The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1912-11-09
WILSON MAY GET
DOUBTFUL STATES
SOUTH DAKOTA, IOWA, kANsA,
AND WYOMING ARE UN.
CERTAIN STATES.
NO FIGURES FOR DAYS
Democratic Control Of the Senate b
Now Also Reported to
Be An Assured
Fact.

New York, Nov. Only the nncer
tainty Of a few close states whose cleo
toral vote in no way can affect the cleo
ton Of Wilson and Marshall. specula
ton over the popular vote Of the three
presidential candidates and the com
plexion of legislatures that will name
United States senators had interest
in the final returns Of Tuesdays gen.
eral election.
The total Of the Republican electoral
column was apparently fixed at the 12
votes of Idaho, Utah and Vermont;
but the footing Of the Wilson and
Roosevelt columns flickered alternately
as late returns from Iowa, Kansas,
South Dakota and Wyoming gave in.
dications of change from the results
accepted Tuesday.
Wilson May Get Doughtful States.
On the basis of the latest returns.
with the vote Of Iowa, South Dakota
and Wyoming placed in the doubtful"
column, President-elect Wilson had 3S7
certain votes in the electoral college:
Taft had 49,
The doubtful states, except South
Dakota, gave more or less certain indi,
cations during the night Of landing in
the list of Wilson electoral votes;
while South Dakota's returns showed q
general trend toward a Roosevelt plu.
rality
Woman's Suffrage Gains.
A phase of the general election that
became known yesterday was the sue.
cess Of women's suffrage IN four of the
five states where constitutional amend.
ments were submitted to the people.
The victory of the women was com.
plete in Kansas and Arizona and DOS,
sibly Michigan, late returns from Ore
gon indicating it had succeeded there
also, while from Wisconsin came 70.
turns showing the decisive defeat Of
the equal suffrage proposal.
Wilson's Popular Vote Enormous.
Estimates of the popular vote polled
by Governor Wilson ranged through
many millions during the day. 1t was
found impossible to compute, with any
accuracy, the popular vote Of any of
the presidential candidates and it will
be number of days until the counting
Of the three cornercd contest in the
different states is concluded and an ac-
curate tabulation of the popular vote
made possible.
Assertions were made from several
quarters where an effort had been
made to gather preliminary popular
vote figures, that Governor Wilson had
not secured majority of the votes
cast throughout tho country. Esti
mates ranged from Il small majority of
OIL votes to figures nearly 900 900 be-
low a majority. The popular votes,
however, would in no way effect his
election, Or his complete control of the
electoral college. should 1t show his
total to be less than that of the com
bined vote for Roosevelt and Taft.
Many Surprises.
There were many surprises. Early
went in to the Wilson column with
q majority of about 500 for the Demo
cratic candidate.
Returns from Idaho. which came in
scattering form early in the day. IA
vored Wilson so strongly as to create
the belief that 1t would give him it's
electoral vote; but late returns made
II the third state to go certainly for
President Taft.
The Roosevelt forces watching the
returns hourly as they came from ILL.,
nois, suffered scare as the downstate
Democratic returns reduced Roosc-
velt's plurality from Cook county until
It promised to disappear. Late in the
day complete report from Cook conn
ty again swelled the Roosevelt major
lty in the state and seemingly made
certain the control Of illinois, % votes
by the Progressive candidate.
Kansas In Question.
Kansas, which had been conceded to
Roosevelt by all interests on the pre-
Iiminary returns last night. gradually
slipped back during the day until It
had become a question whether VIII
son or Roosevelt would control its 10
votes.