I ovdrukf County NEWQ
VOL. VII.
McCRORY, ARKANSAS, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 12, 1908.
NO. 52.
Popular Plurality of
W H. Taft, 1,025,000
Republicans Make Surprising Gains Everywhere
According to Latest Returns—Missouri Goes
Republican for Both President and Governor.
Latest returns, mostly official, in
dicate that William Howard Taft, the
Republican candidate for president,
will have 325 votes in the electoral col
lege as against 158 for William J.
Bryan. This is a majority of 79, al
most as great a victory as that
achieved by President Roosevelt in
1904 when the electoral vote stood 336
to 140. The total vote in the elec
toral college was increased seven this
year by the admission of Oklahoma to
statehood, which cast its first vote to
Mr. Bryan.
The great surprises of this election
are in the main:
The remarkable landslide to the Re
publican candidates.
A Republican plurality in New York
state of 203,000 and in New York
City alone of 15,000.
A Republican plurality in Missouri
of 3,000.
A Republican plurality in Maryland
of 605, the electoral vote of which
state may be split between Bryan and
Taft on account of the extremely close
margin which both parties seem to
claim.
The election of Democratic gover
nors in Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana and
other states which gave Taft over
whelming pluralities.
Taft’s popular plurality of 1,025,000.
According to the best information
obtainable, the proportionate numbers
of Republican and Democratic elec
tors will be determined by a division
of Maryland’s eight votes. Half of
the City of Baltimore and two of the
twenty-three counties outside of that
city are still to be counted, but there
is a strong indication that the State’s
vote will be split. In any event, the
margin of victory will be so small that
the state is claimed by the leaders of
both parties.
Though the splitting of a state’s
. fJCUUiai VUIU J>Q UllUMUU, 1L Will uu
recalled that in 1904 Maryland chose
one Republican and seven Democratic
electors.
Missouri is safely Republican by a
plurality of over 3,000 and Attorney
General Hadley has carried the state
for governor by over 17,000.
Latest congressional returns indi
cate that the next, Congress will be
composed of 218 Republicans and 173
Democrats, a majority for the Repub
licans of 45.
The returns for the Socialist and
Prohibition parties are still far from
complete, but indicate that the hopes
of the Socialists have not been real
ized, and that the Prohibitionists in
certain sections where gains have
been expected have been disappoint
ed. The figures for the Independence
Party are also insufficient to give an
accurate idea of what that party ac
complished.
Leaders of both the parties found
themselves facing what looked in
creasingly like a vindication of the
prophesy cf Chairman Frank H. Hitch
cock, of the Republican National
Committee, that Taft would have at
least 325 electoral votes.
Indiana apparently has given the
Democrats a majority of eight on joint
ballot in the Legislature, which would
assure the return of a Democratic
United States Senator in place of
llemenway, a Republican. There is
a rumor that John W. Kern, the de
feated candidate for vice president,
will be chosen. The state has elected
Marshall (Dem.) Governor by a plur
ality of about 15,000 while giving
Taft a margin of about 18,000.
REPUBLICANS GAIN TWO.
Chicago, Nov. 9.—The returns from
congressional districts throughout the
country today resulted in a Republi
can gain of 2, as compared with figures
mol nigiii. Aiuert uougias tnep.;
was, contrary to previous advices,
elected in the Eleventh Ohio district,
and Moses P. Kinkaid (Rep.) who was
reported as defeated in the Sixth Ne
braska district, was returned as elect
ed. The contest in the Fifth Nebraska
district is extremely close and will
require official count to determine the
result.
According to reports received to
•late, the next house will consist of
nil Democrats and 218 Republicans.
direct primary wins.
San Francisco, Cal., Nov. 9.—Re
turns from Tuesday’s election indicate
that the amendment to the state con
stitution providing for a direct pri
mary was carried by a large majority.
The large cities in the state give
fhe amendment a majority of 67,000.
VOTED.
HOW EACH STATE
Taft Bryan
Alabama .
Arkansas .
California . 10
Colorado .
Connecticut . 7
Delaware . 3
Florida .
Georgia .
Idaho . 3
Illinois . 27
Indiana . 15
Iowa . 13
Kansas . 10
Kentucky .
Louisiana .
Maine . 6
Maryland . 2
Massachusetts _ 16
Michigan . 14
Minnesota . 11
Mississippi .
Missouri . 18
Montana . 3
Nebraska .
Nevada .•.
N. Hampshire . 4
New Jersey . 12
New York . 39
N. Carolina.
N. Dakota .
Ohio . 23
Oklahoma .
Oregon . 4
Pennsylvania . 34
Rhode Island. 4
S. Carolina .
Sj Dakota . 4
Tennessee .
Texas .
Utah . 3
Vermont . 4
Virginia .
Washington .. 5
W. Virginia . 7
Wisconsin . 13
Wyoming . 3
11
9
a
13
13
9
10
12
4
12
18
12
Plur
ality
50.000
25.000
75.000
5.500
35.000
2,000
20.000
20,000
15.000
175.000
19.000
65.000
35.000
15.000
40.000
32.000
605
101.000
143.000
85.000
50.000
3,000
2.500
3.000
2.000
20.000
65.000
203.000
40.000
3.000
75.000
15.000
26.000
290.000
19.000
50.000
15.000
15.000
200.000
25.000
28.000
20,000
47.000
20.000
75,000
1.000
Total . 325 158
G. O. P. LOSES 12 SEATS.
Final Returns Give Democrats 173 and
Republicans 218 in House.
New York, Nov. 9.—Final returns
received at the headquarters of the
Republican congressional committee
show that the Republican party will
control the house cf representatives
in the Sixty-first congress by a ma
jority of 45, as compared with 57 in
the present house, a falling off of 12
Republican members. The house in
the Sixty-first congress will be com
posed of 218 Republicans and 173
Democrats.
The states that have returned solid
Republican delegations to the house
are:
California, Connecticut. Kansas,
Maine, Michigan, Montana, New
Hampshire, North Dakota, Oregon,
South Dakota, Utah, Washington,
West Virginia and Wyoming.
Solid Democratic delegations were
elected in the following states:
Alabama, Arkansas, Colorado, Flori
da, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi,
Nevada, South Carolina and Texas.
One of the surprises of the congres
sional campaign was furnished by the
state of North Carolina. It will have
three Republican members of the low
er branch cf the Sixty-first congress.
Two Republican candidates were suc
cessful in Virginia. The delegation
from that state is at present solidly
Democratic. The latest figures ,ndi
cate that eleven Democrats and two
Republicans were elected in Indiana
and two Republicans and three Demo
crats in Nebraska. New York’s rep
resentauon is the next nouse will
stand as at present, 2G Republicans
and 11 Democrats.
DEBS SAYS HE GAINED.
Terre Haute, Ind.—Eugene V. Debs,
defeated candidate for the presidency
on the Socialist ticket, made the fol
lowing statement concerning the So
cialist vote:
The so-called falling off was not a
falling off. I attribute the votes fall
ing short of (he expected mark to the
fact that an unusually large vote was
cast for the Socialist candidate in
1904. Then there were a great many
disgruntled Democrats who were cha
grined because Parker was nominat
ed, and they voted with the Socialists.
This year they went back to the Dem
ocratic party and voted for Bryan. 1
count that we have made a gain in the
actual Fociali>- vote.
TAFT’S CABINET,
Four Changes Scheduled, But Most of
Roosevelt’s Aides Will Stay.
Cincinnati, Nov. 9.—From an unoffi
cial but trustworthy sourse comes the
information that President Taft’s cab
inet will be composed of the follow
ing:
Secretary of the Treasury—George
Von L. Meyer, Massachusetts.
Secretary of State—Elihu Root, New
York.
Secretary of War—Luke E. Wright,
Tennessee.
Secretary of the Interior—James
Garfield, Ohio.
Secretary of the Navy—Wm. Loeb
Jr., New York.
Postmaster General—Frank Hitch
cock, Massachusetts.
Attorney General—Frank B. Kellogg,
Minnesota.
Secretary of Agriculture—James
Wilson, Iowa.
Secretary of Commerce and Labor—
Oscar L. Strauss, New York.
The change in personnel of the cab
inet would retire three officers and
change a fourth. Secretary of the
Treasuary Cortelyou, would make way
for George Von L. Meyer, present Post,
master General, who would be suc
ceeded by his present first assistant,
Frank Hitchcock, Taft’s campaign
manager. Attorney Gen. Chas. J. Bon
aparte, would be succeeded by his as
sistant, Frank B. Kellogg, the young
Minnesotaian, who has become famous
in the Standard Oil prosecution, and
Secretary of the Navy Victor H. Met
calf, would make way for Wm. Loeb
Jr.
Senator W. Murray Crane, of Mas
ufacturer, is also prominently men
tioned in connection with the Nava'
portfolio.
It is understood that Myron T. Her
rick, formerly governor of Ohio, is be
ing quietly boomed for a place ir
Taft’s cabinet, as custodian of the na
tion’s finances.
There is little probability that Rool
or Wright wTill be succeeded. Root is
Taft's warm personal friend and th<
same reasons that induced Mr. Roose
velt to make Wright Taft’s successoi
as Secretary of War, should operate tc
Mr. Taft, particularly in view of the
campaign work that Wright, who has
always been called a Democrat, die
for Taft in the campaign just past.
ROOSEVELT SAYS HE IS DE
LIGHTED.
Washington, Nov. 5.—The president
was in a very cheerful frame of mind
today and told the newspaper men
that the election of Mr. Taft wholly
carried out a prophecy made by him
in a letter w’ritten to Senator Henry
Cabot Lodge of Massachusetts dated
October 1908. In this letter, the
president said:
“Dear Cabot—Prophecy is very bad
until after the event. Nevertheless, 1
must send you a line to say that 1
think the situation is steadily improv
ing in Ohio and east of the Alleghenies
I believe we shall have a larger popu
lar plurality than four years ago; in
other words, that Taft”s plurality will
be greater than mine, and I think our
electoral vote will be larger east of
the Alleghenies than four years, be
cause I think the chances slightly
favor us in Maryland, although this
represents a good deal of guesswork.
“West of the Alleghenies 1 think we
shall see a heavy falling off in the ma
jorities as compared with 1904, but 1
do not anticipate the loss of any
electoral votes except in Missouri and
Nevada, and I am inclined to think
that we have an even chance to car
rying Kentucky.”
Over 1,000 telegrams and n}any let
ters of congratulations on the result
of the election poured into the White
House today from President Roosevelt.
He was ousy all day reading these
messages and dictating replies to
them.
LATEST RETURNS FROM
MISSOURI.
St. Louis, Nov. 9.—Returns compiled
by the Republic give Taft the elec
toral vote of Missouri by a plurality
of 3,172 over Bryan. These returns
are complete from all but three of the
114 counties of the state, and include
estimates based on partial returns
from the missing counties. The Globe
Democrat places the Taft plurality iu
excess of 3,700.
According to the Republic, the pre
sidential vote polled in Missouri Tues
day was 19,724 higher than that polled
in 1900, which was the high mark.
Taft's vote is but 0,828 behind the
Bryan vote of that year and complete
returns front the three missing coun
ties will probably send it ahead of the
Bryan vote 8 years ago.
The plurality of Hadley, republican,
for governor is now placed at 17,651.
The legislature is democratic on
joint ballot by four votes. The ten
constitutional amendments, including
that providing for the initiative and
referendum, have apparently been de
feated.
MARYLAND SPLIT; BRYAN 6;
TAFT 2.
Republican Gets Popular Majority—
Final Totals Now Taft 321, Bryan
162.
Baltimore, Md., Nov. 9.—The can
vass of Maryland’s last presidential
election shows that the state’s elector
al vote is divided, although Judge
Taft actually carried the state on the
popular vote. The official! canvass
shows that Maryland will cast six of
her eight vites in the electoral college
for Bryan, while the other two votes
in the electoral college will be cast
for Taft.
On a popular vote Taft has carried
the state by 605 plurality, the actual
figures for the vote in the whole
state, taking the vote of the highest
elector on each side as representing
the real vote of the respective candi
dates was as follows:
Taft, 116,514; Bryan, 115,909.
Taft’s plurality, 605.
How Vote Was Split.
The split in the delegation from
Maryland is due to the fact that the
vote for the eight electors on each of
the two leading tickets varies widely,;
while the reason that the Democrats
secure more electors than the Repub
licans is because the difference be
tween the vote of the highest and low
est electors on the Democratic side is
much less than it is between the high
est and lowest on the Republican side.
As a result of this difference in the
vote for the several electors, the lead
ing Republican elector has a larger
vote than any Democrat elector, but
six of the Democratic electors have
pQfh n nlimhpr of votes that!
the six lowest men on the Republi
can ticket. Consequently the six
lowest Republicans are crossed out
and the six highest Democrats are
elected to the electoral college, along
with the two highest Republicans.
The members of the electoral col
lege are pledged to vote, not for the
man who carried the state on the popu
lar vote, but for the candidate on whose
ticket they were nominated. Hence
the Democratic electors will vote foi
Bryan and the Republican electors
will vote for Taft.
WILL CONTEST ELECTION.
Adlai E. Stevenson to Demand Re
count in Illinois.
Chicago, Nov. 9.—The election o:
Gov. Chas. Deneen to serve anothei
term as governor of Illinois will be
contested by his defeated Democratic
rival, according to a signed statemem
issued tonight by Charles Bceschen
stein, chairman of the Democratic
central committee.
The statement follows:
“I am convinced that with a cor
rect count and an honest canvass
Adlai E. Stevenson has a plurality oi
the vote cast in the election last Tues
j day for governor of Illinois. We wil
j demand that the ballots be recounted
j The demand for a recount will be
i made upon the legislature, as provid
ed for in the statutes.”
Gov. Deneen’s plurality is estimat
1 ed at from 23,000 to 26,000.
j Ben H. Atwell, secretary to Chair
man Boesehenstein, explained that er
; rors in the count had alreadv been
I found in several precincts, and it was
: calculated that if only three ballots
- in each of the 4,040 voting precincts
in Illinois were taken from Deneen
and given on recount to Stevenson, the
latter would be found to have won the
election.
ROOSEVELT MAY SUCCEED PLATT
Washington.—That President Rc;ose
I velt may be the successor of Senator
j Platt in the Senate is considered by
: many in Washington as not at all
j improbable. Those who regard this
I as possible declare that they have
; assurance from the President himself
j that he will not be entirely averse to
tions as they will be after March 4.
So far as known he has made no re
cent expression on the subject, but he
has said within the past year that
with Taft as President he would not
feel the same hesitencv about enter
ing the Senate that he would feel with
whom his relations could not be as
intimate as they are with Taft.
Helena, Mont., Nov. 9.—-An official
! count of the ballots cast for governor
will have to be made to determine who
is the successful candidate. With 175
precincts missing, Norris, Democrat,
leading Dolan, Republican by 1,200
plurality, but the missing precincts
are normally Republican and should
cut down Democratic lead materially.
Both State committees are tonight
claiming the governatoral fight.
The Republican majority in the Na
tional House of Representatives has
been cut, but that party still will have
substantial control.
Taft’s plurality in New York state
has gone well over the 200,000 mark,
while Hughes for Oovernor has shrunk
to 75.000 or less.
NEWS OF
ARKANSAS
H. A. Young Injured.
H. A. Young, one of the most pro
minent citizens of Marion county, fell
off the Crooked Creek bluff while at
tempting to climb a stairway leading
up the bluff and in consequence is
in a critical condition. No one was
with him when the accident occurred
and he is not able to give the partic
ulars. His daughter Clara was milk
ing and heard his groans and went
to his rescue. Help then came and
got him into the house, but the doc
tors have not been able yet to locate
his injuries so as to tell how exten
sive they are.
Hotel and Court House Safe.
The Hotel Jefferson and the Jeffer
son courty court house at Pine Bluff
have been saved, and the hotel is per
fectly safe, County Judge Gould had
the rear wall of the court house
inspected Thursday, and it was pro
nounced unsafe, in view of the fact
that it is slightly cracked and its
foundation sank slightly during the
recent caving. A notice to that effect
was posted by County Judge Gould
Thursday, who states that the wall
has been pronounced dangerous by the
architect.
Pay Twice for Thefts.
Archie Hill, former postmaster at
Blackville, Conway county, pleaded
guilty Thursday to Judge Trieber of
having embezzled $11-1.30 and $10.46 of
postal funds. The judge imposed a
fine commensurate with the embezzle
ments and added a jail sentence of
six months. On the payment of the
fine the jail sentence is to be sus
pended. After Hill took the money he
paid it back to the government. The
sentence of the court results in Hill's
having to pay twice for his shortcom
ings.
Slays Friend Who Stabbed Him.
Claud Layton, a carpenter, is dead
and Tom McElwee, bartender, is suf
fering from serious stab wounds and
must answer to the law for Layton's
death as a result of a quarrel at Me
Gehee between friends.
McElwee’s story is that they were
going home together and that Layton
suddenly stabbed him after a few
harsh words had passed between them.
He then pulled out his pistol and shot
Layton, killing him.
Layton was married and had one
child.
Has Been Voting 68 Years.
Wednesday was the ninety-second an
niversary of Col. \\ . H. Halliburton
of DeWitt, and the family kept “open
house’’ from 2 to 6 in the afternoon.
Col Halliburton is very strong and
active for one of his age. He voted
for Bryan Tuesday. He has been vot
ing for president for the last 68 years,
casting his first vote for Martin Van
Buren. He has just written a his
tory of Arkansas county, which dates
from 1848-1S75, and the first copies
have just come from the press.
Officers Seized Staves.
The officials of the Arkansas Na
tional Forest have seized 12,000
staves that had been cut from the .T.
D. Henderson homestead near Worn
ble and were being shipped to the J.
H. Hamlen & Son company at Little
Rock. They will be sold to the high
est bidder December 10. Supervisor
S. J. Record says he does not know
just what may be done in this case of
t'ernass aside from the seizure of the ;
timber alleged to have been wrong
ful.y cut.
Cotton Gin Burned.
A valuable cotton gin owned by
Jno. S. McDonald was partially de
stroyed by tire at Altheimer Thurs
day. The adjoining buildings were
saved by a bucket brigade. The gin
was badly dajnaged by tire several
Weeks ago and had only recently
been rebuilt and equipped.
Caving Bank Checked.
The caving ot the river bank State
»nd Chestnut streets at Pine Bluff has
boon successfully checked and all dan
ger has passed. The river is falling
rapidity and will continue to recede, ;
as no rains have occurred recently in !
the upper Arkansas valley.
Wounded Man Has a Chance.
W. A. Snyder, who was seriously
wounded with a knife, in the hands
of Georgo Bayne, of Argenta, about
13 miles from Lonoke, while the two j
with Joseph White, of Argenta, were
enroule to the south end of Lonoke
county for a few days hunting trip,
is still lingering between life and 1
death, with conditions slightly in his
favor. Although his serious condi
tion indicated strongly that he would
not recover, he has borne his suffer
ings so far and hopes of his recovery
are now entertained.
Sanders Gets 21-Years Sentence.
For the killing of Zadie Patterson
in Perry county in May, 1907, Alfred.
Sanders must serve 21 years in th»
Arkansas state penitentiary, unless
by legal process or by executive
clemency the sentence should be re
moved. The jury that heard the testi
mony rendered a verdict of murder
in the second degree Tuesday night
at 10:30 o’clock. This is the heaviest
sentence inflicted on a white msn by
a Pulaski county jury in several years.
The killing of Patterson by Sanders
was not in dispute. It was admitted
by the defendant that he shot and kill
ed Patterson with a shotgun, but he
claimed self-defense. The theory of
the state was that Sanders shot Pat
terson wilfully, and it was even argued
to the jury that a first degree murder
sentence would be the verdict.
Sanders is a farmer of Perry county,
and some years ago served a year in
the penitentiary. He married a sister
of the man killed and she separated
front him. He testified that he went
to her home and asked her to return
to him, and that she consented. He
claimed that Zadie Patterson then at
tacked him with rocks and that he
killed him to save his own life.
Historic House Goes Into River.
The residence at one time occupied
by John Seldon Roane, governor of
Arkansas before the war, tumbled
into the swift current of the Arkansas
Tuesday morning and was swept off
down the stream.
The old house, which in recent
years was known as the Boyd place,
stood on a poini oi tana opposite nua
Bluff, about two miles distant.
Sunday morning the land supporting
the foundation caved in. The historic
old house, creaking and crashing, gave
a convulsive shudder and a moment
later toppled a mass of wreckage into
the river.
26 Charged With Rioting.
The trial of 26 men at Lake City
Monday charged with rioting, was con
tinued until December. All the men
gave bond except Rev. J. W. Lewis,
who, it is claimed is the ringleader.
He was taken to Jonesboro and placed
in jail. He refused to talk further
than to say that the part he took in
the visit to the home of Couch waa
for his personal good and was to pre
vent a raid.
Cotton Fired at Dermott.
Fire broke out at 10 o’clock Fri
day night in a car of cotton standing
on a sidetrack near W. H. Lephiew’s
gin at Dermott. The car contained
25 bales and very little was saved.
The car was also destroyed. It is not
known how the fire originated. The
loss will be met by the railroad com
pany, as the agent had already issued
a bill of lading for the cotton.
Cotton Burned.
Several cars loaded with cotton were
burned at Mammoth Springs Saturday
morning under circumstances that
caused the Frisco officials to believe
that the fire was of incendiary origin.
The cotton was in the box cars sealed
and billed out by the company, and
that fact, it is held, is against the
theory of accident. The officials are
investigating.
Forest Fire Near Rogers.
A forest fire has broken out three
miles south of Rogers and the entire
neighborhood were fighting the flames
Saturday. The homes of several farm
ers are threatened and if the fire can
not be extinguished a heavy loss is
Itfili tU. Al 11X10 lilUC V7i juai 10
much undergrowth which is combus
tible.
Rob Washington Postoffice.
The postoffice at. Washington, 10
miles from Hope, was broken into
and robbed .Monday night of $50 gov
ernment funds and about S35 which
belonged to a church at Washington.
The commission of the postmistress
was also stolen. There is no clue to
the identity of the robbers.
Badly Injured by Fall.
R. G. Elliott fell from a tree Mon
day in the school yard at Havana and
broke his leg between the knee and
the hip. He had climbed into the tree
for the purpose of bending a limb
to the ground.
Kills Man He Said Led Night Riders.
After being attacked and insulted
by night riders, a man named Pitche,
living in Union county, sought out
and killed Sam Fife, who he thought
had been the leader of the night
riders.
Game Is Plentiful
Game is more plentiful in the vicin
ity of Russellville than it has been
for many years. Wild ducks are in
numerable on Flag lake, six miles east
of there. Quail are very plentiful
and a great many will be killed, as
the hunters are anxious to open the
season. “Greenheads,” are being
killed rapidly, but they are so plen
tiful that it will be impossible to ex
terminate them this season.
Rabbits, birds and 'possums have
been caught and killed galore.