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The Commoner.
Wilson cabinet may further alter the list. Rep
resentative Henry of Texas, chairman of the
rules committee; Representative Burleson of
Texas, a member of the appropriations, and
Representative Underwood, head of the ways and
means committee, have been mentioned as cabi
net possibilities.
STATES CARRIED BY THE THREE PRESI
DENTIAL CANDIDATES
WILSON
have been content to be known as progressive re
publicans. Whether any number of them will
withdraw from the republican party is a prob
lem. Senators Bristow, Clapp and Poindexter
are understood to have supported Mr. Roosevelt
and if they should decline to co-operate with
the republicans of the senate, the change would
materially weaken the old party.
Concerning the new house of representatives
the Associated Press says: Although demo
cratic control of the house of representatives by
a greatly increased majority is assured, a great
ehakeup of the personnel of the important com
mittees in the .next congress will be necessary.
The all-important ways and means committee,
which will shape into bills the tariff policies of
the Wilson administration, will be riddled by the
election. Of the fourteen democrats on the com
mittee four will not return. Two of these, how
ever, Hughes of New Jersey and James of Ken
tucky, go to the senate. Raudall of Texas and
Brantley of Georgia are retired. Out of the
seven republicans on the committee but two,
apparently, will remain. John Dalzoll of
Pennsylvania and Samuel W. McCall of Massa
chusetts, for years shapers of the republican
tariff policy, were not candidates at the polls,
and Ebenezer Hill of Connecticut; James C.
Needham of California and probably Nicholas
Longworth of Ohio were beaten. Sereno E.
Payne of New York and Joseph W. Fordney of
Michigan may be tho only republicans left.
Tho election of Representative Sulzer as gov
ernor of New York leaves vacant the chairman
ship of the important foreign affairs committee.
Flood of Virginia is ranking member of the
committee, but he declined the chairmanship
two years ago to accept the less important ter
ritories committee. Either he or Garner of
Texas is expected to get the place.
Tho election of Morris Sheppard of Texas to
the senate, if seniority is followed, will move
Representative Burnett of Alabama to the chair
manship of the public buildings and .grounds
committee, which handles the big public build
ings, so-called "pork barrel,1' bill.
Tho vacancy at the head of the public lands
committee, caused by the failure of Representa
tive Robinson of Arkansas to return, will prob
ably be filled by moving up Representative Gra
ham of Illinois, at present chairman of the com
mittee on expenditures in the interior depart
ment. The banking and currency committee investi
gating the so-called money trust will be without
a head, Representative Pujo of Louisiana having
retired. Representative Carter Glass of Vir
ginia is the ranking member of the committee.
The retirement of Representative Lamb of Vir
ginia as head of the committee on agriculture
opens this place for Representative Lover of
South Carolina, but Mr. Lover would bo forced to
givo up the chairmanship of the education com
mittee, which would, go to Representative Ans
berry of Ohio.
This accounts for all of the chairmanships left
vacant by the election, but the formation of the
Electoral
State Vote
Alabama 12
Arizona 3
Arkansas 9
Colorado 6
Connecticut 7
Delaware 3
Florida 6
Georgia 14
Idaho . . . . 4
Illinois 29
Indiana 15
Iowa 13
Kansas 10
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 10
Maine G
Maryland 8
Massachusetts 18
Mississippi 10
Missouri . .18
Montana '. . 4
Nebraska 8
State
Electoral
Voto
Nevada 3
New Hampshire ... 4
New Jersey . . '. . . . .14
New Mexico 3
New York 45
North Carolina. .. .12
North Dakota 5
Ohio 24
Oklahoma 10
Oregon . v 5
Rhode Island 5
South Carolina .... 9
Tennessee .12
Texan 20
Vermont 4
Virginia 12
West Virginia 8
Wisconsin 13
Total states ... .40
Total vote ... .4.34
ROOSEVELT
Michigan 15 South Dakota 5
Minnesota 12
Pennsylvania 38
Total states .... 6
Washington 7
California 13
Total vote 90
TAFT
Utah 4 Wyoming 3
Total states .... 2 Total vote 7
THE POPULAR VOTE
The Chicago Record Herald says: The ques
tion of the popular vote received by the three
rival candidates for the presidency is the feature
of most interest in the final returns. A few
doubtful states, the returns from which fluctu
ated, kept the tables of the electoral college vote
shifting from time to time, but without affecting
the result appreciably, and the unsettled phase
of the situation that now attracts attention is
the relative strength the candidates developed
on the popular vote, and the manner in which
Taft and Roosevelt ran in states carried by
Wilson the question of who is second by states.
From the incomplete figures it appears that
although Wilson and Marshall rode in on a land
slide and piled up more electoral votes than ever
went to a presidential ticket before, the popu
lar plurality will not be a record-breaker. It
may be in the neighborhood of the plurality
given President Taft four years ago 1,260,000.
With three states missing and several states
represented by estimates instead of final figures,
Wilson is given a total plurality of 1,855,000
in the states he has carried. Roosevelt carried
his states by an aggregate plurality of 138,000,
while Taft's pluralities in the states of Utah
and Wyoming are estimated at 8,000.
QUESTION MARKS
.The Washington correspondent to the Chicago
Record-Herald, says: Two monumental interro
gation points arose today over the heap that
marked the terminal of yesterday's landslide.
One of them relates to the problems and the pos
sible troubles that confront the Wilson adminis
tration, with democratic control of both houses
of congress apparently assured and an un
wieldy, topheavy majority certain as far as the
lower branch is concerned.
The other relates to the future of political
organizations that were overwhelmed by the
avalanche of democratic votes.
The democrats have won the greatest victory
that has been theirs in sixty years. As a result
of the victory won by the reunited democrats
in 1852 the whig party went to the political
graveyard. Will history repeat itself through
the influence of another, democratic landslide?
Has tho republican party now received its death
blow, as did its predecessor? These are ques-
VOLUME 12, NUMBER 45
tions of the hour dividing interest with those
bearing on the immediate future of the victors
of yesterday.
Will Roosevelt be even a more important fac
tor and again a personal issue in the campaign
four years hence? This is still another vitally
important question, and while there is naturally
some difference of opinion in the matter, the
stronger belief here is that the colonel will 'keep
his hat in the ring, and that a constitutional
amendment may be the only available moans of
keeping him from getting the decision next time.
Although the cheers over the result of the re
cent campaign still fill the air the campaign for
1916 already has opened. Tho wits of demo
cratic leaders to hold what they have will be
taxed no more than those of anti-third term and
anti-Roosevelt strategists generally in arranging
immediately to meet another stand at Arma
geddon. While the victorious democrats arc reveling
over their new testimonial of popularity, those
who fell behind the breastworks have undergone
enough of the resurrection proress to begin
pointing out the troubles and pitfalls that are
likely to beset the conquerors. Human nature
finds it more agreeable to conjure up diflleulties
for an adversary than to indulge in post-mortems
of a distinctly personal character.
It was Grover Cleveland who made the epi
grammatic hit, "I have congress on my hands."
His democratic successor, after twenty years,
not only will have congress on his hands, with
all that such implies with respect to legislation
that will retain the good will of the people and
as to keeping promises to the heart as well a3
to the ear, but he must meet a clash of faction
alism in the general political field that is already
displayed. The conservative and the radical in
terests are showing signs of jealous activity, and
one of the great questions ,of the moment is
whether President Woodrow Wilson will be
strong enough to keep the party together while
endeavoring to make effective its platform
promises and render it able to present an im
pregnable front when the battle, for continuance
in power is fought.
THE WORLD'S GOOD WORK
The New York World did splendid work in the
recent campaign. The World's logical editorials,
and its powerful cartoons were effective in every
state. It must be gratifying to the managers of
that great newspaper to know that their fine
efforts are appreciated by democrats everywhere.
Among the many Bible passages brought into
use during the late campaign, it is strange the
Tower of Babel should have been overlooked,
for surely the Lord confused the tongues of the
republicans so that the progressives and reac
tionaries could not understand each other.
The defeat of Mr. Shallenberger for tho senate
in Nebraska is a great disappointment. He would
have won against any other republican, but Mr.
Norris has so established himself as a pro
gressive that he could not be beaten.
To organize a new party and marshall four
million votes with one hand tied to a third
term'and both feet chained to Dan Hanna and
George W. Perkins is going some.
If we can judge the future by the past, Gover
nor Wilson's admirable campaign presages a
splendid administration.
There is only one thing that Mr. Taft and
Mr. Roosevelt can say in concert, namely,
beat him, anyhow."
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Well, the democrats have won; do you .see
any signs of panic, except among republican
office holders?
"Onward Christian Soldiers,," has given way,
it is said, to "Rescue the Perishing."
Here's to President-elect Wilson; may he live
long and prosper.
Nebraska has 'adopted the initiative and ref
erendum. N,ext?
Yes, the gold dust twins did the work for tho
democrats.
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The panic bug is dead.
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