Beav erhead County Votes Trumpets Republican Tide
The Beaverhead county returns show Republicans winning most county offices with only the assessor and county attorney losing by small margins. Gov Edwin Norris carried the county over Donlan by 232 votes while Miss Alice Herr won county school superintendent for Democrats. A full precinct tally appears on page five.
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Beaverhead County
Norris
Republican
Louis Stahl
Anthony French
Henry R. Melton
C.W. Robison
Alice Herr
Margaret Ross
Beaverhead
Gov. Norris
Edward Donlan
Melton
French
Miss Herr
Taft
O. Selway
J. Murray
F. A. Hazelbaker
John S. Baker
District Court to Open in Dillon Next Week
The regular November term of district court in Dillon opens Wednesday November 11 with a long calendar. Eight criminal cases including perjury against Fred L. Stone and burglaries involving Louis Grimm Walter Brown and Harry Broadwater are listed, plus a lengthy civil docket with multiple water rights debt and damages actions. The term will hear both criminal and civil matters.
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District Court
Dillon
State of
Montana
Fred L. Stone
Louis Grimm
Beaverhead Ranch Company
Grimm
Bond's Siding
Albert Taylor
Big Hole Basin
James Kosman
John W. Hails
Birch Creek
Walter Brown
Brown
W.S. Tash
Children’s Bank
Harry Broadwater
Robert Wing
Metlen
Dan Courtney
Hogan's Alley
Emery W. Pulver
Henry Cahill
Pulver
Cahill
B. O. Fournier
Walter P. Fox
W. A. Armitage
Highland Water Company
Margaret A. Barbour
Louis G. Woodside
David Evans
Edward Gleed
W. S. Tash
J. C. Harrison
B. G. Swafford
Geo
A. C. Reid
Beaverhead Realty Co
State Bank of Dillon
Virgil Jennings
C. H. Strowbridge
W. F. Anderson
Wood Live Stock Co
Boniview Reservoir Co
Ferdinand Gattan
Joseph Plackett
Emerson Hill
Henry Thompson
H. B. Sellway
A. F. Selway
Charles Mikus
F. B. Felt
Roscoe C. Johnson
F. L. Stone
W. A. Lovell
Harry G. Davis
Martin C. Jackson
Cannon Re elected in Danville District by Large Plurality
Danville Illinois reports Joseph G Cannon re elected to Congress with a likely plurality of at least 10500. Incomplete returns show a surprising margin as church groups, the anti saloon league, and labor had opposed him while Republicans credited a new Democratic organization in the district since 1863 for the unexpected result.
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Danville
Ill
Joseph G. Cannon
Cannon
Antisaloon League
Organized Labor
Senate split in six states as GOP tally announced
At noon the Republicnas National Congressional Committee declares the legislative election will leave Colorado Idaho Indiana Kentucky Nevada Oregon each with one Democrat and one Republican U S senator. Democratic senators listed for Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Maryland Mississippi Missouri North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas and West Virginia.
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Chicago
Republican National Congressional Committee
Colorado
Idaho
Indiana
Kentucky
Nevada
Oregon
United States
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennesees
Texas
West
Political Commentary and Election Forecasts From Montana Papers
The Missoulian notes shifts in the 1908 race with Taft ahead and Bryan losing ground. The Helena Record and others discuss Democratic deficits, voters, and regional results while Missoulian writers analyze state outcomes and fuel forecasts as winter approaches.
Two Republican Senators in Virginia Shift Senate Balance
Virginia is cited as altering the Senate composition with two Republican senators, projecting a total of 58 Republicans and 34 Democrats in the chamber.
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Virginia
Senate
Taft Carries New York City, First Since 1896
Taft carried New York City by about 11 000 plurality the first time the city voted Republican for president since 1896 McKinley. The piece lists national costs totaling about 5 000 000 including telegraph and telephone service private bulletins and stereopticons rental halls labor police service and newspaper bulletin service with figures scattered across the ledger.
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New York
Taft
New York City
McKinley
Sandvoksiasiv
Padincatents
Getting Returns Easily from This Year’s Election Costs
Chicago November 4 The returns of the election this year cost the American people over five million dollars, an estimate and the highest expenditure for any election.
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Chicago
Taft Wins Strong Eastern Support In Vote Count
New York Nov 4 It is a question of counting the votes as Taft racks the heaviest presidential total in the eastern states. The report notes Taft leading in key regions and mass support across early results.
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New York
Taft
Socialist Vote Drop in Chicago From 1904 to 1910
In Chicago on November 4 the socialist vote totaled about 15 000, down 12 000 from the 1904 tally. The result marks a sharp decline in socialist support in the city compared to four years earlier.
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Chicago
Taft Victory Sparks Manila Celebration Among Sugar Interests
Manila reports an enthusiastic celebration of Taft's election. Sugar and tobacco interests show confidence in Taft and Luke Wright and expect Wright to be a leading figure in their affairs over the next four years.
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Manila
Taft
Luke Wright
Prohibition Candidate Chafin Deems Dem Bryan Party Dead
Chicago November 4 Eugene W Chafin presidential candidate of the prohibition party reacts to election returns saying the democratic Bryan party is dead and predicts a race between the prohibition party and the whiskey republican party with a Prohibition president in 1912.
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Chicago
Eugene W. Chafin
Prohibition Party
Democratic Bryan Party
Whiskey Republican Party
Darning Needle Breaks Off In Mrs French Foot
Thursday morning Mrs. M. E. French stepped on a darning needle and broke the head off in her foot. The attending physician has not yet located or extracted the needle.
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M. E. French
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Harmon
Holloway
Salon
Esselstyn
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Helena
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