The Arvada enterprise., 1916-11-16

Democrats to ~ Republicans; Demo
cratic majority of Il.
In addition to the hope Of clccting
Il congressman at large from New
Mexico. the Democrats had one grain
Of comfort. 1t was that an official
count may disclose that Thomas j.
SCully has been reelected from the
third New Jersey district
An unusual feature Of the result Is
the election of the first woman to con
gress. Miss jeanette Rankin. Repub-
lican, apparently having been elected
In Montana.
Six States Co Dry.
ProhibitiOniStS are Jubilant over the
results Of the election where prOhibi-
ton was an issue. From Washington
the legislative committee of the Anti
Saloon league issued Il statement, say.
Ing:
"ProhibitiOn has taken another
great leap forward. Michigan has
voted for statewide prohibition by
5000 majority, Nebraska by $1,000,
Montana by 10000 and South Dakota
by 5000. Idaho has adopted pro-
hibitlon constitutional amendment by
n majority of 3 to /. Utah has prob
ably elected n Legislature pledged to
enact statewide prohibition. Wash
ingtOn. Iowa, Colorado Arizona and
Arkansas have defeated attempts of
the liquor people to secure the adop-
tiOn of proposals which would nulliiy
their prohibitory laws.
"Thus - states out of iS-one-half
Of the states of the UniOn-have now
declared for statewide prohibition,
and over GO per cent of the population
and 81 per cent of the area of the
country is now under prohlbltory law"
Women Vote as Do Men.
From the general result 1t is clear
that ms the men voted in the suffrage
states, so did the women.
In Illinois men and women seemed
about equally divided as to prefer
cncc. The state went for Hughes by
n big plurality.
In Kansas, Colorado, Montana,
Washington, Oregon and California,
where women also vote, Wilson was
successful, but his pluraltics were not
sufficiently large to indicate that the
woman voters supported him as unit.
Farm Vote the Factor.
There are several great outstanding
facts concerning the result of the clec-
tlon, one of which is that labor. In all
the big industrial states except Ohio.
declined to give its undivided support
to President Wilson despite his claim
to 1t on the score of having persuaded
congress to pass the Adamson "cight-
hour" bill. New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Massachusetts. Michigan, In
diana. all gave the Republican candi-
date pluraliticS. and OhiO's vote in IA
vor of Wilson is not certainly to be at
tributcd to the labor vote.
Another interesting development was
the independence of the West, which Is
asserting that 1t elected n president
without the aid of New York and Penn
sylvania and other big western and
central states. When 1t was found.
early In the evening Of election day.
that the empire state had gone for
Hughes, the newspapers of the metrop-
oils. even those that had supported
Wilson, conceded the victory to the
Republicans, without waiting to hear
from the middle West. When the re-
turns came in from these regions, 1t
was found that the farmer and stock
raiser had decided the election.
Yet another fact that calls for com
mcnt Is that Governor Johnson OF Cal
ifornia. running on the Republican and
Progressive tickets, has been elected to
the United States senate by something
like 100000 plurality, and yet the state
went Democratic on the presidency.