Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
MAJoRiTlEs AND PLuRALlTlEs
I FLucTuATE MORE OR LESS IN
EVERY CAMPAIGN
cUMMlNs HOLDS RECORD
FOR BIG PLURALITY
Defeated Jerry Sullivan by Almost
so,ooo-vote Always Heaviest in
Presidential Years and This Year Ex-
peeted to Break All Records-5oies
Won by Small Margin.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, Nov. Z. Republican
majorities and pluralities in Iowa have
fiuctuated more or less in past
years. The margin between the votes
which candidates for governor Of the
two leading parties have received in
this state has been all the way from
100 to 10000
Two years ago, Governor Clarke, in
running for his second term, won out
over John T. Hamilton by 25,S45 votes.
Governor Clarke received 2O7,SS1 votes
while Hamilton got 1S2,036- But In
1912 when the progressive party was
strong in Iowa the republicans had q
decidedly close shave on the governor
ship. Clarke received 1S4,14S and
Dunn received 1S2.449 thus giving
Clarke a margin of only 1853. The
progressive candidate IN 1912, Judge
John L. Stevens, polled 71,S77 votes.
The total vote cast for governor In 1872
was 461,2O6 and in 1914 it was 422,o7s
The biggest plurality which any re-
publican candidate ever polled IN
Iowa was in 1903 when Albert b. Cum
Minis, the republican nominee won out
over the democratic nominee jerry B.
Sullivan by 1909 votes. Cummins
received 23s,s04 votes and Sullivan
159,725. And Jerry Sullivan was
strong candidate at that. In 1913 Car
roll had plurality over Fred J. Whlte
Of 60,O51 having received 206,9S0 votes
to 196,s29 cast foc. white That year
was presidential year and there was
the heaviest vote cast in the history
of the state, the total vote on governor
being i71,6oSS It 1912 the total vote
for governor. as shown in previous
statement, was 461,206. The vote is
always heaviest in presidential years
and except in 1912 when the progress
sives were strong the margin between
the republicans and democrats Is al
ways more markedly in favor OF the
republican than in other years.
Democratic Times.
when Horice Boies was elected gov
ernor the first time, in the year 1852
on anti prohibition platform, he de-
feated the republican nominee Joseph
Hutchinson by 6,656 votes Boies re-
ceived 1901 votes and Hutchinson
173,450. Two years later Boies was re-
elected by s,215 votes to the good over
Hiram c. Wheeler. the republican
nominee. That year Boies received
207,5 94 votes and Wheeler 199,3S1. Boies
was defeated for his third term. how
ever, in 1893 by Frank D. Jackson.
Governor Jackson received 2O6,s2l
votes and Boies 1855 thus giving the
republican candidate 32.166 votes to
the good.
Boies was not the only democratic
governor Iowa ever had however. The
records show that Iowa's first COVER
nor, Ansel Briggs. elected when the
state first came into the union, was
democrat. He won out by less than 300
votes. however, over his opponent,
Thomas Mcknight. who Is listed as a
whig. There was total Of 1905 votes
cast for governor in 1916 of which
Briggs received 1926 and Mcknight
1879. In 1850 Stephen Hampstead. a
democrat, was elected governor with
vote Of 1886 while James L. Thomp-
son, wing, received 11,A52. The aboli-
ton party had a candidate that year in
the person of James Penn Clark who
received 500 votes. In 1854 WING,
James w. Grimes, was elected COVER
nor and In 1857 the republican party
came into power in this state electins
Ralph p. Lowe for governor. From
then on up to the time Of Horace
Boies, Iowa went continuously repuoli-
can on the 4governorship.