The Sentinel=record., 1911-07-23
TEXAS CASTS
 HEAVY VOTE
RESULT OF PROHIBITION ELEc- TON IN LONE STAR STATE IS
 STILL IN DOUBT.
Prchibitionists Ahead at Midnight But the Antis Overcome Lead Later-Vote Heavier Than
 Was Expected.

Dallas, Tex, July 23.-Returns re- ceived by the News up to 200 o'clock this morning show a total of 20S,092 votes for anti prohibition and 207,46l for prohibition, majority of 631 for the anti -prohibitionists.
 To reach this result it was nec5s- sary to eliminate all duplicate re- turns as perfectly as it is humanly possible to do it within the time al- lowed newspaper, and has subject ed the remaining ones to the test of the adding machine. 1t believes they Iare as nearly correct as it is possi- be to make them.
 1t is evident from the closeness or the result, that nothing less than ao- |soutely complete returns win sui flee to show certainly what verdict was rendered at the polls yesterday.
 What percentage of the total vote least is represented by the news re- turns it is of course impossible to |say. There are in poll taxes and |estimated exemptions 630,931 qualified voters In the beginning the News Iestimated that the total vote would be about 450,000. 1t seems likely that 1t has been more than this and lit is probable that the News returns account for no more than four fifths the total vote cast. This unreported |one-fifth- is the unknown quantity and until it is known no one can more than speculate as to what was the result of the election.
 Of the returns 277,305 votes arc from north Texas, accounting every |thing north of Temple, as north Tex las and 13S,204 from south Texas, so lit would seem that the News return recount for relatively larger per- Icentage of the north Texas than of the south Texas vote.
 Returns received by the News up Ito midnight accounted for 339,773 votes. Of these votes the News to- tals show 17l,617 prohibition and l6S,l5 anti prohibition votes. ma majority of 3.461 for prohibition.
 The News estimate of the total vote cast is 450.000.
 If this estimate is approximately correct the News returns, as print led in the midnight edition. leave ur- fly little more than 100000 votes Ito be heard from.
 It is evident from the closeness of the vote that well-nigh complete re- turns will be necessary to determine the ss1valt certainly, though such as are in hand indicate rather strongly that the prdhibitionists have carried the state.
 From the cities the vote is nearly complete, as it is also from the larg- CT towns, leaving that which is yet to be heard from 10 come from the smaller towns and rural precincts. This is a vote which. as the returns already received show, will go mostly to the prohibitionists.
 Of, the vote accounted for 176,617 comes from north Texas and 16S, ,156 Ifrom south Texas considering, rough fly, line drawn through Waco to be 
 Ithe divisional. These figures show therefore, that the returns are rela- ltively a larger percentage of the south Texas than of the north Texas lvote, and of this relatively larger lunreported vote the pros will get lisie greater part.
 The pros, as was expected, receiv led heavy majorities in the black land Icounties of north Texas. In a trian- Igle extending northeast and north
 west of Dallas, they seem to have lcarried every county, with perhaps
 hot more than three or four sections
 The Panhandle and west Texas
 gave even larger majorities, relative fly to population. than did north Tex las proper and northeast Texas.
 If the prohibition vote was any
 where disappointing. it was in few least Texas counties, particularly those toward the south.
 The anNprohibitfonists got theil Imajorities almost exclusively il ] |south Texas counties, and in som' Iof them they were smaller than ha' lbeen expected, and smaller than tn lsubmission vote last year foreshad l lowed.
 Perhaps the greatest disappoint . ment for tile anti-prohibitionists wa
 in. the vote of the cities. san An