The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-11-08
ILLINOIS SWINGS
Ito WILSON FROM
COLONEL! SODIUM
With a Few Counties Miss
ing Majority Will Be
Fifteen Thousand
SON-IN-LAW NICK
LONGWORTH BEATEN
Margin is So Small it May
Require Official Count
to Decide--Democrat
Wins Oregon

NEW YORK, Nov. 1.-THE accession
of Illinois and the loss of Minnesota
today gave President Elect Wilson a
gain Of fourteen votes in the electoral
college. making his total. on the basis
of the present returns. AZ to n for
Roosevelt, and IL for Taft. Wilson
carried, as the New York American
estimated today. forty States. Roose-
Welt FIVE, and Taft only three--Tdaho,
Utah and Vermont
In California returns from Los An
geies reduced Wilson's plurality 10
1000. with one hundred precincts
missing out of Aba in the State. The
majority of the missing precinctA
however, are in counties showing plu-
ralities for Wilson. and ii is not be-
leved that Wilson's small plurality
can be taken away by the official
count.
Illinois. where Rooseveits plurality
awindied through the day, finally went
to Wilson by an estimated plurality
Of 1903. The few missing precincts
are In counties either normally Demo
'efiEtfe" vF.7 " hitch gave. aTSisssE, large
gains in this election.
1t became apparent early in the
day that Wilson would capture tse
SAo1@FstSt iNi
twenty nine ectoral votes. hut still
leaving him in control of the election
machinery or the H1fnurity party. sctt-
ward F. Dunno. Democratic uontnse
eor governor. WAS given ths tremen-
dous plurality OF 11e.s54.
Wyoming which had been uncer-
tain. landed safely In the Wilson col
umin.
Senate Control ASSN Ell.
Control Of the senate in the sixty
third congress is now assured To the
Democrats conceding to the Repuh-
leans all the four State legislatures
which ara close or in doubt, the DEM
ocrats will still have for weight votca.
or onehalf the entire membership.
with n Democratic viee-president to
cast the deciding vote in case OF
tie. A senator from any one Of tf.s
four States yet to be heard from viii
give the Democrats ID clear majority.
Indications are that they will win in
a hummer OF these, thus increasing
their strength to a real working ma
jority.
In addition TO the control If the
senate that the Democrats Will hold
within their own forces. they will have
the cooperation of the Progressives
In tariff legislation Senators Ciapp,
La Toilette, Bristow, Cummins, Gron-
ma and Poindexter. are all revisienists,
and favor progressive legislation on
other subjects. Senator Works, of
California, voted for Wilson. because
Taft's name did not go on the Cali
fornia ballot, but he is 81 protection
list.
1t is believed that a number of the
Progressive senators, most OF whom !
have supported Roosevelt, will now
formally withdraw from the Repub-
iican party.
Democrats To Elect Republican.
An interesting feature OF the SEN
atoriai fight In the States is the GER
tain election OF Judge George w,
Norris. Republican, by Democratic
legislature I'm Nebraska. Ninety-ftye
per cent OF the legislators signed an
agreement to support the majority
nominee in the primaries under the
Oregon plan, and Will carry out their
agreement now that they are elected.
though 1t will cost the State De-
mocratie senator
II was reported early in the day
that Senator Francis r. Warren. OF
Wyoming. would be reelected. but
late returns place the legislature still
in doubt The State has gone for !
Wilson by small plurality.
Much uncertainty still exists In
Tennessee, where Newell Sanders, Re-
publican. appointed 10 succeed the
late Senator Taylor. is candidate
for reelection.
Among the interesting results re-
corded today were these.
Oregon declared positively for wom-
ans suffrage, being the third Pacific
Coast State to give women the ballot
Women now vote in every Pacific
State.
tion, but the law will not go >nto
effect tki july /. 1874.
In Madison county. Indiana. Eugene |