Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-05
LANDSLIDE FOR WILSON.
Returns Gathered by New York World
Leave No Doubt of Result.

Leave No Doubt OF Result.
BY Telegraph to Yorkville Enquirer.
New York, Nov 6.-The World
says returns to 11.30 D. m, indicate
Wilson carried these sixteen states
that were carried by Bryan in 1908,
with a total Of 1853 electoral votes:
Alabama, IL; Arkansas, 9; Florida, 6;
Georgia, IA; Kentucky, 13; Louisiana,
10; Maryland. 8; Mississippi, 10: Ne
braska, 8; Nevada, 3; North Carolina,
IL; Oklahoma, 10; South Carolina, 9;
Tennessee, IL; Texas, 20; Virginia, 10.
Wilson has also carried these six
teen states that were carried by Taft
In 1908, total Of 1876 votes: Connect
icut, 7; Delaware, 8; Iowa, 13; Indi-
ana, 15; Maine, 6; Massachusetts, 1s;
Montana, A; New Jersey, IA; New
York, 45; Ohio. n; Rhode Island, s;
South Dakota, wisconsin, 13. Also
Arizona, 8, and New Mexico, 8. These
80 states give Wilson s54 votes out of
531 in electoral college. or ss more
than the 266 necessary.
Wilson carried more than 35 states,
with several others in doubt, which
may give him 400 or more, black face.
The meagre returns indicate both q
popular and electoral majority for
the Democratic candidate.
Wilson carried his own state of New
Jersey. President Taft lost his own
state Of Ohio to Wilson. Colonel
Roosevelt lost his state Of New York.
which Governor Wilson carried by
plurality Of 200.600. President Taft
carried New York four years ago by
2O3,602.
For the first time since the organi-
zation Of the Republican party a DEM
ocratic candidate will get the electoral
vote Of Maine, which was carried by
the Republicans in the state elections
in September. Wilson carried II by
more than $4,000.
Black face returns from congress
sional contests throughout the coun-
try indicate overwhelming majority
for Democrats In next congress. The
Democrats also appear to have been
successful In many contests for state
legislatures, which are to elect sue
cessors Of several Republican United
States senator's
Both the Taft and Roosevelt man
ayers conceded the election of Cover
nor Wilson by Q o'clock. and were dis
putting supremacy with each other in
the matter Of second place. Returns
from all sections leave no room to
doubt the fact that Roosevelt has split
the Republican party in twenty states
and has chance Of securing control of
regular party machinery In several
western states.
In conceding success of Democrats
in the east. Chairman Dixon Of the
Progressive party, admitted that the
hope Of his party depended on western
returns; but returns from that quar-
ter afford small encouragement
The Democratic presidential and
gubernatorial candidates swept New
York state. Wilson's plurality is es-
timated at more than 200,600. Sulzer
ran ahead Of Wilson in Greater New
York, Hedges second and Straus third.
Roosevelt ran ahead Of Taft in New
York city; but Taft gained 1t back up
the state, getting about two out OF
every three Republican votes In the
rural districts.
Incomplete returns indicate Wilson
carried greater New York by $4,000.
There is nothing to Indicate that COM
plete returns will reverse figures. Taft
didn't carry single electoral district In
the greater city. The World.
Tho Vote by States.