New-York tribune., 1914-11-05
Estimate of Whitman's
Plurality Changed Only
by Final Returns.
MOST COMPLETE
AND ACCURATE
Other State and National Contest
Results Handled with the
Same Judgment.

A careful analysis Of the reports OF
the election results printed In the Now
York newspapers yesterday morning
shows that The Tribune led all it's con-
temporaries in accuracy and compro-
hensiveness.
OF the six other morning newspapers
there was but one that approached The
Tribune in the accuracy OF its esti-
mates Of the final results In the state.
The complete returns give Mr.. Whit
man q plurality Of 133,1H. The Trib-
une, in its earliest edition, gave Mr..
Whitman 125,000. The estimates OF
the other papers ranged from ll5,OOo
to 175,00O.
The best figures yesterday on Mr..
Wadsworth's plurality. with about 300
election districts missing, gave him
SO 900 votes more than Ambassador
Gerard. With very few returns on
which to base an estimate, when the
first edition went 70 press, early yes
terday morning, The Tribune gave MI
Wadsworth a plurality Of $4,000. The
Tribune's final estimate on Mr.. Wads-
worth WAS $4,000. In the fourth
responding to The Tribune's last is
sue yesterday morning edition, the
newspaper closest to The Tribune in
its other editions said Mr.. Wadsworth
had won with a plurality Of 1880.
In its first edition, The Tribune
printed in addition TO q complete sum
mary of the results in narrative form,
complete tables showing the estimated
vote by counties for Governor and
United States Senator, also tables on
the city vote for these two Offices.
The Tribune, in itg early editions,
estimated the Congressional elections
were close. Some Of the other papers
announced that the House would re-
main Democratic by about 100.
The Tribune was the only newspaper
TO print in the first edition that Was
servogel and Davies, Republica candi-
dates for Justices Of the Supreme
Court. had been defeted by Dugro and
Weeks, the Democratic candidates. 1t
was then estimated in this newspaper
that the pluralities of the successful
candidates were between 10000 anu 4O,-
600 votes. The final figures give Weeks,
77,416: Dugro, 91,477; Davies, 42,5l5,
and Wasservogel. 57,6O3.
The Tribune was the only newspaper
to announce in its first edition that
OLeary had been elected District At
torney of Queens.
The Tribune was the only newspaper
to give in its first edition the complete
list of Governors elected throughout
the United States.
The Tribune printed in its first edi-
ton the complete results of the Legis-
lature contests in New York and New
Jersey.
The latest returns obtainable when
The Tribune's last edition went TO
press yesterday morning did not war
rant a material change in the figures
giving the plurality for Governor. The
Tribune's estimate remained at l25,OOO.
Some of the other newspapers, as edi-
ton followed edition, changed their
figures up and down frantically with
out getting anywhere near the actual
returns. Through three editions one
paperd ropped in its estimate OF the
Whitman plurality from 175,0OO 70
10000.
It is worth while noting that The
Tribune's estimates of pluralitles by
counties for Governor and United
States Senator were nearer the tlnal
figures through all four editions than
those of any other paper. The last
edition of one paper showed no totals
in the Governorship and Senatorial
tables.
The Tribune's splendid showing in
number of comprehensive tables, which
at glance gave the reader a G. lear
idea of how the vote went In various
parts of the city and up the state, Is
made doubly apparent by enumeration
of them here. They were:
Vote in New York State, Governor
ship pluralities. by counties; vote in
New York State, Senatorship plurali
ties, by counties; New York City vote
for Governor, by Assembly districts in
all the boroughs; New York City vote
for Senator, by Assembly districts in
all the boroughs; vote for New York
Congressman; vote for New York As
semblymen; vote in New York City for
Assemblymen; vote for New York
State Senator'S; makeup of House and
Senate in Congress-; makeup of New
Jersey Legislature; box on all Gov
ernors elected.
That The Tribune's reading Of the
situation in the House of Representa-
tives was, from early returns, more
nearly accurate than that of the other
papers was borne out by the still in
complete returns that came in last
night. They indicated that the House
had gone Democratic by about ten,
whereas most of the other papers in
sisted that the Democrats continued
their hold in that body by from 48 TO
100 members.