The Sentinel
UILLE, OREGON
Election Sets a New Record
PRESIDENTIAL VOTE BY STATES
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The Oregon return« in the recen^
)«ttle of the ballot« were not without
heir usual quota of Surprises. not the
east of which was the astounding
plurality
amassed by
President
loosevelt. While thia state had been
>rctty generally conceded to the dem­
ocratic candidate not even his moat
a bid partisans had anticipated the
andslide which swept every county
n the stateincluding rock-ribbed
epublican Benton—into , the Rooae-
•elt column.
Republicans who had
onceded a Roosevelt victory in thia
state had grudgingly estimated his
margin of victory at 15,000 to 20,000.
Democrats, on the other hand, had
claimed the state for their candidate
by anywhere from 40,000 to 75,000, a (
few of tlw more wild-eyed partisans
boosting the margin to as high as ;
!00,000. The voters gsve him a plu- |
:ality of more than 143,000.
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Only a little less surprising than (
lhe huge total rolled up by Roosevelt
was the strength displayed by Willis (
Vtahoney, democratic candidate for t
Jnited States senator, who, carried I
ilong on the crest of the democratic 1
landslide and with substantial aid 0
(rom his Townsend admirers came f
within 6000 vote« of 'unseating the <|
veteran Chas L, McNary, republican|u
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