The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1910-11-10
Majority In National Senate Is
Greatly Reduced.
WOODROW WILSON ELECTED
Uncle Joe Cannon Reelected In
DanViIIe District By 5000 PEu-
raIity--SenatOr BeVeridge Prob
ably Defeated By John ". Kern.
ROOSeVeIt'S SOWn District, COuu-
ty and Town.

New York, Nov. 9.-The Demo-
cratic party in the country at large
has won it's first victory since the
election of Grover Cleveland to the
presidency in 1892. 1t has elected
governors in New York, New Jersey,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut and Ohio,
has upset the Republican majority in
the house and has insured a greatly
reduced majority in the United
States senate.
Bass (R) is elected governor in
New Hampshire. Cooper (R), and
fusion candidate for governor, de-
feats r. L. Taylor. the Democratic
candidate In Tennessee. Returns from
Montana indicate a close fight in the
legislature, which will elect a success
sor to United States Senator Carter.
Pray (R.) is elected to congress.
In New York the Democratic candi-
date for governor, John A. Dix, is
ly $1,000, after bitter fight.
Colonel Roosevelt lost his own
election district by 60, his own coun-
ty of Nassau by 300, and probably his
own congressional district Martin
W. Littleton, Democratic candidate
for congress, has a plurality in the
coloneps county over Congressman
Cocks, who was often spokesman of
Colonel Roosevelt when the colonel
was president.
Senator Beveridge is probably de-
feated in Indiana by John w. Kern,
and IL out of the 13 congressional
districts in Indiana went Democratic.
Massachusetts elected Foss CD
governor by a plurality estimated in
excess of 10000. Connecticut elected
Judge Simeon E. Baldwin CD by a
small plurality The Democrats also
carried New Jersey, electing Wood
row Wilson, former president of
Princeton university, by a handsome
plurality.
In Nebraska, where as in Indiana
election Of United States senators is
practically by popular vote, Hitch
cock, anti-Bryan Democrat, is elected
over United States Senator Burkett
(R.) by 10000. Mayor Dahlman of
Omaha was defeated in the state by
Stubbs.
Uncle Joe Cannon, speaker of the
house Is elected by the biggest ma
jority the district has given for ten
years. Serene E. Payne, chairman of
the ways and means committee is
elected shor' of normal. Jno. Dazell,
another of Speaker Cannon's lieuten-
ants Is elected in Pennsylvania.
J. Sloat Fassett, a supporter of
Speaker Cannon but one of the old
guard and upholders of Theo Roose-
welt at Saratoga, is defeated.
The Republicans lose senator's
from Indiana. Maine, Missouri, Ne
braska, Nevada, New Jersey, New
York. This result means the Repub-
lican majority in the United States
senate will be reduced from rs to IL.
The house of representatives will
be Democratic, probably by 20,
Democratic gain of 35. In the new
house will be the two Socialists from
Wisconsin. The New York legisla-
ture will be Democratic on Joint
ballot
In New York, the Republicans
have sustained heavy loss in con-
gressmen as in state senators. The
present congressman most overwhel-
mingly defeated in that state is Her
bert Parsons, son of John E. Parsons,
of the sugar trust, and lieutenant for
Col. Roosevelt in his fight against
the Old Guard in the state. Henry
George, son of the theorist and single
tax advocate, apparently has a small
majority over VIM. S. Bennett.
In Kentucky Caleb Powers, who was
convicted for the assassination of
Goebel and not long out of prison
was elected to congress by 5000, car
rying every county in his district
except his home county of Laurel.