The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1912-11-07
Runs Second in Number Of
Popular Votes.
DEFEAT JUNGLE JOE" CANNON
Democrats Increase Majority In
the House Of Representatives.
PrOgressiVes Probably Elect
Fourteen COngreSsmen.

New York, Nov. 6.-Woodrow Will
son has been elected president of the
United States. Indications are that
the Democratic majority in the elec-
toral college will be overwhelming.
Governor Wilson has carried Maine,
Massachusetts,, Connecticut, New
York, New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana,
Wisconsin, Kentucky, Maryland, Ten
nessee, Nebraska and Oregon, and
all southern states, and has probably
carried Missouri, Iowa and the Da-
kotas.
Ex-President Roosevelt has carried
Illinois, while the rock-ribbed Repub-
lican state of Vermont is in doubt be-
tween Taft and Roosevelt.
That ancient bulwark of Republi-
canism, Pennsylvania, is in doubt be.
tween Wilson and Roosevelt. Michi-
gan, equally strong in past years in
it's allegiance to the Republican par
ty, has probably been carried by
Roosevelt.
The Democratic victory in many Of
these rock-ribbed Republican states
was due entirely to the split in the
Republican party and to the candi-
dacy of eX-President Roosevelt. In
most of these states Roosevelt got the
labor vote and the radical Republican
vote.
In all states where Roosevelt and
the Progressive candidates for COVER
nor have run second to Wilson and
the Democratic candidates for COVER
nor, the Progressive party will have
control of the election machinery over
the Republicans beginning with next
years municipal campaigns. This
control will extend to 1914 in the
state elections for governor and men,
bers of the legislature.
SuIzer Defeats Straus.
In New York state, in all counties
where Oscar S. Straus, the Progress
sive candidate for governor, has run
gressives will have control of the
election machinery over the Republi-
cans beginning with next years mu-
nicipal elections. This control will
also extend, according to law, to 1914,
when a governor is to be elected and
a legislature is also to be elected
which will elect United States SEN
ator to succeed Elihu Root.
No returns from any of the western
states have been received as yet from
which any sort of an accurate notion
can be obtained Of how the states of
the plains and beyond the Rockies
have voted for president and vice
president. The ballot machines Of
Minnesota have rebelled against the
| liberties taken with them by the split
ters of tickets and legal question
| has arisen as to whether votes put
into them after 3 o'clock, the hour
for closing the polls, are legal votes.
New Mexico, which the Progress
sives thought was sure for Roosevelt,
has apparently been carried by Will
son. California is safely for Roose-
velt, but North Dakota, which the
Democrats thought was safe for Will
son, seems to be about equally divid-
ed between Taft and Roosevelt.
But in spite of the lack of returns
from the plains and the mountain
states of the west, there seems to be
no. doubt that woodrow Wilson, with
the solid south and the solid east, or
| I, hOh ind hi
not only have plurality of the popu.
ar vote, but will have majority In
the electoral college.
Uncle" Joe Cannon, who has repre-.
sented the Eighteenth Illinois district
since the memory of man runneth not
to the contrary, has gone down to de
feat.
Scattering and incomplete returns
from Missouri indicate that Wilson
has carried the state by not far from
10000. Major has probably beer
elected Democratic governor. The re
turns also indicate that both the up
Der and lower branches of the Mis-
souri, legislature will be controlled BY
the Democrats.
The few returns received in Louis
lana have brought sore disappOint
ment to the Progressives of that state
The strong anticipated Roosevelt sen
timent seems to have eaten into nor
NAL Democratic plurality by less thai
10 per cent. In many parts of tn
state Debs ran ahead Of Taft.
"A dispatch from Denver states tha
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