Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 270, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1916 — CALIFORNIA CARRIED BY WILSON; RE-ELECTED [ARTICLE]

CALIFORNIA CARRIED BY WILSON; RE-ELECTED

Republican Chairman Concedes Victory, Thus Hkctoral Vote Drops Into Democratic Column. New York, Nov. 9.—President Wilson has carried California and has been re-elected. Fifty hours after the polls closed >n California, Republican Chairman Rowell conceded the state to the president. Thus the thirteen votes needed to assure the presidnt of a majority in the electoral college dropped into the democratic column and apparently ended the suspense and anxiety of an election which has been unparalleled iu American political history. The California returns showed that, with only 45 districts missing, the president’s plurality in the state was 2,989. ■ Barring some wholly unexpected tunrover in the incomplete state’s leaning toward Wilson er a change on a recount, California’s acquisition to the democratic column gave the president 269 electoral votes without New Mexico’s three. In New Mexico at midnight the president was leading by 2,634 votes with 158 districts missing and it was not believed this advantage could be overcome by Mr. Hughes. Conceding West Virginia, New Hampshire and Minnesota to Mr. Hughes—and he was in the lead in all three, gives him 259 votes, seven less than the required majority. Wiith 272 votes in sight, President Wilson had six to spare for a possible split of electors in California, or a sudden reversal in New Mexico. Chairman Willcox includes California, New Mexico, North .Dakota, New Hampshire and Minnesota in his list of states where recounts undoubtedly will be demanded. It probably will still be another day before the full results are known from any of the four states left in the doubtul column, and certainly not until there has been an official count in New Hampshire and possibly in Minnesota. As Mr. Hughes is leading in (Minnesota and West Virginia and a change in these states could in no wise affect the result, there may be no extraordinary haste to bring about the recount demanded. Virtually all the states where the result is close are carried in the Hughes column and or that reason the democrats profess to be not apprehensive that any overturning could come from a recount.