The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1912-11-07

SOUTH DAKOTA, IOWA, KANSAS
AND WYOMING ARE UN-
CERTAIN STATES.
NO FIGURES FOR DAYS
Democratic Control of the Senate Il
Now Also Reported to
Be An Assured
Fact.

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 ~
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 DoughtfuI 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 387
certain votes in the electoral college:
Colonel Roosevelt 80, and President
Taft had IL.
The doubtful states, except South
Dakota, gave more or less certain indt
cations during the night of landing in
the list of Wilson electoral votes;
while South Dakota's returns showed
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
piete in Kansas and Arizona and pos.
sibly Michigan, late returns from Ore
gon indicating it had succeeded there
also, while from Wisconsin came re.
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 a number of days until the counting
Of the three c0rnered contest in the
different states is concluded and an &C
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 a majority of the votes
cast throughout the country. Esti
mates ranged from small majority of
all votes to figures nearly 100000 be-
low a majority. The popular votes,
however, would in no way effect his
election, or his complete control of the
electoral college, should it show his
total to be less than that of the COM
bined vote for Roosevelt and Taft.
Many Surprises.
There were many surprises. Early
New Hampshire, first credited to Taft,
went in to the Wilson column with
q majority of about 1900 for the Demo
cratic candidate.
Returns from Idaho, which came in
scattering form early in the day, ia
VOroQ WILSON SO strongly DIS W CREATE
the belief that 1t would give him its
electoral vote; but late returns made
1t the third state to go certainly for
President Taft.
The Roosevelt forces watching the
returns hourly as they came from Illi-
nois, suffered scare as the down state
Democratic returns reduced Roose-
Velt's plurality from Cook county until
It promised to disappear. Late in the
day complete report from Cook coun-
ty again swelled the Roosevelt major
lty in the state and seemingly made
certain the control of Illinois 20 votes
by the Progressive candidate.
Kansas In Question.
Kansas, which had been conceded to
Roosevelt by all interests on the pre-
liminary returns last night, gradually
slipped back during the day until 1t
had become a question whether Will
son or Roosevelt would control its 10
votes.