Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1912-11-09
California IS
STILL IN DOUBT.
WITH 10 PRECINCTS MISSING
a TEDDY HAS LEAD OF 75l
VOTES.
MAY mean A CONTEST
Charges of Fraud Are Made and the
Result Of the Election May be
Determined by the Courts.

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. S.-Tabu-
latlon Of corrected returns from virtu-
ally all of the states county seats
chow that in California Roosevelt has
plurality of the popular vote over
Wilson and that returns from the ~
remote precincts stll unreported are
not likely to overturn 1t. The lates,
figures give Roosevelt 2S1,369; Wilson
2S0,6lS; Roosevelt's plurality ISL.
1t is likely that the vote OF many
OF the missing precincts will not be
known until the official canvass Is
made.
Not all OF the Roosevelt electors
may have won. The name OF Lieutcn-
ant-Governor Albert j. Wallace.
which headed the Roosevelt electorial
ticket was scratched by many voters,
PRESUMABLY because of his course In
committing the death sentences or
murderers while acting governor.
One Elector Scratched.
y In many instances, 1t is stated, Wal
lace's name was actually pencilled
off the ballot. Attorney-Generai
Webb has rendered an opinion that
such ballots were thereby invalidated.
Acting upon this opinion, the demo-
cratic 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 progressive5 rolled up their
heaviest plurality and where Wallace
ran behind the other Roosevelt eiec-
tors.
j Wilson and Roosevelt alternated in
: the lead early in the day when tho
distant mountain precincts began to
straggle in. By A o'clock this after
noon Roosevelt's margin had increas-
ed to nearly 1000 and 1t became al
most certain that the unreported pre-
cncts IN counties carried by the DOM
ooratc ticket would not overcome
this lead.
Democrats Charge Fraud.
Notwithstanding this situation, the
final disposition Of Callfornia's thlr-
t teen ELECTORAL votes may be decided
by the courts. Democratic managers,
Vim the announcement Of their determi-
nation to challenge the Los Angeles
county vote in the event Of Roose-
welt victory, said their action would
& be based, not only on the alleged
counting Of progressive ballots in
validated by pencil scratches, but on
alleged errors and Irregularities Of
republican judges OF election In eX.
Guiding valid democrat ballots.
James D. Phelan and Rudolph
Spreckels today authorized the demo-
cratic state committee to offer a re-
ward Of $1,000 to anyone supplying
evidence leading to the conviction Of
any person on a charge Of perpetrat-
ing election frauds. According to
the terms Of the offer, this reward
will be paid for each conviction.
The wide discrepancy In the COM
plete returns from Los Angeles
county are compared with earlier re-
tprns-a change that wiped out an
apparent lead of 5000 votes for Will
son in the state--was due in part to 4
switch in the method of tallyipg the
popular vote. At the outset the re
cord was made up from the vote cast
for the head of each electoral ticket.
Later, when II became apparent that
many progressives had not voted for
Wallace, the first Roosevelt elector,
progressive leaders demanded of tho
county clerk a recount in which
vote cast for any elector in the pro-
Rressive column was tailed as vote
for Roosevelt.