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Show SATt'RDAY. NOVEMBER 11, 101C, I PRESIDENTIAL PACE CLOSEST IN HISTORY H Wilson and Marshall Probable Victors, H But Loss of States in the Doubtful I Column Would. Spell Defeat. U New York, Pennsylvania and Illinois in the Republican Dr Column, While Many Western States Go Democratic, Mp Fifty-two Electoral Votes Being in Doubt and L May Elect Either Candidate. HBr Now York. Tlif result of one of llic HH closest prcsldcnt'nl races In the his- K'1 (ory of the round y was mill In doubt V tlio second ilny after tho American Hfl peoplo Imil (list their ballots, ami the HN , content between President WIUou mul H; ' Clinrles Evans Hcghci liua narrowed HB (o n point where it may lio decided HB by a few western slates. HH& It Is possible tint tin' votes of na HH ' tlonul guardsmen on bonier duty mny HH - turn some of thu doubtful stntos from HB otto column to mm her. HH Tin; south went Democratic oh usu HH nl, wlii: tho wet win partl"uUrly HH strong fn.- Preslih nt Wilson, return HH rhowlftg positive y that Colorado, HH Monlnnn, Notmlii, Utah nml Wyn HH mlng nrc In tlio Hiinocrntle column. HH New York, Ponnsylvnnln and I 111 HB nols, with tlio largest (doctoral votes DBJ of tuiy states In the t'ufon, lined up Hj' for Hughes and Fairbanks. HH Based on returtiH received 'I hurt day HH. moni'ng, tho electoral collof;n at that H! time guvo Wilson 210 votes, Hughes M 239; douhtful 52. Necessary to elect, '- , 2G0. HH Wilson was loading In tho follow- HHt Ing stales, from which returns worn HH Incomploto: California, Idaho, New HH Mexico nnd Washington. I HH HtiglioH was lending In tho following HH states, from which return also were HH Incomploto: Went Virginia, Nonl. HH Dakota and Minnesota. HH Thu of tho metropolltnn newspaper HH which supported Mj Hughes glo lilm HM 253 votes, President Wilson 251 and m admit tho douhtful character of onlv HH California, New Mexico ami Mlnn Wju tola. Another, which supported the H9j president, agrees with Its contempor ffltfm nrloa In giving him 251 votes, hut con u-v!& cedes Mr. Hughes 22S nnd regards the 'A '"fef others In sovrn states as douhtful llBS"' Knch of thu national chairmen ex- V I)Hk presses thu most suruno conlUlcuco 'SjBJ" ' "lhttt"tlldtfuUlmtttoVtnuUs,vm elcct'lils SSff' candidate RfijSf With the content narrowing stead- HJ lly to clo8o votes In tlio vital spots, T recounts nro almost Inovltablo and ttHl ench sldo is on tho watch for Irrcgu- HHJ laritles. HJH Although California still showed a HH lend for tjio president and his com- HHJ palgn managers cro claiming It by i HHJ at least 1500, tho president's majority I I tin re had ilwlndlcil to a llttlo more than 1.400 with about ouo Ilfth of the districts missing. In Minnesota, lei, tho Wilson lead, which wus as lilrb as 10,000 early iu the day, stomhly dtcroased a3 the ote rroin thu rursl dlstrictfl catno In. Lato Wednesday ii.Kht Hughus took the lend with a small margin. The Republican managers claimed tho state on the final leturns. Idaho was estimated for tho Wilson column with a majority of 10,000. Kansas, while Incomplete, with n llttlo llt-tlo more than two thirds of the districts dis-tricts reportud, showed President Wilton Wil-ton loading with tnoro than 27,000. Washington, a little more than half report, d, was filung tho president a lend of 7.000. W0.1l V ruinhi, two-thirds reporlod, wns alio a I. g Hughes a majority 0. nenrly 2.000. North Dakota was very close, two thirds complete, showing n Hughes majority of less than 1,000. Wlkon was leading In Now Mo.Nlco with only a Eli. a. 1 proportion of tho precincts reported. Delaware and New Hampshire, counted among tho Hughes stales, but Incomplete during tho day, definitely turned Into thu Republican Re-publican column. Roth Chairman Vance C. McCor mirk for tho Democrats nnd Chair man William It. Wilcox for the Republicans Re-publicans professed undiminished inn-fldeuce inn-fldeuce In tlio outcome. Tho former was somewhat more explicit In his claims, but the latier declared, after dining with Charles K. Iluir'ie, that he agreed with 'them that tho Repub llcaim had been successful. Karller In the day Mr. McCormlck had announced that ho had sent tele-grams tele-grams to state and county chairmen In doubtful states directing them to keep careful guard over tho ballot boxos and tholr contents. """Attorney 'General Gregory visited Democratic headquarters nnd wns closeted with tho chairman, but It wns asserted his visit was of no spo-clnl spo-clnl significance. Later In tho afternoon after-noon Mr. McCormlck conferred with John R. Stauchfleld nnd Dolanccy NIc-oil, NIc-oil, prominent Democratic lawyers. Despairing of receiving dual re I turns Wednesday night, President Wilson retired nt 11:10 o'clock. He left word, however, that ho was to bo awakened If anything really dell-nlto dell-nlto wns received. Tho president wns uncertain whether or not ho hnd been elected, although his campaign managers manag-ers were claiming a majority In tho electoral college. "I have not changed my claims at nil," declared Vnnco C. McCormlck. chairman of the Democratic natlona committee, In a statement miido Wed nesdny night. "Returns are coming In slowly, but I see no reason to chnngo my estimnto that President Wilson will hno 2SS voles In thu electoral college. Wo have carried Now Hampshire and West Virginia also. Wo have Now Melco nnd North Dakota. Oregon Is very close, but Wilson has 11 good chance of car rylng It." Tho possibility of an official count bolng necessary In states whore the margin of appnrwit victory for ono presidential enndldato or the other Is Kllght was freely discussed at both lislieadiiusrers. It was pointed out that If the house or ropiesentnllvos became tho court of liwt loHint In tho election of a president, the present house nnd not tho one elected Tuesday would sit In Judgment. No formal statements state-ments on the htibject wore made, however. how-ever. Loaders of both parties In all ports of the country, eapeclally In the west wore In cousiani tiuch by telegraph and telephone with headquarters in this elty. They sought Information. Imparted such ss they had and were given Instructions, If any wero required. re-quired. With thirty congressional districts to bo heard from. IDS Republicans. 20S Democrats, 2 Progressives, 1 -in dependent and t Socialist have been elected to the house of representatives for the SlMy-flfth congress Of the 30 dlhtrlets yet to ha heari' from, 17 are repu-sented In the pros -nt congress t Democrats mid 13 by .lepubllenns. Should these district be unchanged, the next house would '10 ti ipoked of 210 Democrats, 2'" Ripubilraiit, and i scattering w n Ighl elect to affiliate with olthcf sldo. The senato will remain under Dcf ocratlc control by a reduced majority of ten or twelvo, dependent on tho outcome out-come In New Mexico, where A. A Jonea (Dom.) Is maintaining n Blight lead over Frank A. Hubbell, nominated nominat-ed by the Republlc.ns to succeed S -n-Uor Catron. The senato stands: Dci.i ic:ats, M; Republicans, 42; unfolded, unf-olded, 1. In the sennto four present Democratic Demo-cratic membeifl. according to tho la' est Indications, hivo been' defeated They aru Senntors Kern and Tagg.in of Indiana, Mar'.lno of Now Jcrsoy and Chilton of West Virginia. Threo He publican senators, Llppltt of RhouV Island. Clark of Wyoming nnd Suthtr laud of Utah also luvc loBt their ncai-. on the basis of tho returns. I The defiul of Senator Kern of In dlann by Harry S. Now, former cha'i man of the Republican national 0: 1 mlttee, takes from tho Democratic 01 g nidation Its lloor leader. Among Democratic senators men .loned for the succession arc SauN bury of Delaware, Martin of Vlrgint W-i'sh of Moii.ana and Underwood o A.ab.imn. Tho Democrats elected sixteen sc ntois anil the Republicans sixteen, with one statu yet to bo heard from Thu situation In tho house Is so In definite that it Is Imposslblo to decl.m whither the Dem .-ate will mnlni.tu control. If they (. j, It is certain to u by n greotly re' ..cud margin nnd om-that om-that will scan ,y glvo n good woi Ing majority. In fact, unless lie 1.' cntts gains are made In tho dlstrlc -yet undecided, Independent mliurii members might seriously lntcrfer-wl lntcrfer-wl h thu re-electltm of Speaker l mr.i and thu organization of linperu committees. Ropubllcnu leaders nro still hop ful of controlling the hous,o. If tln-y succocd Minority Leader Mann Ili bo their enndldato for speaker of i'ip house and Ropresentatlvo Fordney of Michigan will become tho majority leader nnd clinliuuu of tho wnjs ,.i d meHiis commiiteo, succeeding itcpu sen.nthe Claud Kltchtn of North Carolina. Caro-lina. Republicans huvo made Important grins In Illinois and Wisconsin. Oi the Dunoirats defeated In Illinois are Jlurlinnan, who Is, under Indlcmnt for alleged conspiracy In con. . 1 with l.'bor'H jiuacu council Involved in (lunges of attempts to restrain tr.ik-ln tr.ik-ln inunitlon.1. Other Illinois Deiuo-I'lnts Deiuo-I'lnts defeated nto Travencr and Stone. In Indiana, Cullop, Clitic nmi Uiay lost their scats. Konop nnd Durko of Wisconsin, TaEgart of Kan-tau, Kan-tau, Rlordnn nnd Drlscoll of Nun Yoiit and Cusoy ot I'ennsy'.vanla wre ritUr. Domocrats who lost thoir scats. Among well known Republicans defeated de-feated nro Dennett, New York; Hop-wood Hop-wood nnd Matthuws, Ohio, and Roo-crts Roo-crts of Massachusetts Prohibition Wins. Prohibition has made big strides as tho result of the elections. Tho Methodist Meth-odist board of temperance sent out tho following statement from Wasii-lugton: Wasii-lugton: "Michigan, South Dakota, Nebraska and Montana lune voted dry by startling start-ling majorities. Dry heudnuartcra nt Los Angeles claims enactment of amendment No. 2, closing all snloons and public drinking places In California, Califor-nia, with thu amendment for absolute prohibition probably defeated. Tho wet majority In Missouri has apparently appar-ently been cut by 125,000 olea. All i ir amendments and repeals oifere . in dry states seem to huvo been du-feoted, du-feoted, nnd Idaho, which has statutory prohibition, has enucted a prohibition constitutional amendment by probably prob-ably 3 to 1." The statement gives the Mlchlgnn "dry" majority as 70,000. the "dry" vote Iir Idaho ns 2 to 1, thus fur, nnd In Nebraska as at least 35.U00. Tho Montana majority Is pluced ot 20,000, all cities In tho state txeopt Hutte having fnored the ehniiEo Arnnn hold to prohibition, defeating lot.il op-tlon, op-tlon, nnd probab1) has enacted nn aniendtnont excluding liquor from tho Mate. , , I An effort to repeal prohibition l I Arkansas was den aid, ns m-re the ' so called "beer intendments" n Oregon Ore-gon nnd Washington . Chsrles C. llugli.s and his ws, spent the better part of sixteen liouri 1 on Wedn-sday In their apartnm t , at 1 an uptown hotel here watohl" in I ebb and flow of the election returns' Most of the day il.ey wer Olo-u 1 Their three daughters left soou . tr , breakfiwt, Miss C.u Serine to re urn ;0 Wellesley and Mli.s Ellstabcth to t ' a Miss Ilolen back 10 Mhool h, v,M, Ington. Mr. liuclies adhered to nU d,t.-r minatioij to say reining until the r suit should have b-en learued il a v ro fur as posslbk from unofn(:ii r 1 turns. During the afternoon ho a , I Mri. Hughes motored for two bo; and on their return Mr. Hugi.es to' , a three hour nap. , Although Mr. Hughe, appeared .0 be in good physical trim, men hers his personal staff were heavy. "(1 showed the Btraln under which , cy had been laboring. Most of hem had been without sl.ccp ninco arly Tuesday morning. " Tho election wnn tilled with surprises, sur-prises, some of thtm most startling In -haracter. One of tho surprises was the closo rnco In Kansas, a hitherto Uepubllcan stronghold. Interest was focussed on Illinois. That was officially set down as tho stnte upon which tho natlonnl contest nould swing. Illinois went for Hughes. Tho women furnished tho surprise In this state. Thero wero GOO.OOO ot I them at tho polling places during tho day. Tho labor voto In some or tho rail-vay rail-vay centers of Illinois cnused n defection de-fection and the otnle retained its plnco hut tho swing of business men to tho Republican ticket mntlo up for this defection de-fection tnd tho state retained Its place In the column whnro It nlwnyH stood till four vears ago when It went away In the three-cornered light for tho pres idency. New York state swung Into the Republican Re-publican column nnd her forly-IHe electoral elec-toral votes will be cast for Hughes and Fairbanks. Gocrnor Whitman Is re-elected by an overwhelming voto. NYlllIam Cal-dcr, Cal-dcr, Republican, has been ro elected Lnlted States senator. Now York v.ork county's plurality for the president presi-dent wns ono of tho smullest In Tammany's Tam-many's history. It was 28,000. Tho ..1110 mnjorlty wns given to Samuol bcaiury, nominee for governor on tho Democratic ticket Indiana, Michigan nnd Wisconsin were looked upon its states likely tJ lo fund warder. ng from tneir habit ual p aces, but the three Mates wld give tliuir okctoral voto to the Republicans. Repub-licans. Wisconsin, because of the La Fol-lettu Fol-lettu campai&n iur tenator ho hnd praiisoJ tho Wi.i,cn administration and .gnorud .Mr. Hughes -was counted ou nimost coulUlenti) by the Democrats to lino up for the president. Thu Bad ger state will tlvo its thirteen votes to Mr. liugiics. Tlie Republicans mado a clean sweep of Nuw York state, with Gov omor Whitman running alicad of hughes ami William Caldcr, United States senatorial candidate, far ahead of his runnitiR mates. In Now York City President Wll con foil far behind the expectations ol his campaign managers and other Democratic leaders. President Wilson made big gains In the IUpublicnn districts of New York, but his votes in the Democratic dt trictfl slumped Albany county, tlio domain of Ros Iiarnes, tho foe of Hughes since tlie days when Hughes as governor mtidu his fight against rnco track gamblers, rolled up n splendid plurality for tho Republican candidates. Cvcry political prediction mado by Republican or Democratic stato central cen-tral committeemen of Wisconsin wns overturned in tho election. Hughes carried the state by something np pronching old-time Republican mnjorl ilea. Louisiana gave Its usual Democratic plurality ot 00,000, while Texas, us usual, went Democratic. Governor Hiram W. Johnson was elected to tho senato from California by a comfortable mnjorlty. Tlio suffrage voto In Illinois was heavy. However, ono of tho fenture. ot tho election was tho fact that worn en voted fewer straight tickets than tho men, indicating a feminine politl cal discrimination that took the bur (icned politicians ttrnwares. Minnesota's delegation In tho lower hou-c of congress will consist of eight Rcpub .cans, onu Democrat and ono Progressive Utah, ono ot thu two states to du c!aro for Tuft four years ago, is in tho Democratic column this yenr. President Pres-ident Wilson carried tlio state. Simon Bamberger was elected governor Judgo William II. King will succeed Senator George Sutherland in tho sennto. sen-nto. Two Dtmocrats wero elected to tho national congress. The ontlro state Democratic ticket was elected. South Dakota gavo Its flvo olectora' otoa to Charles K. Hughes, adopted Btatowido prohibition, gave women the franchise, elected threo Ropubllcnu congressmen nnd a full Republican statu ticket. Pennsylvania, which cast Its elector ol voto for Theodore Roosevelt four yours ago, swung b-ick Into tho Repub llcan presidential column by giving Churlos 10. Hughes n plurality of 200. 000. Virtually nil countios that wero normu'ly In the Republican column prior to 1912 rotumod Ropubllcan plu ralltlcs. In West Virginia tho suffrage atnondment wag dufented. ' Prosldont WIUou nnd tho Doino crntle stato ticket won in Missouri. -Tho Democrats elected fourteen con grcssiiiou. , , Michigan has not only elected practically prac-tically nn ontlro Republican stato government gov-ernment by hnnilsomo pluralities but Jias entered the lists of prohibition States. Tho Democratic ticket cnrrlod In Georgia by Incre. a d pluralities Wood tow Wilson r.neUod 100.000 votes to tp.OOO tor Hugho . |