Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1911-11-10
MIXED ELECTION RESULTS.


indicating the strong currents of senti-
ment which will decide the national cleo
tions next year are still guessing. The
returns are so mixed that their portents
are difficult to decipher. Gov. Harmon of
are so mixed that their portents are
difficult to decipher. Gov Harmon of
Ohio pretends to see signs of a Demo-
cratic victory next year, but the Demo-
crat who can extract grains of comfort
from the results in Maryland, New Jer-
sey, New York, Rhode Island and Ne
braska is certainly optimistic. There
were Republican gains and Republican
losses, Democratic gains and Democratic
losses, but no predominant drift that
gives anything like clear forecast for
next year.
Massachusetts, election was a SUNRISE
to old political observers. Foss. Demo-
crat. being reelected governor over
rockingham by plurality of 1894 while
Luce, Republican for lieutenant governor.
has plurality of 4OS2 over Walsh. The
other nominees on the Republican state
ticket have pluralties ranging from 81
600 to $1,000 votes. Luce was expected to
be opposed by the liquor interests the
friends of the liberal Sunday law and
new direct nomination law. Walsh. the
Democratic candidate for lieutenant gov
ernor. waged vigorous campaign on the
stump and directed his attack largely at
Luce. Mr.. Foss announces that he will
not again be a candidate for public Of
flee.
In Boston the Republicans hoped to
keep Foss's lead down to 15,0OO but he
pulled away with 21,71 plurality The
tariff issue seemed to lack force in the
textile cities. which gave Foss good
vote, and the farmers swarmed to his
support, as they regarded the Ellis milk
bill, which called for more rigid in
spection of milk, as inimical to their in
trests. This bill was passed by the legis-
lature but was vetoed by Gov Foss.
Gov. Wilson of New Jersey will do
business next year with legislature con-
tanning a Republican majority in both
branches The New Jersey vote is a
back to Wilson's presidential aspira-
tions. For the first time in 20 years the
New York legislature will be controlled
in its two branches by opposing political
parties The Democratic Senate holds
over, but thee assembly will be Republi-
can by big majority.
In New York city the Republicans made
large gains of assemblymen. The Brook
lyn section of the city went Republican
by large figures. Tammany won out in
the old city of New York by greatly re-
duced majorities. The mayoralty was
not at stake this year, and the contest
was over the assemblymen, county Off
GERS and supreme court judges. On the
whole, the result in the greater city
shows Tammany losses and Republican
and fusion gains. In the state the lower
house of the legislature elected will be
overwhelmingly Republican, an overturn.
Rhode Island elected every member
of the Republican state ticket Gov.
Pothier's plurality for a fourth term is
about 1000. The people accepted the prop
osition for holding biennial elections after
next year.
In Ohio Democratic mayors We're elect
ed in Cleveland Cincinnati and Column
bus. a surprising feature of the vote
was the election of Socialist mayors in
ten cities of the state.
Republican governor was elected in
Maryland for the second time since the
Civil war The successful candidate is
Phillips Lee Goldsborough. whose plur-
ality over Arthur Pue German is about
250O Mr.. German is a son of the late
United States senator of the same name
who was a dominating figure in the poll
tics of the state many years. Both
branches of the Maryland legislature are
Democratic.
Philadelphia, branded as Corrupt and
contented," elected a reform candidate
for mayor in the person of Rudolph
Bankburg, independent Republican, who
defeated George H. Earle, jr., the regu-
lar Republican nominee and Boss"
Penrose's man, by plurality of 1854. The
normal Republican majority of the city
is 5000 to 100000.
New Mexico, which held its first cleo
tion as a state, elected a Democratic
governor, but both branches of the leg
islature will be controlled by the Repub-
licans.
Kentucky reelected ]. B. McCreary,
Democrat, governor by about 10000 plur-
ality, and both branches of the legisla-
ture are Democratic.
In the second Kansas district ]. A.
Taggart, Democrat was elected by a
majority of 1850. His election breaks the
solid Republican delegation from the state
in Congress.
The Republicans made almost a clean
sweep in Nebraska, with the exception
of a Congressman in the third district,
where d. V, Stephens. Democrat was
elected to fill the vacancy caused by the
death of Congressman Latta.
Socialist gains marked elections and
gave that party power in districts where,
heretofore, it had been unable to muster
a counting vote. In Schenectady, n. Y,
the Socialists elected a mayor, all city
officials except one, and a majority of
the county board. In addition, the as
sembly district in which Schenectady is
located returned a Socialist assemblyman.
Ohio was the scene of other victories by
the Socialists. Their vote in some of
the cities, in ten of which they elected
mayors, totalled thousands in advance of
any previous showing. and puts them
close, numerically, to the two old
parties. Where Socialist candidates We're
not elected in Ohio. progressives of more
or less radical views were returned by
the Republicans.
eRATTLEsoRo PERSONAL.
Robert Canedy has returned after a