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Show I TWELVE STATES DECIDE PRESIDENCY I Here's Lineup as Cox-Harding 1 Battle Gets Vigorously I Underway I ny oi men n w 1 i:rs M I staff (orrrinnlenC. fcH A.-HlNOToN. Aur " The poll- H tic! battleground In in presidential J election will be In twelve autre H The storm centers will t In Ohio. H New York, Indiana and Illinois. H Ine; hotteat In BH Each party la rcaaonahly certain to carry Is state. lv In the Democrats bbbbbbbbI HI electoral votna and the Republi can 196 Th. Iimorrnia muat have si mett to win and the Republicans 71. HoTTIsT PIOHTfl I Illinois I placed In the Rcpubll- can column by both Democratic and I O. I'- doieterH, but th D"mooraia if will carry tne Ma" flht Into this tor- rltory. If for no oth r reason, to try to break the J ( '. I ranks and to keep the Illinois crowd out of the lommon battleground. The party that can carry the three doubtful elates. Net" York, Ohio and Indiana, can win. There are M elector elec-tor In those three utiles, thre more than the Democrats would need to Win and 13 more than the Hopubll- ' "" cana would require, provided both J partlea hold the slates here conceded befl California la considered doubtful rS beia-. Wilson carried II lK'r'i,t V lluh.. I.. I- - than 6.000 vote. The Hf .into Is strongly Progressive The JW "Mp" tiw.t Hiram Johnson put MaV hli intl-laajrw oampaJgr mtjV wva a r faring on the outcome In California. Pff gdo haa gone Di raiio In HI f,ve of the last atx presidential c cc- f If Mom bul Is now considered dout.tfu fi; J bcaus a Republican senator and .jf "'' " v"", U heavj majorltlooln Lill. snlU W"- I J V roqUOIt tht Demucrala be re- I ' turned. ntOORESSIVe! STATICS. .4 ,i..,.i,irni for tho mine rca-. M 0 ,on that California I illBalfactlon Wth II. .t. .it. ho I too reactionary 2 that I ' 1 ' .ivi N- " Jersey aro J " 1 M 10 lbtul , hv wn.m. Tialll , -w l- i. u w.s fftrrl'"! by Wilson J I . i . it.iful for the JH ,nip reason that other western states on Now York both parties are go- jfM ing to mak th ftfht of thoir llvos io the lUtt fOM will oopend lffe- 4flfl on How lub-r UP Mate swings lt EtaB l?ut Ohio, home of both candidates, tmm will be- the hott.-H battlcgrounJ. Tho: M R publicans are claiming t by 100.- ,11 uuu voi-s. Ccx ha l..-.-r; elected gov-ernor gov-ernor three timet and lost the atate ,V once. Wllaon carried It in 1J U hen aB . llX wn eh led k'..vern..r in 1 m. Harding was el- cied senaior by 103.- sbbbbbI 000 majority . - - , trTlll-U "DOUBT1T i-s. "akV Both partlea put I tab In the doubt- gVLI ful column Wilson carried It uga Inst M Hushes by 10,000 and Ur.van loyt 11 to i Taft by 20.000. It Is pro-league and fl I . Progret Washington Mie HkOlC Wlsronsln is normally Hcpubllcan, fU but l!4 doubtful no becujH It jnt m known what Robert UiKollette will s i dVyomlng was carried by Wlson by M , mi think tn lMiry it this Ume. but U.ey du not j-K count it certain. ' ' aW If the Uepui.il' hold their con- W7M ceded strength, and fall to carry OblO, BJVB thl.y wj have to get Now York, Call- fomla, i Wltcoi Taal ... ,',..v. i uln Thnti If the Democrats should steal Illinois front them, they wouhl have t. l ike In ad- iM dltlon Idaho. Washington and Wyo-CH Wyo-CH mlns of th) doubtful slates to get taB over VTB I, sn i i,. .-cur for either party aflaaai to have New York to win now i mi b an m OEM n II v I . I States Electors Alabama 1j Arizona K. Arkansas j , 1 -L GoorgU ...! Kentucky 13 fjK W llMlnpl 10 i ' Jl 'Hi.. la ; Montana V Noi lh Carolina .12 i iklahoma South Carolina 9 I Tennessee 1 - Virginia - -IS r ' ll afcpi RLH s Kloctors. BK' Connecticut 7 9 Delaware 3 A Illinois 2f Iowa IS .Jf Cantaj io Maine 0 Massachusetts 18 H Mlchlsun 15 H Minnesota 12 H Nebraska . . 8 H New llnmpahlre 4 I North Dnkota 6 I Oregon 5 Pennsylvania 38 m Rhode Island . . 6 4 South Dakota .... . . .8 I Vermont 4 II West V irginia 8 I Total 1S Dot BTFCZi. States. Electors California 13 Colorado 6 J Idaho 4 K Indiana 16 H New Jersey 14 I' New Mexico a m New York u . . . i I ) 'hlo 24 r--" Utah 4 Washington 7 V soon sin 1 Wyoming Total 16 1 Total electors 631 Necessary to elect 26G To Win Democrat need 81 of doubtful electors; Republicans need 71. Hottest storm centers of campaign, cam-paign, acknowledged by both tides: New York, Ohio. Indiana and Illinois -oo How States Stand As Battle Opens yH i- Jrv i 111' I YfrfeB |