Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-11-09

give us readers the dement, OF 1mmeQlate
bulletin announcements The telegraph
was then but four years old and did not
embrace every railroad station in the
country as it does today. Even at that
the bulletin board experiment worked so
well that 1t was generally adopted.
Few people have stopped to analyze the
vast results that hinge on last nights
returns. There are many state legisla-
lures whose political complexion depends
on Mhat the , returns SHOW these
tricting the states which they represent.
Where a state was redistricted by the re-
publicans upon the apportionment Of the
1900 census. the lines of the congress
sional districts were so laid out as to
make the majority of the district repub-
1can, except in times of landslides. All
the democratic counties were herded of
together. In democratic states the same
turn was taken against the republicans.
The party which controls legislature
this year will have a chance to do some
gerrymandering which will put the other
party at disadvantage during the five
ensuing congressional elections.
AS the elections come and 60 there
seems to be falling off in the number
OF freak bets made. Once n man might
be seen rolling peanut up Pennsylvania
avenue or Broadway because he had bet
on the man who lost. or girl going
down street with barrel as a part of
her attire, all because she was more en-
thuslastlc than wise in political matters.
1t also is probable that there is a falling.
off in the money bets It was estimated
that in 1908 there was 100000 staked
on the complexion of the election re-
turns. At this rate. the money at stake
in the whole country probably was equal
est multi-millionaire.
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The returns of last night are the last
national election returns in which only
forty-six states will
New States to have a say. BY the
WI. 1910 time the presidential
IA AoA"' election of 1912 comes
around Arizona and New Mexico. in the
natural order of things. will be full
fedged sisters in the statehood. They
stand chance of sometimes deciding the
political complexion Of the Senate. Both
the House and the presidency have been
won or lost on as narrow a margin as
the votes these states will have In the
electoral colleges and in the House. If
the time shall come where there Is q
healthy third party in the field strong
enough to prevent any candidate from
getting one more than half of the votes
in the electoral college, the House Of
Representatives will have to elect the Pres
ident and the Senate the Vice President
In the presidential contest each state
would have one vote, and the complexion
of that vote would depend upon which
party controlled the delegation of that
state. If neither party had a majority
the states vote would be lost. Under
such conditions Arizona and New Mexico
easily might overturn things, and the
nation be treated to the spectacle of a
democratic President and q republican
Vice President, or vice versa. =.
AS the time has gone on the people of
the country have become more and more
willing to accept the
Willing to Accept election returns as
rro1 rra,,.4 the final judgment of
are inclined to be pessimistic and to think
that the country is going to the demni-
ton bow-wows, they will find good cheer
in taking a look backward. They would
see where John Adams connived at an
rather than permit Jefferson
to become his successor. They would see
territories were allowed to vote in the
electoral colleges when they had not
The slightest right to do so-a procedure
which John Quincy Adams said would
''unhinge- the Union IL those votes were
The world offers no other
spectacle Of 100000 600 people lighting until
the sun goes down election day, only
to accept the result of the returns with
absolute unanimity and with perfect good
feeling.
Tomorrow - PREVENTING INFANT
MORTALITY.