The Cairo bulletin., 1912-11-09
ROOSEVELT HAS
SMALL LEAD IN
CALIFORNIA NOW
Unreported Precincts Are Not
Unlikely to Change Re-
suit However.
MAY DIVIDE ELECTORS
Scratching of Name Of Lieut..
Gov. Wallace May In
validate Result.
Associated Press Dispatch.

| Associated Press Dispatch.
| San Francisco, Calf, Nov s.
With .seventy-nine small precincts
TO be heard from, the vote OF Cali
/. fornia for president follows: Roose-
welt PSI, 800. Wilson 2sO,6ts, Roose
velt's plurality is 751.
! The totals were compiled, today,
! from corrected cffocial returns from,
;, the county seats. The 70 precincts
remaining unreported are in remote
regions and it is possible that the
vote Of many of them will not be
| known before the official returns.
Out of maze of uncertainty that
has made the result Of last Tues
days presidential, election impossible
to forecast, an entire new tabulation,
| today, based upon corrected returns
from virtually all county seats, de-.
Iyeloped these facts: III
Roosevelt has plurality Of the.
popular vote over Wilson that the
flew remote precincts still unreport-
ed are not likely to overturn.
Divided Vote Possible.
Not all of the Roosevelt electors
may nave won.
The name of Lieut.. Gov. Wallace,
which, headed the Roosevelt electoral
ticket, was scratched by many vot-
ers, presumably because of his course
in committing the death sentences of
murderers while acting governor.
In many instances it is said Wal
lace's name was actually penciled off
the ballot. Attorney General Webb
has rendered an opinion that such
ballots are thereby invalid. Acting
upon this opinion the Democratic
managers have announced that If
the final returns leave Roosevelt
still in the lead they will challenge
the vote of Los Angeles county,
where the Progressives 'rolled up
their heaviest plurality and where
Wallace ran behind the other Roose-
velt electors.
Wilson and Roosevelt alternated
in the lead early in the day When
| the distant mountain precincts be-
gan to straggle in, bringing with
them many surprises in the way Of
reversals from expected results.
T. r. Draws Away. 81
Towards evening Roosevelt began
to draw away, his margin being aug
mented by several corrections Of to-
| tails from county seats based upon
complete and official returns. AT 4
o'clock his margin had increased to
nearly 1000 votes and it became al
most certain that the unreported
precincts in counties carried by the
Democratic ticket would not over
come the lead.
The final disposition of Cali
fornia's thirteen electoral votes may
be decided by the courts Demo-
cratic managers in the announce
ment of their determination to chal
lenge the Los Angeles county vote
in the event of a Roosevelt victory
on the informal count said their ae-
| tion would be based not only on the
alleged counting OF Progressive ball
lots made invalid by pencil scratches,
but on alleged errors and irregulari-
ties of Republican judges of election
in excluding valid Democratic bal
lots.
Latest returns tonight, reverse a
Progressive plurality in the Elev-
enth Congressional district and gave
| the victory to the Democrats, in
creasing the Democratic representa-
ton from California to three and re-
ducing the Progressive to four
William Kettner, Democrat, is
shown to have defeated Samuel c..
Evans, Progressive, by plurality of
1 1850. The single county of San
Diego gave Kettner a plurality of
more than 500.
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