AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

Oamaru Mail, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 10608, 10 November 1910, Page 4

AMERICAN ELECTIONS.

[By Electric Telegraph—Copyright.] (Per Press Association.) Received November 10, at 10.45 a.m. New York, November 9. Mr Dix, tho Democratic candidate, has been elected to the Governorship of New York by a majority of 50,000. It is expected that the Republican majority .in the Senate will be- much reduced, and the. Democrats are in. a 'ead-for the House of Representatives. fhe>' probably will have a small majority where the Republican majority was 43. . ', The outbreak ,of . negroes 111 tlie Southern States is not serious.

Now York, -November 9. Mr Dix, the Democrat elected Governor of New York State, defeated Mr Stimson, the Roosevelt nominee. This is a great blow to the- Republican party. Mr Roosevelt conducted a campaign for a month in aiding Stimson, and he declares that the realignment of the parties is necessary, the Republicans going through tho agony of becoming progressive. , Mr Roosevelt rested at homo throughout 1 the day, and ordered no election news to-be sent to him-. The k Democrats are still gaming numerous victories, and their control of the House of Representatives is assured-. - Speaker-Cannon has been re-elected. The Democrats swept Chicago. Women's suffrage has wins in Washington State, and the • Prohibitionists claim ma iiy victories. *