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GREAT LAN FOR G< DEMOCRATIC VICTORY IS GREATER THAN WAS v FIRST INDICATED CARRIED MANY STATES Wilson Will Have About Four Hundred Votes in tli? Klectoral Ctllege, While Roosevelt and Taft Combined Will Have Something Over One Hundred, Which Gives Democrats a Ijarge Majority. The Democratic victory of last Tuesday grows bigger and bigger as! the final returns come in. It is now -/vnnn/hwi 4 ii o t "VATUtmn sinrl Marshall VU11V/UUCU tiitvb TV will have at least four hundred votes in the electoral college out of a possible five hundred and thirty-two votes. The stupendous Democratic victory has astounded the Republicans of both the Roosevelt and Taft comps. Overturning big Republican majorities in states never beforo captured by Democrats in a presidential election, the Wilson-Marshall ticket was swept into oflice Tuesday on the wave of a victory that carried with it state ofllces, congressional seats and control of a number of legislatures that will have the chance to oust Republicans from the (Tnited States fienato and add to the Democratic strength in that body. For Wilson. Alabama 12 Arizona 3 Arkansas. 9 California 13 Co lor.ado 0 Connecticut 7 Delaware 3 Florida 6 Georgia 14 Illinois ?, 29 Iowa 13 Indiana 15 Kansas 10 Kentucky 13 Louisiana 10 Maine 0 Maryland 8 Massachusetts i 18 Mississippi 10 Missouri 18 Montana 4 Nebraska 8 Nevada 3 New Hampshire 4 New Jersey 14 # New Mexico * 3 New York 4 5 North Carolina 12 North Dakota 5 Ohio 24 Oklahoma 10 Orocnn 5 Rhode Island 5 South Carolina ........ 9 Tennessee 12 Texas 2 0 Virginia 12 ( West Virginia 8 Wisconsin 12 Wyoming 2 Total 442 For Tatt. Idaho 4 Utah 4 Vermont. 4 Total 12 For Roosevelt. Minnesota 12 Michigan 15 Pennsylvania 3 8 Washington 7 Total 7 2 Full returns have not been received from North Dakota and that Stato la in doubt. It will be seen by the above figures that the Democrats have carried 30 States, Roosevelt carried five and Taft carried three States. Four of the States aro yet in doubt. From this it will ho seen that the Democrats made very near a clean sweep of the entire country. No efforts were made to compute tbo popular vote for the presidential candidates. In the majority of the spates, however, tho vote was larger than at any previous presidential election, and tho final returns on the actual number of ballots cast for tbo three candidates is expected to ex-1 ceed all records. This is the greatest victory ever won by tho Democrats, and the chances are that they aro in power for many years to come. President-elect Wilson will have behind him a greatly strengthened majority in the house and on tbo early returns tho Democrats apparently have a chance to secure control of the United States Senate. This would givo them full power. ? <+ Christians May he Massacred. A cablegram from London pays grave fears are expressed in regard to the Christian populations of Constantinople, Salonikl and other Turkish ports where the news of Turkish defeats is being circulated in spite of tho censorship and ofliclal denials. Great Britain already has ordered a warship to proceed to Salonfki for tho protection of British lives nd property there. * Russian War Aviator Killed. Tho Russian aviator Popiff, instructor of aviation in the Russian army was tho first sir narrator to lose his life in the Balkan war. tie, with several others, loft Russia a few days ago to offer his services to Bulgaria. While flying with his machine over Adrlanoplo he was brn"eht down by . Turkish shrapnel hells. t DSLIDE )V. WILSON CHANGES IN THE HOUSE ? PERSONNEL OP COMMITTEES MUST BE DIFFERENT. Lover Should and Doubtless Will Succeed Lamb as Head of the Committee on Agriculture. A dispatch from Washington says although Democratic control of the House by a greatly increased majority is assured, a general shake-up of the personnel of the House committees in the next Congress will be necessary. The all important ways and means committee, which will shape into bills the tariff policies of the Wilson administration, was riddled by the election. Of the 1 4 Democrats on the committee, four will not return. Two of these, however, Hughes of Now Jersey, and James of Kentucky, go to the Senate. Ransdell of Texas and Brantley of Georgia are retired. Out of the seven Republicans on the committee but two apparently remain. John Dalze'I of Pennsylvania and Samuel \V. McCall of Massachusetts, for years simpers of (lie Republican tariff policies, were not candidates at the foils and Ebenezer Hill of Connecticut, Junius C. Need nam of California, and probably Nicholas Longworth of Ohio were beaten. Sereno H Payne of N' \v York and Joseph W. Fordney of Michigan may be the only Republicans left. The election of Representative Sulzer, governor of New York, leaves vacant the chairmanship of the important committee on foreign affairs. r\ P \7 i r <r 1 ri I o ia r? o n 1/ 1 n cr vy* i\ tt i V? r\ r? i iwwu vi i t i i ^iinu id i an nn>ui uui oT tlio coniinittee, but he declined the chairmanship two years ago to accept tly? loss Important terltorles committee. Either he or Garner of Texas is expected to get the place. The election of Morries Sheppard of Texas to the senate if seniority is followod will move Representative Burnett of Alabama to the chairmanship of the public buildings, and grounds committee which handles the big public buildings bill?the sooalled "pork barrel". The vacancy at the head of the public lands committee caused by the failure of Representative Robinson of Arkansas to return will probably be filled by moving up Representative Graham of Illinois, at present chairman of the committee on expenditures in the interior department. The banking and currency committee, investigating the socalled money trust, will be without a head, Representative Pujo of Louisiana having retired. Representative Carter Glass of Virgin!* is the ranking member of the committee. The retirement of Representative Lamb of Virginia as head of the committee on agriculture opens this place for Representative Lever of South Carolina but Mr. Lever would be forced to give up the chairmanship _ c J i. ^ 1 . xl ^ 1 4 i. ^ ^ ...L L.L 01 i ii<3 ?iiucauuri uuiiiiiimot;, wuini would probably go to Representative Ansberry of Ohio. This accounts for all the chairmanships loft vacant by the election but I ho formation of the Wilson cabinet may further alter the list. Represenntive Ifenry of Texas, chairman of the rules committee, Representative P-urleson of Texas, a member of the appropriations committee, and Representative Underwood, head of the appropriations committee, and Representative Underwood, head of the ways and means committee, have been mentioned as cabinet possibilities. MOAT PR10S1D10NT IS HURT. Meets With Slight Accident While Hiding in an Automobile. A dispatch from Princeton, N. J., says Gov. Woodrow Wilson wears a narrow strip of collodion and gauze across the top of his head, covering a scalp wound three inches long, which ho received early Sunday in a motor car mishap on the way home from Red Rank, N. .1. .His automobile struck a mound in the road anu jolted him against a steel rib in the roof of tlie limousine car. The wound is not serious and the Democratic Presidential nominee fulfilled bis speaking engagements in Patterson and Passaic, N. J., Monday night, and attended to his correspon dence as usual early Monday. Sunday night the Governor was the parlor of his home, the centre of a group of friends. There was nothing in his manner to indicate he had net with any mishap. lie said he did not feel the would in the slightest degree. and had not even heveloped a headache from it. ?? Xegroes Voted for Teddy. The State says a surprising feature in Richland county was that practi rally all the negro doctors in that county voted for Roosevelt. The fact that Col. Roosevelt, wns supported by the negro vote is considered remarkable in view of the stand be took in Chicago. Tho Progressive party in South Carolina started out with the avowal that it, was to be a white man's party. Gets His Man at hast. William Perry, of Alabama, ended a forty-year search for his father's alleged murderer in Atlanta when he took into custody Freeman Pong. ! Perry was nine pears old when he vowed to hunt down Pong who escaped from Jail in Alabama whilo on trial for murder. Recently T.ongfll?d a petition for a oension for services in the Union army during tho civil war. * HEAR GOOD NEWS WILSON SEND MESSAGE 10 CHAIRHAN MC COMBS VICTORY OF THE PEOPLE The President Elect Says the Great Cause Has lteen Won and Now Is the Time for Further Work in the Interests of all the People in the Country. Responding to a telegram from the national chairman that Gov. Wilson unquestionably was elected, the Democratic candidate sent a dispatch at his home at Princeton, N. J., to Mr. McCoinbs, as follows: "1 deeply appreciate your telegram and wish to extend to you and the members of the campaign committee my warmest congratulations on the part you have played in the organization and conduct of a campaign lought out with essential issues. "A great cause has triumphed. Kvery Democrat and every true progressive of whatever alliance must now lend his full forco and enthusiasm to the fulfillment of the people's hope, the establishment of the people's right, so that Justice and progress may go hand in hand." This was Gov. Wilson's first utterance of a public character after his acceptance of the reports that he had been elected. Gov. Wilson Tuesday night sat with some friends around a brilliantly illuminated dinner table {i.. tne election returns oegan 10 come in earlier than they were expected. The first results tho governor got were favorable and his comment was "That's very encouraging." The returns that continued to como in. from Massachusetts, Connecticut, and New York all favored Wilson and the party about the dinner table showed its pleasure. The governor was not overconfident. When shown the returns from New York city he smiled. "I'm supposed to carry the city by three to one in order to win the State," he said, as he continued his dinner leisurely. Besides the governor's immediate family, his brother-in-law, Prof. Stockton Axson, two cousins from Columbia, S. C., Capt. G. H. McMaster, United States army, and James Wood row, and Joseph R. Wilson, a younger brother of the nominee, heard the returns at the Wilson home. Governor Wilson had planned to get to bed but the students of Princeton university had other ideas on the subject. They intend to have a noisy parade to the governor's house if the trend of election results should point his way. The celebration of victory by Princeton students began at 1 I o'clock when the bell in Nassau hall, where the Continental congress met, began to toll as a signal of Wilson's victory. Tolling the bell is an established Princeton custom when the college is successful in any contest. Students beiran to earlier with hand instruments, pennants and torches and formed a parade that passed down through Mayard Lane past the Grover Cleveland houso to Gov. Wilson's residence. Friends who were with the governor while the students were coining found difficulty in getting him to concede that he had won. Dudley F. Malone, son-in-law of Senator O'Gorinan of New York, came out of the room, where the returns were being received and said, laughingly: "The governor refuses to bo elected." The governor's message to Chairman McCombs was his first statement admitting that all doubt of his election had passed. With tears of emotion in his eyes, Gov. Wilson stood before the student body of Princeton university as it came cheering and singing to his house to congratulate him on his election. The governor made a brief speech. The students gave the "locomotive" yell of Princeton and sang "Old Nassau." As he sang the son.^ or the college, his hand uplifted moving steadily to the characteristic refrain of the song, it was evident that he was deeply moved. Beside him stood Mrs. Wilson and her three daughters, beaming with happiness. President J?hn G. ITibben of Princeton university declared Wednesday a holiday. The demonstra* tion came as a climax to a rather quiet evening at the Wilson home. Though the returns came steadily along it was hard to convince him that lie was elected. Tie said ho prefered to ho ultra-conservative in the matter of returns, but the houseful of people thought otherwise and so did the students who hailed tho^gov/wit /\t? n ?i im o o f f\ * *ncj i _ *-| UU1 um rj Jliv/ii; no nil j IU . ?voidont Wilson." In addressing tlio student? Dr. Wilson said: ''Gentlemen, 1 am sincerely glad to see you. I got up on a chair so that you could sco the patch on iny head. But when 1 see this great gathering around me it carries me hack to many happy and laborious days and I can't help thinking this evening that something has only .lust begun which you men will have a great part in carrying out. Therefore my wish to-night is to say to you what I would say to myself. The lesson of this election is a lesson of responsibility. "I believe very heartily that a great cause has triumpned, that the American people know what they want and that when they know what they want they have the men and the purposo to obtain it, but that they can't get what they want thro' the activities of a stngte man, a single session of congress or a single group of men. They must get it by a long, tedious effort, in which this generation will tako an important / SAID HE WOULD WIN PREDICTED ELECTION OF GOVERNOR WILSON. Colonel August Kohn In Introducing Governor Wilson Last Year Said lie Would Win. In May, 1911, "Governor Wilson delivered an address before the South Carolina Press Association in Columbia. Col. August Kohn, who was President of the Association, in introducing Governor Wilson to a large audience at the opera house, predicted Governor Wilson's nomination and election. Here is Colonel Kohn's prophetic speech: "Those of you who have been keeping pace with recent events realize that we have in Dr. Wilson the highest type of American citizenship, a man who is doing things, a governor who has been elected by an educated and critical constituency and in protest of "bossism" and who is appreciated as the spokesman and friend of the masses. Dr. Wilson's independence of thought and action, his remarkable success in dealing with men and situations, his exceptional versatility on the stump and his rae ability have made of him a real living hope?the Democratic hope. "In yonder box sits his distinguished aunt?Mrs. James Woodrow? and the mere mention of that name indicates how closely Dr. Wilson is identified with this community, ror four years his revered father lived and labored in this then small community and there are many here tonight who loved and honored his father and mother, the sister of our dear old Dr. James Woodrow. Our orator who writes Greek as well as shorthand, learned neither here, but it was in Columbia that he got. most of his Sunday school training, so I'm told, learned most of what he knows of baseball, and more than all, grasped the significance of making and retaining real friendships. All of this had better bo recorded before Mr. Wilson's early life is "mythed'' over in North Carolina. "It may not be our pleasure to hear Dr. Wilson speak again until he is elected president, because no missionary work is needed here, but lie has promised that if elected Columbia, the home of his boyhood, will be made his winter residence, and that a winter baseball park may supplant the golf links of Augusta for outdoor recreation. I have the honor of presenting to you Dr. Woodrow Wilson." RADIJY 1IEATEV AND IIOIIRED. A Man Found Unconscious by the Itoad Near Georgia Town. Unconscious and apparently in a dying condition, a white man was found lying by the roadside two miles from Hahira, Ga., Wednesday afternoon, and carried to mat place. lie ?1 ?ir> t."' was ^1 YUU III 1*11 I l"<l I ill lull nun i fj 1' X' . McNeal, and later became conscious long enough to state that his name was Barclay, and that his mother, Mrs. Amely Barclay, lives in Louisville, Ky. The man had been Tearfully beaten over the head. In his lucid intervals lie stated that he was camping by the roadside, and, after building a fire, had gone to sleep. While asleep, someone hit him over the head, and he was only able to recognize the assailant as a negro. Two valises he had with him were cut open and rilled of a small amount of money. The man lay unconscious from Saturday night until late Sunday afternoon, when ho was discovered by passers. Physicians are uncertain as to whether he will recover. claims TrmoRccLOsis crura. +_ Doctor Announces Discovery and e.vliibits Results. At a meeting of the Berlin iMedical Society, Dr. F. F. Friedmann announced the discovery of what, he believed to be a practical cure for every form of tuberculosis. TTo exhibited cured patients and declared that ho had treated 6S2 cases by his method with invariable improvement and also invariable complete cures. Prominent physicians testified to successes by this method in their own practice. Dr. Friedmann injects living tubercule bacilli, which have been rendered benevolent. part. 1 feel like summoning you fellows to do what you have more than generousjy done by voting for me, and believing in me. 1 summon you for the rest of your lives to work to set this government forward by processes of justice, equity and fairness. "I myself have no reeling of triumph to-night. 1 have a feeling of solemn responsibility. I know that a great work lies ahead of men associated with me and ahead of myself. Therefore 1 look upon you almost. with a plea that y >u with yoi.ri best nurnose will stand behind me and support the generous men of the new administration. 1 feel as I were standing among my younger comrades to-night. I thank you for (lie inspiration that I receive from your support." Cheer after cheer rang forth when the governor finished speaking and the students crowded forward to' shake his hand. When the governor went back into the nouse he found the following telegram from Gov. Marshall: "I salute you, my chieftain, In all love and loyalty." Governor Wilson replied: "Warmest thanks for your generous telegram. Your part in the campaign was a source of great strength and stimulation. Now for the deep pleasure of close association in the great work of national service." The governor and Mrs. Wilson entertained their guests at a buffet luncheon before midnight. The gov-; ernor then went, to bed. saying he * was going to sleep until noon to-; morrow. * DEMOCRAT* CONTR FIRST IN MANY YEARS ONCE MOKE A SOUTHERN MAN WILL RE PRESIDENT. Wilson Horn and Raised in the South and lie Married a Soutiiern Woman. Woodrow Wilson's election to the presidency, which is now assured, means that for tho nrst time since 184 5 a Southern Democrat will be inaugurated and occupy the presidential chair. Sixty-flve years have elapsed since a Southern man and a Democrat too has been named*president of the United States. James K. Polk, tho ilth president which the country bad, was a Democrat. He was born in North Caro-j Una and elected from Tennessee. He was inaugurated in 1 845. Woodrow Wilson will be the twenty-eight president nnd the first Southern Democrat in that position, therefore in this generation. There have been two Southerners elected to the presidency since Polk and one non-Southern Democrat, but tho combination of a twelfth and Southern has not been repeated. Zachary Taylor, the twelfth president, was a Southerner, born in Virginia. He was inaugurated in 1S4 9, but was a Louisiana Whig. Andrew Johnson, oorn in Kaleigh, N. C., and elected rrom Tennessee was the seventeenth president, a Southerner, but he was a Republican. drover Cleveland, the 2 1th president, was a Democrat, but he was born in Now Jersey. Wood row Wilson, die 2 8th president to be, was born in Virginia and elected from New Jersey. Ho was born a Southerner, reared a Southerner, married a Southern woman, practiced law in the South, and will go into office a Southerner. Mrs. Woodrow WiWn, tho daughter of a distinguished Georgia minister, will be the flrs.t Georgia woman who has ever been mistress of tho White House. BEATEN IN T1IEIK STATES. Wilson Carried States of All tlie Candidates Tuesday. President-elect Wilson did not only carry his o\vn#stato, hut he carried all tho states of the other candidates for President and Vice-President on the Republican and Progressive tickets, which is one of the greatest compliments paid him by the people in Tuesday's election. New Jersey, Wilson's own state, gave him a plurality of some 50,000, besides the Democrats won two additional congressmen mid carried both branches of the legislature, which insures the election of Hughes, Democrat, to tho United States Senate. Besides it will elect a Democrat governor in place of Wilson. Ohio, President Taft's state, went tor Wilson by 1 00,000 plurality or more. Both houses of the legislature are Democratic and the governor and all state officers were elected by tho Democrats. That party also won additional congressmen, and came near defeating Nick Longworth, Roosevelt's son-in-law for Congress. New York, Roosevelt's state, gave urilenn iwrtv ^>0 0 llOO rilnralitv Sill-! zor, Democrat, was elected governor by about tbo same plurality, while both branches of the legislature are Democratic by large majorities. The Democrats also won one or two additional members of Congress. It was almost a clean -sweep. Ohio. Marshall's state, gave him and Wilson a plurality of aoout 10(i,000. The Democrats elected their state ollicers. and won all tho congressmen, which is a gain of one. The Democrats carrion noth branches of the legislature by overwhelming majorities. It was a ctean sweep for the Democrats. California, s;\to of Johnson, VicePresident on Roosevelt's ticket, will give Wilson about 1 2,000 plurality, and the Democrats stand a good chance of electing three congressmen, which would be a ga*n of three. It will thus he seen that the Democrats carried all the states That furnished candidates for President and VicePresident. ? ? ? world) It 11)10 ANY WAV. Hut l'ref : cd to Hide With Wilson Than the Hull Moose. Even in the moments when it hecame apparent that Governor Wilson was going to win, President Taft did not forget his philosophy and good humor. Hero is a story of how i ho President looked at the situation just about that time, told by a friend: "We've sot to find some comfort in this," the President is reported to have said. "I'll be very glad to ride down Pennsylvania avenue with President Wilson. It would not have been so eas/ tf things had been different, but I would have taken the ride just the same." ? Austrian Army Aviator Killed. An Austrian military airman was killed Wednesday morning. While (lying around the army aerodomo at the military station of Ooerz ho fell from a considerable height, owing to the collapse of ono of the wings of his aeroplane, dying shortly aftorward. ? ? President Taft Shocked. President Taft Issued a statement Tuesday afternoon relative to the cannot withhold an expression of horror," he said, "at the act of ths booting of Colonel Roosevelt. "1 5 WILL OL SENATE NOW HAVE FORTY-EIGHT VOTES AND A VICEPRESIDENT SEVEN STATES IN DOUBT Should Republicans Win In An States Now Considered Doubt fa], Democrats, with Vice-President to Cast Deciding Vote in Case of Tie, Would Still Control Upper Chamber of Congress. Control of the Senate in the 63rd Congress now is practically assured to the Democrats. Conceding to the Republicans the Legislatures of all States still in the doubtful column, Thursday night the Democrats had a vote of 48, or one-half of the entire membership of the Senate, with a Democratic Vice-President in the chair to cast the deciding ballot in case of a tie. Seven States are yet to be heard from definitely. A Senator from any of these would give the Democrats a clear majority, and it is possible their strength will be even further increased by winning in several. Kansas has been added to the Demnrrntir. rnlnmn in the nast fwo.ntv four hours. The States In which the complexion of the Legislatures is yet to be decided are: Illinois, Michigan, New Hampshire, Oregon, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Wyoming. Ordinarily Tennessee could ho relied upon to help the Democratic party, but the factional fight there may prevent in this crisis. In Illinois there are complications growing out of thw multiplicity of parties, rendering it uncertain whether there will bo a Senatorial election. In that State there should l>e chosen a successor to the deposed Senator Loriiner as well as to Senator Culloin, whose term expires on the 4th of next March. Whatever the outcome in any of the States mentioned, there can he no doubt as to Democratic control of the Senate. In addition to the aid of the Vice-President in an emergency, the^ will find willing co-operation among I ho Progressive Senators. Three or four of the Progressives are almost as liberal in their tariff views and on other questions as the Democrats themselves. Senators Clapp, LaFollette, Cummins, Gronna, Bristow and Poindexter are all avowed tariff reformers. They also favor advanced legislation on other subjects. House Largely Democratic. Latest returns show the House to be largely Democratic. The Democrats gained about forty new members in the late election. The new louse will stand aeout as follows: Democrats, 276; Republicans, 117; Progressives, 14. Twenty-live seats are still in doubt. Hit VAX GH JOLTS WILSON. * Sends Telegram Congratulating the President-elect. From Lincoln, Neb., W. J. Bryan Tuesday night sent the following message to Gov. Wilson: "1 heartily congratulate you and tho country upou your election. Your splendid victory has borne fruit. I am sure your administration will prove a blessing to the country and source of strength to our party." William J. Bryan expressing his pleasure at the selection of Governor Wilson, said: "As a religious hymn has been brought into the campaign by one of the parties, I think tnai I am justified in using the lines of another hymn to express my feelings: 44 'This is the day I long have sought 44 'Aml mourned because I found it not.' "f am happier than Governor Wilson, for his joy is repressed by a sense of responsibility, while I am liapny and free. "My confidence in Governor Wilson has grown with acquaintance and 1 feel sure that ho will live up to expectations. 1 believe he listens to his conscience." 1)111 FROM F I'M ICS OF GAS. ? Famil) of Five Found Dead in Their Home at Toledo. A family of five wiis found dead from gas asphyxiation in their home at Toledo, O., at noon Wednesday. The dead are: George W. llassen, twenty-four, an automobile tester; his wife, twenty-two, and their threo children, William, tnree and a half; Dorthy, two, and Mary, six months, The bodies were all in their night ui? uuiu IU a luitctm^ uiutudo beside the bed. The youngest child was clasped in tho mother's arms. The discovery was made when sister of Hassen called at the house and could not obtain admittance. Sho called the police, who forced an entrance. The fatal fumes cames from two stoves. ? ? Two Killed, riant Wrecked. Explosion of nine hundred quarts of glycerine in the American Company's factory at Brader, Ohio., killed two men and rocked tho countryside. Edward I.inkenstein and Hugh EaRton, were blown to pieces. The factory was obliterated and much ! damage was done to buildings in a large radius.