The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-11-08
OUTCOME SEEMS TO DEPEND ON
CALIFORNIA AND MINNESOTA BOTH
OF WHICH ARE IN DOUBT
Hughes Carried New York. Illinois, Indiana Michigan and
Wisconsin, While Wilson Won in Ohio Kansas, Ne
braska, Utah, Montana Colorado and Wyoming.
Election Is the Closest Since the Cleveland
Blaine Contest in 1884

United States this morning consid.
cred the election OF Hughes certain.
When they found that New York,
Illinois. Michigan and Indiana had
gone for Hughes it seemed as though
the unreported states could not
change the result but the Rocky
mountain states today showed up
mostly in the Wilson column and are
enough to change the result from the
earlier forecasts.
The New York World, one Of the
strongest Wilson papers in the coun-
try conceded the election to Hughes
this morning. The Worlds morning
report was as follows:
Charles Evans Hughes OF New York
was yesterday elected president of
the United States to succeed Wood
row Wilson. The vote cast appears to
be the largest in the history of the
country.
While the returns from some of the
Middle Western States have not been
finally reported and but fragmentary
returns received from the Pacific
Coast and Rocky Mountain States, it
is probable that Mr.. Hughes will
have in the neighborhood of 800 votes
in the electoral college and that Mr..
Wilson will have between 200 and 231.
Mr. Hughes Heeded 266 to win.
Four years ago Mr.. Wilson carried
forty States, with total of 435 cleo
toral votes; Mr.. Roosevelt six States.
x.,;fl, fatal ~ olactoro1 uofac an1
Mr. Taft two States, with a total of
electoral votes
In the contest yesterday Mr. Hughes
carried at least twenty-four States
and Mr.. Wilson probably less than
that number, but with fewer electoral
votes than those carried by Mr..
Hughes.
The states carried by Hughes, were
Connecticut. with electoral votes;
Illinois, 20; Iowa, 13; Maine, g. Mi
chigan, IS; Minnesota, 12; New Hamp-
shire, 4; New Jersey, 16; New York,
45; Oregon.5; Pennsylvania, 3S;
Rhode Island,'5 Wisconsin. 13; Indi-
ana, 10: KANSAS, 10; Massachusetts,
IS; North Dakota, 5; South Dakota.
5; Utah, 4; Vermont, 4 and Washing
TONI.
President Wilson carried the states
Of Alabama, with twelve electoral
votes; Arkansas, 8; Colorado. 6;
Florida. 8; Georgia, IA; Kentucky, 13;
Louisiana, 10; Maryland, s; Mississip-
pi. 10; Missouri 1S; North Carolina,
12; Ohio. "a: Oklahoma, TO- South
Carolina, 8; Tennessee, -; Texas, 20;
Virginia, ~; and West Virginia, s.
The states that have not fully re-
ported, or which may be considered as
doubtful are California, with thirteen
electoral votes; Delaware,9; Idaho, A
Nebraska, 81 Nevada, 8; New Mexico,
3; Wyoming, 8 Arizona, 3.
The probabilities are that some, if
not all OF these states which have not
been heard from, will cast their elec-
toral votes for Hughes.
Mr.. Hughes carried New York state
by plurality of 100000. The returns
from the Empire state gave an early
indication of the trend of popular
sentiment throughout the country to-
ward Mr. Hughes. The New York re-
ports favorable to him were followed
later in the evening by partial returns
from Illinois, Indiana, New Jersey,
Wisconsin, Michigan and the New
England states that left little doubt of
his election
The returns from Ohio. which was
considered one Of the pivotal states,
at first indicated substantial plurali-
ty for Mr.. Wilson, but the later reports
tended to confirm the claims made by
the Republican managers that it might
be found to have cast its twenty.four
electoral votes for Mr.. Hughes before
the count was over.
The Hughes majorities reported
from Indiana and Illinois we're accept
ed as giving an indication of what
might be expected from the states fur
ther west when those fiures came in.
The difference in time and the fact
that some of the polls in the Western
states close later than those in the
east rendered it impossible to present
any definite figures at to the results in
California, Oregon, Washington and
most of the Rocky Mountain states in
this edition.
The only one of the latter to report
was Colorado, which had awarded its
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