GREAT VICTORY WON BY TAFT

In a 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.

The 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,  9 Florida,  5 Georgia,  13 Kentucky,  13 Louisiana,  9 Mississippi,  10 Missouri,  18 Montana,  3 North Carolina,  12 Oklahoma,  7 South Carolina,  9 Tennessee,  12 Texas,  18 Virginia,  12 Total,  161