New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-11-09
VOTE OF TWO STATES
REMAINS UNCERTAIN
Courts May Have to Settle Re-
{ suit in California, Where
Roosevelt Has Small Lead.
TWO PARTIES CLAIM IDAHO
Wyoming Seems to Have Gone
for Wilson, Though Repub-
leans Have Carried the
Rest Of Their Ticket.

With California still seesawing back
and forth between Wilson and Roose-
Welt and the courts likely TO be called
on to settle the result, and with Idaho
so uncertain that both Republicans and
Democrats claim it by 600, and its
electoral votes may be divided between
Taft and Wilson, it is yet impossible
to'give the exact outcome Of Tuesdays
election for President. ...
- Wyoming. placed heretofore in the
doubtful column, seems to have finally
landed in. the Wilson list, with possibly
1900 plurality over Taft. Republicans,
however, have reelected Mondell to
Congress, and Senator f. Z. Warren
has majority in each branch of the
Legislature.
There is no doubt of Wilson's sue
cess in Illinois. where his plurality over
Roosevelt exceeds 10000, although he
lacks 10000 of a majority vote In
the Illinois Legislature the Democrats
lack six of,the l03.votes on joint ballot
necessary TO elect a United States SEN
ator, while the Republicans and Pro-
gressives combined have 104, or one
more than enough to control if they can
get together -ra-s- A. y- s.,'..
Placing, Wyoming's three electoral
votes in the Wilson column increases
mis- total to 429 in the Electoral College.
Shifting Idaho from the Taft list to the
doubtful column reduces Mr.. Tafts
total to 13.
San Francisco, Nov. S.-With sew
enty-nine small precincts to hear from
the vote of California on President
was: Roosevelt, 2S1, 1863; Wilson. $780,
61S; RooseYelt's plurality. 751.
=, The totals were compiled to-day from
corrected official returns from the
county seats. The precincts remaining
unreported are all in remote regions.
1t is probable that the vote Of many Of
them will not be known before the off,
cial canvass. .... .-.- ..-.
Out of the maze OF uncertainty that
had made the result of last Tuesdays
PRESIDENTIAL election impossible to
forecast an entire tabulation to-day.
based on corrected returns from virtu-
ally all county seats, developed these
facts; ..
Roosevelt has. q plurality. Of the pop
ular vote over Wilson that the few re-
mote precincts still unreported are not
likely to- oveNurn. 90 '-s '... rR~~-'
- Not an of the Roosevelt electors may
have won. The name Of Lieutenant
Governor Albert ]. Wallace, when
headed the Roosevelt electoral ticket,
was scratched by many voters. pre-
sumably because Of his course in COM
muting the death sentences Of murder
ers while acting Governor. e.
In many instances 1t is stated that
waHaces name was actually pencilled
of the ballot. Attorney General Webb
has rendered an opinion that such bal
lots were thereby invalidated
Acting on 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
Progressives rolled up their heaviest
plurality and where Wallace ran be-
hind the other Roosevelt electors. -
Wilson and Roosevelt alternated In
the Lead early in the day when the dis
tant mountain precincts began to
ytraggle in, bringing with them many
surprises in the way Of reversals from
expected results. Toward evening
Roosevelt began 10 draw away, his
margin being augmented by several
eerTections Of totals from county seats
and it became almost certain that the
unreported precincts in counties, car
sried by the Democratic ticket would not
overcome this lead So.
= The final disposition of California's
thirteen electoral votes may be decid-
ed by the courts. Democratic man
ayers IN the announcement of their de-
Termination to challenge the Los, An
geles County vote in the event OF a
Roosevelt victory on the informal count
said their action would be based not
sonly, on the alleged counting Of Pro-
gressfve ballots invaIidated by pencil
. :.