Volume 9 , Issue 18

November 1910 - Democratic Landslde Sweeps Entire Nation

W. Hooper, was elected by 15,000 plurality in November, 1910 election. Democratic governors were elected in Alabama and South Carolina. In Iowa the democrats claimed the election of Claude R. Porter for governor, but this was not yet conceded. In Wisconsin the election of the republican candidate for governor, Francis E. McGovern, was claimed by a reduced majority and the return of Senator LeFollette to the United States senate was assured. In michigan, Chase S. Osborn the republican candidate for governor, appeared to have a safe lead over L. T. Hemans, democrat.

McKinley's Statement -- Chicago, Nov. 8, 1910 -- "William B. McKinley, chairman of the national congressional committee, after 11 o'clock tonight stated: 'When it is considered as now seems to be the fact that barely two-thirds of the republican vote in the middle western states came to the polls and a further fact that factional differences had aroused unusual bitterness among the republicans, the result of today's election is not at all surprising."

"Every effort to promote harmony was made by this committee, in many instances with success."

"The revision of the tariff always has proved a disturbing element in American politics and this year has been no exception. Judging by the light vote polled, the republican party yesterday had the same experience it had in 1892, two years after the passage of the McKinley bill."
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