The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-11-04

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 New York, November 3.-General cleo tion returns received up to midnight show the following results:
 William II. Taft 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.
 Gov Charles E. Hughes has been re- elected in New York state by about 54 ,OOO plurality.
 Indiana has gone for Taft Bryan has apparently carried Nebraska.
 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 majority in the city of New York the first time the big city has given it's vote to republican presidential candidate.
 MT. Taft probably will receive a greater plurality in New York state than Presi- dent Roosevelt did four years ago. He has exceeded Mr Roosevelt's plurality in New Jersey and had a surprisingly big vote in Massachusetts.
 The republican plurality fell off heavily in the middle west, matter thoroughly surprising to republicans. Speaker Can non has been reelected by his usual ma jority.
 Representatives Payne of New York and DaIzell of Pennsylvania have been re- elected and the House of Representatives probably will continue under it's old re-
 
 the new tariff bill in the extra session after March next.
 Missouri has returned to the 'solid south on the presidential ticket and elected Cowherd as it's governor.
 The first returns received today were from the scattering districts in Massa- chusetts. The heavy pluraities indicated there for MT. Taft seemed at once to disspate any probability of "landslide' for MT Bryan, as many democrats had claimed and the republican managers at once began to put out claims of victory. Returns from the up-country districts of New York state, where voting machines are largely used, were the next to ar rive. 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 concerned, MT. Taft having plurality of something more than 10000 votes. Erie county, surpris- ingly, however gave Chanler plurality of more than 3000 The opponents of Gov ernor Hughes were quick to claim sweep ing victory, but returns from the other large counties and cities soon changed l, the complexion of the returns completely. The vote in Greater New York for Mir Chanler was deeply disappointing to his friends, while the heavy vote for MT Taft, especially in the borough of Brooklyn, completely eclipsed the most sanguine hopes of the republi- cans. Governor Hughes was cut heavily up the state but not so deeply as to imperil 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 lit tie short of amazing. Fennsylvania's immense plurality of over 500,000 four years ago has been cut in two. Illinois which gave Roosevelt 305, ,000 in 1904 has gone for Taft by about 100000 The highest claim of the republicans for Indiana is 15,O00 as against plurality of 93,000 for Roosevelt.
 Iowa. which gave MT Roosevelt 15S, 900 plurality in 1904 has dropped down to about 10000 for Taft. The re- turn of Missouri to the democratic col umn on the presidential ticket wiped out a 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. r~~~~---~~~-~> ~>~-~~~~~-~-~-~~~~~
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