Word: republican
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...Army and served as second lieutenant until General Lee's surrender in 1865. He carried the last message from Lee to President Davis. After the war, Mr. Wise returned to the University and was graduated in 1867. Fourteen years later he was elected to Congress from Virginia on the Republican ticket, soon after he ran for governor, but was defeated. Since 1885 he has been engaged in the practice of law in New York and has written books on several subjects...
Eben S. Draper has been elected governor of Massachusetts over James H. Vahey, the Democratic nominee, by a plurality of about 68,000. Louis H. Frothingham '93 has been elected lieutenant-governor. The success of the Republican ticket was expected, since the state gave Curtis Guild, Jr., '81 such a large plurality last year...
...Republican landslide, William Howard Taft has been elected President of the United States, sweeping the entire country except the South. Returns received at a very late hour indicated his electoral vote as 322, against Bryan's 161. Of the doubtful states Montana alone seems to have been carried by the Democrats. Taft carried New York by about 200,000, Illinois by 170,000, and Ohio by 120,000. Colorado and Nebraska are very close, but indicate a small plurality for Taft...
...following is as accurate a table of the vote by states as it was possible to obtain at the time of going to press: REPUBLICAN. California, 10 Colorado, 5 Connecticut, 7 Delaware, 3 Idaho, 3 Illinois, 27 Indiana, 15 Iowa, 13 Kansas, 10 Maine, 6 Maryland, 8 Massachusetts, 16 Michigan, 14 Minnesota, 11 Nebraska, 8 Nevada, 3 New Hampshire, 4 New Jersey, 12 New York, 39 North Dakota, 4 Ohio, 23 Oregon, 4 Pennsylvania, 34 Rhode Island, 4 South Dakota, 4 Utah, 3 Vermont, 4 Washington, 5 West Virginia, 7 Wisconsin, 13 Wyoming, 3 Total, 322 DEMOCRATIC. Alabama, 11 Arkansas...
Among the Candidates for election in the district in which the Harvard buildings are situated, are five graduates of the University. They are L. A. Frothingham '93, Republican candidate for lieutenant-governor; Thorndike Spalding '95, Republican candidate for State senator from the second Middlesex district, which includes the College and neighborhood; and the following candidates for State representative from the Harvard square district of whom a choice of three is necessary: P. R. Ammidon '05, Democrat; S. D. Elmore '93, and R. A. Wood '03, both Republican. All of the candidates mentioned above were graduated from the Law School...