Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-11-05
REPUBLICAN CANDIDATE SWEPT
INTO OFFICE BY MAMMOTH
VOTE PoLLED IN THE EAsT;,
GETS 2es ELECTORAL VOTES. (
HUGHES WINNER
IN NEW YORK;
GOVERNOR DEFEATS CHAMBERS
BUT DOES NOT GET THE BIG
TAFT MAJORITY CANNON Isl
REELECTED.

New York, Nov 4.-General electiouI
returns show the following result:
William H. Taft is elected president
with approximately 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.
Hughes has been elected in New
York state by about $4,000 plurality.
Indiana has gone for Taft.
Bryan has apparently carried Me-
braska
Ohio returns are very slow owing |
to the immense ballot but Taft has
carried it by large plurality.
Judge Taft has a majority in
the city Of New York, the first time
the big city has given it's vote to Re-
publican presidential candidate. MI.
Taft probably will receive a greater
plurality In New York state than Pres
ident Roosevelt did four years ago. He
has exceeded Mr.. Roosevelt's plural
lity In New Jersey and surprisingly
big vote In Massachusetts.
/ The Republican plurality fell OFT,
| heavily in the middle west In man
ner thoroughly surprising to the Re-
! puDlCan managers.
Speaker Cannon has been reelected
by his usual majority
Representative Payne of New York
and Dalzell of Pennsylvania have been
reelected and the house Of represen-
tatives probably will continue under
It's old regime Mr.. Payne will have
charge Of the new tariff bill in the
extra session which Mr.. Taft will CALI
| li,,o, Il tn al, op%
Received at Brothers. Homo.
Cincinnati, Ohio, November Al
been no break in the optimistic char
acter Of the returns received at the
G. p. Taft residence, where WilliamI
H. Taft and Mrs. Taft were surround.
ed by merry party Of relatives and
close friends.
At not time did Mr. Taft have any,
doubt Of his election, but he declined
to make any but the most general ex-
preston OF satisfaction until Ohio
was heard from. His first comment for
publication was given out at S:45
O'Clock. With broad smile. Mr.. Taft
remarked: Just say that everything
looks favorable"
At $40 MIR. Taft sent the following
telegram to Frank H. Hitchcock:
Il am delighted to hear the favor
able returns from all parts of the coun-
try, especially New York, and / wish
. to expires my gratitude to you for
) the work which you have done and to
. felicitate you on the accuracy with
which you foretold the result indicate
, ing a clear grasp and wonderful poll
tical knowledge of the situation"
At $3.50 Mr.. Taft made this state
: ment: II am much pleased with the
reports as they come in, indicating a
favorable result for the Republican
: ticket. I am especially gratified at
the definite information from New
York, Connecticut, Mississippi, Illinois
5 and New Jersey
, How Party Awaited News.
! Elaborate preparations had been
made by C. p. Taft for the best tele-
. graph service possible, that his broth,
er might hear the result early. The
rear veranda of the aristocrahc old
t mansion on Pike street had been in.
closed and a telegraph room establish.
ed. One wire was directly connected
with national Republican headquarters
in New York, and three others brought
in news as gathered from other
sources.
From 6 O'clock on bulletins were re
ceived in increasing numbers, and the
enthusiasm Of the party increased in
proportion. In the big drawing room
were gathered Mr.. and Mrs. G. P. Taft
Y and their daughter, Miss Louise, Mrs
William H. Taft and her three sisters
Miss Maria Heron, Mrs. Moore, and
Mrs. William Anderson, and Prof
L Moore; also Miss Della Anderson, aun
/ of the candidate; Mrs. Nicholas Long
worth, Mrs. Wallingford sister Of Rep
resentative Longworth; Dr. j. J
Richardson of Washington, Fred w
Carpenter, Mr.. Taft's secretry; A. ]
Vorys and J. 7. Williams, representing
Chairman Hitchcock, and a party O.
newspaper men.
The applause became more hilarious
AS the roseate hue of the returns