The Penn's Grove record., 1914-11-06

l8S given Mr.. Straus two years ago.
The great Republican landslide in
New York was reflected in Connect
cut and Pennsylvania, but there it
stopped. There was no national land
slide. There were Republican victor
les in some States and Democratic
victories in others, but taking the field
as a whole it vas a drawn battle. Out
side OF the little block of the Union
including these three sister States the
appeal to support the President in
this time of war did not go ~unheeded.
Even Massachusetts elected a Demo
cratic Governor, returning Gov. Walsh
to office, though by a greatly reduced
plurality. His plurality of $4,000 a
year ago slumped to 5000, but he was
elected, despite the fact that his Re-
publican opponent, Samuel w. Mccall,
is a national figure and one of the
strongest men in the State. The rest
OF the Democratic ticket appears to
have been defeated.
The Democrats carried Illinois,
electing Roger C. Sullivan to the Unit
ed States Senate over the present Re-
publican Senator, Lawrence Y. Sher-
man, and the Progressive candidate,
Raymond Robins, and yet a hard
fight was made against Sullivan, and
two United States Senators of his
own party urged Illinois Democrats
to bolt him.
Maryland returned a Democratic
Senator, John Walter Smith, by a plur-
atty of 10000.
In Indiana one of the Wilson lead
ers in the Senate, Benjamin F. Shive-
ly, was returned to his old post by
10000 plurality after an extremely
hard fight. This stands out from
among other Senatorial elections as
a distinct Administration victory.
But in Pennsylvania, Boies Penrose
swept the State for United States SEN
ator, and B~rumbaugh, the Republican
candidate, for Governor.
In Connecticut there was a landslide
of New York proportions. The Repub-
licans carried everything. A Con-
g%ressional delegation of five Demo
Gratis became n of five Republicans.
Senator B~randegee, Republican, was
reelected by from $1,000 to $4,000, de-
feating Gov. Simeon E. Baldwin. The
whole Republican State ticket was
elected, as well as the Legislature.
In Wisconsin, La Follette's State,
the Republicans are still in control.
Their candidate, Phillin. is elected
Governor, though is a standpatter and
not a La Toilette Republican. Nc
Govern, the candidate for Senator,
who quarreled with La Toilette two
years ago and supported Roosevelt, is
elected.
South Dakota, one Of the Roosevelt
States of 1912, has gone Republican,
electing Congressman Charles H.
Burke, a standpatter, to the seal in
the Senate occupied by Senator Craw-
ford, a Progressive Republican.
The old standpat warehouses; turned
out by Congress two years ago-"Un-
Gle Joe" Cannon and William B. Nc
Kinley, President Taft's manager
have been returned to Washington by
comfortable majorities. Wisconsin
again returns a Socialist Congress
man in Victor Berger's old district.
Reports from, Ohio indicate that the
amendment extending suffrage to wo-
men has been defeated and that the
Statewide prohibition candidate prop
osition has met a like fate. Woman
suffrage was also defeated in North
Dakota. Prohibition probably won in
Colorado. Missouri voted overwhelm-
ingly against woman suffrage.
Democratic Governors have been
elected in. Massachusetts, where Gov.
Walsh was successful; in Georgia,
South Carolina, Texas and Michigan.
Republican Governors were elected in
Dakota and Wisconsin to sue
coed present incumbents of the same
party.
In the contest for seats in the
United States Senate the most notable
victories were those of Boise Penrose,
Republican, in Pennsylvania, and.
Frank B~randegee, Republican, in Con-
necticut. A. B. Cummings of Iowa
was also successful, as was w. J.
Harding, Republican, in Ohio,
Other men elected to- the Senate
were Underwood, in Alabama; Shiv-
ley, in Indiana; Clark, in Arkansas;