New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-06
DIE HARD AT BULL
MOOSE HEADQUARTERS
Both Senator Dixon and 0. K.
Davis Long Loath to Con-
Cede Wilson's Election.

L
The best they could do at Progressive
National Headquarters, at II o'clock last
night, was to credit Wilson with New
York, Texas and Maryland; and Roose-
Welt with Illinois, Vermont, Michigan,
pennsylvania, Iowa and South Dakota
In the Taft column on their official bulle-
tin board, posted on the twelfth floor OF
the Hotel Manhattan, appeared not a sin
! gle state
They died very hard Although the
| returns from New York and Massachu-
sets showed early in the evening that
no Roosevelt landslide, such as Senator
Dixon. of Montana, had predicted, would
| result nothing was conceded. AT 100
o'clock Senator Dixon said:
81 don't concede a thing. There's
good fighting chance"
| Already the returns from New YORK
and Massachusetts had spread gloom
about the Bull Moose headquarters, where
were gathered to get the returns George
w. Perkins, Theodore Roosevelt, jr., SEN
ator Dixon, Governor Hiram Johnson or
| California, Bull Moose Vice-Presidential
candidate; cambridge Colby, Alexander
| Lambert, Jacob A. Riis, Judge Charles II.
| DuelI, Bourke Cochran, George Roosevelt,
Frank A. Munsey and Mr.. and Mrs. Tim
othy L. Woodruff. Tense, white faces
and scowls were the rule. AS Oscar King
| Davis passed along the corridor some one
| asked him II he conceded the election 10
Wilson, and Mr.. Davis blew up
What! With only two states heard
| from? The idea"
Gloom Oppressed Multitude.
The tension was apparent. George w.
| Perkins had locked himself up in his pri-
vate room, where no inquirer could reach
him. while boys with bulletins pushed
through the crowd to add to the gloom
which oppressed the multitude collected.
| Governor Hiram Johnson passed by and
another intrepid interviewer shot the
question: How about California;"
We'll, there's three hours difference be-
tween California and Eastern time" he
vouchsafed as he disappeared into tho
room whence issued the mystical bulletins.
Senator Dixon vehemently denounced a
bulletin which credited him with conced-
ing all the doubtful states in the Cast to
Wilson, although by that time a Brooklyn
newspaper, interpreting the returns, had
estimated the vote in New York as 1885,
! 6sS for Wilson. 4S,04s for Roosevelt and
44352 for Taft.
| The first state carried by any candidate
which the Bull Moosers posted was Illi-
nois, which they claimed for Roosevelt by
100, 900. This was at 1855 o'clock by this
time the national headquarters began 10
show a revival OF spirit.
IAN is not lost, by any manner ~
means" shouted one enthusiast, and the
others took up the tidings and passed
them along
Soon afterward came Vermont, and Toy
a long interval these two states, posted
as won In the Bull Moose column, kept a
lonely vigil At s:l5 followed Michigan, IN
| the same column.
Only T. r. Gains Reported.
Five minutes later came Pennsylvania,
also for Roosevelt. though number Of
the watchers were asking why New York
and Massachusetts, didn't appear in the
| Wilson column and New Hampshire IN
the Taft column Iowa and South Dakota
followed the others in the Bull Moose
count before reluctant order compelled
the posting of New York Texas and
| Maryland in the Wilson column.
| "Au we are after now" said the Bull
| Moosers with one accord, is TO beat TAFT
for second place"
The saddest place of all last night was
the Progressive State Headquarters. Early
! In the day the house, at No. 10 East Zsth
! street, teemed with Bull Moose energy
and Bull Moose complaints issued against
election activities, particularly in the
| Tammany districts. Francis w. Bird, the
county chairman. said his watchers had
had a multitude of troubles. one of them
having been arrested for disorderly con-
duct. He accused board of inspectors
In the 2sth Assembly District with de-
laying the vote. His organization caused
| the arrest of the chairman Of one OK
the boards OF inspection in the 6th As
sembly District for manipulating the bal
lots.
| But after the New York state and city
returns arrived Mr. Bird and his cohorts
exhibited less exuberance. An inquiry foe
State Chairman Hotchkiss elected the rec
ply that the state chairman could NOS
be seen until the complete returns haS
| been received. The young man WIG
guarded the entrance to his outer once
presented a very drawn and tense white
| face.
| Pinchot to Fight on.
| Clifford Pinchot made the following
statement shortly before he left the ma
| tional headquarters:
The Progressive party has established
| its position in a campaign Of three
| months II has pushed us cause 10 the
| front ranks. Nothing like 1t has been
! done before. This is the first victory. We
are going ahead to the end without break
| ing our stride. We cannot be downed for
long, and we cannot be stopped at all, Tor
| we are fighting for the one thing that al
| ways wins-the progress Of mankind.
The crowd which had filled the head
| quarters all the evening began to depart
about II o'clock and Oscar Straus and
| George w. Perkins announced shortly
statement. but let Senator Dixon speak