Weekly Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1908-1909, 1908-11-06
BRYAN MEETS THIRD DEFEAT
SPEAKER CANNON REELECTED
BY A VOTE LITTLE SHORT OF
THE NORMAL.
Solid South Faithful to Democratic
Nominee-City of Lincoln and
State Of Nebraska Also Give Him
Majority, But So-CaIIed "Doubtfui"
States Are in Republican Column.

New York, Nov. 4.-William Howard
Taft of Ohio, Republican, has been
elected twenty-seventh president of
the United States, and James School
craft Sherman of New York has been
chosen vice-president. This is the out
come of one of the most remarkable
political campaigns in the history of
the republic.
William Jennings Bryan of Ne
braska, the Democratic candidate, went
down in the third defeat of his lifes
ambition to occupy the White House.
Among the more significant results
were the reelection to congress of
Speaker Cannon and Chairman Serene
E. Payne of the house committee on
ways and means; the election of Rep
resentative W. S. Cowherd as gov
ernor Of Missouri, which Herewith re-
turns to the solid SOUTH" and the
reelection for third term of Gov.
John Johnson, democrat, in Min
neSota.
One of the results SURPRISING the
most sanguine hopes Of most 1sepub-
licans was Mr.. Taft's carrying the
greater city of New York by a plural
ity which approached 10000. Further
will be approximately 1S9,334, exceed
ing by nearly $4,000 Roosevelt's big
plurality of 1904
Only second in point of general in
terest was the victory of Gov. Charles
E. Hughes, who was reelected by a
plurality estimated as well above
$4,000 over the vote cast for his
Democratic opponent, Lieut. Gov.
ChanIer. While Greater New York
gave plurality for Taft, it gave Chan
Ter a margin of 56,943.
With 81 United States senators to be
elected by legislatures chosen now
or earlier in the fall. The Repub-
licans will retain their control of both
houses of congress.
Mr.. Taft carried practically e-ery
so-called doubtful state except Ne
braska, where Mr.. Bryan was victor
ious. Mr.. Bryan carried Nevada and
Montana, in addition to the solid
south, which includes Missouri.
Republican PIuraIities Reduced.
Some Of the figures relating to the
Republican slump in certain states
regarded as certainly Republican, are
little short of amazing. Pennsyl-
vania's immense plurality of over 500-
900 four years ago mas been cut in
two. Illinois. which gave Roosevelt
305 900 in 1904, has gone for Taft by
about 10000. The highest claim of
the Republicans for Indiana is $4,000
as against a plurality of $4,000 for
Roosevelt.
Iowa, which gave Mr. Roosevelt
$4,000 plurality in 1904, has dropped
down to about $1,000 for Taft. The
return of Missouri to the Democracy
on the presidential ticket wiped out
Republican plurality of $4,000 four
years ago. Massachusetts, New York
and New Jersey were striking excep-
tions to the generally reduced Repub-
lican pluralities.
Chairman Hitchcock's Statement.
Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock Of
the Republican national committee
made the following statement:
"The returns speak for themselves.
There seem to be no longer any doubt
full states The electoral vote will
show that my estimate was correct
1t looks now, think, as if l must
have underestimated it. The returns
have exceeded my expectations.
THE plurality in Indiana will be
less than l expected. That in Hi
nois is far more than anticipated.
And so it goes: where one state has
not quite come up to the figures l had
expected some other state has gone
far beyond. The latest returns from
| Maryland indicate that we have car
ried that state by about 5000 to 10,-
900 and that is more than l believed
| it would give