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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.
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