The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1908-11-25

Washington, D. c. William H.
Taft will be the twenty-seventh Presi-
dent of the United States, the Repub-
lican ticket headed by Taft and Sher-
mar having swept the country by a
vote which will give him BIT ballots
in the Electoral College against MI.
Bryan's 166, or only 10 less thar Mr.
Roosevelt had in 1904. His majority
will be ISL. William J. Bryan SUI
fered his third and most crushing de-
feat in his ~twelve-year run for Presl-
dent of the United States.
To enforce his policies President
Taft will have a. Overwhelmingly
Republican Congress, the Senate be-
ing as strongly Republican as before,
and the House increasing its Repub-
liean majority from 81 to S..
About every so-called doubtful
State went Republican. It was no
ticeable that the majorities in the
East were greater than those in the
West. In New York, for instance,
Taft beat the great Roosevelt major
ity Of 1904, getting 1875 major
ity, as against Rooseveltts l75,O00.
The greatest surprise OF the cleo
ton was the Republican victory IN
New York City, where Taft's major
ity was 774S. Never before this has
this city gone Republican in a Presi-
Dental election except in 1900, when
it voted for Mckinley as against
Bryan: Chambers plurality in the
city was $1,000.
Taft's plurality on the popular vote
Is estimated at ~1,0S7,750, as against
Roosevelt's plurality OF 2,o45,5l5
over Parker.
Undoubtedly the great surprise OF
the national election was in New
York State. The ablest Republican
leaders north of the Harlem did not
look for any such overwhelming vote
for the Republican candidate. There
was a still greater surprise below the
Harlem River. Taft carried the city
of New York by more than 5000 plu-
rality over Bryan. He obtained all
of this in the. Borough of Brooklyn.
There, where Chanler received 49,
600 plurality two years ago, he was
defeated by more than $1,000. 1t
was a stunning surprise to both Re-
publican and Democratic politicians.
The old city Of New York, now
called Manhattan and the Bronx, gave
Bryan less than 10000 plurality over
Taft, Queens gave him less than
1900, and Richmond. on the revised
figures, gave the Nebraskan 695; so
while Bryan carried New York,
Queens and Richmond counties, he
was overwhelmed in Pat McCarren's
bailiwick. and o'heavily that McKin-
ley's majority of less than 1000 in
1900 looks very small in comparison.
The great Taft vote in Brooklyn r
ried through all the Republican men,
bers Of Congress whose seats were
represented in the last House OF Rep
resentatives by members of that par
ty, and all the Senate seats in the
State Legislature now held by. Re-
publicans we're also won.
Joseph G. Cannon was reelected to
Congress from the Eighteenth Illinois
District by a plurality above the nor
NAL. Returns are still incomplete,
but enough figures have been OBJ
tanned to show that he will probably
have a plurality of at least 10000.
President Taft will have with him
an increased majority in the House.
In the Sixtieth Congress Mr.. Roose-
welt had fifty-seven majority; In the
Sixty-frst, which Mr.. Taft had prom
ised~ to call in extra session next
spring, he will have sixty-hve.
Morris Hilquitt, the Socialist can
didate for Congress in the Ninth New
York District, was defeated by Re-
publican votes which were cast for
his opponent, Judge Goldfogle.
A noticeable feature of the election
was the increase Of the Republican
vote in the Southern States. In Flor
ida, for example, it increased so much
that early in the evening there was a
report that the State had gone Re
publican. Everywhere in the South
ern States along the Atlantic coast
there was this unusual Republican
vote.
In Illinois, which Bryan's mana
gers had claimed, there was 4 smash
ing vote against him. Cook County,
where Roger Sullivan is supreme,
went against him by $4,000. The
majosity in the State is estimated at
10000.
Maryland, which vas claimed by
the Democrats and almost conceded
by the Republicans-actually conced-
ed, in fact, by President Roosevelt
has gone Republican by a majority OF
about 5000. Kentucky is for Bryan
by about $1,000.
The biggest surprise was in Sena-
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