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* * <-* ELECTION RETURNS. Eirst Reports Showing Republican Victory Confirmed?1Taft Elected Sure Enough, and by Big Majority at That?Democratic Candidate for Vice President Beaten Even in His Own State. NcwYirk, Nov- 3.?The indications are that l ho following will be cat tin the oectoral college for Taft: California 10; Connecticut 8; Delaware 3; Idaho 3; llliuoie 27 ; Indiana 15; Iowa 13; Kansas 10; Maine 6; Maryland 8; Mftohusetts J5; Michigan 14;Miunesota 11; New Hampshire 4; New Jersey 12; New York 39; North Dakota 4; Ohio 23 ; Oregon 4 ; Pennsylvania 34; Itliode Island 4 ; South Dakota 4; Utah 3 ; Ver mout 4; Washington 5; West Virginia 7; Wisconsin 13; Wyoming 3. Total 306. cr+ New York, Nov. 4.?General Election returns from throughout the Uni'?d States received up to an early hour tins m rning show the following results: William 11. Talt of Ohio has been elected president with 298 votes secure and 13 doubllul. Praeticallv no change is indicated in the national house of representative . The United Sta'es senate will retain its present Republican majority. Gov. Charles E Hughes has been re elected in New York by about 76,01)0 p urahty. Indiana has gone tor Taft bv from 15,000 10 18,000 plurality. Bryan appuvnUy haseiiricd N?>bra ka, although the Repub licans still claim the State. Ohio returr-.a have boen seriously delayed owing t ? llie immense lize of the ballot, but Taft ha'i carried the State Jby a majority rauging from 50.000 to 75,000. Taft carried Now York city by about 11,000 plurality, this bo ing the first time the city lias given*its vole to a Republican presidential candidate since 1896 when Mr. McKinley had a small plurality. TAFT RUNB AI1KAI) OF KOOSKVKLT Mr. Taft received a greater plurality in New York Sta'o than ^ President Riosevel' did four yeais s^o. (In* indications pointing to '202 000 for Mr. Talt, against 175,000 lor Mr. Roosevelt. Hisgen, tin* Independence parity candidate i"r president, rc *ceye 1 about 28.000 voles in n vt u<e?ter jnow lmk. Tue indication* are t ha' Dem ocratic governor* have been elected in several ol the Mid.lie Western States that, h.ive given their presidential v ?tes to Ta.'t. Mr. Talt has exceeded Mr. Roosevelt's plurality in New Jer-ey and in Massaehu-?el t* a* well as in N w York. The Republican pluralities (ell off. heavily in the Middle West in a manner thoroughly surprising to the Republican managers. Speaker Cannon has been re elected by h:s u-ual majority. NATIONAL 1IOUSK l/NCHAN(JKI>. Represen utives Payne ot New York and 1) dzjll ol Pennsylvftnia have been reelected and the houge ol representatives pr ba'dv will continue under its old regime. Mr. Pavne will hive] charge ot the new tar IT bill :n 1 the extra session which Mr. Talt will call immediately alter M ir h 4 next. Missouri has returned to the "solid South" on the prendenti il nun eiec ea uowherd ns its yovHrnor. The fir4 re'ums received fcod ?y came tr??m -c t run distri? t~ ill MirBHChU-el 18 The he<vy plurwliii'8 tndica'?*d 'here f r Mr, IMt kepm?i *<t hi ? to d 81 i?nle an* pr ha,'ni( of Innd-'nle for VI' Mr >i 'limy crat- ha-i cooiie-d. hI1<1 tile I THE LANC Republican managers at once began to put in claims of victory. Returns irom the up-country <1?strict b of New York State, where votiug machines are largely used, were the n^xt to arrive. It had beeu predicted for days that Erie country, including the heavy vote of Buffalo, might be taken as an index to the drift throughout the county. This proved to be the ce.90 so far as the national ticket was concern ed, Mr. Taft having a plurality of somethiug more than 4,000 votes. Erie county surprisingly, however, gave Lieut. Gov. Chanler a|pluralityot more than 3.000 The opponents of Gov. Hughes were quick to claim a sweeping victory, but rcturus from the other large counties and citi> s soon changed the complexion of the returns completely. The vote in Greater New York fur VI - ? 1 1 J* mi. vjiHimm was Cieepiy disappointing to his firends, while the heavy vote for Mr. Taft, eapec ially in the borough of Brooklyn, completely eclipsed the most sanguine hnpes of the Republi cans. Gov. Hughes was out heavily up I ho 8tate, but not ho deeply as to imperil his election, once the drift in his favor '*below the Bronx1' h id begun to make itself felt REPUBLICAN SLUMPS. Some of the figures relating to tBe Republican slump in States regarded as certainly Republican are little short of amazing. Reoneylvenia's immense plurality of over 500,000 four yearn ago h-?s bo*n cu' in two [Hi 019, winch gave Ruo-cveii 305,000 in 1904, has gone for Tait by about 170,000. Tlio highest cl dm of the Republicans lor Indiana is 15,000 as aga'n-t approximately 93.000. Iowa, which gave Mr. Roosevelt 158.00" plurality in 19 J4, has drop ped down to about 40,000 lor Mr. Taft. The return of Missouri to the Democratic column on the nresidential liokoi "-f--* out a Republican plurality i>t 25,000 lour years ago. Maryland and w est Virginia are confidently cltimed by tbe Republicans, but the returns are too meagre to justify a clast-ifi cation of either Slute. Masanchuseit?, New York and New Jersey were strikin'_'|exception8 to the generally reduced Republican pluralities. There has been a ahrinka/e o; he Uem jcia ic vote in sever \l of Southern Stat -b, notably in Virginia au'l North Coolie a. Mr. 1'aft has carried Wisconsin by uhout 75,000, a falling ( IF from the Roosevelt plurality of 156,000 in 1004 Kentucky has gone Ha!el.v for Bryan by about 15,000. Representative W. S. Cowherd has been elected governor of Missonii over Iladley (Rep) by about 20,000. GOV. JOHNSON KKKLKCTKI). Gov. John A John-ton of Min nesota has probably been elect ed governor of that State fr>r a third term, although the State hat gone afe 1 v for Mr. Taf'. The votiug throughout the country hat been exceptionally heavy, ideal weather conditions bringing out the country vo'ers iu full force. Mr. Taft canied praelicall* every socalled doubliul State except Nebraska ,where the mdi Cations point to a Democratic vie tory. Mr. Bryan has carried Nevada and Montana, iu addition to (tie solid South, which include* Missouri. Returns from Colorado an 1 Maryland are too meagre to form UAW LUNGS When the lungs tire Horn ami inflamed, the germa of pneumonia and consumption find lodgement and multiply. F 'lev'a Honey ami 'Car kill* tfie gii genua, curea tfie most nhatinate racking cough heals the lungs, ai.J prevents serious lesults. The gouuiue in in the yello w pac Hi/e The Fumlerhurk Pharmacy, L >S. Hammond, Hentli Springe. ASTER NEWS, NOVEMBE a definite conclusion as to their ultimate alinement The latest Repulican advices are that Taft has carried Mary laud by about 3,000. Teddy De-lighted, of Course. Washington, November 3.? President Roosevelt was greatly elated tonight when he saw by the election bulletins, which reached him at the White House, that the man who will succeed him to the Presidency is Win. 11 Tatt, tor whose election he had striven so hard, and that the Republican party had achievod a sweeping victory Wearing evening clothes and with a pink rose in Ins button hole tuo President spent it short while in his office and then went back to the White House, only a hundred feet away, to be wi'h his gues's, who included the Cabinet members and assistant secretaries now in (own, and their wives and Gens Bell and Edwards. He went back and forth a number of times during the evening, and it was not until a'ale hour tlia' ho retired f'?r the night. Notice of Election. Wheieas one-third of the freeholders and one-third of the electors raiding in tire Fork Hill School District No '25 have petitioned the County Board of Education to grant an Election to determine whether or not a special of two an t one-half t'2J) mills shall l>c levied on all real and personal property in said Fork llill School District No "25 in I<ancaster county. State of South Carolina, tor school pmpost-H Notice is hereby given that Hi?id election Vie held by the trustees of said School District No. 25 at the Fork Hill School House on Friday Nov. 13th, ID 8, at which election only such electors as return personal or real propertv for taxation and who exhibit iiicir iu\ receipt and registration certificate as requited in the general elections shall tin entitled l > vote W. M. Moore. 11. E Coffey, W. <3. Hough. County Board When voti want nnv jvinti >.? ?'<> I send it to The News. rFQMNWH< H d?es in disposing ' pe 1 >et t! i., 11 ;R 7, 1208 gp = CRESCENT RES! 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