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Show THE AFTERMATH What's Been Said and Done Since Election Day Political Comments and loiter Information In-formation Concerning the Late Battle Extracts from the leading newspapers news-papers of the west, as furnished simultaneously sim-ultaneously by the Associated Press give an interesting resume of what has been "doing" since election day, especially in doubtful states and districts. "Boiled down," these dispatches dis-patches are as follows: Wilson Leads in New Mexico Santa Fe, N. M., Nov. 14. President Presi-dent .Wilson made a net gain of 40 votes over Charles E. Hughes in official of-ficial returns from five New Mexico counties reported to the secretary of state today. The unofficial tabulation, tabula-tion, including the official count of five counties, tonight, shows 610 out, of the 638 precincts in the state have been heard from. The count stands, Hughes, 29,324; Wilson, 31,548. It is expected a week will elapse before be-fore all returns have been received 'officially. Contest in Idaho Boise, Idaho, Nov. 14. The Re- publican gubernatorial contest will go into the courts for settlement. This was the opinion of the party leaders here tonight. Governor Alexander, Democrat, has a plurality of 700 and D. W. Davis, Republican, his opponent, ran him a close race in every county. The backers of Davis dedare that failure of election elec-tion judges to follow instructions when counting the ballots lost Davis Da-vis many votes, or enough to elect him. Davis says he has taken no initiative initi-ative in the contest and does not propose to do so, as it is a matter mat-ter for the Republican state central committee to handle. Secretary Broxon, speaking for Governor Alexander Alex-ander says: "No effort on the part of disappointed Republicans can deprive de-prive Governor Alexander of his victory. Hughes Gains Steadily St. Paul, Minn., Nov. 14. The Hughes lead in Minnesota suffered many changes today, but tonight stood at slightly more than 1000. Returns came slowly into the capitol today, and there were several differences dif-ferences between them and the unofficial un-official returns previously published. There was a constant gain for Hughes in the afternoon figures. The vote tonight, after a complete recheck, stood: Wilson, 172,260; Hughes, 173, 264; Hughes' pluraliy-1004. pluraliy-1004. Added sheets from the county auditors aud-itors are expected tomorrow at the state house, and will be unofficially gone over. Kellogg in the race for United States Senator, is 78,262 ahead of Lawler. The vote, Lawler, 83,660; Kellogg, 161,922, Calder-wood, Calder-wood, 58,803. The Calderwood vote does not include as many precincts which have made returns as the others. Both Claim House Washington, Nov. 14. Champ Clark, speaker of the house, reached reach-ed Washington today and conferred with Democratic leaders regarding the congressional election, which, according to the latest unofficial figures, fig-ures, leaves control of the next house in doubt. The speaker first conferred conferr-ed with Representative Doremus of Michigan, chairman of the Democratic Demo-cratic congressional committee, who predicted, despite unofficial returns indicating the election of five more Republicans than Democrats, that the final convass would give the Democrats De-mocrats control, and the speaker would be re-elected. On the other hand, Representative Woods, of Iowa, chairman of the Republican Re-publican congressional committee, was insisting that complete returns would show Republican gains instead in-stead of losses, and that Republicans Republi-cans would dictate the organization of the house. California Situation San Francisco, Nov. 14. Whether the highest vote for a Republican elector in California was greater than the lowest vote for a Democratic Demo-cratic elector was about the only question of interest to California politicians tonight. If this should prove to be the case, the state's delegation dele-gation in the electoral college may be split. The Republicans admittedly unearthed nothing in the course of the day to indicate for or against such a prospect. Sidney M. Van Wyck, Jr., chairman chair-man of the Democratic campaign committee, worked all day bringing in reports from little counties in the mountains where the county clerks had finished their count and also succeeded in getting one or two fair sized counties. His total for twenty twen-ty counties showed that the totals for the lowest Democratic elector in each county added 6466 votes more than the totals for the highest Republican elector in the same counties. coun-ties. The count would show, when completed, the Wilson electoral vote at its lowest ebb , Mr. Van Wyck said. That is to say if the lowest Democratic totals are finally ahead of the highest Republican totals, a solid delegation in the electoral college col-lege is assured. If the highest Republican Re-publican totals exceed the lowest Democratic totals this will not necessarily indicate that any "Republican "Repub-lican elector wins because the lowest low-est Democrat and the highest Republican Re-publican are not the same in all counties. Republicans and Democrats alike manifested surprise at rumors, traceable trace-able in all cases to the east, that a considerable error had been found somewhere in the state, in counting the votes. "The mistake as reported would have to be in San Francisco, Alameda Ala-meda or Los Angeles county," said Mr. Van Wyck. "It is in none of them and so far as we have been able to learn. It does not exist. The final count will show no material change." Reports from Republican headquarters head-quarters were similar. |