The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1908-11-05
hal College Will Give Re-
Altican President-Elect at
Least 800 Votes.
%JRI AND MARYLAND
q. LIKELY SWELL TOTAL
Two States Are So Close
The Official Count Will
Be Required.


klep to a late hour tonight iudi-
William II. Taft of Ohio,
-elect, will have n vote of 309
|" Sectoral college. This is within
Is of the forecast made by Ma
| lairman Frank Hitchcock, and
than majority of the total
= vote OF ASS. II Missouri votes
e,shis total may reach 327. News
ute returns indicate that Mary
" tor vacillating during the day,
rently being safe for the Dem
EEsias been swung into the TAFT
P'st The unofficial figures give Mr..
4 = state by lS6 votes.
|.ica and West Virginia as well as
\ turn out 10 be safely Repub-
4 olorado went for Bryan.
|cri1sonri, which late developments
w. the doubtful column. goes for
4 - will have q total of ia votes,
|d + than he received in 1896. In
~ Parker received only 140
\ n. 1900 Mr.. Bryan received 155
I'D in 1896 the Nebraskan re.
6t~16 votes.
atsresting Comparisons.
lifts 300 electoral votes COM
|itsa 336 received by Roosevelt in
" yeceived by Mckinley ia 1900,
81 received by Mckinley in 1896.
|fs.nges of material interest have
u torted III the congressional re-
I-ay. The Republicans will have
Ia same working majority IN the
x congress as at present, and
M e Cannon of Illinois undoubted-
|F5 tcceed himself as speaker. Rep
h re Jesse Overstreet Of Indina,
urn of Iowa are the most con-
/ a amoug those who have failed
< Mon.
|. nate retains its Republican
\ Z 5n, although there will be a
p. tbange in its personnel.
|I.'Rtess certainly carried by Mr..
RE as follows: Alabama, /,
- 30: Colorado, >; Florida. ):
|. I5; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana, 9;
-pit 10; Nevada, g.; Nebraska,
b Carolina. II: Oklahoma, Z:
|, ,~roIIpa. 8; Tennessee l2; Texas,
E. MIA, -. Total, l56.
3 rest CT the states are safe
= with che exception of Mary
n F Missouri, where the issue is
r. that an official count NAV he
y = TO finally determine the re-
En Mack's Statement.
Chairman Norman Z. Mack
T. emocratic party issued a state.
h ~ tRht, IN which he declared that
LOT believe Mr.. Bryan would
EE'r,a candidate for tho presidency,
II re believed that the Nebraskap
|IS candidate fer the United
+ /. nate in 1911, provided The leg
Of his state is Democratic in
|J%s when The first vacancy will
r., }test returns indicate that in
r. opal house OF representatives
~ s1bticans will have 20s mem
|. tne democrats l72, with eleven
f,nissing.
y Iaf:'s plurality in the state
York, according to corrected
|ssIate tonight is 203,495. more
|1s yyo in excess of President
II 's plurality of four years ago.
|Hs tor Charles T, Hughes was re.
y "a New York stale by 7I.l50.
rms as between president aud
" Indicate a heavy splitting OF
~ Ihe proportion OF scratched
|tf lns about the same iu the up.
(h frlcts as IN Greater New York.
FFt,s returns were watched with a
(,su OF interest, not In the belief
|533 could have any possible ef
81 "a the national result. but be.
|lf local conditions. The heavy
y k'hio made figures extremely late
| ~ Inc immense size OF the bal
|ta Tart carried his owu state.
~ oy 10000 plurality, a reduc.
|,.s'more than 100000 from the
l. vote of four years ago.
|fp Losses iii Ohio.
r. emocratic state ticket in Ohio.
Icy Judscn Harmon for governor
|, no be safely elected The state
E'<(c winch rs 10 choose success.
(P,,sTnator Foraker appears 10 be IN
III between the Republicans aud
e Hama Mr., Taft was success.
Fs sarryiDe the state by about
|%sf the entire Democratic state
" eaded by Marshall for Cover.
~ elected. The Congressional
E.se from the state shows q gain
~ Democrats.
,ttnrps from West Virginia, ow.
the mountainous character of
|htry. arc slow in coming in, A
| number of counties and dis
we been heard from, however.
|,xitaft had . safe plurality.
\ 70, early in the day. shifted
Z ~ donbtful column to the BRYAN
rs legislature which is to choose
l'ssAt'or To Senator Teller is appor.
[.lmocratic.
E,f ~ g phcnomcDalIy large vote
state continued to uttract
*. It IS taken hY the Republi.
\ C'sDRRers of the state and country
|, ing that the empire state with
I,< f-eight electoral votes can no
~ regarded as debatable ground
pdentlal contest. but is safely
(Essfzn. The fact that Mr.. Taft
|s,tFrcster New York by $4,000
|Slya amazed many OF the local
~ he gained this ADVANTAGE
n Brooklyn. for Manhattan and
90 dominated by Tsmmany hall,
substantial plurality for
|ltyan g victory in his home state