The Monticellonian., 1916-11-16
Vote in Western States Made Victory Of the
 President Possible.
REPUBLICANS ASK RECOUNT
No Charge of Fraud Is Made, but the Possibility of Error in
 Count Is Seeen.
Race in Several States So Close That Result Was Not Known Until Practically Every Ballot Had
 Been Counted.

New York. Nov 11.-PreSident Will been reelected on the face of the un- official returns, but with result in several pivotal states that is so close that the Republican leaders say they will not be satisfied until a recount Of the votes has been made in these states.
 TNe situation is extraordinary and has resulted in days of nerve-racking strain for the people of the country. If the election officials of q few remote precincts in t few states know how the nation has been waiting breathlesS to hear from them, they must be swelled ID enormously with sense of their importance. For on those few pre- eincts has depended the nations choice If it's chief executive.
 That Afr. Wilson's victory over Mr. Hughes will not be conceded without Il recount in the close states, such as Cal iforna. New Hampshire, New Mexico and North Dakota, was determined at conferences of the Republican leaders here. Chairman Wilcox asserted re- count would be demanded wherever the margin of Democratic victory was so small that comparatively few votes would tflrn the scales. He and his as- seeiates say they take the position that there should he no cloud upon Mir. Wilson's title to the presidency. The Democrats for their part, declared that there must be q recount i'll New Hampshire, even though the returns gave the state to Mr. Wilson.
 That the returns are still incomplete is due to the presence on the border of the National Guard of number of states. The soldiers are permitted to vote by mail. their ballots being for Warded to the auditors of their home counties. and in Minnesota especially Nhe vote of the guardsmen is likely to cnt figure in determining whether the state goes into the Wilson CT the Hughes column.
 Minnesota was as bad as California in the matter of shifts. and as its dele gation is nearly as large. it. too. WAS IL. Through days and nights of counting. the race was see-Saw, with but q thousand or so of votes separating the ca,ddates. Neither side would ad- init defeat, and even now both are awaiting the soldier vote and the off cial count
 Perhaps the most surprising of all the states was New Hampshire. It alone of all New England failed to give the Republican candidate a substantial plurality, and for days no one knew in which column if would land. The astonishing closeness of the vote was shown by the rival claims. three days after the election, of 100 plurality for hghes and S4 for Wilson. In the cir cumStances It is no wonder that the managers of both parties should de nand Il recount.
 New Mexico. with three electoral votes, attracted national attention by placing itself early in the list of doubt fal states, and as 1t soon appeared that almost every electoral vote would be vital, the returns from down on the border were grabbed hot off the wires After veering back and forth for days New Mexico was definitely placed in the Wilson column, though there, too the presidents margin was so Scant that basis was afforded for the call for recount. few mistakes dis covered in the figures of the precinct officials might well swing the state over to Hughes.
 Wilcox Demands Recount.
 On Friday National Chairman Will COX of the Republican party handed out the following statement: &."The result still depends upon the { pte in few close states. It must be H;fne in mind that the returns thus far announced are, in most states. un- official, and may be changed by the official count required by the laws of those states.
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