The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-04
ASSOCIATED PRESS SUMMARY.
Appears That Brynn Won In His Hom.
 State.

Appears That Bryan Won In His Home State.
 New York, Nov. s-General election returns received up to midnight show the following results:
 William H. Taft elected President, with approximately 29s votes.
 Practically no chaneg is indicated in the complexion of the National House of Representatives.
 The United States Senate will retain it's present Republican majority. Governor Charles D. Hughes has been reelected in New York State by about 5000 plurality.
 Indiana has gone for Taft.
 Bryan has apparently carried Me- braska.
 Ohio returns are very slow owing to the size of the ballot, but Taft has car ried the State by a large plurality.
 Judge Taft may have a majority in the City of New York, the first time the big city has given its vote to a Repub- lican Presidential candidate.
 Mir. Taft probably will receive a greater plurality in New York State than President Roosevelt did four years ago. He has exceeded MT. Roosevelt's plurality in New Jersey and had a sur prisingly big vote in Massachusetts.
 The Republican plurality fell of heavily in the Middle West, a matter thoroughly surprising to Republicans.
 Speaker Cannon has been reelected by his usual majority.
 Representatives Payne of New York, and Dalzell of Pennsylvania, have been reelected, and the House of Represent atives probably will continue under it's old regime Mir. Payne will have charge of the new tariff bill in the ex- tra session which Mir. Taft will call immediately after March 4. next.
 Missouri has returned to the Solid South" on the Presidential ticket anu elected Cowherd as its Governor.
 The first returns received today were from the scattering districts in Massa- chusetts. The heavy pluralities indi- cated there for Mir. Taft seemed at once to dissipate any probability of land slide" for Mir. Bryan, as many Demo- crats had claimed, and the Republican managers at once began to put out claims of victory.
 Returns from up country districts of New York State, where voting ma- chimes are largely used, were the next to arrive. It had been predicted for days that Erie County, including the heavy vote of Buffalo, might be taken as an index to the drift throughout the country This has proved to be the case. so far as the National ticket was con- cerned. MT. Taft having a plurality of something more than 4OOO votes.
 Erie County. surprisingly. however, gave Chanler a plurality of more than 5000. The opponents of Governor Hughes were quick to claim sweep ing victory but returns from the other large counties and cities changed the complexion of the returns completely. The vote in Greater New York for MT Chanler was deeply disappointing to his friends while the heavy vote for MT. Taft, especially in the Borough of Brooklyn. compeltely eclipsed the most sanguine hopes of the Republicans.
 Governor Hughes was cut heavily up the State, but not so deeply as to inn peril his election once the drift in his favor below the Bronx had begun to make itself felt.
 Some of the figures relating to the Republican slump in certain States, re- garded as certainly Republican, are little short of amazing. Pennsylva- nia's immense plurality of over 500- 900 four years ago, has been cut in two. Illinois. which gave Roosevelt 305 900 in 1904. has gone for Taft by about 170,000. The highest claim of as against a plurality of 9300O for Roosevelt.
 Iowa. which gave MT. Roosevelt 15s, 900 plurality in 1904, has dropped down to about 10000 for Taft. The return of Missouri to the Democratic column on the Presidential ticket wiped out Republican plurality of 25,000 four years ago.
 Maryland and West Virginia are con- fidently claimed by the Republicans, but the returns are too meagre to justify a classification on either State.
 Massachusetts. New York and New Jersey were striking exceptions to the generally reduced Republican plurali ties
 There has been a shrinkage in the Democratic vote in several of the