The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1915-11-05
Returns Forecast Victory For
Grand Old Party In New York
And Massachusetts, Where
Race For Governor Is Close
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PROHIBITION APPEARS ..5
LOST IN OHIO FIGHT
Democrats Garry Kentucky, While
Results In New Jersey and
Maryland Cannot Be Predicted
Mississippi Confirms Primary
tA,aOcinted Press BY Federal wirslsss.)

NYEW YORK, November 3.-Re-
~ turns on the elections held in
o;ght states yesterday, which arc
available at one clock this morning.
Indicate a Republican victory. The
next legislature of this state win %
Republican and the Republican candi
cate for governor in Massachusetts, is
leading his Democratic opponent.
OF the constitutional questions up
suffrage has been beaten in this state,
Massachusetts and Pennsylvania, and
Prohibition apparently has been defeat
Ell in Ohio. The constitution framed
for New York by the constitutional
convention, over which Elihu Root
lIesided, also has been rejected.
Outrage Badly Beaten
In New York returns at hand show
that the new assembly will be Repub.
hcan by n safe majority. Suffrage has
Leen defeated badly, and while IL !.
impossible TO tell how large the major
ity against it is, persons in close touch
with the vote say it will be at least
100000.
I he fate of the proposed constitution
remains in doubt, but it not believed
t win he accepted, according to the
way the vote is running. The chief fea-
tnrc of the proposed measure is 70
give cities more latitude in govern
ncnt.
New York also is voting on three con
lressmen and eleven supreme court
justices, but the returns are slow and
it is difficult to forecast the outcome
The candidates for congress are: Will
lin 3. Bennett, Republican, and Els
worth J. Healy, Democrat, both of New
York, in the twenty third district
if"rtrand Y, Spsn, Of otsdam,. Repub.
Ecan, William /. Allen of Malone
Democrat, and Howard D.. Hadley OF
pittsburgh, oppressive, in the thirty
first district; and Norman s. Gould O.
seneca Falls, Republican Progressive
aid Louis J. LIGHT of Geneva, Demo
'Fat, in the thirty-sixth
Republicans Claim Bay State
The election in Massachusetts is ex
citing universal interest for the Repub
hcan and Democratic candidates are
trimming neck -to-neck race. At on,
o'clock this morning Samuel w. Nc
Cali, the Republican candidate for gov
tTnor, was leading Governor David
Walsh. his Democratic opponent, by q
Larrow margin.
98S gave Mccall 1882 votes and
Walsh lS3,075. Managers for Mccall
are claiming his election, declaring the
missing dir tri:ts are all voting heaviI
for him and will increase his majority
substantially.
The other candidates for governor
are Nelson B. Clark, Progressive; vii
am Shaw, Prohibitionist; Walter 9
HbtchIns, Socialist, and Peter O 'Rourke
Socialist Labor.
Suffrage Also Defeated
Massachusetts has defeated suffrage
10y almost as heavy vote proportion
ately as in New York Mrs. Katherin.
lalch, president of the Massachusetts
Anti-Suffrage Association, at midnight
issued statement claiming defeat BY
100000 votes. Mrs. Balch based hel
estimate on the vote at hand, which i,
SIXTY per cent of the whole.
No forecast can be made this early
on the proposition of giving the legis
lature authority to levy income taxes.
Women Lose Pennsylvania
Suffrage was the chief issue in tn,
Pennsylvania election and as in New
York and Massachusetts, has been re
irctGd by heavy vote. Forecasts OF
the majority, however, are not avail
abled Neither are returns at hand suf
fcieIIt on which to predict who tn,
State S new congressman will be.
Philadelphia yesterday held a mu
ricipal election in common with many
other municipal and county elections IL
the State, but the outcome is not YET
nown.
The Republican organization is re
ported to have turned in a heavy vote
in an effort to wrest control from thu
reform element, which has been repre-
rented for four years by Mayor Blank
"nbnfP. The Republican candidate Il
Thomas b. Smith, The reform candi
date "is George ID. Porter, who was di
rector of public safety under Mayor
Hlankenburg until he resigned to heaC
tho Franklin (PrOgressivO party
ticket. "@ -
Vets Claim Ohio Victory
Prohibition was the chief issue up il
ChiO.F There has been a vigorous con
test there between the "wets" an,
"drys' and a heavy vote was cas-
vest Hrday as a result. The "wets" ap
pear to have won the victory, however
with IL majority of $4,000.
9he Democrats appear to have elect
'd their candidate for governor in Ken
t,cky. A O. Stanley, the candidate
has majority of 5000, according t.
tn available returns. Edwin +. Nor
row is the Republican nominee, an,
Fred J. lrexler heads the Progressiv