Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1912-11-06
WILSON CARRIES JEFFERSON COUNTY Loses Only One Ward in the City and Runs Well in the
 County.
TAYLOR's VOTE BIG
Great CroWG Views Grantic's Bnlle tin Board For slou9s in
 the Rain.

Returns fpom the fur wards in the city of Pine Bluff and eight townships oln- of twenty three in Jeff fersoh county give Woodrow Wilson elee. ors a toal of 1,712 votes, a plurality of I'll votes.
 Colonel Sam M. Taylor. Demo- cratic candidate for the national House of Representatives who had no oppos ton is given a total of 2,422 votes.
 Electors who will cast their vcte fer Theodore Roosevelt, the Pro- SressiVe candidate, in the electoral college, are running second to the Wilson men and have boiled 541 votes in t2e four wards and eight townships. Taft is running a poor ,lird, the same precnc5s giving hlm a total of 320.
 Wilson carried the first, second and third wairds by large majorities, but n he u1ii-f ward tle Bull Moose EeClel 106 Vites to Wilson's 97 and Taft's 63. Tafa was poor third in all he wards, except the first, Debs, the soc alislc candidate was third in he fira ward getting il more votes than Taf, but in all other wards and precnIts polletd a very small vote, g liting ncne in some of the precincts.
 In t-ia eight country precincts re- pc.t ed by il o'clock last night Will rms majority was heavy with Taft and Roosevelt running peck and neck C-lcnel Taylor, in several townships, i1,i1 ahead of the ticket.
 io, o1o ion day, none of tle tense excitment and nterea being felt here tfhat was felt in the cities in eastern and north ern states where the lines were drawn closely. The voting was not much heavier ishan at former presidential elections ! bu; much Interest was minifested by 1 Pine Bluffians in tIaeI balloting i'm the 1 doubtful states.
 Great Interest Here
 Fully a ghicusand peiple braved the ithlsiaaterng clouds and stood Il front of he Graphic office to read the bull letins received over a special wire and shown upon the screen hung in front of the Graphic office last night. l While every bulletin flashed upon the screen was read with interest the big | crowd of voters shiCwedI litItle en- G1uslasm, receiving the returns favor- | able to Wilson as a matter of course as the election has been practically conceded to him by the big prognosti- eaters in tha large cities.
 | All candidates for city offices and | many business firms took advantage l if the opportunity to adlvertise and these slides were interslpersed be- I tween those bearing ele,cltiom news Even Wlnen names of local candidates appeared upon the screen the crowd refused to cheer but permitted itself to laugh when the following inscrip- tion was thrown upon the canvas: Roosevelt carries fourth ward in Pine Bluff. Taie niggers done it."
 From o'clock Tuesday night the bulletins were flashed upon tine Grarhicis screen until after midnight and despite the intermittent showers the crowd stuck until the wee slna' hours The Graphic's enterprise put itself on par with the big news papers in the large cities. The same scene was set in all cities in the United States oven 15,0O0 population and Pine Bluffians saw the same bulletins on the Graph c's se'heen that New Workers saw on the canvas erecIad for the same purpose by the New York Herald, the Chicago Fri buna the Philadelphia Le1ger and other metropolitan newspapers.
 At 10 o'clock the rIain increased in volume, but with tine protection of rubber coats, umbrellas and store awnings, the citizens interested in | .he election kept their places across the street from tshe Graphic and watched with increasing interest the messages that seemed to tell of a landslide fon Wilson, the Democratic candidate for Fhe presidency.
 In the Graphic office two men were busy receiving the returns from the special! wire and rewriting them on the isttle plates to be placed in the sterop icon belonging ito and being operated by T. A. Hill, manager of the Elks Theatre.
 One telephone in the Graphic office. No. 1l, wal:l placad in permanent Mse fer the night on long distance and practically every town in southeast Arkansas was kept informed of the l progress or the counting OI the hd- tion's ballot. The local telephone, No. SC, was kept busy by Pine Bluff ians who wanted to know "wllO New York went for" and eff Roosevelt was running next to Wilson," and other information bearing on the election Everyone was given brief sketch of the status of the election up to the hour ,lhe returns had been received and many citizens while in their own
 homes out of the drizzling rain, knew how the d;fferemt states had | untad nn the candidates for president