The Kennewick courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1905-1914, 1912-11-08
'c0uNTRY SWEPT
BY DEMOCRATS
Wilson will Receive Largest Elec.
toral Vote in History---House
will be Democratic

New York.-The result of the most
botlv contested presidential campaign
since the Civil War shows a sweeping
victory for the Democratic ticket. The
verdict returned by majority of the
IL. 100000 voters of the country means
that 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-
dented number of voters. Reports
from every section of the country
shows a nationwide recording break
ing vote.
The total number of electoral votes
is sci, 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" Ala
bama, Arkansas, Florida, Louisiana,
Mississippi, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Tennessee, Texas and Vir-
ginia, which have uniformly cast their
electoral votes for the Democratic
presidential candidates in the past
six elections, is still solidly Democrat
ic, Wilson and Marshall polling the
usual large majorities. Kentucky,
Maryland and Missouri, which with
few exceptions in the past 25 years
have gone Democratic, have given
substantial Democratic majorities.
New York states As 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
bring out the voters being rewarded
with success. Congressman Sulzer,
the Democratic candidate for govern
or was elected by a 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, West
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 anc
Los Angeles made it probable that
California might join the Wilson-Mar-
shall column.
Rhode Island became a doubtful
state on the early returns, and, based
ON the later votes reported, it seemed
not wholly improbable that it's five
electoral votes would go to Wilson
The early returns gave an apparent
victory to Taft in New Hampshire,
but the Taft plurality dwindled as the
returns came in.
The vote in Utah as reflected in the
early dispatches gave indications that
that state would be carried for Taft.
The vote ia PENNSYLVANIA was amaz-
insly close, the returns from more
than 1000 precincts embracing $4,000
votes giving each of the three leading
presidential candidates more than 60,
600 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-
oily 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
entity certain victory in Illinois, tn.
confident claims of the Roosevelt
managers that Iowa, Michigan and
hansas would fall into the Roosevelt
column seemed verified by the par
TALLY complete returns. The returns
from California, while meager, indi
Gated a Wilson victory. The 'uncer
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