The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1916-11-09

: received from all except eighty-one
small precincts, which had total vote
of only about 1000. Hughes had
I 67,013 and Wilson 62,192 out of q
total vote estimated at $4,000.
Massachusetts,.
l. Boston, Nov. s.--Massachusetts
gave Charles f. Hughes a plurality of
$1,000 over President Wilson. The Re-
Ipublfcans also reelected Governor
Mccall and Senator Lodge by larger
pluralities than that given Mr.. Hughes.
All four Democratic congressman from
this state were reelected and the Re-
publicans held their twelve congress
sional seats In tho present Congress
The Republicans increased their
majority In the state House of Repre-
sentatives and retained their present
large majority In the State Senate.
Tho vote OF Massachusetts COM
piete. was as follows:
Hughes. 26s.361: Wilson. 1927.
For Governor-McCaIl. Republican,
I274,s53: Mansfield. Democrat, 230,175.
For Senator--Lodge. Republican.
266.476; Fitzgerald, Democrat, 2s4,-
4e6
Maryland.
| Baltimore, Md, Nov. s.-Presdent
Wilson carried Maryland In yesterday S
election by q plurality estimated at
1850, but Representative David J.
Lewis, Father OF the Parcel Post"
was defeated in the contest for the
United states senatorship by DR..
Joseph I. France. whose estimated
plurality was 1857.
| Lewis defeat was attributed largely
to the openly expressed hostility of
t the Democratic organization in Baiti-
more city and to the anti prohfbition-
its, because of his vote in Congress
for national prohibition amendment.
Baltimore city, which gave President
Wilson $500 plurality, gave DR.. France
1882 plurality.
| Four Democrat and two Republican
representatives were elected a Repub-
lican gain of one. In addition to the
five incumbents, Frederick n. Zihlman
OF Cumberland, Republican. was elect
ed from the Sixth District. formerly
represented by Mr.. Lewis.
| Prohibition was defeated in seven
OF eleven localities in which the pro-
position was voted upon in the State
baltimore city gave a majority against
| 1t Of $4,000. Annapolis rejected II BY
| 500, while Havre de Grace. at which
racing 10 conducted, went dry by
twenty-five votes. Hagerstown voted
! dry.
St Louis. Nov. S-Returns from
2.476 out of s.45e precincts in Mis-
souri,. including all but four in st.
Louis. give Wilson 268,97s; Hughes.
| 254,804 With four precincts missing
in st. Louis, the city gave Hughes a
plurality of 9,s22. believed insufficient
to overcome Wilson'S plurality out in
the State.
Parts of the State difficult of access
are in many instances. normally, Re-
| publican. and for this reason 1t was
not considered safe to place the State
in the Wilson column.
Returns from z,31g precincts out Of
| 3.45s in Missouri gave Wilson 1885,
913: Hughes. 270,531.
Twenty-Five hundred and forty
four precincts out of 3.459 give Reed
(Dem.) for Senator. 277.736; Dickey
/ tRep.). 26b.2s0.
President Wilson at noon today had
lead of more than 5000 in Mis-
souri, on returns from approximately
| two-thirds Of the State Republican
nominee for Governor on returns
from the same precincts had a lead
| of 3.40o. United States Senator Reed,
/ Democrat. had lead of more than
5000 over Walter s. Dickey, Repub-
| lican nominee.
Kansas City. Mo. Nov. S.-Jackson
County, in which Is Kansas City COM
plete, gave: Wilson. 44.229; Hughes.
32,S19.
New Mexico. .--.-.-.-.
| Albuquerque. N. M, Nov s-Dem-
| ocratic leaders claim President Will
son has carried the State and the en-
tire State ticket headed by E. G. De-
Baca has been elected. They also as
serted that A. A. Jones. former Assis-
tant Secretary of the Interior, was
~
that w. B. Walton had been elected
wise claimed the election OF their can
| didates. but gave no figures.
Returns from less than one-fourth
Of the precincts gave Wilson o slight
lead. All indications pointed to a
close vote.
North Carolina.
Raleigh, N. c.. Nov. 8.-The Demo
| Gratis yesterday carried North Caro-
lima for President Wilson by ma
| Jority of approximately $4,000. made
a clean sweep of all State offices and
succeeded in defeating Representative
James J. Britt In the Tenth District,
the only Republican member of the
con gressional delegation from this
| State. Late returns made no appre-
cable change In the Democratic ma
| j6rities.
/ Oregon.
| Portland, Ore. Nov. 8-Oregon
was still in the doubtful column early
today. with President Wilson main
tanning a 400 lead on the face of In
complete returns from thirty out of
/ thirty-four counties Republican lead
ers claimed that sections yet unheard
from were strong Hughes centers and
would swing the State
! Seventy-two complete precincts out
Of 37b In Multono oman County port
land) give Hughes $3.50 and Wilson
s,os7.
Oklahoma.
! Oklahoma City, okla. Nov. s.
| With one-third of the total precincts
in the State reporting today, Presi-
dent Wilson had comfortable mar
! gin over Charles Evans Hughes in
| oklahoma. The count from 716 out
of 2.572 In the State gave: Wilson,
| 64.5l7; Hughes. 1897. Democratic
leaders claimed Wilson would Garry
Oklahoma by q plurality ranging from
| $4,000 to $4,000.
| According to returns from these
precincts six Democrats and two Re-
publicans will make up the Oklahoma
| congressional delegation, a gain of
ono member for the Republicans.
James 8. Davenport. First District,
| waa tha or1v DemnCraflc ron urasriop