VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 63, 7 November 1912, Page 5

VICTORY FOR DEMOCRATS.

DR. WOODROW WILSON SECURES MAJORITY ELECTORAL VOTES.

(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.) ' Noav York, November 6. The Democrats captured Maryland. Mr. Roosevelt leads Mr. Taft in Chicago and New York. Mr. Roosevelt carried Illinois. The Democrats captured Ncav York State Senate and J.ower House. » The returns indicate an overAvhelming victory for the Democrats. The Democrats captured Noav York St ,t ■ by a majority exceeding a hundred thousand. Splitting tbe vote lost tho fight for the Republicans, as the Taft aiul Roosevelt vote combined, in most instances, exceeded that of the Democrats. * ~ Mr, Marshall has been elected Y icoPresident. All the States south of tbe Potomac went to Dr. Wilson, Connecticut, DelaAvare, YVest Virginia, Indiana, and Missouri Avere also Democratic. Ncav Hampshire and Vermont Avere Taftites. With the Western States incomplete, the electoral votes are: Wilson 267, Roosevelt 29, Taft 8. Mr. Roosevelt accepted tho result with entire good humour and contentment. He said that as for the Progressive cause, tho fate of the leader was of little consequence, hut the cause itself must ultimately triumph, for its triumph meant the essential Avell-be-ing of the people.

WILSON CONGRATIJL AT ED. Mr. Roosevelt telegraphed congratulating Dr. Wilson. . , At midnight the results indicated that Dr. Wilson had 300 electoral votes. Arizona adopted the Avoman s suffDr. Wilson, replying to congratulations, said the great cause had ’triumphed. Every Democrat Avho was a true progressive, of Avhatever alliance, must now lend his full force and enthusiasm to the fulfilment of the people’s hope—namely, the establishment of the people’s rights, so that justice and progress might go hand in band. The Pennsylvania vote Avas almost equally divided hctAveen the three candidates, Dr. Wilson leading. Mr. Taft’s statement, ‘‘Vote for Roosevelt and the Socialist candidate,” is a Avarning that the propoganda favouring fundamental changes in representative Government lias formidable support. Mr. Taft appeals to the young men of the country to rally to the defence of the' constitution, Avhich is now threatened. , i (Received 8.30 a.m.) ' Ncav York, November G. The latest results of the electoral vote give Wilson 293, Roosevelt 74, and Taft 3. Idaho, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, South Dakota, and Wyoming are still doubtful.

TAFT’S CONGRATULATIONS. (Received 8, 11.30 a.m.) Washington, November 6. President Taft congratulated Dr. Wilson, wishing him a successful administration. The latest indications are that Dr. Wilson has carried thirty-nine States. Roosevelt six, and Taft three. The Socialist vote has increased slightly.

HOW PRFSiuJdJNT IS CHOSEN. The President and Vice-President of the United States are chosen by officials termed “Electors” in each State, who are, under existing State laws, chosen by the qualified voters thereof by ballot, on the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November in every fourth year preceding the year in which the Presidential term expires. The Constitution of the United States prescribes that, .each State shall “appoint,” in such manner as the Legislature thereof may direct, a number of electors equal to the whole number of Senators.and Representatives to which the State may bo entitled in Congress; but no Senator oi Representative or person holding an office of trust or profit under the unit ed States shall be an elector. Ihe Constitution requires that the day when electors ar£ chosen shall be tin same throughout the United States. At the beginning of Government most of the electors were chosen by the Legislatures of their respective States, the people having no direct participation in their choice ; and one State, South Carolina, continued that practice down to the breaking out of the civil war, But in all the States,now the electors are, under the direction of State laws, chosen by the people on a genera State ticket. The manner in which the chosen • electors meet and ballot for a PresL dent and Vice-President of the Umted States is provided for in Article XII of the Constitution, and is as fol lows: — . . The electors shall meet in their re spective States, and vote_ by ballot foi President and Vice-President, one of whom, at least, shall not be an inbab* taut of the same State with themselves ; they shall name in their ballotthe person voted for as President, and in distinct ballots the person voted for as Vice-President ; and they shall maledistinct lists of all persons voted for a 1 President, and of all persons voted foi as Vice-President, axfd of the number of votes for each, which lis + s they shall sign and certify, and transmit, sealed, to”the scat of 'government of the United States, directed to the President of the Senate. The same article then prescribes the mode in which the" Congress shall count the ballots of the electors, a.‘d announce the result thereof, which ifas follows; The President of the Senate shall in the presence of the Senate and House of Representatives, open all the certificates, and the votes shall then be counted; the person having the groat est number of votes for President shall lie President, if such number lie a ma jority of the whole number of electors appointed; and if no person have such majority, then from the person; having the highest numbers, not exceeding three, on the list of those vot ed for as President, the House of Re presentatives shall choose immediately by ballot, the President. But in choosing the President the votes shall Ik taken by States, the representation from each State having .one vote; a quorum for this purpose shall consisi of a member or members from _ two thirds of the States, and a majority of all the States shall be necessary t< a choice. And if the House '4 Repro sentatives shall not choose a President whenever the right of .choice shall do volve upon them, before the fourth day of March next following, then the Vice-President shall act as President as in the ease of the death or other constitutional disability of the Pro i dent. The person havin'* the creates number of* votes as Vice-President shall bo the Vice-President, if slid number be a majority of the w-hoh number of electors appointed ; and if any person have a rpajority, then from the two highest* numbers on the lisl the Senate shall choose the Vicc-Pro sident; a quorum for the purpose shall

consist of two-thirds of the whole number of Senators, and a majority of the whole number shall be necessary to a choice. The procedure of the two Houses —iu case tho returns of the electors from any Senate are disputed—is provided in tho Electoral Count Act, passed by tho Forty-ninth Congress. The Act directs that the Presidential electors shall meet and give their votes on the second Monday in January next following their election. It fixes the time Avhen Congress shall be in session to count the ballots as the second Wednesday in February succeeding the meeting of the electors. The Constitution alsp defines who is eligible for President of the. United States, as follows: — _ . No person except a natural-born citizen or a citizen of the United States at the time of tbe adoption of this Constitution shall lie eligible to t.ie office of President; neither shall any person be eligible to that office who shall not have attained to the age of thirty-live years. The qualifications for Vice-President are the same.