Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-09-03

A revised tabulatiop with addi-
tional returns received today Of
the vote cast for governor in yes
terday's state election with nine
teen small towns still missing
gives:
Prouty, (Rep.) 43,043.
Burke, (Dem.) 1913.
Backus, Qnd. league) 1922.
Campbell, (Pro) sol.
Dunbar, (Socialist) 1853.
The missing towns four years
ago gave Bell, (Rep.) 2,519; Por
ter, (Dem) 652. 1t is estimat-
ed Prouty's plurality is about 29,-
900.
The election of Democratic
member to the state senate gives
the Democratic party representa- IN
ton in that branch of the legisla-
. ture for the first time In several
years.
Burlington, Vt, Sept. D. Vermont
the straw which shows the way the
political winds are blowing, yesterday
gave plurality estimated at 28,00C
to Prouty, the Republican candidate
for governor, over Burke, his Demo
cratic opponent.
This plurality Is well over the dan
ger line which imperils a Republican
victory in the national election In
November. This has for years been
placed at $4,000, fall below this
number being taken by political fore
casters as presaging tight race in
the presidential contests. A drop o1
5000 more in the state vote Is con
sidered an unfailing omen of a Demo
cratic victory in the national polling
places two months later.
Prouty's plurality over Burke, Bur
ington's blacksmith mayor, and the
Democratic candidate for governor
shows a slight falling off from that
given to Bell, the Republican candi
date over Porter (Dem.) in 1904. The
plurality the Republicans in the state
rolled up in that year was 31,557
That, however, was the year Of the
Roosevelt landslide, when he gained
1886 electoral votes to 140 for Parker
a victory unprecedented in the history
of the nation.
Clean Slate for Republicans.
Not only did the Republicans cleo
the governor and lieutenant governor
by good plurality, but they also re
tanned complete control of Legislative
branches of the government of Yer
mont They elected to congress from
the First district David ]. Foster o
Burlington for another term, and from
the Second district Frank Plumle.
of Northfield, for the first time, ant
chose majority Of the state legisla
ture which will select a successor t.
the late Senator Redfleld Proctor.
The state ticket elected was as fol
lows:
Governor = George H. Prouty o
Newport.
Lieutenant Governor = John A
Mead of Rutland.
Secretary of State Guy w. Bale
of Essex.
Treasurer - Edward H. Deavitt O
Montpelier.
Auditor - Horace F. Graham Q
Craftsbury.
Attorney General John G. Sa,
gent Of Ludlow
independents War In Vain.
One new feature must be taken int
account in the summing up of the re
suits in the state contests yesterday
This is the fact new party, Hearst
| independence league has been NAL
ing an active campaign. The prohib
tionists and socialists had state ticl
cts in the field, but their pre-electio
| fight was only half hearted and Gu
no large figure in the result.
The independence leagues vote
were won in the larger cities. wher
Hearst's influence was felt the NOR
readily, and the greater part of ii
estimated vote Of 1000 was given i
the manufacturing towns. This nun
Der. 1t is believed, came mostly frol
the Democratic ranks This fact wa
realized by the Democrats and the
were anxious regarding the strengt
of Quimby S. Backus Of Brandon, VIII
4 headed the new party ticket