Watertown leader. [volume] (Watertown, Jefferson County, Wis.) 1909-1911, 1910-11-11
Party's Tickets Win in States That Have
Been Considered Either in Repub-
lican or Doubtful Columns.
Have Secured Control of Lower House of Ma
tional Congress, and Democratic Legisla-
lures VIII Make Senate Changes.

IL is Dlx IN New York.
New York.-The Democrats elected
John A. Dix governor of New York
by plurality Of about $4,000 votes.
New York city gave Dix 299,O78; Slim
son, 1858, and Hopper, $3.50.
Stimson's upstate plurality was
only 1886. Early in the evening he
sent telegram of congratulation to
his victorious rival.
T. F. Conway, for lieutenant COVER
nor, was swept into office only slight
~ behind Dix. The entire Democratic
state ticket was elected, and the leg
1slature will be Democratic on joint
ballot. This means that a Democrat
will be the successor of Chauncey M
Depew in the United States senate
The Democrats have made a gain Of
ten members in the congressional del
egation from this state
According to the latest figures OBJ
tainable the legislature will stand
thus:
Senate-Republican, %; Democrats,
%.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 70; Demo
Gratis, 80.
Among the notable defeats of rep
bert Parsons In the Thirteenth, J.
Sloat Fassett in the Thirty-third, and
w. W. Cocks in the First. All are
particular friends of Roosevelt, and
Cocks represents the colonePs home
district. Martin w. Littleton, who de-
feated Cocks, had to overcome nor
NAL Republican plurality Of about
5000. Mr. Littleton's wife assisted
him in the campaign. Henry George,
Jr., defeated W. S. Bennett, the Re-
publican incumbent in the Seven
teenth district Representative Ham
Cornell, a Democrat.
Iowa Elects Democrat.
Des Moines, Ia.-Claude R. Porter,
Democrat, has been elected governor
over B. F. Carroll, incumbent, by a
majority of from 5000 to 5000. The
normal Republican majority is $4,000.
Returns from Cedar Rapids, Des
Moines, Iowa City, Davenport, Sioux
City and other large river towns in
dictate that the Republican candidate
loss seemed to be suffered in other
centers of population throughout the
state r
Iowa has eleven congressional dis
tricts. l. s. Pepper, the young Demo
cratic candidate in the Second dis
trict, walked away with the election,
carrying every county over his oppo-
nent, Charles Grilk. It was in behalf
Of the latter that Colonel Roosevelt
recently made an address at Daven-
port.
S. F. Prouty, the progressive Re-
publican candidate of the Seventh dis
trict, who wrested the nomination
from the veteran "standpatter," Cap
tain Hull, seems to have landed the
position so often sought unsuccess-
fully before.
Walter I. Smith, a member of the
Cannon rules committee, and who is
credited with speakership aspirations,
was elected in the Ninth district, but
his majority was cut to 500 from the
$500 he expected.
Other Republicans who were elect
ed were Pickett, Third district; Good,
Fifth district; Towner, Eighth dis
trict; Woods, Tenth district.
The legislature will be strongly Re-
publican, although the liquor inter
ests worked hard to carry twenty
four doubtful counties
The control of the general assembly
is of especial interest in view of the
fact that a successor of the late Sen
ator Dolliver will be chosen this win
ter. The progressives will have TWEEN
ty or twenty-five majority in the Re-
publican caucus
Harmon in Ohio.
Columbus, O.-Gov. Judson Har-
mon, Democrat, has been reelected
with plurality of about 10000 over
Harding, his Republican opponent.
Governor Harmon made phenomenal
gains in Cincinnati, where eighty pre-
cincts that in 1908 gave him only
1924 votes to his opponents 1926,
this year gave him 9,947 to 1919 for
Harding. Harmon also gained $40
votes in Twenty-Five rural precincts
near Cleveland. He also more than
doubled his former vote in Cuyahoga
county.
A noticeable feature of the election
was tie gain made by the Socialists.
In many precincts the Socialist can
o4dales polled twice as large votes as
ever had been given the party before.
The Socialist gain seemed to be made
up by OBJECTIONS from the old parties
in about equal numbers.
In the First congressional district
Nicholas Longworth, son-in-law of for