Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1916 — GENERAL AND STATE NEWS [ARTICLE]

GENERAL AND STATE NEWS

Telegraphic Reports From Many Parts of the Country. SHORT BITS OF THE UNUSUAL Happenings in the Nearby Cities and Towns—Matters of Minor Mention from Many Places. OFFICIAL RETURNS BY STATES Wilson’s Plurality 558,182 —Total Popular Vote 18,807,101. New York, December 27.—Complete official returns on the Presidential election show that Mr. Wilson received 9,125,286 votes and Mr. Hughes 8,*567,104, a plurality of 558,182 for Wilson. In 1912 Wilson (Dem.) received 6,297,099, Tafft (Rep.) 3,846,399, Roosevelt (Prog.) 4,124,959. The vote for Mr. Benson, Socialist. candidate for President, was 750,000, with eight missing states estimated, against 901,873 for Debs (Soc) in 1912, and for Mr. Hanly, Prohibitionist candidate, was 225,101, against 207,928 for Chafin (Prohi.) in 1912. The total popular vo(o Tor the four candidate was 1 8,667,491, as against 15,045,322 in 1912. This is an increase of 3,622,169, accounted for by tlie increased popu lation, and the woman vote in the new suffrage states.