Aberdeen herald. [volume] (Aberdeen, Chehalis County, W.T.) 1886-1917, 1912-11-07
Carly MANY STATES CON.
SlDERED DOUBTFUL
New York, New Jersey, massa.
>chusetts and Maine Go
Democratic.


hotly contested presidential campaign
since the Civil War shows . sweeping
victory for the Democratic ticket. The
verdict returned by majority Of the
15,000,000 voters of the country means
xhat Woodrow Wilson, Democratic
governor of New Jersey, will be the
next president of the United States
and Thomas r. Marshall, Democratic
governor of Indiana, will be the next
vice-president.
The three-cornered presidential con.
test brought to the polls an unprece-
rdented number of voters. Reports
from every section of the country
shows a nationwide recording-break-
ing vote.
The total number of electoral votes
is 531, and the returns indicate that
Wilson and Marshall have many more
than the 266 votes necessary to win.
Reports indicate that the electoral
vote of the Democratic candidates will
pass the 400 mark.
South Still Solid.
The so-called "solid South" Als~
bama, Arkansas. Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi. North Carolina. South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and vir
sinia, which have uniformly cast their
electoral votes for the Democratic
presidential candidates in the past
six elections, is still solidly Democrat
1c. Wilson and Marshall polling the
usual large majorities. Kentucky.
Maryland and Missouri. which with
few exceptions in the past rs years
have gone Democratic, have given
substantial Democratic majorities.
New York states IS electoral votes
will be cast for Wilson and Marshall.
The indications are that Wilson has
carried New York state by plurality
OF between 100000 and 100000. Re-
ports from all parts Of the state show
the vote was heavy, the efforts of the
three gubernatorial candidates to
with success. Congressman Sulzer,
the Democratic candidate for govern
or was elected by large plurality.
Wilson Carries Many Doubtful States
Wilson seems to have carried most
of the doubtful states. Early returns
In addition to giving Wilson and Mar
shall the solid South" indicated that
the states of Connecticut, Delaware.
Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New Jer.
sey. Massachusetts,, New York, Wes.
Virginia. Indiana and Missouri were
Democratic. As returns from the
west began to come in Montana. New
Mexico. Idaho. Oregon and California
lined up in the Democratic column.
Returns from San Francisco ana
Los Angeles made II probable that
California might Join the Wiison-Mar-
shall column.
Rhode Island became 4 doubtful
state on the early returns. and. based
ON the later votes reported. 1t seemed
not wholly improbable that its fvs
electoral votes would 90 to Wilson.
The early returns gave an apparent
victory to TAFT in New Hampshire.
but the Taft plurality dwindled a. tho
returns came In.
The vote in Utah a. reflected In the
early dispatches gave indications that
that state would be carried for Taft.
The vote In Pennsylvania was amax.
ingly close. the returns from more
than 1000 precincts embracing $4,000
votes giving each of the three leading
presidential candidates more than co..
900 votes.
President Tafts lead in Philadelphia
districts was offset by the heavy vote
polled by Roosevelt and Wilson in
other parts of the state.
Many surprises were shown in the
returns. The New York state Assem-,
bly, seemed to be overwhelmingly
Democratic. In Illinois, indications
were that Judge Dunno. the Demo
cratic candidate for governor, had
won Notwithstanding the heavy Roose-
welt victory. Former Speaker Cannon
seemed to have been defeated for re-
election to congress in Illinois.
In addition to Roosevelts appar.
sntly certain victory in Illinois, tn
confident claims of the Roosevelt
managers that Iowa, Michigan and
Kansas would fall into the Roosevelt
column seemed verified by the par.
xially complete returns. The returns
from California. while meager, indi.
Gated q Wilson victory. The uncer-
tainty regarding Vermont was settled
by the announcement Of the complete
vote. which gave Taft majority Of
S24 votes.
The Providence. r. l., Journal. con
ceded that state to Wilson, and with
the vote close in New Hampshire. II
seemed probable that New England's