Show 9 F f mr VIA Z M Q M 40 11 azu PRESIDENT PRESIDE 1 1911 I 1 T WILSON ELECTED ON DM FACE of THE RETURNS RETURN it I 1 S L republicans demand a recount brecount of votes in several close and pivotal states RECORD BREAKING INTEREST IN THE NEWS entire nation kept in suspense while Election Judges of a few states counted to the lat last ballot before result was known soldier vote a factor new york nov 11 on an the face of the returns unofficial and still incomplete woodrow wilson has been reelected president of the united states with a majority of at least eleven in the elec electoral tofal college but the republicans place a cloud on his title that Is kely akely to remain for a week or ten flays days and in the meantime the republicans are do declining clining to pay their elec 1 tion bets the situation Is extraordinary rind and has resulted in days das of nerve racking strain for the people of the country if the election officials of a few i emote precincts in a few states know liow how the nation has been waiting malting breathless to hear boin from them they must be swelled up enormously with a sense of their importance for on those few precincts has depended the nit nations ions choice of its chief executive that mr wilsons Wll Wil sons victory over mr hughes will not be conceded without a recount in the close states such as california new hampshire new mexico and north dakota was determined at conferences of the republican leaders here chairman Will willcox coi asserted a recount would be demanded wherever the margin of democratic victory was so small that comparatively few votes would turn the scales he and his associates so socia tes say they take the position that there should be no cloud upon mr wilsons Wll Wil sons title to the presidency the democrats for their part declared dreL I 1 that there must be a recount lecount in new hampshire even though the returns gave the state to mr wilson that the returns are still incomplete Is due to the presence on the border of the national guard of a r umber number of states tie rt e soldiers are permitted to vote by mall mail their ballots being forwarded to the auditors of their home counties and in minnesota especially the vote of the guardsmen guardsman Guards men is likely to cut a figure in determining whether the state i goes into the wilson or tile the hughes column minnesota was as bad as california in the matter of shifts and as its delegation Is nearly as large it too was watched with the In tensest interest through days and nights of countin counting the race race wits was a seesaw see saw without with but lut a thousand or adof so of votes voies separating the candi candidates duies neither side would admit defeat and even now I 1 both are awaiting ow alting the soldier vote and the official count new hampshire a surprise perhaps the most surprising of all the states was new hampshire it atone ilone of all ew england failed to give the republican candidate a substantial oura lity and for days no I 1 one knew in which column it would land the astonishing closeness 0 of the vote shown by the rival claims three days after the election of plurality for hughes and 84 for wilson in the circumstances cum culus stances it Is no wonder that the managers of poth both parties should dea demand a i recount new 51 mexico exico with three electoral votes attracted national attention by placing itself early inthe in the list of doubt ful states and as it soon appeared that almost every electoral vote would be vital the returns from down oh the border were grabbed hot ho t off the wires after veering back and forth for days new mexico was definitely placed in the wilson column though there too the presidents margin was so scant that a basis was afforded for the call for a recount A few mistakes discovered in the figures of the precinct officials might well swing the he state over to hughes willcox demands recount on oil friday national chairman will cos cor of the republican party handed out the following statement the result still depends upon the vote in a few close states it must be borne in mind that the returns thus far announced are in most states unofficial off and may be changed by the official coilet required by the laws of those states twice during these unofficial computations yesterday in california mistakes in additions were announced from that state substantially changing figures previously given it Is a common experience that the result of the off official lelal count all almost always varies from the returns first announced noun ced where the vote Is as close as that reported in several states it may well be that material changes will result from the official count we owe it to the country to take till all necessary essaf steps to see that an exact and honest count of the vote Is made when the current seemed to be running against mr wilson on wednesday the democratic managers announced their intention to demand a recount in every close state all we desire Is to make sure that the vote Is counted as cast both sides conceded that no matter what action might be taken in regard to a recount there was little likelihood of a contest being carr carried I 1 ed to the house of representatives as it was after the hayes tilden campaign in ISTO 1870 legislation I 1 atlon enacted in 1887 it was said made the state sovereign in pronouncing judgment in a recount of the presidential ident ial vote how congress stands congressional election elect ibn returns nearly completed assure president wilson in the forthcoming administration a democratic senate but with five districts still undecided the liest best that the democrats could claim was a plurality of four votes in the houses house upon the basis of revised returns tho the democrats have elected members berkof of the house and the republicans in addition there hate hae been elected one independent one socialist one 0 ne progressive and one progressive pro four districts in west virginia two of them nominally democratic and two republican and one in new mexico are still undecided it if these districts do not change the democrats will have and the Republicans a plurality of only three As there will be four members of other minority parties a working majority for the democrats is improbable unless some of the minority members should choose to cast their lot with flie lie administration forces the senate according to latest figures will consist of 54 democrats and 42 republicans a majority of 12 the democratic majority in the present senate is 10 16 an unusual feature of the result Is the election of the first woman to congress miss jeanette rankin republican I 1 apparently having been elected in montana six states go dry pr prohibitionists are jubilant over the results of the election where prohibition was an issue from washington the legislative committee of the league issued a statement saying prohibition has taken another other great leap forward michigan has voted for statewide state wide prohibition by majority nebraska by montana by and south dakota by idalio idaho has adopted a pro constitutional amendment by a majority of 3 to 1 utah has probably elected a legislature pledged to enact statewide state wide prohibition washington iowa colorado arizona and arkansas have defeated attempts of tile the liquor people 10 0 o secure the adoption of proposals which would nullify their prohibitory laws thus 21 24 states state sout out of 48 one half of tile the states of tile the union have now declared for statewide state wide prohibition i and over CO 60 per cent of the hie population and SF 85 per cent of the area of the country Is now under prohibitory law women vote as do men from the general result it Is clear that as the men voted in the suffrage states so did tile the women in illinois men and women seemed about equally divided as to preference the state went for hughes by a big plurality in kansas colorado montana washington oregon and california where women also vote wilson was successful but his pluralities were not sufficiently large to indicate that the woman oman voters supported him as a unit farm vote the factor there are several great outstanding facts concerning the result of the election one of which Is that labor in all the big industrial states except ohio declined to give its undivided support to president wilson despite his claim to it on the score of having persuaded congress to pass the adamson eight hour bill new york pennsylvania illinois massachusetts Alic michigan higan indiana all gave the republican candidate pluralities and chios vote in favor of wilson Is n tinly to be attributed tri buted to the I 1 fe e another enters inters g was the independence if the west which Is asserting that it elected a president without the aid of new york and pennsylvania sylv atila and other big western and ventral central states when it was found early in the evening of election day that the ahe empire state had gone for hughes the newspapers of the metropolis even those that had supported wilson conceded the victory to the republicans Republic aas without waiting to hear from the middle west when the returns came in from these regions it was found that the farmer and stock ralser had decIded the election yet another fact that calls for comment Is johnson of cal I 1 running on the republican arid progressive tickets has been elected to the United States senate by something like plurality and yet the stats state went democratic on the presidency cy I 1 |