Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1908-11-06
REPUBLICAN
BY TAFT AND.
CAKitI ALL STATES CO\SID.
Erred DOUBTFUL HEtoRE
ELECTION.
I'acific Coast States Give Their
Votes To the Rcpubiran
Candidates.

New York. Eov. THE next
President of the United State, will be
William Howard Taft, Republican. Of
ono. The next Nice-Pr, ;ident Will
be James Sch"olcrafi %hrrmln, Re
! publican, of New York.
This is the verdict returned hv the
majority of the 10. 200 900 voters of
the United States The Republican
candidate has repeated Mr.. Roosc-
vclt's feat of carrying every North
ern state. Z is probable that Taft
will have 3ll votes in the electoral
college. While William Jennings
! Bryan, for the third time defeated in
his efforts to be elected to th, high
est Office in the United States. will
have 172.
New York states SO electoral votes
Will be cast for Taft and Sherman.
Greater New York has gone Repub-
lican. ind~rsinS both Taf; and
| Hughes.
Reports from all parts of the state
indicate that the vote was heavy. the
efforts of both gubernatorial candi-
dates To bring out the ballots being
rewarded with success. Both the
old parties polled full votes. their
strength not being seriously affected
by the other minor parties.
Mot of the great cities of the
country have gone Republican. in
cluding N9w York and Chicago. St.
Louis has gone Republican. while the
rest of Missouri is heavily Demo-
cratic
Taft Carried Every Doubtful State.
TAFT has carried every doubtful
state in the East and West. includ-
ing New York. Ohio, Indiana. Mary
land and some Of the far Western
states. but not including Nebraska.
which seems to have gone for BRYAN.
His majority in New York state NAV
reach 200, 900, he carried Ohio by
nearly 100000 and Illinois by 49,
600
Indiana WAS extremely close. the
majority there for the head of the
ticket ranging from 5000 to $4,000
The returns indicate that the far
Western mountain states of Colorado
and Idaho have also given Taft their
electoral votes.
Missouri has gone for BRYAN. as
was expected. Hadley. the Republi-
can candidate for governor, made a
hard fight. but could not overcome
the normal Democratic majority. The
indications are that Senator Stone
has succeeded In the primary cleo
tion. thus defeating the ambition of
Governor Folk to become United
States Senator
Iowa has gone overwhelmingly for
Taft, but by a majority much re-
duced from that given to Roosevelt
four years ago, as was expected The
returns from the primaries indicate
that Governor Cummins received a
majority Of the Republican vote and
will therefore be indicated as the
choice of the legislature for United
States Senator to succeed the late
William Il. Allison
Central States fer Taft.
Ohio, Indiana and Illinois. the
great central states. with an aggre-
gate of 90 electoral votes, have gone
Republican despite the fight made to
bring them into the Democratic col
umn. The success of Mr.. Taft in
these states WAS considered vitally
necessary To his election. Governor
Denccn in Illinois was reelected. but
Governor Harris in Ohio was defeat
ed by Harmon. Democrat and Con-
defeated for governor by Marshall,
Democrat, in Indiana. Republic
AN hope. of carrying Kentucky
proved vain in spite of the victory
Of Wilson. Republican. in the guber-
Material contest last year The
greater part of the states congress
sional delegation will be Democrats.
The Pacific Coast states, Cali
fornia. Washington and Oregon have
given their votes to the Republican
candidates. but Nevada, which voted
against Parker In 1904. gave its
votes this year to Bryan. The Da-
kotas and Minnesota are again Re
publican. Governor JohnsOn's per-
'onal popularity has apparently suf-
feed To seat him again in the guber-
Material chair of the North Star
state. although his reelection is not
certain. Wisconsin. Michigan. Iowa
and in fact the whole northwest are
Republican.
The South Still Solid.
The solid South" Is still solidly
Democratic. Mr.. Bryan polling the
Usual large majorities Maryland.
about which some doubt was ex-
pressed before the election. is prob
ably Democratic. Delaware is con-
cedtd To the Republicans. The
New England states have gone for
Taft and have elected Republican
governors. but the vote in Rhode Is
land. whfrc the Democrats made "A
strong fight, Is very close. In Massa-
chusetts the Independence party can
didate for governor made good
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