The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-11-06
DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE CARRIED WILSON
| INTO THE WHITE HOUSE As NEXT PRESIDENT

one Of the party chieftains was sol
emn in the face of the responsible
Ties they will now be required to
shoulder. Wilson and Marshall had
carried 36 OF the 4s states In the
union. In the others they had run
second and some Of them were record
ed against democracy by compara-
lively narrow margins.
In Pennsylvania and Michigan the
vote was very close and these two
states represented a total Of fifty /
three votes in the electoral college.
Wilson goes into power with COM
bined democratic house and senate
behind him. This means that he will
be able to enact whatever legislation
he, and the party chieftains believe
necessary. Wilson is expected to as
sumo the leadership of his party In
both houses of congress Immediately.
He is on record as declaring that he
believes when the American people
commission a president to follow out
a certain line Of action, they expect
him to make good. And those who
know Wilson best expect him to make
specific recommendation to congress,
and then, If that body does not act,
to go directly to the people for need
ed support to put through the sug-
gested plans.
1t was this fact that caused the
democrat leaders to take stock" to-
day. The returns from the various
states were analyzed and their mean
ing sensed.
| The Wilson landslide had been
great enough to carry into office dem
ocratic state tickets in many states.
Even where Wilson had failed to get
through the swing had gone on, and
Michigan and Illinois, carried by
Roosevelt, elected democratic COVER.
nors.
J! Massachusetts gave Wilson approx.
imately $4,000 plurality and emphasiz
ed its liking for Eugene N. Foss by
tacking 10000 on to this figure for the
democratic governor. Maine, which
failed to re-elect it's democratic gov
ernor at. the recent election, hat
swung back into line for the mex
president and Wilson had the stat,
safely in his grip from the momen
the first returns began to make thei
appearance.
a Wilson and Baldwin were names tt
conjure with in Connecticut, the ma
tional ticket helping the state, ant
aiding in legislative and congressional
gains.
New York showed the tremendou
!, strength of the democratic movement
!. Wilson had a plurality of 206,907 o.
the face of the unofficial returns, tn
vote being Wilson, 672,35s; Taft, 46o
45T; Roosevelt, 3S1,664.
The bitter fight waged by the pre-
gressives to wrest second place fror
the republicans failed. Rooseve.
carried New York City. but tn
straight republican vote upstate wa
sufficient to save the day for the c
+ o. p
Il William Sulzer. the democratic gul
$ ernatorial candidate. ran close up
2 Wilson and the entire democrati
e state and legislative tickets wer
II through by very large plurality.
g OF the twenty-nine states that ele
ted governors only Seven, Iowa, Ka7
IS sas, Minnesota, New Hampshir
d Rhode Island, South Dakota and Wi
e consin, elected republicans and I'll
D. progressives were successful in on
a one state, Washington. The othel
n went democratic.
A. What the effect will be on the r
publican party was subject whit
,f was generally discussed today TIL
3; organization had been relegated
n. third place by the progressives. Viii
); the republicans ran second in Ne
o. York state and so maintained the
,S control of the election machinery,
4. most of the other states the progre
siyes had jumped into second plac
with all that this gave them. Th
was especially so in the south, whe
st Rosevelt polled from two to fl
RI times as many votes as We're cast I
lg 1aIl. Ou NOVtUlDcT ~, tuo poSAN
Of siyes meet in Chicago for organic
O. tion. 1t is expected that Rooseve
iii will attend the meeting and that t
party organization will be put on
/, permanent basis everywhere.
M<anwhile President Taft, fro
,,s Cincinnati, has called on the reput
on cans to organize.
at The socialists polled an unusua
or heavy vote everywhere and in sol
N. OF the southern states, their nation
nd candidate. Eugene v. Debs, led Taf
~ Kansas is Slow.
- TOPEKA, Kans. Nov. 6.-Retur
- from Kansas are notoriously slow,
cause of the far western counties
ing inaccessible. According to inco
on plete returns, Roosevelt today is lei
ad ing Wilson by about 1,50o plurali