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Show I DEMOCRATS WIN h"J I ELECTI0NCflillTE8T Supervisors of Los Angeles County Must Do Their Hj Work Over Again. H WRIT ISSUED BY COURT H "Action Will Probably Place H California Definitely in H Wilson Column. LOS ANGELES, Nov. 21. A decision of the appellate court handed down today apparently Insures a majority for Wood-row Wood-row Wilson In California of about 150 Hj votes, and nearly all, if not all, of tlio electors ent ly tho state to the clcc- mm toral college. ., , , mm For a tlmo tonight it wafl believed here mm that tho decision had tho effect of throw. lng out of Ujo official count the etitlro vota of Log Angeles county, which gava 1 Roosevelt moro than 20,000 plurality, but advices from the office of the secretary mm of state at Sacramento proved this fear W unfounded. I Effect of OrHer. The court ordor. while taking up In detail de-tail everv point in the olection controversy contro-versy which has waged here for nearly three weeks, decides especially that in one precinct in Pasadena and onB In Los Angeles, only tho votes for A. J. Wallace, tho head elector on tho Progressive ticket, and Thomas J. Griffin, the head elector on tho Democratic ticket, may be counted, because in checking all the other electors elec-tors In those prccints tho election boards Itcpt no tally of tho votes cast, mere y certifying tho totals. This the court held to be an error Invalidating thoso votes. The two precincts together gave Roosevelt Roose-velt a majority of about 200 votes. As with this number Included the majority In the stato for Wallace, the highest Roosovelt elector, stood qnly forty tonight, it Beemed Inevitable that with the exception ex-ception of Wallace the Roosevelt electors In the state must be defeated. Mast Make Recount. Tho court ordered a recount in which Ullv marks for each elector should he counted- The supervisors heretofore hud accepted tho totals. Ignoring the tally marks. It was believed that the court order was Impossible of fulfillment, because the law provides that election returns from the various counties must bo in tho hands of tho secretary of state. Monday, November No-vember Eo. and a recount before that tlmo would be Impossible. Tt was lenrned, however, that Secretary of State Frank r. Jordan holds this law not to be mandators man-dators He has announced definitely that. In will count the rotump whenever they romo In. a decision which prevents the invalidating of the entiro Los Angeles otc. , , , Best information tonight, however, seemed to show that tho Democrats have rairlcd California beyond doubt. |