Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1911-11-08
THE ELECTIONS.


states and cities throughout the coun-
try resulted in the election Of Demo
| cratic governors in Massachusetts,.
Kentucky ana Mississippi; a Republi-
! can governor in Rhode Island: Re-
publican Assembly in New York,
/ which will challenge the continuance
of Coy. DiX's policies: Legislature
/ in New JERSEY, probably not in ac-
cord with Gov Woodrow Wilson; and
| the results OF the state elections in
Maryland and New Mexico still in
doubt
In Massachusetts, Gov. Foss, Demo-
crat, Was elected by reduced plural
ity Of 7734 over Louis A. Frothing-
hlm. Republican.
The contest was Unexpectedly close
and early returns indicated Gov. Foss
| defeat.
The Republican candidate for lieli-
! tenant governor was elected py 1000
majority and other Republican state
candidates are probably elected
IN Rhode Island, GOV. Pothier, Re-
publican, is reelected over Louis a
Waterman, Democrat. by a greatly in
creased plurality The state Sepate is
solidly and the Assembly largely Re
publican New York. state furnished
one # the chief surprises Of the cleo
1 ton, reversing the present Democratic
I ma ierity of q in the State Assembly
/ and efeeting q Republican majority of
20 or upward
The change removes the united sup
port which both branches of the Leg
islature have heretofore given Gov.
Dlxs policies. In New York City
Tammany's control was shaken but
not overcome that organizations can
diGates in Manhattan and the Bronx
being elected while those in Brooklyn
and Queens county were defeated by
Fusion candidates.
New Jersey furnished a like sur
prise by the reversal of control Of the
Legislature, the returns at midnight
indicating Republican majorities in
the Senate and Assembly.
In kentucky James b. McGreary,
Democrat, was elected governor by a
majority estimated at 10000 to 10000
A Democratic Legislature was also
elected which insures the choice Of
Congressman Ollie James as United
States senator.
Mississippi elected a Democratic
/ governor and state officers by de-
csive majority.
| Returns mp to midnight in state
elections in Maryland We're inconclu-
stve. Claims were made of the election
of philip Lee Goldsborough, Repubii-
can candidate for governor by 5000
majority over Arthur z. German,
Democrat, while counter claims OF
Democratic success We're also made.
The constitutional amendment de-
signed to Gisfranehise Negro voters
was probably defeated.
The Ohio municipal elections result
ed in the election of Democratic may
ors in Cincinnati Cleveland and prob
abby Columbus. President Taft cast
his vote at Cincinnati
In New Mexico the Democratic state
committee claims the election OF Mac
Donald as governor by 450o majority, The
election of Macdonald is not conceded
and the result is in doubt.
/ The election of a Republican Legisla-
! ture is indicated which will mean the
election of two Republican United states
senators.
marked Socialist strength has devel-
oped at various points, notably III sew
eraI of the municipal contests of ONO,
where eight cities elected Socialist may
ors; also in schenectady, \. Y, where
a Socialist mayor and a Socialist dele
gaze to the State Assembly were elected
aud IN Mississippi. where the Socialist
candidate for lieutenant governor polled
q considerable vote. Four congressman
were elected to I'LL vacancies, namely:
Joseph \. Taggert Dem, in the I'd
/ Kansas district. j. u. b. Amy, Rep,
in the 14th Penn. district; William J.
Browning, Rep, in the LIST New Jersey
district, and probably Daniel y
Stephens, Dem. in the Cd New YORK
district Socialist gains marked the
elections, today, and gave that party
pcwor in districts where, heretofore IL
had been unable to register counting
vote
Ohio was the scene Of other victories
by the Socialists. Their vote in some OF
the cities, in eight of which they elected
MAYORS, totalled thousands in advance
of any previous showing, and puts them
close, numerically, to the two old par
ties. Where Socialist candidates were
not elected in Ohio. Progressives of more
or less radical views were returned by
the Republicans.
Besides Schenectady, Cleveland, CO.
lumbus and Dayton were the most favor
able cities for the Socialist party. In
the second Kansas congressional district.
where a successor to the late Congress-
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