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Show M'CORMICK SURE Of WILSON VOTE North Dakota Safe, California Absolutely Democratic, New Mexico in Line. MINNESOTA CLOSE Republicans Claim Minnesota and New Mexico Swinging Toward Charles E Hughes. New York, Nov. 9. Chairman Mc-Cormlck Mc-Cormlck said today ho would investigate inves-tigate reports received at Democratic headquarters that tho Republicans in Washington state may get one of the Democratic electoral votes on the ground that votes cast for one of the Democratic electors, who died, were invalid. According to the reports, the name of E. M. Connor, the Democratic Democrat-ic elector who was substituted for A. Stream, the dead elector, did not appear ap-pear on the ballot in many counties and it was stated that, therefore, the votes cast for Stream might be valid, the difference giving a plurality for one Republican elector. "We will investigate the matter," said Chairman McCormlck, "but even if wo' are forced to concede the vote, I am not worried by the loss of one electoral vote. "When I retired at 5 o'clock," he said, "I knew that North Dakoia was safe for Wilson, California absolutely, absolute-ly, ours, that we had New Mexico surely sure-ly and that we are putting up a good fight in Minnesota." Perkins Claims New Mexico and Minnesota. George W. Perkins at Republican headquarters declared that New Mexico Mex-ico and Minnesota were both swinging swing-ing towards Hughes and that North Dakota was sure. Ho asserted that if these three placed in the Hughes column the Republican candidate's election was assured without California's Califor-nia's 13 electoral votes. WIllcox Roasts the Democrats. Republican Chairman William R. Willcox at noon made this statement In regard to the supervision of votes m close states: "As far as the claims of the Wilson followers go," Mr. Willcox said, "they began to cry fraud before the election. The history of that party is such that it ill-becomes them to raise the cry of fraud at this time. The Republican national committee will insist that the votes cast for its candidate be counted for him, but we want no votes not properly cast. "We will take every step to see that the votes cast are properly counted. The bluster of the Democratic leaders has no effect on our effort to sec that our count shall be correctly counted. We have called upon no officials of the government to supervise the countintr of votes in nnv stafp. V.nnh state is under the administration of state authorities and our reports in each state will take all needful steps to see that the election laws have been obeyed and all votes properly counted. Desire Honest Count. "The call for an honest count which we demand will be joined in and will be requested by all right thinking citizens cit-izens of whatever party. "We are willing to have every vote of our party investigated in the most thorough manner. We havo made reports re-ports in detail under the law and If other details are wanted we will give them. We will leave to our Democratic Democrat-ic opponents to say whether they will do the same." Charles B. Warren, national committeeman, commit-teeman, from Michigan after a statement state-ment by Chairman Willcox and other national committeeman gave out this statement as reflecting the consensus of opinion among the Republican leaders. "The election depends upon the count upon California, Minnesota, North Dakota, New Mexico and New Hampshire. Oregon is safely for Hughes as is also West Virginia. The probabilities are that the Minnesota vote will be cast for Hughes, but the official count will be required in North Dakota, New Mexico, New Hamppshiro and California before the results in those states will be definitely defin-itely known." |