Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-11-16

AS there will be four members Of
other minority parties, a working ma
jority for the Democrats is improbable
unless some of the minority members
should choose to cast their lot witt
the administration forces.
The senate, according to latest fig
ures, will consist Of 81 Democrats ans
~ Republicans, a majority of II. The
Democratic majority in the present
senate is 16.
An unusual feature Of the result If
the election Of the first woman 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 prohibit
ton was an issue. From Washington
the legislative committee of the Anti
Saloon league issued a statement, say
ing:
Prohibition has taken another
great leap forward. Michigan has
voted for statewide prohibition by
10000 majority, Nebraska by $4,000
Montana by 10000 and South Dakota
by $4,000. Idaho has adopted a pro
hibition constitutional amendment by
a majority of 3 to /. Utah has prob
ably elected a legislature pledged tc
enact statewide prohibition. Wash
ington, Iowa, Colorado, Arizona and
Arkansas have defeated attempts OF
the liquor people to secure the adop
ton of proposals which would nullify
their %prohibitory laws.
"Thus "a states out of 48-one-hal1
of tn. states of the Union-have nov
declared for statewide prohibition
and over 60 per cent Of the population
and So per cent of the area of thu
country is now under prohibitory law.
Women Vote as DO Men.
From the general result it is clea
that as the men voted in the suffrag
states, SO did the women.
In Illinois men and women seeme'
about equally divided as to prefer
ence. The state went for Hughes b
a big plurality.
t In Kansas, Colorado, Montana
Washington, Oregon and Californi;
where women also vote, Wilson wa
successful, but his pluralities were nc
$ sufficiently large to indicate that th
e woman voters supported him as a uni
: Farm Vote the Factor.
: There are several great %outstandin
a facts concerning the result of the ele'
ton, one of which is that labor, in a
t the big industrial states except Obi,
declined to give its undivided supper
r to President Wilson despite his clail
d to it on the score of having persuade
d congress to pass the Adamson leigh
e hour bill. New York, Pennsylvani
e Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, i
diana, all gave the Republican cand
date pluralities, and 0hio's vote in f
vor of Wilson is not certainly to be a
tributed to the labor vote.
Another interesting development WI
the independence Of the West, which
asserting that 1t elected a presidel
n without the aid Of New York and Pen
a sylvania and other big western al
s. central states. When it was foun
lie early in the evening of election da
y that the empire state had gone 4
Hughes, the newspapers of the metro
is oils, even those that had support,
n Wilson, conceded the victory to I
Is Republicans, without waiting to he
t. from the middle West. When the
lie turns came in from these regions,
o. was found that the farmer and sto
raiser had decided the election.
70 Yet another fact that calls for CO
70 ment Is that Governor Johnson of q
w ifornia, running on the Republican a
Sc Progressive tickets, has been elected
Is the United States senate by somethl
"A, like 100000 plurality, and yet the stf
went Democratic on the presidency.