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Show WHAT THE FIRST VOTES SHOW. At noon today three or four small districts had been heard from on the national contest. New Ashford, Mass., gave Hughes 16, Wilson 7. In 1912, the same place recorded 7 votes for Taft, 6 for Roosevelt Roose-velt and 4 for Wilson. This indicates a solidifying of the Republican vote, but beyond that no deductions are to ' be drawn, and oven that straw, show- ing the way the wind is blowing, is not to bo unduly emphasized, as the , town is too small to point to any general drift of voters. The early Kansas returns Indicate Hughes will carry the state, and from that we reach the conclusion thero is no landslide in sight for Wilson and i the contest is to be close. |