The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1910-11-09

Four influential eastern states, New
York, Massachusetts, Connecticut and
| New Jersey, take their places at the
head of the procession, with Democrat
| ic governors and strong Democratic
| representation in their legislatures.
| Chic, too, is Democratic.
The two great leaders of the Repub-
Iican party, Taft and Roosevelt, alike
| met defeat in their own states. Roose-
velt'S home town of Oyster Bay went
against him; his congressional district
chose a Democratic representative to re-
place Congressman w. W. Cocks.
| RooseveltS warm personal friend; his
state repudiated the Republican candi-
date for governor by $4,000 plurality. As
sn additional blow, the New York state
| legislature is Democratic and will elect
| a Democratic senator to succeed Chaun-
| cey NJ. Depew.
Taft Faces Hostile House.
President Taft TODAY finds himself
face to face with the one danger which
he has most dreaded and which he be-
sought the Republican voters of the
nation to prevent-a hostile house of
representatives to nullify what remains
| of his legislative program. A Demo-
cratic house, President Taft has point
| ed out, will paralyze tho administra-
tion and make any party legislation
| impossible. On the other hand, the
effectiveness of the Democratic major
ity in the lower house will be largely
nullifed by the hold which the Re-
publicans still retain in the senate. A
striking feature of the voting through
out the country was the reputation of
Republican leaders in their own home.
Vice President Sherman's home
town, Utica. went Democratic by sew
eral hundred.
Serene E. Payne's home city. Au-
burn, defeated him by 400 votes. al
though the rural districts round about
came to his rescue and made his seat
secure for another term In New York
City Congressman William S. Bennett
was beaten by Henry George, jr., and
Herbert Parsons by Jefferson NJ. Levy.
Congressman ]. Sloat Fassett of Ell
mira, who went down to defeat in 1891
as Republican candidate for gov
ernor, yesterday lost his seat in the
, lower house, and Hamilton Fish was
defeated for reelection as the Repub-
lican candidate in the Twenty-frst
New York congressional district.
An Unusual Feature.
Another unusual feature of the vot-
ing in the east was the fac that in a
majority of the big cities the Repub-
tcans gained, while they lost in the
c. ntry. In New York state, for in
stance, the early returns from the up
state cities seemed to indicate the cleo
ton Of a Republican governor. The
story changed as soon as the returns
from the rural districts began to come
in. In Ohio. similarly. Harmon. the
Democratic gubernatOriaI candidate
lost heavily in the city and gained n
the country. The Republican leaders
here explain this as due to the hostility
of the labor vote to the Democratic
candidate
Summed up, the results of the vari-
/ Gus state elections were as follows:
( Democratic. Alabama, Connecticut,
/ Florida, Indiana, Massachusetts, Ne
/ Vada, New Jersey, New York, Ohio,
/ Oklahoma, South Carolina and Texas
Republican = Colorado, Delaware,
/ Idaho. Michigan, Minnesota. Nebraska,
+ New Hampshire. North Dakota, Penn
/ sylvania. Rhode Island. South Dakota,
! Tennessee and Wisconsin.
| Doubtful-Iowa
An Astonishing Overturn.
One of the most astonishing over
turns was in the rock-ribbed Republf-
can state of Massachusetts where
/ Eugene n. Foss, Democrat has a ma
jority of 10000. The long contested
split in the Democratic nominating
/ convention had appeared to indicate
state of disruption which gave the Re
] pup1cans great hope, but voters SEEM
ca TO nave forgotten this at the polls.
ross campaign was made on
straightout tariff issue. The Massa-
! cnusetts legislature is Republican and
/ viii elect Senator Lodge.
| IN New Jersey, DR.. Woodrow Wilson,
VINO resigned the presidency of Prince
ton university to take up the work of
| the campaign, was swept into the gov
ernor's chair by twenty thousand
/ votes, carrying with him a Democratic
1 majority in the joint session of the
| legislature and insuring a Democratic
successor to Senator John Kean Most
OF New Jerseys ten congressman will
sit with the Democratic majority in the
| Sixty-second congress.
| connecticut has elected Democratic
/ governor for the first time since 1899.
IN the person of Judge Simeon E. Bald
WIN The chief feature of Judge Bald
/ WINS campaign was his long drawn