Show Gains Made by Hughes in inV Vote V Canvass Increase of Shown in Los Angeles L Lea Leaders e a d e r s Claim SOU South l California Total Will rill Grow Grov 1500 to to The Tho lIt Herald L T OS A ANGELES n Ca Cal No Nov 14 To 14 Tonight To- To night following the second da day of the official count of the ballot cast a week ago today leading members of tho the Republican county central committee committee com corn ma made c hc flat assertion that in UI cafe of a recount Hughes would be e given OO votes otes at least in Los Angeles Angeles An An- geles count county more than ho be is at present pres pres- eat ent credited with The net suit result of or today's official count before the count county board of oC su supervisors su- su and nd the basis basla for the statements statements state tate ments menta of the committeemen Is that Hughes makes a total net t gain of oC 90 votes otes in the tho official canvass of the I Los Angeles n county electron election returns According to the California law more than prima facie lack el evidence eD 1 lu Ia necessary In order to s secure ure a recount and for Cor this reason with the same ratio of or Hughes Hughes' gains keeping up it Is Js now felt lt that there would woul be sufficient grounds to warrant the committee in petitioning the courts for a recount of oC the entire ballot cast Jt it should be ex explained ex- ex In this connection that there thero arc are 1215 Ir precincts In lit Los Angeles city and count county and the from more than a thousand of oC them have ha been canvassed assed in the last two days In this number 1000 precincts tw two twenty tw nt-tw errors w Were re n discovered 1 and it Is held that they ma may a add d h v voles votes to the Hughes total In these t two tu wen t-t t wo precincts th the supervisors will authorize the made Found The most noticeable error today was that discovered In Precinct No o 1 4 where here Hughes was sas credited with but forty- forty four lour votes whereas the taU tally l books showed the Republican nominee re received re- re In votes The other otier g gain gaIr n for Hughes were In lit nine other precincts rho Tho total gain for tor niJ Hughes H was ISO 1 vot votes 9 In three of oC these precincts he was credited credited cred- cred cred cred- Ite with fifteen too man many votes Tote and andIn andin In ca each h five H were wre removed from froni hl his total maJ making III it Wilson made no ro gains but nine precincts precincts pre pre- were recorded as having given him five fifty votes too man many so that this number added to the Hughes s total mado a net gain for tor the Republican ticket of votes Tho The supervisors super and representatives of ot both hoth parties w were re astonished that not a single Democratic gain was wag made mado madoas as a result of or the errors discovered tou ID Split San Francisco Francisc Nov No Whether H. H. H Whether the highest t toto vote oto for a Republican elector In California was greater Grealer than the lowest lowest lowest low low- est oto vote for or a Democratic elector was vas about tho the only onh question qUon of oC Interest to California politicians tonight If H this should prove to be the lie case the states state's delegation In the tho electoral college may split spilt The Republicans admittedly unearthed unearthed un un- un- un nothing In the thc course o of theda the tho da day to Indicate for Cor or against such Much a n ap p prospect cc t. t Sidney SItney M. M 1 Van Yan Wyck Jr chairman of oC the tho IJ Democratic campaign committee commit commit- tee tee- worked all day bringing in re reports re- re ports from front little counties in the mountains moun moun- where the count county clerks had finished th their lr count coun and also cd II tn In setting getting one or two sized fair counties coun coun- ties His lUs total for tor twenty counties showed that thal the thc totals for the lowest Democratic fleeter elector In each county count ad added cd votes moro more than the tho totals for tor the tho highest Republican elector Inthe in inthe inthe the same counties This count would show shot when completed the tho Wilson lIgon electoral electoral elec elec- toral oral vote at Its lowest ebb Mr ir Van Yan ck ck said That hat Is to sa say If it the lowest low low- cst est Democratic Democrat c totals are arc finally ahead of the Ute highest Republican totals a solid delegation in tho ho el electoral toral college is assured If It tho highest Republican to totals totals to- to tats exceed the tho lowest Democratic to totals totals to- to this will not pot necessarily rIlY indicate that any Republican elector wins be because bc- bc cause the lowest Democrat and the hl highest Republican arc not the same In all counties hughes Gain Steadily tendil St. St Paul Minn Nov ov H. H The H.-The The Hughes 1 lead d in III Minnesota suffered ed many changes today but tonight stood at slightly more than 1000 Returns came slowly Into the tho capital tOda today and there were wro several differences between them then and the unofficial returns previously published There W was waa g a consistent gain galit for fr Hughes In the afternoon figures tl The vote tonight after afler a complete recheck recheck recheck re- re check stood Wilson lIson 1 jS 60 Hughes Hughes plurality lIt 1004 1001 A Added ded sheets from tIle lie county count auditore auditors auditors audi audi- tors tore are expected tomorrow at the statehouse and anti will ill l ho u unofficially gont over Kellogg in the tho race for United senator Is jS ahead 1 of or Law Law- l ler r. r The vote vete Lawler 8 Kellogg J I Calderwood Tho Tue Calderwood Cal Cal- dorwood derwood vote oto docs does not include as many mans precincts which have havo mode made returns as the others II n 1 I III lit n e 1 Id I'd 0 Santa I Fc Fe N M. M L Nov 14 PresIdent President ent Wilson made a a. net t gain of or forty votes over ocr Charles 1 E. E Hughes s In III official re returns ro- ro turns front from tl five New Mexico counties reported to the tho secretary of or st state te to to- to da day Th unofficial tabulation IncludIng Including In ing the official count In th counties tonight ht shows 5 10 out of oC the ito 1 precincts pre pre- ducts In the state have havo l been hn ton rd from The count staJl stands l Hughes 2932 29 9 32 J Wilson 31 It Is ox l a at awit wit t k will PhlP elapse O before all returns have vo been received officially N M M. Nov ov 1 II L Republic ans today began au nn election contest protesting against the counting of oC votes oles In eight pI precincts of rz count county where Democratic candidates piled plied up nn nit approximate plurality of or T 75 o on the tho I face of returns Intimidation and ir- ir I arc charged I |