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wyiw ,'i', ' NOVEMBERS!. 1504 The Commoner. Condensed News of At tlio hour of goingto press with this issue of The Commoner (Thursday morning) the election returns wore still very Incomplete. But enough liad been received to indicate that Theodore Roose velt had been given the greatest plurality ever given a successful candidate. The plurality of the popular vote will bo close to 1,500,000, while nis majority in the electoral, college will also be un precedented. The republicans carried every northern state with possibly one exception, and this (Thursday) morning were claiming the electoral vote of Mis souri. The republicans also claim the Missouri legislature, but the democratic state committee will not concede the claim. Joseph W. Folk was elected governor by a plurality of from 20,000 to 35,000. In Wisconsin LaFoilette was re-elected by a large jlurality. Nebraska's republican plurality is the great est in her history. The republicans elect their entire state ticket and claim the 'eglslaturc by a joint majority of upwards of 50. The congres sional delegation of six will all be republicans. Delaware goes republican, and J. Edward Ad dicks claims that he will be elected to the United States senate. Pennsylvania's republican majority will ex ceed 400.000. Minnesota gave Roosevelt 125,000 plurality, but elected Johnson, democrat, governor. All oth er Minnesota state officers-elect are republicans. Massachusetts, which went 85,000 republican on the national ticket, elected Douglas, democrat, governor by a plurality of 35,000. The republican majority in the lower house .of congress has undoubtedly been increased. Con gressman Babcock of Wisconsin, of the republican congressional committee, narrowly escape defeat. ,Two years ago his majority was 8,000. Hig plur ality this year is less than 400. Colorado is claimed' by both sides on the state tickets, with thelatest advices favoring the demo cratic ticket. ' .Wednesday night i tie Associated Press sent put' the following table showing the approximate pluralities 'in "the1 'various" states:'- ' '.' . - Parker. Roosevelt. Alabama 75,000 ...... Arkansas 30,000 California : 100,000 Colorado ' 15,000 Connecticut 38,000 ' Delaware .... '. V. V...'; V . . '. . . . . . . . . . V . . 4,000 Florida I..'; .V..;.'; 7. . .V." . . 20,000 '. Georgia ..;......:... 65;000 Idaho .,...,.. " 25,000 Illinois ..,...:..'......... 225,000 Indiana , ' 75,000- Iowa ,. . . , : ... . , 130,000 Kansas -,, ,......,. .... 100,000 Kentucky .......,.... 14,000 Louisiana '35,000 . . Maine ,.,..'...'..., " 35,000 Maryland ........... ,,....... Massachusetts v S6f000 Michigan .'. '. .150,000 Minnesota .' 125,000 Mississippi -.;.' ,.. 50,000 Missouri . 10,000 Montana 10,000 Nebraska .... 75,000 Nevada 2,000 New Hampshire .'. 20,000 New Jersey 70,000 New York ' 174,000 North Carolina 50,000 Ohio .'.....;..,....'. 200,000 Oregon...,'.., ...,.... ' 40.000 Pennsylvania ., ..... ' 485,000 OEthode Island . 16,000 South Carolina .....J 50,000 South Dakota' ...... , .-., f 40,000 Tennessee .;... 20,000 .;.... Texas : .". ......100,000 ...... Utah. ,...;... 12.000 .Vermont , .'..,.....' "...., . 30,)00 Virginia ....., '.. 25,000 ...... .Washington :. '..... 30,000 .West Virginia . . . , .;. .'.. .". . , 1 ... ." . 20,000 Wisconsin ..V.. ,......'. 6O000 Wyoming ;.. v..,.,. .7... ....'..;. M00 " Wednesday night WilHanv R, Hearst. Issued the 'tallowing statement:!. n u it.r,-;o: '' . I have no luidWledgef ahyr meetings be tween Mr. Watson, Mr. Bryan and myself. I t!4nk the democratic party will reorganize itself on a basis of true democracy, eliminating tho- Wall street influence that proved bo disas trous in tho present campaign, and I, as a loyal democrat, will bo happy to sco that done. I am always happy to contribute my own serv ices and thoso of my papers to the democracy for reorganization or any other purpose, if they shall be Tequlred. I shall be glad to work with all loyal democrats for the success of democratic prln clples, but L think tne loyal democrats are quite capable of choosing their own leaders and I imagine this point will now bo con ceded by thoso who endeavored to force lead ers upon them. Wednesday night Judge Parker gave the press an "open letter" addressed "To the Democrats of the Nation." After expressing his gratitude to tho national committee, he declares that he will never again seek a nomination for public office, and referring to the future says, in part: I shall to tho best of my ability serve tho party that lias honored me, and through the party serve my, country. The party has in the near future a great mission. Before long the people will realize that the tariff-fed trusts and illegal combinations are absorbing the wealth of tho nation. Then they will wish to throw off these leeches, but tho republican party will not aid them to do it, for its leaders appreciate too well the uses to which the money of the trusts can be put in political campaigns. When that time comes, and come it will, the people will turn to tho democratic party for relief, and tho party should be ready ready with an organization of patriotic citi zens, covering every election district, who are . willing to work for tho love of the cause K an organization supported by as many town, city, county, and state officers as we are able to elect in the meantime. To accomplish .much in this direction, however, we must forget' the difficulties of the past If anyone suspects his neighbor of treachery, let him not hint of his suspicion. - If he. knows ho has deserted us, let him not tell it. Our forces nave been weakened by divisions. We have quarreled at times over non-essentials. If we wquld help tho people, if we would . . furnish an organization through which they may be relieved of a party JAat has grown so corrupt that it will gladly enter partners with - trusts to secure money for election purposes, vwe must forget the differences of the past and begin this day to budd up wherever it may be needed a .broad and effective organization, and we must by constant teaching through the press and from the platform, apprise the peo ple of the way the vicious tariff circle works. We must bring home to them at other than election times the fact that moneys con tributed to tho republican party by the trusts . is not only dishonest money, but it is given that the trusts may, without Jjinderance, take a much larger 'm from the people. Tn the presence of a defeat that would take away all personal ambition were it true that otherwise than it possessed me I do not hesitate to say that in my opinion the greatest moral question which now confronts us is: Shan the trusts and corporations be pre vented from contributing money to control or to aid in controlling elections? Such service as I can render In that or any other direction will gladly be rendered. And I beg the co-operation as a fellow worker of every democrat in the country. A four-story office building in Memphis, Tenn, collapsed, and, although, r. number of people were " in' it, 'they miraculously escaped death. The last chapter in connection with the re cent Boer war. will have been closed in a short time. Paul Kruger, the valiant leader in tho strug gle for liberty who died last July, is to bo buried in Pretoria. Already tho steamer Batavir is pre paring to take the remains back to his old home. When tho casket was taken to Rotterdam for conveyance- to the steamer, -six wreaths from Queen Wilhelmina, the prince consort .and former Presi- the Week dont Steyn covered it Not much public Interest was shown. A mortuary chapel has been pre pared on tho steamer covered with draping em bellished with inscription In silver lotters, amona them: "1 havo fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I havo kept tho faith." Governor OToolo of Montana refuses to grant requisition papers for tho Colorado rcfugco minora, snying thnt o would not givo tho men up until satisfied that the courts of Colorado nro unawed and uninfluenced by military authorities. Tho report of tho commissioner of education at Washington, D. C, for tho fiscal year ending Juno 30, 1904. shows thnt 10,099,301 pupils at tended the public schools during that year. This makes 20 per cent of the total population. An Associated Press dispatch, dated Now York Oct 31, says: "Heldclbach, Icklehelmer & Co. to day engaged ?1,000,0U0 in gold bnrs at tho assay offico for shipment to Europe on Thursday. Tho Royal bank of Canada also engaged $1,000,000 for shipment. Both shipments nro to go to Paris." The census office Issued a bulletin showing that up to October 18, 1904, 5,770,GCG running bales of cotton havo been ginned In CC8 counties located 'in tho various cotton producing states, as agalnqt 3,455,082 running bales reported to tho samo date in 1903. Matters In Colombia are assuming a sorloua aspect. According to tho Associated Press: "Ad vices from Cauca report that thero Is great dis content there and throughout Colombia. Appar ently President Reyes, with his political enemies in tho majority In both houses of congress, can not control tho situation. Paper currency is being issued in unlimited amount" Reports from St Louis say that up to Satur day, October 29, tho number of admissions to tho World's fair was 15,933,295. t President Roosevelt Issued the proclamation setting aside November 24 as a day5 of "festival and thanksgiving by all tho people of tho United States at home and abroad." An Associated Press dispatch, dated Wash ington, D. C, Nov. 1, says: "Secretary Hay and Ambassador Jusserand today signed a treaty pro viding for tho settlement by arbitration of any possible disputes between the United States and Franco. It is drawn on the lines of the Anglo French arbitration treaty." Most Reverend Henry Elder, archbishop of Cincinnati, died at tho ago of 86. The aged prelate died repeating the "Salve Rcgina." Elizabeth Largo, a colored woman)f Georgia, died October 31, at the age of somewhere between 118 and 123 years. . It is known that she lived there 100 years, and was the oldest woman in the state. Pope Pius is suffering from a severe attack of rheumatism. Mount Vesuvius is again In eruption, the cone upon the crater having fallen in with a tremen dous explosion and asjea fell in clouds over a radius of twenty-five miles. In a torrent caused by a bursting reservoir, thirteen people lost their lives at Winstdn-Salera, N. C. A million and a half gallons of water were lost Japanese Minister Takahlra was stricken with appendicitis and has undergone an operation. His condition is now considered favorable. The name of Admiral Dewey has been" promi nently mentioned as a member of tho commission which will Inquire into and pass npon tho North Sea. difficulty between Russia and England. , Tea miners at Wllkeabarro, Pa., were hurled to the .bottom of a Mndred-foot shaft by a fsllp in the machinery at the mine of tho Lakawanaa mining company, ideetlng almost instant death. U MtOMj J W