WEEKLY WATERTOWN LEADER. VOLUiME XLIX Kesult of tlection It was certainly a landslide and the result was way beyond the expecta tions Of the most hopeful republican. The republican national ticket was elected by an overwhelming majority, the states giving their electoral votes as follows: TAFT-30. California. New Hampshire. Connecticut. New Jersey. Delaware. New York. Idaho. North Dakota. Illinois. Ohio. Indiana. Oregon. lowa. Pennsylvania. Kansas. Rhode Island. Maine. South Dakota. Maryland. Utah. Massachusetts. Vermont. Michigan. Washington. Minnesota. West Virginia. Missouri. Wisconsin. Montana. Wyoming. BRYAN—I 6 Alabama. Nebraska. Arkansas. Nevada. Colorado. North Carolina. Florida, Oklahoma. Georgia. South Carolina. Kentucky. Tennessee. Louisiana. Texas. Mississippi. Virginia. The electoral vote will be divided as follows; Taft, 327; Bryan, 156. The republicans will have a good working majority in both branches of congress and the people will hold that party responsible for wise and just legislation. Hon. John M. Nelson was reelected as he deserved to be, and will repre sent the Second congressional district for the next twc years and continue his fight for a change in the rules and proceedure in the House of Represent atives. In Wisconsin the Republican state ticket was elected by a majority of upward of 70,000, which is a flattering recognition of the merits of the state officers —tho voters saying by their ballots: “Well done, good and faith ful servanto, you can remain fur another term. ’’ The state legislature for the ensu ing two years will be constituted as follows: THE SENATE. Soc Rep. Dem. uem. Elected 14 1 1 Hold over 13 4 0 Totals 27 5 1 THE ASSEMBLY Soc. Rep. Dem. Dem. Elected 80 1Y 3 Jefferson county went democratic, as usual, the entire democratic ticket being wlected by a greatly reduced THE ELECTORAL ANO POPULAR VOTE ON PRESIDENT PLURALITIES. DOS. 1901. 1908. 1904. p-icp p r> ® p STATES. •< O a a £ g n. • 3 & • 2 I • < 1 * * m 1 • : fL ’ • • 2* : Alabama U •• U 50.000 57,383 Arkansas 9 •• 9 •••••• 22,000 17,574 California •• 1? •• Colorado 5 .. o .. _.OOO 34,582 Connecticut - 7 •• < •• -0.000 38.150 Delaware 3 .. 3 .. 2,000 4,358 Florida 5 .. 5 20.000 18,732 Georgia 13 .. 13 *5,000 59,46£ Idaho 3•• 3 .. 14.324 ...... 29.309 Illinois 27 .. 27 .. 170.000 305.039 Indiana 15 •• .15 -- D-000 93,944 l owa 13 .. 13 .. aO.OOO 105.766 Kansas!"""""!." 10 •• 10 -- 30.000 120,093 Kentucky 13 .. 13 15,000 11,892 Louisiana 9 •• 9 40,000 42,503 Maine 5 .. 6 •• 31.500 30,807 ...... Massachusetts 16 .. 16 . 100,000 92.076 Michigan 14 .. 14 .. 105.000 227,715 Minnesota 11 .. 11 .. 100,000 161,464 Mississippi 10 .. 10 50.000 50,112 Missouri IS 18 .. 15.000 25.137 Montana 33 .. 2.000 13.159 Nebraska 8 8 .. 5.500 86.682 Nevada 33 .. 2,000 2.085 New Hampshire 4 .. 4 .. 18.000 20.089 New Jersey 12 .. 12 .. 75.000 80.588 New York 39 .. 39 .. 175,000 175.622 North Carolina 12 .. 12 20.000 41,679 North Dakota 4 .. 4 .. 30,000 38.322 Ohio 23 .. 23 * .. 90.000 255,421 Oklahoma 7 .. .. 30,000 Oregon 4 ~ 4 .. 20,000 42.934 Pennsylvania 34 .. 34 .. 350,000 502.951 Rhode Island 4 .. 4 .. 16,000 16.766 South Carolina 9 .. 9 55.000 50.009 South Dakota 4 .. 4 .. 25.000 50.114 Tennessee 12 .. 12 20.000 26 284 Texas 18 .. 18 105,000 116!593 Utah 3 .. 3 .. 25.01.10 29.031 Vermont 4 .. 4 .. 27,904 30,682 Virginia 12 .. 12 20.000 34.188 Washington 5 .. 5 .. 50.000 73.442 West Virginia 7 .. 7 .. 2.000 31. .S Wisconsin 13 .. >3 .. 100,000 155.834 Wyoming 3 .. 3 .. 10.000 11.559 ’ Total * 311 172 336 149 1,743,40* 519,600 3 06.,183 526.719 State Historical Society majority which ohows that the light is breaking and the young men align ing themselves with the progressive party. The following is the ticket which was elected: MEMBERS UF ASSEMBLY, Ist Dist. —C. F. Viebahn. 2nd Dist.— George Kindlin. Cos. Treasurer-J. P. Holland. Sheriff- C. A. Snover. County Clerk—C. A. Buss. Clerk of Court —W. H, Rohr. District Attorney—R. W. Lueck. Register oi Deeds—E. C. Busch. Coroner—Fred Sydow. Surveyor—H. H. Hyer. Dodge County went overwhelmingly democratic, el.ctiag the following ticket: MEMBERS OF ASSEMBLY. Ist Dist. —Charles Lentz. 2nd Dist. —John F. Hughes. Cos. Treas. —M. Hartzbeim. Sherilf—Avgust Gramlow. Clerk of Court—John Clifford. County Clerk —Louis Pautsch. District Attorney—C. A. Kading. Register ot Deeds—F. J. Mirlach. Hon. Charles H. Wiese was re elected to congress in the Sixth dis trict by a greatly reduced majority and will be the only democrat in con gress from Wisconsin. GOV. JOHN A. JOHNSON. The voters of Minnesota re-elect John A. Johnson, a democrat, by a plurality of 15,000 and gives the electoral vote to Taft by a plurality of about SO,(XX). SUCCESSOR TO THE WATERTOWN REPUBLICAN. TAFT 10 GET 309 ELECTORAL VOTES MARYLAND, WITH EIGHT SEEMS TO BE REPUBLICAN. MISSOURI IS NOT CERTAIN I Montana Is in the Winning Column, j But Nebraska and Colorado Give Their Votes to Bryan. New York, Nov. 5. —Late develop ments lit the election situation sur prised the political leaders of both big parties and the result may be a vindication of the judgment of Chair man Hitchcock, who declared that Taft would receive 325 votes in the electoral college. Midnight returns indicate that Taft is practically assured of 309 votes and has a fighting chance for Missouri’s 18 votes, which would give him a total of two more than Mr. Hitchcock claimed. Missouri had been con ceded to Bryan and the plurality from a good part of the state, including St. Louis, which was turned in Wednes day night, took the leaders by sur prise. If this advantage is continued Missouri will be in the Taft column. It is now placed among the doubtful. Another surprise of the night was the close vote in Maryland, which is claimed for Taft by the margin of 136 votes only. The Democrats do not concede the loss of the state and will be satisfied with nothing short of the official count. Conceding Maryland to Taft and figuring Missouri as the one still doubtful state, Bryan has 156 members of the electoral college as sured him. Contributions to Be Published. In a statement given to the press Mr. Hitchcock announced that a com plete list of all the contributions made to the Republican campaign fund would be made public in the near fu ture. work already having been begun on tlm tabulation of the list. The list Is a very long one, Mr. Hitchcock said, and will give every contribution made. It will be issued in printed form. Mr. Hitchcock will leave headquar ters the latter part of this week for Chicago, where he will remain several days to settle up the business of the campaign in that city. On his return journey he will stop at Hot Springs, Va., where he will visit Mr. Taft. Maryland May Be Taft’s. Baltimore, Md., Nov. o.—The politi cal pendlum has swrng once more and on the face of unofficial returns, Taft has carried Maryland by 149 votes. Neither side Is content with these figures, which, it must be said, are not so satisfactory as they might be because of the way in wffiich returns from a few of the precincts of Dor chester and Worcester counties have been sent in by correspondents. In these precincts, sufficient easily to change the result, the correspondents have figured out the pluralities instead of sending in to their papers the num ber of votes cast for each candidate. Unquestionably, the official count must be looked to for the actual result. There must be taken into considera tion, too, the possibility of a divided electoral delegation, as while figures are lacking it is known that the votes for the several electors have varied and this variation may prove material. Missouri Very Close. St. Louis, Nov. 5. —Returns com piled at 1:30 Thursday morning from every county in the state give Bryan a lead over Taft in Missouri of 67 votes. From 18 of the 114 counties, complete reports have not been re ceived and for these counties the statisticians made careful estimates. Complete returns from the missing precincts may change the result one way or another, and it is probable that the official count alone can de termine whether Missouri has given its 18 electoral votes to Bryan or to Taft. The same tables which give Bryan a lead of 67 votes, give Hadley for governor a lead of 15,148, making his election over W. S. Cow’herd an abso lute certainly. This is the first time in nearly 35 years that Missouri has elected a Republican governor. Montana Is Republican. Butte, Mont., Nov. s.—Advices from throughout Montana indicate that Taft has carried the state by a majority close to 3,000. Charles N. Pray of Fort Benton is-re-elected to congress by about 4,000. The governorship is still in doubt with Dolan (Rep.) run ning about 1,600 behind Norris, (Dem). Democrats Sweep Nebraska. Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 5. —Returns on Tuesday’s election, while far from complete, are sufficiently definite to confirm and emphasize the first report that the Democrats have made a sweeping victory’ in Nebraska. While the pluralities for the victorious party are not phenomenally large, they are complete, the state ticket and candi dates for congress in most instances running parallel with Bryan, who was expected to lead the ticket Colorado 5,000 for Bryan. Denver, Col., Nov. 5. —Estimated pluralities by counties based upon in complete returns show that Bryan and the entire Democratic state ticket, headed by John F. Shafroth for gov ernor, carried Colorado with plurali ties in the neighborhood of 5.000. The Democrats probably will control the legislature by a narrow’ margin, iu-’.'r ing the election of Charles J. Hughes, Jr., as United States senator to suc ceed Teller. WATERTOWN, JEFFERSON COUNTY. WIS. NOV. 6. 1908 - .;%m *f?fr- & % GOV. CHARLES E. HUGHES. Gov. Charles Hughes won out in New York much to the satiataction of all men who believe in pure politics. Jeffor-on Cos. Boys to Study agriculture A lepretentative delegation of farm boys from this county will attend ■he Short Course in Agriculture at he Cel ege of Agricul ure. University of Wisconsin, which opens December 5. Those who will return for a second winter’s study are:— A. Christ, Cambridge; Frank Gut tenberg, Jr., Jefferson; Aaron F. Kculer, Helenville; Edward Worden, Watertown. The following has regist red for the first year’s work:— Wm. K. Leonard, Jefferson. The facilities for instruction at the College will be increased this winter by the $75,000 live stock pavilion now being constructed. The prospects for the year are especially bright and the enrollment for the Long and Mid dle Courses has increased over 60 per cent. Luring past years this county has sent 63 boys to take work in the Short Course, and it is hoped that a large delegation will go this winter. The training given this fourteen week’s course is intensely practical, adapted t being put into immediate use upon the student’s return to the farm. No time is wasted on abstract subjects, but helpful lectures and ex ercises in stock judging, feeding, dairying, crop production, soil man agement, agricultural engineering, veterinary science, and horticulture, etc., are given. Other young men desiring to take this course should make early application to Professor J). H. Otis, Superintendent of Shoit Course, Madison, Wisconsin. They Deserved It. We really fee! much regret for the good rann and personal friends of the writer, who were dead sure that Pry an and Jones would be elected and the local posroffice plum would drop into their basket. They should g:t on the right sice and remember that Jeffer son county is only a mighty small part of this great country. PRESIDENTIAL PLURALITIES The following table shows the elec toral vote in the presidential elections and the pluralities by states: State. Electoral vote. Pluralities. Taft. Bryan. Taft. Bryan. Alabama 11 50,000 Arkansas 9 20,000 California 10 .. 45,000 Colorado 5 2,000 Connecticut 7 .. 38,000 Delaware 3 .. 3,000 Florida 5 15,000 Georgia .A 13 30,000 Idaho 3 .. 20,000 Illinois 27 .. 175,000 ..... Indiana 15 .. 18 000 lowa 13 .. 86,000 Kansas 10 .. 25,000 Kentucky 13 13,000 Louisiana 9 40,000 Maine 6 .. 32.000 Maryland 8 .. 1.000 Massachusetts ....16 .. 70,000 Michigan 14 .. 118,720 Minnesota 11 .. 50,000 Mississippi 10 50,000 •Missouri IS 30,000 Montana 3 .. 3,000 , Nebraska. 8 3.000 Nevada 3 3,000 New Hampshire.. 4 .. 25,000 New Jersey 12 .. 75.000 New York 39 .. 188,392 North Carolina 12 30,000 North Dakota .... 4 .. 30,000 Ohio 23 .. 75,000 Oklahoma 7 25,000 Oregon 4 .. 40.000 Pennsylvania ....34 .. 350.000 .....' Rhode Island .... 4 .. 7,000 South Carolina 9 50,000 South Dakota .... 4 .. 45,000 Tennessee 12 26.000 Texas IS 40,000 Utah 3 .. 25,000 Vermont 4 .. 31,000 Virginia 12 27,804 Washington 5 .. 50,000 Vest Virginia .... 7 .. 30,000 Wisconsin 13 .. 80,000 ..... Wyoming 5 .. 10,000 Total 309 174 1,727,422 454,904 Majority 133 .. 1,269,428 •Doubtful. Miss Mazie Shriner has returned from Chicago, where she spent several days with friends. TUFT ns big in Republican Candi date Overwhelm ngly Choice of Country. BRYAN MEETS THIRD DEFEAT SPEAKER CANNON "RE-ELECTED BY A VOTE LITTLE SHORT OF THE NORMAL. Solid South Faithful to Democratic Nominee—City of Lincoln and State of Nebraska Also Give Him Majority, But So-Called "Doubtful 1 ” States Are in Republican Column. New York, Nov. 4.—William Howard Taft of Ohio, Republican, has been elected twenty-seventh president of the United States, and James School craft Sherman of New York has been chosen vice-president. This is the out come of one of the most remarkable political campaigns in the history of the republic. William Jennings Bryan of Ne braska, the Democratic candidate, went down in the third defeat of his life’s ambition to occupy the White House. Among the more significant results were the re-election to congress of Speaker Cannon and Chairman Sereno E. Payne of the house committee on ways and means; the election of Rep resentative W T . S. Cowherd as gov ernor of Missouri, which therewith re turns to the “solid south,” and the re-election for a third term of Gov. John Johnson, democrat, in Min nesota. One of the results surpassing the most sanguine hopes of most Repub licans was Mr. Taft’s carrying the greater city of New York by a plural ity which approached 10,000. Further more, his plurality in New York state will be approximately 189,334, exceed ing by nearly 14,000 Roosevelt’s big plurality of 1904. Only second in point of general in terest w'as the victory of Gov. Charles E. Hughes, who was re-elected by a plurality estimated as well above 75.000 over the vote cast for his Democratic opponent, Lieut. Gov. Chanler. While Greater New York gave a plurality for Taft, it gave Chan ler a margin of 56,843. With 31 United States senators to be elected by legislatures chosen now or earlier in the fall. The Repub licans will retain their control of both houses of congress. Mr. Taft carried practically e"ery so-called doubtful state except Ne braska, where Mr. Bryan was victor ious. Mr. Bryan carried Nevada and Montana, in addition to the solid south, which includes Missouri. Republican Pluralities Reduced. Some of the figures relating to the Republican slump in certain states regarded as certainly Republican, are little short of amazing. Pennsyl vania’s immense plurality of over 500,- 000 four years ago nas been cut in two. Illinois, which gave Roosevelt 305.000 in 1904, has gone for Taft by about 170,000. The highest claim of the Republicans for Indiana is 15,000 as against a plurality of 93,000 for Roosevelt. lowa, which gave Mr. Roosevelt 158,000 plurality in 1904, has dropped down to about 57,000 for Taft. Tho return of Missouri to the Democracy on the presidential ticket wiped out a Republican plurality of 25,000 four years ago. Massachusetts, New York and New Jersey were striking excep tions to the generally reduced Repub lican pluralities. Chairman Hitchcock's Statement. Chairman Frank H. Hitchcock of the Republican national committee made the following statement; “The returns speak for themselves. There seem to be no longer any doubt ful states The electoral vote will show that my estimate was correct It looks now, I think, as if I must have underestimated it. The returns have exceeded my expectations. “The plurality in Indiana will be less than I expected. That in Illi nois is far more than anticipated. And so it goes; ■where one state has not quite come up to the figures I had expected some other state has gone far beyond. The latest returns from Maryland indicate that ■we have car ried that state by about 8,000 to 10,- 000 and that is more than I believed it would give._ Apollo Club Members and Friends—Attention The rext rehearsal of the Apollo Club will be held on Thursday evening Noevmber the 12th at 8 o’ lock sharp Prof. Daniel Protheroe himself will direct the Chorus. Punctuality is a Christian virtue. See’Exodus,(22-29. Psalm, 119-60 and 1 Corinthians 14-40. George Lewis of the Lewis Cos., transacted business at the Team city Monday. J \ \ \ \ JL: 5 T A * '% V " - \ * (j. \ i 9 GOV. CHARLES S. DENEEN. The voters of Illinois re-elect Gov. Charles S. Deneen after one of the hard est tights ever experienced in that state, he running considerably behind Taft; but lie is satisfied. Corresponcler ce Portland, Oregon, October, 26, It) 'B. To Wisconsin people and there are thousands cf them in Oregon, it hi emu vary like heme to pick up the papers and nad what F. E. Scribner, Preti d nt cf the Wisconsin Putterrnakers’ association, has (o any fcfter several we ks’ stay bere. Like Wi ecndn in past years this state is b ginning the transition from a timber tc a dairying state, and from an annual dairy output of $5,000,000 five years ago, jumped to $17,000,000 in 1907. Mr. Scrib'.or was enthusias tic and said: “There is no spot in cur great United S ates that can excel Oregon in dairying. This is my conclusion after spenaing six weeks investigating several of her beautiful valleys. I wish to say to (he farmers and dairy men cf this section that I fear they do*'’*: fully uppeciate the wonderful opportunity here for the raising of feeds best adapted to the dairy indus try, and the excellent climatic condi tions for the growth and development of sti ck. You should reach here the climax of productiveness,’’ Oregonians listen to Mr. Scribner with lots of rerpeet, for he was the breeder of “Loretta D,’’ (owned by the Ladd Estate. Portland, Oregon,) the cow that won first prize in the hundred and twenty days milking test at the St. Louis f air in lyo4. THE ELECTION AT A GLANCE PRESIDENT— William Howard Taft. VICE-PRESIDENT— James Schoolcraft Sherman. Republican electoral vote 306 Democratic electoral vote 177 Number states carried by Taft... 29 Number states carried by Bryan. 17 New York, Ohio and Indiana go for Taft. New Congress Republican Majority in house 57 Majority in senate 30 Winning Governors— Illinois, Charles S. Deneen (Rep.); plurality 30,000 Indiana, Thomas R. Marshall (Dem.); plurality 10,000 Wisconsin, J. O. Davidson (Rep.); plurality in doubt. Michigan, Lawton T. Hemans (Dem.) plurality 8,000 lowa, B. F. Carroll (Rep.). plurality 50,000 Ohio, Judson Harmon (Dem.); plurality in doubt. Col In doubt Conn George F. Lilley, Rep. Del Simeon S. Pennewill, Rep. Fla Albert W. Gilchrist, Dem. Idaho James H. Brady, Rep. Mass Eben S. Draper, Rep. Minn In doubt Mo Wm. E. Cowherd, Dem. Mont Edward Donlan, Rep. Neb A. C. Shallenberger, Dem. N. H H. B. Quinby, Rep. N. Y Charles E. Hughes, Rep. N. C W. W. Kitchen, Dem. N. Dak C. A. Johnson, Rep. R. I Aram J. Pothier, Rep. S. C M. F. Ansel, Dem. S. Dak Robert S. Vessey, Rep. Utah William Spry, Rep. Wash S. G. Cosgrove. Rep. W. Va In doubt Congressman— Joseph G. 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