The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1908-11-05
REPUBLICANS
VICTORIOUS
Win Sweeping ViCtOryin State
and Nation
TAFT HAS A HANDSOME MAJORITY
While VeSsey is Elected Gov.
ernOr Easily

Tuesdays election results were most
gratifying to republicans, they winning
everything practically that they had
a right to hope for. 1t is particularly
a gratifying victory to Theodore Roose
welt and William H. Taft. Mr.. Roose
welt having elected the man who is
pledged to carry out his policies. The
election removes for all time from the
national political arena William Jen
nings Bryan, whose three campaigns
based upon various theories have been
conducted in a manner that has been
little short of wonderful.
In South Dakota Vessey is elected
by comfortable majority as is the
legislature and Coe /. Crawford will
be the next United States Senator
from this state. Below we give as
fully as possible at this writing the
returns from nation, state and county:
The Nation.
William Howard Taft, friend and
Ieeatee of Theodore Roosevelt is elect
ed president with approximately 29l
electoral votes or about fifty more
than was absolutely necessary and 40
less than Roosevelt received in 1904.
Taft carried New York state by about
100000 and the city of New York by
about $4,000, the first time that city
was ever carried by republican can
ddate for president.
Congress will be safely republican,
the republicans having carried an over
whelming majority of the house of
representatives
The returns from the several inter
ior counties will change the results in
a few districts, but the figures so far
received indicate a total republican
strength in the lower house of con-
eress of 221 members, leaving only 40
seats TO the democrats and giving
Taft the advantage of a majority in
the house of 81, which is much more
than enough to control all the legisla-
ton of congress in the next two years.
There will be a slight loss in the
senate, but that was to be expected,
the republican strength being left at
5S, with 81 democrats, thus giving a
majority of "a in the senate, which
is far more than is necessary. Joseph
G. Cannon of Illinois, was reelected
in his home district, the fight OF the
labor people seeming to have maze
but little impression on his personal
strength with is own people. He un-
questionably will be reelected speak
er by a republican caucus at the open
ing of the next congress.
Mr.. Taft is pledged to call special
session of congress within a short
time after his inaugural for the pur-
nose of revising the tariff. The result
will be that congress will be in session
probably for at least sixty days pre-
ceding the next Fourth of July.
Mr.. Cannon will therefore be elected
sneaker much earlier than would ordi-
nary be the case He will have the
appointment of all committees OF the
house and will be in control or legls'
lation as much as ever, under the
rules of the house of representatives.
Almost more important to the peo-
ple at large than a certainty OF
revision of the tariff on republican
lines is the assurance by the sweeping
victory of the republicans that practl-
cally all the policies of President
Roosevelt can be promptly carried out
so far as such thing can be done by
legislative action.
The primaries in Iowa indicate that
Governor Cummings will succeed Sen
ator Allison and the party vote In
Missouri indicates that Senator Stone
has beaten Governor Folk and will
therefore succeed himself.
The only violent change which Is
likely to come out of the election Is
the control of the Indiana legislature
by the democrats and the unseating
of Senator Hemenway. This result is
indicated by the earlier returns, but
when later figures come in from the
county precincts it may show that
the republicans have retained control
'of the legislature by narrow major
ity.
The State.
The republican victory in South
Dakota /, complete. Taft will have
majority over Bryan of $1,000, and Ves-
sey las defeated Lee, the former gov
ernor, by about $1,000.
The republicans have lost five seats