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Show I GOLDEN STATE Corrections and Arrival of Belated Returns Give Bull' Moose Candidate the Best of It in California. ELECTORAL VOTES H; MAY BE DIVIDED James D. Phelan and Rudolph Spreckels Offer Reward for Evidence of Fraud in H. the Election Hi H; AN FRANCISCO, Nov. S. Out of a maze of! uncertainly that bud p L) made the result of last Tucs-r Tucs-r (lay's presidential election iin- possible to forecast, an entire new tab. illation today, 'based upon corrected re- turns from virtually all county scats, Bi developed these facts: Roosevelt has a plurnlit' of the pop-B: pop-B: ular vote over Wilson that tho few rc- mote precincts still unreported arc not t Iikeb' to overturn. B' Not all of the Eoos.cvclt electors, however, may have won. The name or' j 1 Lieutenant Governor Albert J. Wal- lace, which headed his electoral ticket, H. was scratched by many voters, prcsnm- ably because o his course in commut-H' commut-H' ing the deaf.li sentences of murderers, H. tvhiJe acting governor. In many instances, it. is said, Wal-HH: Wal-HH: lace's name was actually penciled off the ballot. Attorney GcncraMVcbb has rendered an opinion that such ballots H were thereby invalidated. Hl Acting upon this opinion the Demo- H' cratic managers havo announced that K it the final returns leave Roosevelt still in the lead, they will challenge the HH otc of Los Angeles county, where the Progressives Tolled up their heaviest plurality and where Wallace ran be-Bj be-Bj hind the other Roosevelt elector?. Many Surprises. HH Wilson and Roosevelt alternated in H: the lead early in the day, wheu tho distant mountain precincts began to straggle in, bringing with them many Bj. surprises in tho way of reversals from oxpcclod results. ' Toward ovcuing Jioosovclt began to draw away, his margin being augmented by several oor-rcctions oor-rcctions of totals from county scats, H. based upon complete and official re-H re-H turns. By 4 p. m. it had. increased to ucarlv 1000 votes and it' became al-most al-most certain that- the unreported prc-J prc-J cinots in counties carried by the Demo-H Demo-H iM'atic ticket would not overcome this I load. The final disposition of California's thirteen electoral voles may bo decided by tho courts. Democratic managers, in the announcement of their determination determi-nation to challcngo the Los Angeles county vote in the event of a ioosc-volt ioosc-volt victory on the informal count, de- larcd their action based not only on the alleged counting of Progrc.ivo ballots bal-lots invalidated by pencil eeratches, but on alleged errors and irregularities of Republican judges of election in c.t-, c.t-, t luding valid Democratic ballots. Reward Offered. Jaics D. Phelan and Rudoplh Spreckels authorized tho Democratic state central committee late today to offer a reward of 5000 to anyone fejppb'inc evidence lending to the con- I-viction of any person on a charge of perpetrating election -frauds. According Accord-ing to the terms of .the offer, this reward re-ward will be paid for each individual conviction. I The wide discrepancy in the com-1 pletr returns from- Los Angolos county j as compared with the earlier returns1 a change that wiped out an apparent) lead of approximately 6000 votea for) WiLon iu tho state was due in part1 to a switch in the method of tallying j the uopular vote. At the outset, the , record was made up from tho vote cast i foi tho head of each electoral ticket. Later, when it bocanm apparent that many Progressive bud not voted for Wallace, the first Roofcovclt. elector, I'roKrepcivo leaders demanded "of the count v clerk a recount, in which a' vote ea : for any elector in tho Progressive column was tallied n a voto for JRoosc-clt JRoosc-clt Late returns tonight reversed a Progressive Pro-gressive plurality iu the Eleventh con grcssioual district and gave the victory vic-tory to a Democrat, increasing the Democratic representation from C ah lOinin to three and reducing the Pro trrt'Fsive to fowr. William Kttner, Democrat, is felioivn lo have defeated .Samuel !. Evans, Rrogrh c, v a oto of 24,663 lo 21.173. The single count of San Dingo gac Kcllucr a plurnliU t of more lhaii SOOu. |