Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 308, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1916 — Presidential Vote Is Finally Made Known. [ARTICLE]

Presidential Vote Is Finally Made Known.

Complete returns on the presidential election show that Mr. Wilson received 9,116,296 votes and Mi - . Hughes 8,547,474, a plurality of 568,822 for Mr. Wilson. In 1912 Wilson received 6,293,019, Taft 3,484,956, Roosevelt 4,119,507, The vote for Benson, socialist candidate for president, was 750,000, with eight missing states estimated, as against 901,873 for Debs, socialist, in 1912, and for Hanley, prohibitionist candidate, was 225,101, against 207,926 for Crafin in 1912. The total popular vote for the four candidates iwas 18,638,871, as against 15,007,282 in 1912. This is an increase of 3,631,589, accounted for by the increased population and the woman' vote in, the new suffrage states. Tn Indiana the vote was as follows: HugheT sfiS)5T Wilson 324,063. Hughes plurality 16,942. The smallest plurality was in New Hampshire, which state Wilson carried by 56.