The Green Forest tribune., 1908-11-13
Popular Plurality of
 W H. Taft, l,O25,O0O
Republicans Make Surprising Gains Everywhere
 According to Latest Returns Missouri Goes Republican for Both President and Governor.

Latest returns, mostly official, in dicate that William Howard Taft, the Republican candidate for president, will have 325 votes in the electoral col lege as against 158 for William J. Bryan. This is a majority of 79, al most as great victory as that achieved by President Roosevelt in 1904 when the electoral vote stood 336 to 140 The total vote in the cleo tcral college was increased seven this year by the admission of Oklahoma to statehood, which cast it's first vote to MT. 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 203,00O and in New York City alone of i5,000. A Republican plurality in Missouri of 5000.
 A Republican plurality in Maryland of 6O5, the electoral vote of which state may be split between Bryan and
 
 margin which both parties seem to claim
 The election of Democratic gover- nors in Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana and other states which gave Taft over whelming pluralities.
 Taft's popular plurality of 1,025,O0O.
 According to the best information obtainable, the propcrtionate numbers of Republican and Democratic cleo tors will be determined by a division of Maryland's 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 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 17,000.
 Latest congressional returns indi cate that the next Congress will be composed of 218 Republicans and IFS Democrats, majority for the Repub- < licans of 45
 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 like a vindication of the prophesy of Chairman Frank H. 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 a Democratic United States Senator in place of Hemenway, 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 plur- ality of about 15,000 while giving Taft a margin of about 1S,000.