Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1908-11-12
MANY INTERESTING NEW FACTS
DISCLOSED BY THE LATEST
RETURNS.
SOCIALIST AND PROHIBITION
VOTE BOTH DIsAPPolNT
EXPECTATIONS.
Congressional Leaders Defeated.

ElSuL mana men. LlLJle mas Dteu
published of the hot fight made on
Colonel Hepburn of Iowa, known as
the father of the railroad rate bill,
and his defeat was a distinct sensa-
ton.
Jesse Overstreet of Indianapolis,
who has been chairman of the house
committee on postOfiCes and post
roads, was beaten in the turmoil stir
red up by the liquor fight. The same
reason cost Charles B. Lands,
brother of the $29,OO0,OO0 federal
judge, his seat.
Extreme devotion to the tariff cost
district his seat.
The republican majority in the ma
tional house has been cut a little,
but that party still will have easy. con
troll. Speaker Cannon probably will
be reelected. The republicans elected
a congressman in Arkansas and
have increased their representation
from democratic Oklahoma by two.
Congress.
The republican party will, accord
ing to present returns from all con
gressional districts in the United
States, control the next house by a
majority of Al The figures so far
received show the election of PIG re
publicans and 175 democrats, gain
for the latter party of 8.
There are six senatorships over
which there is some doubt-one each
from Ohio, Oregon and Indiana, all of
which are now represented by repub,
licans, and Colorado, Missouri and
Nevada, which are represented by
democrats. Eliminating these six,
the next senate will contain SO repub-
licans and q democrats, or, if the di-
vision of the six should be in the
next congress as in the present, 60
Republicans AID 80 democrats.
Socialists and Prohibitionists.
Socialists are disappointed in their
widely ayowed expectations of cast
ing "a million for Debs." In some
states they have even fallen below
their vote of four years ago. In gen
eraI. however, their vote showed a
material increase. AS for the pro
hibition vote, it's totals present a
great disappointment to those who
expected that the prohibition wave
that has swept several states into the
| dry column in the last two years
would show surprising increases in
the vote of the party which makes
legal prohibition of liquor traffic its
chief issue.
While admitting the adverse figures
A. NJ. SimOns, of the national social
list committee, asserted that an i'll
crease was shown in the vote this year
in the small towns.
"Gompers Influenced the labor vote
on which the socialist party depends
to a great extent" said Simons. "His
words caused many thousand semi,
socialists of radical views to vote for
Bryan and also frightened many con,
servative labor men into voting for
Taft. We are particularly pleased
with results on the Pacific coast,
where an increased vote was SHOWN
in many towns. We have received
word of gains in Texas towns from Mis-
souri, and a few towns in New York
The total vote for Debs, it IS es,
timated, will not exceed 100000 in
place of the 100000 which was pre-
dicted
In Oklahoma.
The socialist vote in Oklahoma will
aggregate 10000, double that of last
year. Incomplete returns indicate
that the dispensary system amend
ment was defeated.
Oregon seems to be the only state
where the socialists made any de-
Cided gains.
In Georgia, spoken of as a strong
prohibition state, Chain received less
than 1000 votes. The Endorsement of
republican nominees for governor in
Indiana and Ohio lost those states to
the republicans, although they cast
their electoral votes for Taft.
Senators Bryan and Kern.
A movement is on foot in Ne
braska to elect w. J. Bryan to the
United States senate as the successor
of Elmer J. Burkett republican,
whose term expires March 8, 1911. Mr..
Bryan has asserted repeatedly that
he would rather serve in the United
States senate than be president.
Bryan won Nebraska and that state
I,r II n IN
The legislature is heavily democratic.
Indiana.
Indiana has given the democrats a
ajority Of on joint ballot in the legis- |
lature, which would assure the return /
of a democratic United States senat
or in place of Hemenway, republican. |
There is a rumor that John w. Kern, /
defeated candidate for vice president I
will be chosen. The state has elected /
democrat, governor by
of $4,000. while giving Taft
a margin Of 1900
The democrats not only elected
Thomas R Marshall, but probably
chose enough democratic members OF
the senate and house to give that
party majority on joint ballot in the
legislature and thus enable 1t TO
elect United States senator to sue
coed Hemenway. They also changed
the political complexion of the con
gressional delegation by electing II
democrats of the Is members allotted
% the state
In Indiana and Ohio the anti-liquor