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Show I DEMOCRATS HAVE CARRIED ILLINOIS fej f Returns from Down State Overcome Big Roosevelt I Lead in Chicago and Give Wilson Safe Ml Plurality Taft Poor Third. I CALIFORNIA MAY SWING FOR ROOSEVELT '15 f Minnesota Goes Into Progressive Column on Late j r Returns Democrats Will Probably Have Ma-fe Ma-fe jority in the Upper House of Congress. H : Chicago, Nov. 7. Returns up to 2.45 p. m from all except 376 pre-jl; pre-jl; i clncts In the stale glve Wilson a plurality of 7.1S6 over RoosevelL Wll- son's plurality outside of Cook coun-B; coun-B; t.v Ib 45,4-13. The missing precincts Sh are so scattered that no estimate can I be made on them. 9 ' : Wilson's vote in Cook county was 5gt 291.7G3, and Roosevelt's was 330.44G. - !t was thoueht at rirst that this lead f for Roosevelt could not be overcome H ,n tne outs,de counties of the state. V Two thousand two hundred fifty-eight mli ' counties outside Cook county have IJU been heard from. The vote Is Wilson , 220,195 Roosevelt 1S0.312. Taft's vote In these precincts Is 140.539. tS '. There still are 003 scattering pre- jjgjf clnts in the state to be heard .from m and It Is considered probably that Hji their returns will increase Wilson's V lead. |