Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
TAFT TO GET 3O9
ELECTORAL VOTES
MARYLAND, WITH EIGHT SEEMS
TO BE REPUBLICAN,.
MISSOURI is NOT CERTAIN
Montana Is in the Winning Column,
But Nebraska and Colorado
Give Their Votes to
Bryan.

big parties and the result may be a
vindication of the judgment Of Chair
man Hitchcock, who declared that
Taft would receive 325 votes in the
electoral college.
Midnight returns indicate that Taft
is practically assured of 800 votes and
has a fighting chance for Missouri S
Is votes, which would give him a total
of two more than Mr.. Hitchcock
claimed. Missouri had been con-
ceded to Bryan and the plurality from
a good part of the state, including st.
Louis, which was turned in Wednes-
day night, took the leaders by sur
prise. If this advantage is continued
| Missouri will be in the Taft column.
1t is now placed among the doubtful.
Another surprise of the night was
the close vote in Maryland, which is
claimed for Taft by the margin of
| 136 votes only. The Democrats do not
| concede the loss of the state and will
be satisfied with nothing short of the
official count Conceding Maryland to
| Taft and figuring Missouri as the one
still doubtful state, Bryan has 1876
members Of the electoral college as
| sured him.
Contributions to Be Published.
In a statement given to the press
Mr.. Hitchcock announced that a COM
plete list Of all the contributions made
to the Republican campaign fund
would be made public in the near flu
| ture, work already having been begun
on Tho tabulation of the list. The list
| Is very long one, Mr. Hitchcock said
and will give every contribution made
1t will be issued in printed form.
Mr.. Hitchcock will leave headquar-
| ters the latter part of this week for
| Chicago, where he will remain several
days to settle up the business of the
campaign in that city. On his return
| journey he will stop at Hot Springs,
Va, where he will visit Mr.. Taft.
Maryland May Be Taft's.
Baltimore, Md, Nov. 5.-The politi-
cal pendulum has swung once more and
on the face of unofficial returns, Taft
has carried Maryland by 149 votes.
Neither side is content with these
| figures, which, it must be said, are
not so satisfactory as they might be
| because of the way in which returns
from a few of the precincts of Dor
| chester and Worcester counties have
been sent in by correspondents. In
| these precincts, sufficient easily to
change the result, the correspondents
have figured out the pluralities instead
of sending In to their papers the num-
Der of votes cast for each candidate
| Unquestionably, the official count must
| be looked to for the actual result
| There must be taken into considera-
ton, too, the possibility of a divided
electoral delegation, as while figures
are lacking it is known that the votes
for the several electors have varied
and this variation may prove material
Missouri Very Close.
st. Louis, Nov. 5-Returns com
piled at 1:2o Thursday morning from
every county in the state give Bryan
lead over Taft in Missouri of 81
votes. From 18 of the ia counties,
complete reports have not been re-
ceived and for these counties the
statisticians made careful estimates.
Complete returns from the missing
precincts may change the result one
way or another, and it is probable
that the official count alone can de-
termine whether Missouri has given
| its IS electoral votes to Bryan or to
Taft.
The same tables which give Bryan
a lead of 81 votes, give Hadley for
governor a lead of 15,14S, making his
election over w. S. Cowherd an abso-
lutte certainly. This is the first time
in nearly 50 years that Missouri has
elected a Republican governor.
Montana Is Republican,.
Butte, Mont, Nov. 5.-Adyices from
throughout Montana indicate that Taft
has carried the state by a majority
| close to 5000. Charles n. Pray of
| Fort Benton is reelected to congress
by about 1000. The governorship is
still in doubt with Dolan (Rep.) run
ming about 1000 behind Norris,
! Dem).
Democrats Sweep Nebraska.
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 5.-Returns on
Tuesdays election, while far from
complete, are sufficiently definite to
confirm and emphasize the first report
that the Democrats have made a
sweeping victory in Nebraska. While
the pluralities for the victorious party
are not phenomenally large, they are
complete, the state ticket and candi
dates for congress in most instances
running parallel with Bryan, who was
expected to lead the ticket
Colorado 5000 for Bryan.
Denver, Col, Nov 5-Estimated
pluralities by counties based upon in.
complete returns show that Bryan and
the entire Democratic state ticket
headed by John F. Shafroth for gov
ernor, carried Colorado with plurali
ties in the neighborhood of 5000 The
Democrats probably will control the
legislature by a narrow margin, insur
ing the election of Charles ]. Hughes
Jr., as United States senator to sue
ceed Teller.