AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

King Country Chronicle, Volume VII, Issue 516, 9 November 1912, Page 5

AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

WOODROW WILSON PRESIDENT. DEMOCRATS IN CONTROL By Toleflrrapli.—Prcus Awßoriii-t-ioii.- Coj'.vrigJlt New York, Thursday. The latest returns in connection with the Presidential election are aa follows: —Wilson 29JJ; Roosevelt, 74; Taft, 4. Idaho, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wyoming are still doubtful. Mr Taft has congratulate! Mr Wilson on his election, and wishes him a successful administration. The latest indications are that Mr Wilson has carried .3!) States, Mr Roosevelt 6, and Mr Taft 'i. The Socialist vote has increased slightly. Washington, l< riday. The Democrats are practically assured of control in the Senate. Allowing all doubtful States to the Republicans the Democratic count is exactly half, with a Democratic Vice-presi-dent, giving the casting-vote.

Woodrovv Wilson, the now Democratic President of the United States, who has emerged the victor in the most spectacular triangular duel that the United States has ever seen, has had a somewhat chequered career. His father was a clergyman, and ho was born at Stainton, Virginia in ISSG. In his seventeenth year young Wilson enrolled himself aa a student of Davidson College, the chief inducement being that a Presbyterian piety was taught as part of the curriculum. In 1875 he entered Princeton University, of winch institution lie eventually became president. Having set his heart upon a public career, lie beagn preparing himself in the college debating societies. The societies then extant in Princeton did not suit his tastes, so he organise.'l a new one, using the British Parliament as a background. He also began to study law, but, this proving a failure, he abruptly decided to quit the legal profession. When 2!) years old he completed a book on "Congregational Government," a subject which has over been a pot theme with him. The same year ho married. In 3 Si)o. lie was called to Princeton to occupy tho chair of Jurisprudence and Politics, and two years later was made president.