Los Angeles herald., 1908-11-05
tBy Associated Press.J

CelNeQ I } 10 q late nOuf LOnlRnT
~ indicate that William H. Taft Of
Ohio, as president-elect, will have
vote of 800 in the electoral college.
This is within sixteen votes of the
forecast made by National Chairman
Frank Hitchcock and sixty-seven more
than majority of the total electoral
vote of 4SS.
If lIissouri votes for Taft. his total
may reach 327 News of the late re-
turns indicate that Maryland, after va
cillitating during the day and apparent
ly being safe for the Democrats, has
been swung into the Taft column. The
official figures give Taft the state by
1856 votes.
Indiana and West Virginia, as well as
Montana, turned out to be safely Re
publican. Colorado is for Bryan.
Depends on Missouri
If Missouri, which late developments
place in the doubtful column, goes for
Bryan he will have a total of ia votes,
two less than he received in 1906. In
1904 Parker received only 140 votes; in
1900 Bryan received 1866 votes, and in
1896 he got 176 votes.
Mr.. Tafts 300 electoral votes compare
with 1886 received by Roosevelt in 1904;
292 received by Mckinley in 1900; and
271 received by Mckinley in 1896.
The senate retains it's Republican
complexion, although there will be a
material change in its personnel.
The states certainly carried by Mr..
Bryan are as follows:
Alabama, IL; Arkansas, 0; Colorado
5; Florida, 5; Georgia, 10; Kentucky,
13; Louisiana, 8; Mississippi, 10; Ne
vada, 8; Nebraska, g. North Carolina,
70; Oklahoma, Z; South Carolina, 8;
Tennessee, u; Texas, IS; Virginia, 12;
total. 1856.
Rest Are His
All the rest of the states are safely
for Taft with the exception of Mary
land and Missouri, where the issue is
so close that an official count may be
necessary finally to determine the re-
suit.
National Chairman Norman e. Mack
of the Democratic committee issued a
statement tonight in which he declared
that he did not believe Mr.. Bryan
would again be a candidate for the
presidency.
He said he believed the Nebraskan
might be a candidate for the United
States senate in 1911, provided the leg
islature of his state was Democratic IN
that year.
The latest returns indicate that in
the house of representatives the Re
publicans will have 20S members and
the Democrats 172, with eleven districts
missing.
MIR. Tafts plurality in the state of
New York, according to corrected fig
ures late tonight. is 2OS, 1885, more than
2S, 900 in excess of President Roosevelts
plurality of four years ago.
Hughes Plurality
Governor Charles e. Hughes was re-
oIa in VnrlF state hU "a 1hO
Taft carried Ohio by $4,000 plurality,
a reduction of more than zoe, 900 from
the Roosevelt vote of four years ago.
The Democratic state ticket in Ohio,
headed by Judson Harmon for gov
ernor, appears to be elected. The state
legislature is in doubt
In Indiana Taft won by about 5000.
but the entire Democratic state ticket.
headed by Marshall for governor, was
elected. The congressional delegation
from the state shows gain of seven
Democrats.
The returns from West Virginia, ow-
ing to the mountainous character of
the country, are slow in coming in. A
sufffcient nummber of districts have
been heard from, however, to show that
Taft has a safe plurality.
Colorado early in the day shifted
from the doubtful column to the Bryan
list
Legislature Democratic
The legislature, which is to choose a
successor to Senator Teller, is also ap-
parently Democratic.
Taft's phenomenally large vote in
New York state continues to attract
attention 1t is taken by the Repub-
lican managers of the state and coun-
try as indicating that the Empire state
with it's thirty-nine electoral votes can
no longer be regarded as debatable
ground in presidential contest. but is
safely Republican.
Bryan's victory in Nebraska was a
sweeping one. Five of Nebraska's six
congressman viii be Democrats, while
the legislature has only eighteen Re-
publicans elected, out of a total OF
12z senator's and renresentatives-