleo
tors will be determined by division
of Marylands eight votes Half of
the City of Baltimore and two of the
twenty-three counties outside Of that
city are still to be counted but there
is a strong indication that the States
vote will be split. In any event, the
margin Of victory will be so small that
the state is claimed by the leaders of
both parties.
Though the splitting of a states
electoral vote is unusual, it will be
recalled that in 1904 Maryland chose
one Republican and seven Democratic
electors.
Missouri is safely Republican by a
plurality of over 5000 and Attorney
General Hadley has carried the state
for governor by over 1900
Latest congressional returns indi
cate that the next Congress will be
composed of 21S Republicans and 173
Democrats, a majority for the Repub-
licans of As.
The returns for the Socialist and
Prohibition parties are still far from
complete, but indicate that the hopes
of the Socialists have not been real
ized, and that the Prohibitionists in
certain sections where gains have
been expected have been disappoint-
ed. The figures for the Independence
party are also insufficient to give an
accurate idea of what that party ac-
complished,
Leaders of both the parties found
themselves facing what looked IN
creasingly Ike a vindicaton of the
prophesy of Chairman Frank II, Hitch
cock, of the Republican National
Committee, that Taft would have at
least 1925 electoral votes,
Indiana apparently has given the
Democrats a majority of eight on Joint
ballot in the Legislature, which would
assure the return of Democratic
United States Senator in place OF
Hemenway, a Republican. There is
a rumor that John w. Kern, the de-
feated candidate for vice president,
will be chosen. The state has elected
Marshall (Dem) Governor by pIur-
ality of about 10000 while giving
Taft a margin Of about $4,000,