The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1908-11-08
Result of Election in Indiana
May Be Fathomed Today
When All Returns Are Re-
Ceived.
TWO NEW CANDIDATES
FOR SEAT IN SENATE.
NiblaCk of Vincennes and Men,
zies of Mt. Vernon Men
tioned-When the Present
Terms Expire.
Ellis Searies.

@'S SSot'SSs
Indianapolis, Nov. Never before
in the history of Indiana has there
over an election result as is found to
exist this week. Here IL is Saturday
night, and still no one knows exactly
who was elected last Tuesday to the
various state offices outside of gov
ernor. The complete official returns
will probably all be In at the office OF
the secretary of state tomorrow and
then and not until then will the real
result be known.
There never was a time before
when the vote in Indiana was SO close
on all the state offices. At other
times the result as to one or two Off
ces has been In doubt for a time. bub
this time it is the entire list that 10
doubtful
OF course. everybody knows that
Thomas r. Marshall, democrat. was
elected governor. but they do not know
who was elected to the other places.
The returns from the various counties
have been coming in unusually slow
and this accounts for the delay in
reaching the final result. And then
In some cases errors have been dis
| covered and these had to be corrected
And when a result IL as close as this
| one even a small error may change
the entire lineup.
Today the republicans claimed they
had elected the state treasurer. audi
tor. secretary. attorney general. sta
tistician, reporter of the supreme
court and the appellate and supreme
court judges. leaving the governor.
lieutenant governor and superinten-
dent of public instruction for the
democrats.
On the other hand the democrats
claimed they elected these three and
the auditor.
The Indianapolis News had an entir-
ely different set of figures on the re-
turns. 1t took what IL could get Off
cially at the office of the secretary of
state and then instrr"' II its cores
pondents in the remf counties to
get the official figure send them
to the paper. Wherr I. counties had
been heard from in this way the News
found that the figures showed the
election of the following candidates by
the pluraIities named:
Thomas r. Marshall (Dem), Gov
ernor-16,4S3.
Fremont Goodwine tRep.), Leuten-
/ ant Governor-1SS.
Fred A. Sims (Rep), Secretary OF
State ,610.
Marion Bailey (Dem.), Auditor OF
State-1,862.
Oscar Hadley (Rep), State Treasur-
er-442
Walter Lott tDem.). Attorney Gen.
eral-696
George W. Self fRep.), Supreme
Court Reporter-2,633
/ Quincy A. Myers (Rep.). Supreme
Court Judge-2,2S9.
David Myers tRep), Appellate
Court Judge-SS7
| J. l.. Peetz tRep). Appellate Cthh
i ]. l.. Peetz tRep), Statistician-
599
Il Lawrence McTurnan (Rep.), Super
intendent of Public .047.
But the News did not claim its fig
ures were accurate 1t did not at
tempt to explain away the great var
lance between its figures and those OF
the republican and democratic candi-
dates. which were being received at
the state headquarters of the two par
ties. 1t merely said the figures may
or may not be right
| And that Is the situation in the mat
ter tonight. 1t is believed that the
official results will be obtainable to-
morrow.
New Senatorial Aspirsnts.
J. Two new names appeared today in
the democratic race for senator to
succeed Senator James A Hemenway
They are Mason j. Niblack. OF vfncen-
mes and Major George " Menzies. OF
Mt Vernon. Niblack made his an
nouncement today and Menzies'
friends say he will be announced In q
day or two.
J. Kirby Risk, of Lafayette. and
also talked of but it is believed that
neither will be in the race
i In fact IL is almost certainty that
when the time comes there win be not
more than two active candidates who
win remain in the race to the end
They will be John W. Kern and B. r.
Shively. of South Bend Taggart viii
not be a candidate This is practical
ly certain, for Kern has announced
that he is in the race and there is no
reason to believe that Taggzrt win be
candidate against Kern
II One of the interesting pieces Of poll
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