The Plattsmouth journal. (Plattsmouth, Nebraska) 1901-current, November 07, 1912, Image 3
WILSON WINS IN NEBRASKA Shalleiiberger for scrat'.ir Is a little behind Morehead. Owijig to the fact that Hie vote was heavy and that the I,al!ot is over eight foot long, the count Is necessarily low. Central CMy Midland pree'net gives: Taft. 20; Wi!;on, 7'!; Roos" WILSON HAS 400 ELECT0RS Figures in Doutilful States Give Him the Advantage. etate, so far as confirmed by nearri complete returns. The Democratic presidential pluraV lty Is the largest New Yo-k state has ever given that party. The totals ar as follows: For president: Wilson, 648,066; Taft. 477.274; Roosevelt. 381,000. Wil son's plurality, 200.792. For governor William Sulzer (Dem.), 649,806; Job E. Hedges (Rep.), 444. 3S2; Oscar P. Straus (Prog.). 205,124. Of the forty-three New York con pressmen, thirty one Democrats and twelve Republicans appear to be elect ed. His Plurality in Stale Estimatsd at 39,000. RETURNS C3HE SLOW AS USUAL; HUGE VOTE IN NEW YORK, Majority for Morehead for Governor Outside of Douglas County About 15,000 Norris Is Leading Shallen berger for United States Senator. Omaha, Nov. 6. The success of Woodrow Wilson in the Nebraska presiiii ntial poll and the victory ot iUon head for governor were indicated h returns received this morning. From .scattered returns Irom a ma jority oi' the counties of tho state, re turns from the eastern halt' prcdomi lrUing. it. appeared Wilson's electoral ticLc t would come to Douglas county with a lead of over 35,000 over that of iioosovc.lt, who appeared to ho leading President. Taft by CO per cent. Adding his expected Douglas county plurality, v 't V ' -. . ' ? i .' ' i f V ml 1 I , , V( ' ' ' ) ' ' ' air v 1 i ' -"" H I i- -III r IIIM Mill IMIlllU JOHN H. MOREHEAD. he should receive Nebraska's electoral vote by 39,000. Senator M'ireliead's estimated plu rality in the Ftate, outside of Douglas county, was 15,000, a conclusion based upon a far less complete count than that for presidential preference. For United States senator Shallen Lcrgcr Is running behind his ticket. Unless the trend of the returns changes, he will be behind Norris when the state votes outside of Doug las county is compiled. Returns on preside V- from 124 pre cincts outside of Douglas county gave: Wilson, 12,991; Roosevelt, 8,291; Taft, 6,072. The same precincts In 1908 gave Bryan 15,400 and Taft 15,059. They include 13.3 per cent of the vote out side of Douglas county. Returns from thirty-five precincts, s. ft HERMAN' DIER3. 6 per cent ol the '-cite outride of Doug las county, cave: Norris, 5.193; Shal leiiberger, 5,172. The same precinct in 190S gave Taft 5.504, Hrvan 0,003. In thirty-nine precincts outride of 1ott';las (o::!ity, ca'-tii,g slkht'y less than F, p( r (tnt of the vote, Morohrad .-ecclveil 5,(;i;2 voIm, to i.:;!i cast for Aldrh-h. In 1'( S, in these precincts, Dsyan ifcclved 5.729 votes to 5,2r,S cast for Taft. L'otmrepsionnl returns were extn me ly maer. Six scattered precincts In t'no Third district gave Stephens 323, Cool; .120. In the same precincts in i9')S, Lnttn. the successful cnndh!ato, lereived 3"R and Iloyd 34S. Dresldi nt Taft had hut. a single sup porter at the polls In Westntnrk pre-d'-f t of Plu-lps county. Roosevelt re. I veil SO votes In that precinct, Wll . on 22 and Tnft 1. Wilson and Morehead In Douglas. Omaha R. turns from ten scattered precincts show these results on pre si lent: Wilson. 1.18S; Roosevelt, 801; Tnft. 577. Morehead for governor np pears to be holding the Wilson vote solid, and about half of the Taft vote 1 7 &V i v . :' ;.. - J : ' : ; ': CONGRESSMAN NOItRIS. veil, 4t; Aldricu, G3; Morehead, 83; Norris, SO; Shallcnuerger, 5S. Lincoln Normal precinct (Bryan's voting precinct) gives: Wilson, 77; Roosevelt, 47; Tatt, 2ii. Same in 1908: Bryan, 11; Taft, 52. Two precincts in the city of IJn coln give Talt 379, Wilson (i36, Roose velt 236. Same lu 1908 gave Taft 582, Bryan CG2. North Dakota. Grand Forks, Nov. 6. With the re turns nt hand the indications are that Woodrow Wilson has carried North Dakota, but by what majority it is at this time impossible to estimate. Taft and Roosevelt are running close together, but are far behind the Democratic candidate. At this hour the indications are that the Republican state ticket, headed by Congressman L. B. Hanna, for gov ernor, has won the election by a safe margin. Returns are coming In slowly, but those already received are from every pait of the state. Grand Forks Twenty-two precincts In North Dakota give Tart 509, Wilson 832 and Roosevelt 043. Scattering returns from thirty pre cincts give Taft 822, Wilson 1,127 and Roosevelt 882 Owing to a redlvislon of the state since 1908, a comparison of the presi dential vote that year Is impossible. New Jersey. Newark, Nov. 6. New Jersey has given Wilson a plurality estimated up on meager returns at 35,000 to 45,000 over Roosevelt. Returns showed Taft r.i third place. His vote was less than naif of Wilson's. The heavlebt vote ever cast in tho itat.e and a long ballot delayed the count. But 127 districts of the state's 1,778 had been heard from. They gave Wilson S,4ol, Taft 3,972 and Roose velt, 5,818. Ten of the state's representatives In the next congress will be Democrats; Vwo will be Republicans. The Demo crats gain three over their present rep resentation. A Democrat will likely succeed Frank O. Briggs as United States sen ator. Whether the president of the state senate, who will succeed Wilson as governor, will be a Democrat wns un determined hy early returns. California. San Francisco, Nov. 6. Returns from the largest three Calilornia cities and from scattered precincts from ev ery section . of the interior, Califor nia indicates that the women's plural ity In the presidential contest will be shade down to a very narrow margin wncn the complete count is made. Roosevelt apparently has a plurality in excess of 20,000 in Los Angeles county and has carrk d Alameda coun ty by a fair margin. V'llson, on the basis of early returns, " ill have a plu rality of 6,000 In San Kanclseo county. Returns from a large majority of the interior counties show large Wilson pluralities and these, added to his read In San Francisco, threaten to overcome the Roosevelt plurality in the Angeles and Alameda string hold. The rituatlon was one in which tho Indicated margin for either candidate was so small that it would be Idle to forecast tho final result. Wisconsin. Mllwpukeo, Nov. 6. Complete re tunib from Milwaukee, county and scattered precincts throughout the Plate Indicate that Governor Wood row Wilson has swept Wisconsin hy from 20.000 to 30,000. The Democratic enndidnle carried Milwaukee county over Fivt ldrnt Taft by close to 10,000 and !ik meaner returns from upstate show Ihnt W'.'son Is running oven la strong Republican districts. Roosevelt Is running behind Taft ex cept In Winnebago county, which tho Progressive candidate carried by a small margin over Wilson. Milwauket Sixteen precincts out (if 2,215 In Wisconsin give Taft 952, Wil son 1,012 and Roosevelt 426. Berger Is Defeated. Milwni'kce, Nov. 6. Congressman i Victor L. Bergcr of Milwaukee, the ! only Socialist In congress, was defeat j d for reelection. Kansas. ' Topcka The first five of the 2..100 Kansas iireclnets to report give Roosevelt. 164; Wilson, 162; Taft, 102. l A V- ' J y : ' :. . t A ?' - 1 Prcsidcnt-Elcct IOWA VOTES FOR DEMOCRATS Returns From Southern Coun ties Destroy Roosevelt's Lead. WILSON HiS SAFE PLURALITY, t i Republican State Ticket on Early Re-' ports Appears to Be Elected by Gen erally Good Sized Pluralities Long! Eailot Ltldys Count. Des Moinco, Nov. ti. Figures from uooui jue-io..i tu oi tne precincts iu l.iu siaij ii.n u court. a Unsoii anead uf CoiOiifi ijLoeveit uy a plurality oi 4,COo to ti.otiy, H the puheiu ratio con Ulllltb. Karlior returns had glvtu lloosevelt u bubstuntiul lead oi murly 25,000, es iiniated. 'lhcse Usures were based ou n j.Oit.s from the noitiiorn part of tuc state, which had been conceded to be the Roosevelt stronghold. Reports from the southern counties, however materially changed the situation. Returns Irom 559 precincts outside of Polk county, Des Moines, give: Taft, 31,246; Wilson, 48,513; Roosevelt 47,561. Same precincts in 1908 gave: Taft, 34 250; Bryan, 64,719. Des Moines, Nov. 6 With consider ably less than one-fourth of tho total precincts in the state heard from Roosevelt appeared to be leading Wil son by from 24,000 to 26,000. Later re Urns had a tendency to cut this figure, but if the present ratio Is kept up the colonel thould have a plurality of more than 20,000. Iate reports Indicate that George W. Clarke (Rep.) had defeated his Democratic opponent, K. G. Dunn, bul definite returns were unavailable. Re ports on congressmen were bo scat tered ns to mean little or nothing Congressman I. S. Pepper (Detn.) ol the Second district, was tho only one whose election was certain. Des MoinoH, Nov. 6. The two first precincts In Iowa to report, located In Des Moines, cive: Tart, 90; Wilson 123; Roosevelt, 160. Scattered estimates rrom fitx conn ties in Iowa indicated that Roosevelt had a slight lead. Sixteen precincts In Des Moines give; Taft. 10.11; Wilson, 1,581; Roose veil. 1,827. Fifteen precincts In Des Motnef five for governor; Clarke (Rep), 1, 702; Dunn (Detn), 1,016; Stevens (Pro?.'.), M.ifl. Prnnsylvania. Philadelphia, Nov. 6. Wilson nnf R'Misevelt are running neck and ncci in Pennsylvania. In 1,043 out of 5.37', election districts In the state outsldt of Philadelphia, Taft had 38,545 votes' Wilson, 62.032, and Roosevelt, 62,04ii In Philadelphia, will; less than half ol the returns In. Taft leads Wilson bj 14,000 votes and Roosevelt by 11,000 Philadelphia Returns from elertlor districts In wards In Philadelphia usually carried by Republican organl zatlon leaders show that Taft Is lead Ing by nliout two to one over the com blned vote of Wilson and Roosevelt In the state outside of Philadelphia lh first returns showed Wilson leadln strongly. Woodrow Wilson One hundred and fourteen election districts out of 0.503 In Pennsylvania give Taft 6,987. Wilson 5,496 ant Roosevelt 4,735. t Colorado. Denver, Nov. 6. Returns recelvo from 378 precincts In thirty counties including 174 In Denver, Indicate thai Wilson has carried the state by a sub stantial plurality. These reports on straight ballets give Wilson 22,801 Taft 11,308 and Roosevelt 15,355. Figured on an estimated total vot of 270,(00 in the state, Colorado should give Wilson a plurality of about 40,000 Wink' the Indicated WIIon lend prol.nblj will carry through practlcall) the entire Democratic stats ticket, the Republican and Progressive leaders have not conceded the election of 8 Democratic legislature, which will elect two United Sttaes senators. Par tlal returns from the city of Dcnvet 'ndicn'e that the state-wide prohl uition amendment had been defeated decisively. Indiana. Indianapolis Twenty-seven pre clnrts out of 3,172 in Indiana give: Taft. 2.033. Wilson. 3,987; Roosevelt 2,314. Same precincts In 1908 gave: Taft. 5.132, Drynn, 4,460. Indianapolis. Nov. 6. Indiana appir enlly went overwhelmingly Demo cratie Governor Wilson, on the basis of 511 precinct? out of 3,172 precincts in the state, had almost as many votes as Taft an.l Roosevelt combined. For governor, Samuel Ralston (DenO led over Albert J. Peverldgr (Rrog.) jnd William T. Durbin (Rep.) Oregon. Portland, Nov. 6. Scattering return: from the Ktate nnd Incomplete return.' Irom Multnomah county (Portland' Indlcn'o that Wilson hns rained Ore gon hy a safe plurality, with Roosevcl: sc. ond. Tl'c '-eiiatoi lal light appari nt ly lies between lien Zallng (Rep.) nirl Harry Ijine I'lem ). loniihan Bournr (Rep.), Iik ur.-.l pnt, Is running third In the early returns Women suffrage Is running "vn, wh'lo single tax Is do feated overv.he'iiiiiigiy. Mcrtma. Billings, Nov. 0 - m first two pre cincts reported In Montana give; Wi! ' son, 343; P.ooevelt, 324; Tnft, 273. THOMAS R. MARSHALL. Miss Ilallie l'annele wax a pas sender lliis moriiiim: on No. 15 for ffik '' )f & Oinalia lo visit iliirinp: (lie day. President Elect Has Lead of Two Hurtdred Thousand Over Taft, and President Leads T. R. by Sixty Thou sand Women Win in Four States. New York, Nov. 7. Only the uueer tuinty of a few close states wnose elec toral vote in no way ran affect tiio election of Wilson and Marshall, spec ulalion over tho popular vote of the three presidential candidates and tho complexion of legislatures that will name United States senators, held In terest In tho final returns or the gen ual election. The total of the Republican electoral column apparently was fixed at the twelve votes of Idaho, Utah and Ver mont, but the footing of the Wilson and Roosevelt columns flickered alter natc'ly, as late returns from Kansas, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wyom ing gave indications of change from the results previously accepted. On the basis of the latest returns, with tho vote of Kansuis, Minnesota, South Dakota and Wyoming placed In the "doubtful" column, Presidentelect Wilson had 400 certain votes In the electoral college, Colonel Roosevelt 7G and President. Tart 12. All of the doubtful states except South Dakota gave more or less cer tain Indications during the night ol landing In the list of Wilson electoral votes; while South Dakota's returns showed a general trend townrd a Roosevelt policy. Woman Suffrage Wins. A by-phaso of the general election was the success of woman's suffrage In four of the five states where constltu lional amendments were submitted to the people. The victory of the women was complete In Kansas, Arizona and probably Michigan; late returns from Oregon Indicated they had succeeded there also, while from Wisconsin came return showing the decisive defeat of the equal suffrnge proposal. Assertions were made from several quarters, where an effort had been made to gather preliminary populai vote figures, that Governor Wilson had not secured a majority of the totes enst throughout the country. Es timates rnnged from a small majority ol all votes to figures nearly 1,000,00(1 below a majority. The popular votes, however, would In no way affect his election, or his complete control of the electoral col lege, should It show his total to he less than thnt of the combined vote of Hoosevclt and Tnft. Many Surprises. There were many surprises. Early In the day New Hampshire, first cred ited to Taft, went Into the Wilson col umn with a majority of about 1.5D0 for the Democratic candidate. Returns from Idaho, which came In scattering form early In the day, fuvored WIIboii 80 strongly as to create the belief that It would give him Its electoral vote, hut later returns made It the third state to go certainly for President Taft. The Roosevelt forces, watching the returns hourly as they came from II1I nols, suffered a scare as the down State Democratic districts reduced Colonel Roosevelt's plurality from Cools county until It promised to dis appear. Later a complete report from Cook county again swelled the Rcxrso velt majority In the stato nnd seeming ly made certain the control of Illinois' twenty-nine votes hy the Progressive candidate. Kansas, which had been conceded to Roosevelt by all Interests on the preliminary returns, gradually slipped hack during the day until It had become a question whether Wilson or Roosevelt would control Its ten Totes. Governor Wilson had the better of the situation In Iowa and Minnesota, where the counting still wns In prog ress, with but a narrow mnrgln be twecn the cnndldnteB, while South Da kota, still a doubtful Ktnte. apparently had turned toward Roosevelt on the later returns. Whether the Democrats, In the wide spread victories of Tuesday, have so cured control also of the United States Bnnte Is a question that will not bo BYttlcd for n dav or two. In many MatcH where counting still was going on the control of the leklslatures Is In doubt. , In the twenty-nine states electing governors, the Democrats not only maintained their own, recording to !ate returns, but overthrew majorities lr. three slates Illinois, Missouri and Nebraska In which Republicans were the Ineu.nhei.ts. In ndditlon the elec tion of a Democrat to succeed Wilson In New Jersey was assured. Frank J O'llalr (Dem.) Is victor over former Speaker Joseph 0. Can non for congress In the Eighteenth Illinois district bv 011 plurality. EMPIRE STAtFlIBERAL Wilson Gets Largest Plurality New York Ever Gave Democrat. New York, Nov. 7. A Wilson plural lty of practically an even 200,000 vote over Tnft, n Taft lead of OO.Ooo over Roosovclt and a similar alignment ol partita In the gubernatorial voto Is the result of the election In Now York WIN SENATE They Are Sure ot Forty-Four Ssats and Heed but Five Mere. Washington, Nov. 7. With an over win lining Democratic majority in the house of representatives returns indi cate a prohaMlity of tho success of sul'ieieut number of Democratic sena torial candidates to give the Denu erats control of both branches of con gress. There still Is sufficient uncer tainty regarding new state legislature to make the senate situation Indefinite. In the present light forty-rour of tht ninety-six senators may be assigned definitely to the Democrats. Those ars the thirty-holdovers, the five already elected from Alabama, Kentucky, Lou isiana, Mississippi and Virginia and the nine to be chosen from southern states in which Democratic legisla tures are supposed to have been elect ed. To Insure the forty nulne votes nec essary to control there must be a fur ther gaii of five senators, all of which must come from states now represent ed In the senate by Republicans, un less West Virginia bo counted In th list. The chances are believed to be strongly favorable to the Democrat! in Colorado (In which state two sena tors are to be chosen) and In Montana, nnd more or less so In Kansas, Nevada and Oregon. Of these seven placet Mill In doubt any five will give th forty-nine votes necessary to a major lty. WILSON ISSUES STATEMENT Says Honest Business Men Have Noth Ing to Fear. Princeton, N. J., Nov. 7. Governoi Wilson Issued a statement, in which ho diH'lared that "there Is absolutely nothing for ttu honest and enlightened business men of the country to fearfc from the Democratic administration. To President Taft nt Washington Mr. Wilson sent the following tele kram: "I warmly appreciate your kind mes-' sage and wish to express my slncers personal regards." To Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay he sent the following telegram: "My sineerert thanks for your kind messngo. Pray nccept my cordial good wishes." Among the congratulatory telegrams received were the following: William J. llrynn: "I am glad to re port that you have carried my state, the city of Lincoln and my precinct Your success here adds to my enjoy ment of your national victory." William Randolph Hearst at Madrid. Spain- "Congratulations, both on yout personal victory and on the fact that you will have n Democratic house and senate to support the policies of your administration." Missouri. St. Inils, Nov. 7. Missouri, th mysterious stranger" for eight years In the Republican ranks, scrambled back into tho "solid south" line. Rotn national and Democratic state tickets won by pluralities estimated nt 100,000. For the first time in its history, St. Iouls went Democratic on n national ticket, electing Democratic national, state and city officers. Returns from 1,504 of the 3,300 pre cincts in the stnte gave Wilson 15B, 846; Taft. 100,914: Roosevelt, 58,448. For governor: Major (Dem.), 143, 155; McKlnlev (Rep.), 79,999; Norton (rrog), 15,495. Of the sixteen Missouri congressmno to be elected, only two Republicans were returned to ofilce. They were Richarl Rartholdt In the Tenth and I C. Dyer In the Twelfth (".tstrlet. The First, Third, nighth, Ninth. Eleventh, Fourteenth and Fifteenth, the only oth ers from which definite returns have been received, returned Democrats. Illinois. Chicago, Nov. 7 Roosevelt, accord ing to the complete count In Cook county, has a plurality over Wilson of 28,257, which, apparently, disposes of any hope that Wilson adherents might nave had that their candidate would overtake Roosevelt In the Illinois down-state vote. A total of 3,200 pre cincts, including 1,498 in Cook county out of a total numher of 4.286 precinct? in Illinois, give: Roosevelt, 330,416; Wilson, 305 169. This lenvca Roosevelt a plurality, so far, of 25,277, which can not be overcome In the remaining 1, 086 precincts vet to bo heard from. Tnft's vole Is 185.5S2. California. San Francisco, Nov. 7. Woodrow "Wilson's apparent plurality of 12,000 in California dwindled rapidly as be lated returns came In from the Pro gressive strongholds of the southerr part of the state. With nbout 800 pre n plural Itv over Roosevelt Is 5J93. . . 1 j