The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1916-11-17

The senate remains unchanged, 81
Democrats to A. Republicans a Demo
cratic majority of l..
In addition to the hope of electing
4 congressman at large from New
Mexico. the Democrats had grain
Of comfort. 1t was that an official
count may disclose that Thomas ].
Scully has been reelected from the
third New Jersey district.
An unusual feature of the result is
the election Of the first to con-
gress, Miss jeanette Rankin. Repub-
lican, apparently having been elected
in Montana.
Six States Go 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:
"pruhihitinn has taken another
great leaf, forward. Michigan has
voted for statewide prohibition by
10000 pGii"iary. Nebraska by 5000.
Montana ~ .-1tRW and South Dakota
by 2l.eGo Idaho has adopted ii pro-
hibitiuff constitutional amendment by
Il nGtjurt,A -: . 10 l.. Utah has prob
ahls rle@g II 4 legislature pledged to
enact ~sll,-N9de prohibition. Wash
ingtuu r&:t Colorado, Arizona and
Arkansas have defeated attempts of
-, tEW.It.F t.,a4EIn - Ss.itra tho adm
ton VI teauiSals which would nullify
thytf ,rel4 hitory laws.
"Il.n~ - states out Of iS-one-half
Of the Siates of The Union-have now
declared for statewide prohibition.
and oven 60 per cent Of the population
and 50 per cent Of the area of the
country is now under prohibitory law"
Women Vote as Do Men.
From the general result it is clear
that as the men voted in the suffrage
states. SO did the M
In Illinois men and women seemed
about equally divided as to prefer
ence. The state went for Hughes by
a big plurality.
In Kansas, Colorado, Montana,
Washington, Oregon and California,
where women also vote, Wilson was
successful. but his pluralities were not
sufficiently large to indicate that the
woman voters supported him as a unit.
Farm Vote the Factor.
There are several great outstanding
facts concerning the result of the cleo
ton. one of which is that labor. in all
the big industrial states except Ohio,
declined to give it's undivided support
to President Wilson despite his claim
to 1T on the score of having persuaded
congress to pass the Adamson EIGHT
hour" bill. New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, In
diana, all gave the Republican candi-
date pluralities. and Ohio's vote in ia
vor Of Wilson is o certainly to be at
tributed to the labor vote.
Another interesting development was
the independence Of the West, which Is
asserting that 1t elected q president
without the aid of New York and Penn
s~ylvania and other big western and
CCllTul SldlCSs WHICH ~ WuS AOuIu
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. it
| was found that the farmer and stock
| raiser had decided the election.
Yet another fact that calls for COM
| ment 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.