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“GREAT CAUSE HAS TRIUMPHED,” SAYS WILSON
New York, Nov. 6.—“A great cause has triumphed,”
was President-Elect Wilson’s message to Chairman
McCombs in reply to a telegram sent by the man who has
so skilfully managed the campaign of the New Jersey
governor. Gov. Wilson’s message said:
“A great cause has triumphed. Every democrat and
WILSON IS SWEPT
INTO OFFICE BE
TIDAL ME
Governor’s Great Strength Is
Surprising in Breaking Up
Enemies’ Stronghold.
Continued From Psge One.
oig vote of the Progressive and Social
ist tickets. Commenting upon the ob
vious political unrest, President Taft
said:
President Taft
Sounds Warning.
"The vote for Mr. Roosevelt, the third
party candidate, and for Mr. Debs, the
Socialist candidate, Is a warning that
their propaganda In favor of funda
mental changes In our constitutional
representative government has reached
formidable proportions.
"We must face the danger with a
clear knowledge of what it is.”
While the American people have re
pudiated President Taft’s administra
tion and refused Colonel Roosevelt a
third term, thus placing Democracy In
an apparently Impregnable position.
Democratic national leaders throughout
the country united today in tlie decla
ration that the party In jxiwer must ful
fill every promise in Its platform to
hold the confidence of the nation. They
promised that this should be done.
President Taft failed to carry Ohio,
his own state. Ohio went Into the
Democratic column, as did New York.
The Empire State elected Representa
tive William Sulzer, a Democrat, gov
ernor by an overwhelming plurality
over the Republican and Bull Moose
candidates. New York's legislature is
also Democratic In both its branches.
People United in
Progressive Demands.
Governor Wilson carried New Jer
sey, his own state, by a big vote.
A calm analysis of the vote today
after a period of political frenzy which
marked the revolutionary returns
Showed that the American people unit
ed in the following specific demands:
A revision of the tariff downward;
legislation to reduce the cost of living;
a satisfactory solution of the trust
problem, and a progressive national
policy In legislation.
Political students declare that the
Wilson victory has set back the cause
9f woman suffrage, as this was an Issue
upon which the Democratic party did
not take a decided stand. Upon the
other hand, the Progressive party car
ried in its platform an avowed suffrage
plank.
Two of the biggest factors entering
Into the lection of Governor Wilson
was the "Solid South” and the “silent
vote.” Neither President Taft nor
Colonel Roosevelt could break the solid
South, and the "silent vote,” to which
frantic appeals were made for months
bafore the electors voted overwhelm
ingly for Wilson.
Wilson’s Strength
Big Surprise.
Governor Wilson's strength in the
East and in the West and in the North
west, where progressive sentiment is
very strong, proved a surprise. When
returns were compiled, showing that
the Democratic ticket had swept Maine
and Massachusetts. Republicans and
Progressives began to have fears that
all New England would occupy a place
in the Democratic column. Wisconsin,
the home state of Senator l.aFollette.
one of the founders of the progressive
movement In the United Staes. was
counted among the Wilson states.
Slowness of the arrival of returns
from the western part of Pennsylvania
held that state long in doubt. Colonel
Roosevelt had concentrated his heaviest
guns there, and it is the home of two
of his ablest lieutenants. William Flinn
snd Gifford Plnchot.
Socialists showed up strong In the
manufacturing districts of Pennsylva
nia. casting a surprising vote. This
same fact proved the case elsewhere,
the national Socialist vote increasing
nearly 100 per cent.
Progressive leaders laid definite claim
to Illinois, where they had made a hard
battle throughout the campaign.
Solid South
Outdoes Itself.
The Southern stat, a were solid for
Wilson, in some cases giving even larg.
er majorities than those Democratic
strongholds were wont to roll up.
In Missouri. Speaker Clark, who had
opposed Governor Wilson for the pres
idential nomination, was re-elected to
Congress. Mr. Clark undoubtedly will
Be the speaker of the house at the next
Session of congress.
At Danville, 111., Joseph G. Cannon,
former speaker cf the house and -
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100,000 for Wilson
LOUISVILLE, KY„ Nov. 6.—Ken
tucky’s plurality for Wilson will be In
the neighborhood of 100.000. The Dem
ocratic campaign committee fulfilled its
prediction. The entire Kentucky con
gressional delegation is re-elected, with
the exception of the First district,
where Judge Albion W. Barkley, Dem
ocrat, was elected to succeed Ollie M.
James, senator-elect. The representa
tives elected from other districts are:
Second, A. O. Stanley. Democrat;
Third, R. Y. Thomas, Jr., Democrat;
Fourth, Ben. Johnson. Democrat;
Fifth, Swager Shirley, Democrat; Sixth.
Arthur B. Rouse. Democrat; Seventh.
Harvey Helm, Democrat; Eighth
Campbell Cantrill, Democrat; Ninth, W.
J. Field, Democrat; Tenth, John V.
Langley, Republican; Eleventh, Caleb
Powers. Republican.
Shirley had a close call in the Fifth
or Louisville district, and defeated Fox,
his Progressive opponent, by only
2,200.
Langley and Powers, the two Repub
licans. triumphed over their Democratic
and Progressive rivals in eastern Ken
tucky. Due to the big vote they re
ceived in Louisville, where they ran
the Democrats ot within 500 votes, the
Progressives have ix>lled the second
largest vote tn the state, and become
entitled to election officers, displacing
the Republicans as the contending par
ty.
JUDGE SOUNDS PRAISES
OF MOTHERS-IN-LAW
BOSTON. MASS, Nov 6. Judge Ed
ward I’. Pierce, of the superior court, says
the mother-in-law of this state is not the
cause of domestic woe which results li
divorce. He declares she is a valuable
asset to the household.
Republican member of congress for 22
years, was snowed under.
Senator Murray Crane, who for years
has been a leader of the conservatives
In the senate, will be succeeded by a
Democrat, the Massachusetts electors
having voted in a Democratic legisla
ture. Senator Crane's term expires
March 4
Senator Dixon, the Progressive war
rior from Montana, will retire for the
THE ATLANTA GEORGIAN AND NEWS. WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 6, 1912.
Democracy Now On
Trial, Says Marshall
INDIANAPOLIS. Nov. 6.—Thomas R
Marshall, vice president-elect, hud the
following to say of the Democratic tri
umph:
"The Democratic victory of Tuesday
will result in the restoration of repre
sentative government in America if
Democratic officials, both state and na
tional, shall constantly remember that
executive duty consists in the en
forcement of the law and in the insist
ence upon legislative compliance with
the Democratic platform and princi
ples.
"If legislative representatives will
remember that they are to represent
the people and not any interest what
ever and will be zealous to formulate
in legislation the principles either
enunciated in Democratic platforms or
growing out of the basic principles of
Jeffersonian Democracy and if judi
cial representatives will give us the
perfection of reason in the light of to
day and not in the light of two cen
turies ago and shall be content to con
strue and not make statutory law.
The principles of Democracy finding
their expression in representative gov
ernment are now upon trial.
"This is the last chance that will be
given the office-holder to prove him
self the servant and not the master of
the people unless he really serves.
Falling to guarantee honest individual
opportunity to every man unhindered
and unhelped by law the people will
pronounce representative government
a failure and will seek expression of
Democratic doctrines under some other
system.
"The party appreciates the gravity
of the situation and the sacred bur
den which it bears. It enters not care
lessly but reverently upon the dis
charge of its duties. It has faith in
the people, hope for the future and
charity for the wrongs and errors of
the past. It enters confidently upon
Its great mission -with malice toward
none and charity for all It seeks
peace, not war, but it knows that peace
can only come when accompanied bv
her handmaidens. Justice and mercy."
BOY HUNTER KILLED
WITH HIS OWN WEAPON
CHICAGO, Nov. 6.—Accidental dis
charge of n double-barrel shotgun caused
the death of Harry Overand, sixteen years
old, while he was hunting.
He died while being carried Into the
South Chicago hospital He was climb
ing over an oil tank car when the gun
Missouri Gives
Wilson Big Plurality
KANSAS CITY, MO.. Nov. 6.—Wil
son has carried Missouri for president
by a plurality of 100,000. E. W. Major,
candidate for governor on the Demo
cratic ticket, is expected to run even
with the head of the national ticket.
The following are elected to congress:
First district, James T. Lloyd, Demo
crat; Second district, William W.
Rucker. Democrat; Third district, Josh
ua A. Alc.r.der. Democrat; Fourth dis
trict, Charles F. Booher, Democrat;
Fifth district. William P. Borland, Dem
ocrat; Sixth district. Clement C. Dick
inson, Democrat; Seventh district,
Courtney W. Hamlin, Democrat; Eighth
district. Dorsey W. Shackleford, Demo
crat; Nirtth district. Champ Clark,
Democrat; Tenth district, Richard Bar
thold t. Republican: Eleventh district,
William Igoe. Democrat; Twelfth dis
trict, L. C. Dyer, Republican; Thir
teenth district. Walter L. Hensley,
Democrat; Fourteenth district, Joseph
J. Russell, Democrat; Fifteenth dis
trict, Perl D. Decker, Democrat; Six
teenth district, Thomas L. Rubey, Dem
ocrat.
“Uncle Joe” Deserted,
Beaten by 800
DANt ILLE, ILL., Nov. 6.—“ Uncle
Joe” Cannon, long speaker of the na
tional house of representatives, and for
22 years a member of congress from Il
linois. was snowed under in the Demo
cratic landslide, losing to O'Hara, his
opponent, by about 800 votes.
"Uncle Joe" put up the fight of his
life this year, and he had to make the
tight single-handed. In former years
the congressional committee has fur
nished him six or more of the best na
tional speakers to stump the Danville
district. This year the ex-speaker,
shorn of his power, made his appeals to
his colleagues in vain. Not a speaket
was sent to aid him.
Mrs. Mary E. Walker,
Mrs Mary E. Walker, aged 56 years,
died at her residence. 225 Gill avenue.
Tuesday night at 6:30 o'clock. She is
survived by her husband, two daugh
ters. Mrs. Maude Northrup and Mrs.
O. T. Sead, and five sons. F, M. Walk
er, of Decatur, Ala.; A. K Walker, of
Pickens, Fla., and M. R.. L. P. and J. J
Walker, of Atlanta. The body will be
sent to Newnan, Ga.. tomorrow mom
ir-S for funeral and Interment
every true progressive of whatever alliance must now lend
his full force and enthusiasm to the fulfillment of the
people’s hope—the establishment of the people’s rights.”
In his telegram to Gov. Wilson Chairman McCombs
told him that he hap won a magcificent victory, having re
ceived the largest electoral vote ever given a candidate.
CHOICE JOBS FOR
GEORGIANS WHO
AIDED WILSON
Senator Hoke Smith to Deal the
Pie to Faithful Democrats
in This State.
Continued From Page One,
occasionally a Democrat was permit
ted to slip in. But not frequently.
Hugh L. McKee, postmaster of At
lanta, will be slipped a tip to resign
along in the Ides of March, and the ap
pointment of some' prominent Atlanta
Wilsonian will be announced officially,
about three weeks after the papers have
printed it on their own hook and pub
lished the picture of the postmaster-to
be. it is said that Colonel Walter P.
Andrews, one of the most energetic of
all Wilson’s supporters, ean have the
place if he wants it, but there is a
likelihood that Colonel Andrews would
prefer a diplomatic post abroad, and he
may get it. J. R. Smith, a power in
Georgia politics of recent years, may
land the place or something else, if he
cares for it, though the coolness of the
friendship existing between him and
Senator Hoke Smith may interfere here.
Both were staunch Wilson men. Shelby
Smith, too, is said to be in the running
for a Federal gift, though the wise ones
have not decided where they will place
him on the dope sheet.
Alexander Slated
For Attorneyship.
F. Carter Tate, district attorney of
the Northern district, and Alexander
of the Southern district, also
are slated for retirement. The straight
est forecast developed so far is that
Hooper Alexander, of DeKalb, will be
given Mr. Tate’s place, and Hoke Smith
is reported to have interested himself
personally in this matter.
It lias been reported for some time
that Judge W. T. Newman, of the Fed
eral court in Atlanta, will resign this
year, and that Reuben Arnold, noted
attorney, will be appointed to succeed
to the bench if he is willing to sacri
fice his practice for the honor.
Henry S. Jackson, a comparatively
new collector of internal revenue, went
down in the crash with William Howard
Taft. Mr. Jackson has stuck to Taft
through thick and thin, the former ad
jective applying to their relations and
the latter to the pickings to come, and
undoubtedly Mr. Jackson soon will turn
over the keys of the custom house to
some loyal Democrat. And about the
same time there will be a sudden in
crease in “JOB WANTED” advertis
ing by prominent colored citizenry of
Atlanta, who have made the custom
house their headquarters and their meal
ticket for many years past. The sight
of a negro in public office will be some
thing of a curiosity for the next four
years, at least.
Underwood Men
To Be Cared For,
President-elect Wilson told a Georgia
congressman several weeks ago that,
in case of Democratic victory, there
would be no discrimination in Georgia
appointments between those who sup
ported Wilson and those who worked
for Underwood. He said Underwood
had been one of the first of his oppo
nents to come to Seagirt and pledge
hearty support, and that support had
been given.
“No friend of Oscar Underwood shall
be discriminated against because he
worked for Underwood,” Mr. Wilson is
reported as saying.
It Is an unwritten law in politics that
the senators and congressmen of a
state shall control to a large measure
the appointments in that state, pro
vided the administration is of their po
litical faith. Hoke Smith, a (inn friend
to Wilson from the beginning, is looked
upon as the principal arbiter of office
seekers' affairs, and It will be he who
will decide on the major matters. Wil
liam Schley Howard will have a great
deal to say about appointments In this
district, as will other congressmen in
their own territories. It is not impos
sible that Senator Smith will return to
the cabinet, which he left when Cleve
land went out. though ft is reported that
the only place he cares for is that of
attorney general, and he would prefer
to take chances on being re-elected sen
ator to accepting a port-folio in which
he would be "burled.”
Atlanta Rejoices
As Returns Come in.
Atlanta received the election news
even as the prodigal son stood upon
the hilltop and sniffed the aroma of
the fatted calf. Democrats and Bull
Moosers and occasional Taft men stood
In the streets, crowded the club room?
or listened to the band in the big Audi,
torium until midnight, long after it was
definitely established that Wilson was
Taft Hits T. R. in
Election Statement
CINCINNATI, Nov. 6.—President
Taft at 11 o’clock last night conceded
the election of Governor Wilson. He
Issued the following statement from
his brother’s home here:
' "The returns insure the election of
Governor Wilson to the presidency.
This means an early change in the
economic policy of the government In
reference to the tariff. If this change
can be made without halting prosperity
I sincerely hope it may be.
“The vote for Mr. Roosevelt, the third
party candidate, and for Mr. Debs, the
Socialist candidate, Is a warning that
their propaganda in favor of funda
mental changes In our constitutional
representative government has formid
able support.
"While the experiment of a change In
the tariff is being carried out by the
Democratic administration it behooves
Republicans to gather again to the par
ty standard and pledge anew their
faith in their party’s principles and to
organize again to defend the constitu
tional government handed dow-n to us
by our fathers. We must make clear
to the young men of the country who
have been weaned away from sound
principles of government by promise of
reforms, impossible of accomplishment
by mere legislation, that patriotism and
common sense require them to return
to a support of our constitution. With
out compromising our principles, we
must convince and win back former
Republicans, and we must reinforce
our ranks with constitution loving
democrats.
"We favor every step of progress to
ward more perfect equality of oppor
tunity and the ridding society of injus
tice. But we know that all progress
worth making is possible with our pres
ent form of government and that to
sacrifice that which is of the highest
value in our governmental structure
for undefined and impossible reforms Is
the wildest folly. We must face the
danger with a clear knowledge of what
It Is. The Republican party is equal to
the task. It has had no nobler cause.
Let us close ranks and march forward
to do battle for the right and the true.”
President Taft tonight sent tele
grams to Governor Wilson and Chair
man Hilles, of the Republican national
committee.
Here are the messages:
"Cincinnati, Ohio, November s.—Hon.
Woodrow Wilson, Princeton, N. J.: I
cordially congratulate you on your
election and extend to you my best
wishes for a successful administration.
"WILLIAM H. TAFT."
“Cincinnati, Ohio, November s.—Hon.
Charles D. Hilles, chairman Republican
national committee, Times building.
New York city: You have conducted a
most difficult campaign in the face of
unusual obstacles. I congratulate you
heartily on the fight you have made and
I am deeply grateful to you for It.
"WILLIAM H. TAFT.”
GIRL, 14, GETS DIVORCE;
REWEDS IN 30 MINUTES
FORT WORTH, TEXAS, Nov. 6.—Just
30 minutes after Mrs. Minnie Scogging,
14 years old. was granted a divorce from
Will Scogging she entered the county
clerk’s office with C. E. Lacy, obtained a
license and was married to him one hour
later. The girl is also suing for posses
sion of her baby, six months old. Judge
Swayne, who granted the divorce, when
he heard another license was procured,
went to the girl and threatened to spank
her.
winner and the Colonel the runner-up.
The cheering was loud and long In the
early hours, but after that there wasn’t
much to shout about. It was a case of
“Don’t cheer, boys; the poor fellows are
dying.”
Fully 10,000 rooters stood at Five
Points or as close thereto as they could
get and watched the bulletins flash on
the screen, announcing that Wilson
had carried nine towns in New Hamp
shire or that Roosevelt had swung three
precincts In the upper end of Schenec
tady. It wasn’t long before whole
states from the East began flashing on
the sheet and then the news came that
The New York Sun and The New York
Press claimed the country for Wilson.
After a while the Bull Moose papers
and various Taft sheets began conced
ing the election of the Princetonian,
and then it was all over but the shout
ing. But the crowd stood on the car
tracks until midnight and then all tried
to ride home at once.
The Georgian’s extras announcing the
victory of Wilson met a ready sale.
Half the men In the Five Points crowd
bought a paper to get the facts in con
vincing form. There were pink edi
tions sticking out of every pocket, and
on the cars the straphangers were try
ing to read the news and stick on their
feet at the same time.
Down at the Auditorium a crowd
which nearly filled the big structure
cheered the returns as they came and
listened to the band play ragtime. The
audience stuck until close to midnight,
watching the news from the later
Western states. Altogether, It was a
big night, a highly satisfactory even
ing. and everybody—except a small mi
nority—ls hoping the same show will
play a return date four years front cow.
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WON
Incomplete Returns Indicate
Victory Giving Party Solid
Administration.
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ocrats—Bankhead of Alabama. Martin
of Virginia, Vardaman of Mississippi,
James of Kentucky, and Ransdell of
Louisiana—and one Is a Republican-
Fall of New Mexico.
The states from which the remaining
thirty must be chosen are Arkansas,
Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Idaho, U
linols, lowa, Kansas, Maine, Massachu
setts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana,
Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey,
Nevada, North Carolina, Oklahoma,
Oregon. Rhode Island, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, West
Virginia and Wyoming.
Simmons Wins
In North Carolina.
Os these states. Colorado. Idaho and
Illinois will choose two senators each,
and the other states one.
It will be necessary for the Demo
crats to elect thirteen out of the thirty
to obtain a majority, and for the Re
publicans to elect eighteen to procure
that advantage.
Os the twenty-seven states from
which the new senators must be chosen,
seven—Georgia, Maine, North Carolina
Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee
and West Virginia—are now repre
sented by Democrats, and the remain
ing twenty by Republicans. The re
turns so far give little basis on which
to establish the strength of the parties
in the next senate.
Much Interest attached to the report
that Senator Simmons probably had
won a renomination in the North Car
olina primary. Next to Senator Bailey,
of Texas, he Is the senior Democratic
member of the committee on finance
As Mr. Bailey's successor has been
chosen by a primary, Mr. Simmons
would be in line for the chairmanship
of the most Important committee, in
case of Democratic control of the sen
ate.
Delaware Elects
Democrat Senator
WILMINGTON, DEL., Nov. 6.—Del
aware went Republican and Democrat
ic at the same time. Wilson carried the
state by about 5,000 plurality, while the
remainder of the state ticket, from gov
ernor down, was captured by the regu
lar Republicans, with the exception of
congressman and the possible exception
of attorney general.
Franklin Brockson, the Democratic
nominee for congress, won the offlef
easily by reason of there being three
Republican candidates In the flel*
against him.
State Senator Thomas M. Monaghan,
the Democratic nominee for governor,
ran behind his ticket. Senator Charles
R. Miller, the regular Republican can
didate, won by a majority of about 500.
The Democrats elected a majority of
the legislature on joint ballot, thus In
suring the election of a Democratic
United States senator to succeed Sen
ator Harry R. Richardson, Republican.
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