The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-11-26
Gets Biggest Majority in
Virginia Under New
Constitution.
CARRIES ALL SAVE
TWO COUNTIES
Carroll for Taft; Floyd fol
Roosevelt-Ayers, Though De-
feated, Received More Votes
Than Any Other Democrat.
Official Vote Is Can
vassed.

Confirmation OF the enormous major
ity given Woodrow Wilson ana the
Democratic ticket generaiiS In v"
Rtpia in the election OF November
was given yesterday when the omeiA'
vote Of the State was ascertaineo oS
the board OF canvassers. The returns
were gone over and vesined: ana INT
results recorded and certihed TO.
Tn. Official count SHOWS that Gov
srnor Wilson received s0.332 votes In
virginia: that william Howard TAFT
Repubiican. received 23.2ss: that Theo'
dore Roosevelt. Progressive. received
Zi,777: that Eugene v. Debs. socialist
received $40; that Eugene w. Cham.
Prohibitionist. received 1ee. and tnas
Arthur Z. Reimer, Socialist-Labor. re-
ceived 80.
Striking CenDarisons.
Wilson's plurality over Tart Is 67.o4i;
over Roosevelt. es.s5s. His majority
over TAT: and Roosevelt combined ID
S5.0S5. In other words the Democratic
majority over the combined Republican
and Progressive elements Is greater
than their vote.
The vote received BY Wilson 10
greater than that given William Jen-
nings Bryan IN 1895 by 1856. The COM
bined vote Of Taft and Roosevelt this
year II 1905 fewer than that Of Nj.
Taft four years ago.
The vote for Debs shows a big In
crease. growing from ESQ in 1908 to $40
in 1912. That for Chain. Prohfbitionist.
has about a corresponding loss. from
LII four years ago to 709 this year.
1, Is worthy OF note that the COM
bir.d vote for the Democratic candi-
date for Congress far exceeds that for
WIIson-in fact. it barely misses the
total OF 100000 Wilson had $685.
votes, while the ten Democratic nomt-
n.cs for the House received ss.oss.
This is explainable. no doubt, In part
by the greater difficulty In marking the
presidential part Of the ticket. Those
marked incorrectly a. to President but
properly as 70 Congress were counted
Tor the latter under the law.
In C6ngressloaal Dlssx1ctA
In the First District. w. A. Jones
received 1851 votes. against 1888 for
Wilson. In the Tenth. II. d. Flood re-
ceiyed e.eI5. against s.347 for Wilson.
Another curious fact 10 that four OF
the ten Democrats received votes OF
IL. 900 odd-Jones Holland. Montague
ana Hay Carlin and Flood come close
behind.
The largest vote given for . Demo-
Graf for Congress was cast for Hufus
A. Ayers. in the Ninth District. being
1887. He was. however. Defeated BY
c. B. S!emp. Republican, who received
1856, making an ofi.cial plurality for
SIemp over Ayers OF l.011- Tho
vote for Walter Graham. Progressive.
was 1905.
The majority for Edward W. Saund-
srs in the Fifth District was 1850. the
CONGRESSMAN having received s.S7S
votes. against SAC for A B. Hammer.
his Republican opponent Two yeass
ago Judge Saunders only had . ma
jority Of 1855. James Hay. In the Ssv-
enth. received Io.ols. while only 1850
were cast for George n Earman. Re-
publican
The socialist candidates for Oon-
gress polled . much larger vote theo
d3d Dsbs. the head Of their tackes-sx-
planned In part By the fast that n
some districts Republicans voted fes
the Socialists where they had no candt-
dases Of their own. There was Q 6ooaa1-
jst candidate for Congress In every dis
trict, polling . total vote In the Sease
OF ASA. against only go Tor Dshe.
Nathan Psrkins, In the Tenth District
alone got more votes than Debe. his
total bsing sl1. Perhaps Rspublicans
voted for him to avoid cass1ng their
ballots for either NcCullooh. the Pro-
Sressive, or Flood, the Demo0raG
In the Sixth District. there was .
confusion about names. Colonel James
s. Browning. the Progressive candi-
dates. failed to get his name on the
Official ballots. and relied on rubber
stamps at the precincts According
to the oflicial returns. he got 1853 votes
In his real name and 723 In Floyd
County a. James r. Browning. This
may be due to an error Of the County
Commissioners Of Election He carried
Floyd. receiving 773 votes TO az fos
Carter Glass. Democrat
Tsfs 81 TeAAy o. EssA
The utter Republics and Ball Moose
rout is strikingly shown in the 3acs
that Taft carried but one county IN
the State-CarroIl-and that Roosevelt
carried but one-F1oyd Wilson carried
twenty cities. It 10 also worthy Of note
that Wilson carried every county in
the Ninth District Carroll being In the
FIFTH and Floyd in the Sixth OF course.
In q good many counties the combine6
Taft and Roosevelt vote exceeds that
80 Wilson.
On the amendments to the C0n0e3tD-
ton. the major'ties were large. o.
that permitting cities TO adopt 0o0-
mission government collie citisoas
voted aye" and 1880 no" TSs
amendment permitting c1sy oon@i0-
sioners Of the revenue % success them.
selves In once was rs&iaea ~ o vose
Of ss.lss for and 3eso0 against That
permitting city treasursr0 20 Suc0oe1
themselves was rssjeed by g7,eo4 %
ce.7za.
The counties Of Amelia. Bah, CAes-
serAeId. Highland Pa4rsck, PrSDes0U
Anne. RockinShan anA he city q
Buena Vista voted aGain0e shs troo0-
urers' smen1ment 10 b noted shss The
only city 90 20 against this smen1.
sn~ut 10 the one where 4 o. BuSks. enc
Treasurer and leading spirit On the
3ressurers' ana ComRssssoners' AWo.
(costinsed % EeAsh PsGs.I