The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-11-08
LONCWORTH DEFEATED
BY LATEST RETURNS
Democratic Opponent Has Best
Of Count by 100 in First
Ohio District.
HAD PICTURESQUE FIGHT
ROosevelt's SOn-in-Law Repre-
sented Aristocracy and the
Other the Plain Folk.

CINCINNATI, Nov. IA sensation and
political surprise was sprung to-day by
the board Of elections when 1t de-
veloped during the tediously protracted
counting of the badly scratched and
otherwise puzzling votes Of Tuesday
that Congressman Nicholas Longworth,
Roosevelrs son-in-law candidate on the
regular Republican or Taft ticket. had
been defeated. So far as the unofficial
figures show. Attorney Stanley f.
Bowdle, Longworth's Democratic oppo-
nent, has been elected In the First
district. The unofficial totals give
Bowdle about a hundred more votes
than Longworth in the district, which
has several times returned Longworth
to Congress by majorities of from
three thousand to six thousand.
The board Of elections will require
considerable time to get the correct
figures. but the impression prevails
in experienced and unbiased political
circles that the official vote will not
change the result.
Until this morning It was thought
that Longworth had won. the un-
Official totals at the election board
rooms until then having shown him in
the lead by a few hundred.
Up to yesterday afternoon, when the
figures indicated that Longworth would
win by about a thousand, no comparison
Of the total vote with the vote cast at
previous elections was made. 1t was
then discovered that the figures could
not he correct, as they indicated fully
10 900 more votes cast in the First dis
trict than there are voters. That Of
course made the figures absolutely
worthless.
The race between Longworth and
Bowdle has been stirring as we'll as
picturesque from the start. They repre-
sented markedly different and antogo-
nistic principles In local politics. Long
worth has trained with the Boss Cox
following ever since entering the politi-
cal field. He represented the ultra
fashionable, or aristocrats. while Bowdle
has posed as the champion of the COM
mon people and a reformer.
Bowdle has never held political office
OF importance except membership in
the recent Ohio constitutional conven-
ton. where he was prominent. Bowdle.
however. has always been active In
working for his causes from the ros-
trum and with his pen.
About eight or ten years ago he
wrote pamphlet in which he ex-
pressed radical Ideas. and Longworth
lost no opportunity for reading ex-
haustive extracts from this little book
from the stump. Among other striking
statements In the book was one TO the
effect that a college education was a
thing TO be deplored in this country
and that the graduating class at Har-
yard was menace to the public good.
The booklet also contained some cut
ting criticisms Of organized labor.
After Col. Roosevelt had launched
the third party Longworth said It was
his intention to support the Republican
ticket, as had always been his GUS
tom. Prof. Andrew Of the public
schools was the third party nominee
In the First district and got about 800
votes on election day. and the Demo-
Gratis claim that he drew most Of these
from that party.