The morning journal-courier., 1908-11-04
FEW YORK CITY FOR TAFT
|mpire States Vote For Him Exceeds ROoSeYeIt'S
|IODJB WEST DROPS OFa
ebra ska Goes to Bryan
 Indiana To Taft

New York, Nov, S--General elec- in returns received up to midnight ow the following results;
 William H, Taft is elected president, tn approximately 29s votes.
 Practically no change is indicated the complexion of the national Fuse of representatives
 The United States senate will retain | present republican majority
 Governor Charles F. Hughes has len reelected in New York state by out 54,O00 plurality.
 |Indiana has gone for Taft Bryan | ,s apparently carried Nebraska. |ohio returns are very slow owing to
 immense ballot. but Taft has car Id 1t by large plurality-over 's000.
 Fudge Taft may have q majority in
 city of New York the first time
 big city has given its vote to Q re- blican presidential candidate.
 MT Taft probably will receive q Eater plurality in New York state kn President Roosevelt did four |Ars ago He has exceeded Mir. osevelt's plurality in New Jersey, Ii had a surprisingly big vote in ssaehusetts.
 The republican piurelities fell off |hvily in the middle west in man.
 thoroughly surprising to the re- folican managers
 | IIpeaker Cannon has been reelected
 his usual majority
 Representatives Payne of New York
 Dalzel of Pennsylvania have sn reelected, and the houge oe rep [Santatives probably will continue Eller its old regime. Mr Payne wlll 5Yge charge oe the new tariff bill in
 extra session which Mir Taft will ip Immediately after March 1 next.
 isouri mas returned 10 the solid kllth" or the presidential ticket and $i4ted Cowhord as it's governor. .l'fhe first returns received to-day Ehe from scattering districts in Mae
 The heavy pluralities in- ] @ted there for MT. Taft seemed al I ,e to dlssipa-e any probability of 2 fhdslde' for Mir. Bryan, as many
 aocrats had claimed, and the re- l Nican managers at once began tc n out claims of victory.
 from the up-country dis
 Es of New York state, where voting b'hines are largely used, were tho |tti to arrive t had been predicted a days that Erie county including 1 g heavy vote of Buffalo might bt
 .n as an indication oe the drif $,iughout the country This proved
 De- the case so far as the nationa [l'et was concerned, Mir Taft having |tsIurality of something more thar l votes. Erie county surprisingly
 Never, gave Lieutenant- Governor Rshler a plurality of more than 5000 2,tA opponents of Governor Hughes k,He quick to claim sweeping vic
 but returns from the other larg,
 Mties and cities soon changed tht 'iaplexion of the returns completely
 vote in Greater New York fol lrNler was deeply disappointing to hi k.;Ads. while the heavy vote for MT I'N, especially in the borough O completely eclipsed the mos 3g3uine hopes of the republicans ,shrnor Hughes was cut heavily III
 IAtate, but not so deeply as to i'm IJYI his election, once the drift in hi ,slin' "below the Bronx" had begun t, E'.ge itself felt.
 .,tme of the figures relating to tn, rs2blican slump in states regarded I. ertainly republican are little shor Al .[mazing. Pennsylvania's immena, EYality of over '500,000 four year rNhas been cut in two. Illinois
 Eh gave Roosevelt 3o5,0oo in 1e0'
 'hgone for Taft by about 10000 | AS highest claim of the republican ! ylndlana is 1B,000, as against
 %lity Of 93,00o four years ago.
 Lhryland and West Virginia ar
 I$dently claimed by the republican
 Inc returns are too meagre to Jus
 M classification of either state, 6E Massachusetts, New York and Nev NJsy were striking exceptions to th \ Efally reduced republican piurali i lIere has been 6 Bhrinkage fin tn Allbcratic vote in several of tn iI, Nern states, notably in Virginii ! Worth Caroline.
 ,Isl. Taft has carried Wisconsin b
 Nrality estimated at 76,000, e fall
 Eff from the Roosevelt plurality O | I % in 1904.
 Vi lntucky has gone safely for MI
 ,il by about l5,000,
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