Fort Mill times. [volume] (Fort Mill, S.C.) 1892-current, 1916-11-16

New York-On the returns up to
date President Wilson has received
S,50S,0S5 votes and Mr.. Hughes $780,
951. Mr.. Wilson's popular plurality
is therefore 417,134. He ia a majority
president, which he was not when he
went into office. In 1912 he received
6,293,419 votes.
II has been said that Mr.. Hughes re-
ceived the votes OF the most populous
states of the Union and Nj. Wilson
that of the less populou. There is not
so mucch difference as might be eX-
pected. The states which voted for
Mr.. Hughes had. according to the last
census. 45.901 ,739 inhabitants. Those
which voted for Mr.. Wilson had 45,-
favor is 164,096.
The latest returns from the close
states show the following results:
In California Wilson is leading by
3,431 votes, with a few scattering pre-
cincts missing; in Minnesota. where
some OF the militiamen's votes have
been counted, Hughes is still ahead
I'm North Dakota. with IA districts miss
ing. Wilson leads by 963 votes; New
Hampshire. where the count has been
completed, gives Wilson a plurality of
63 votes.
From the reports OF leading CORE
spondents in the different states on
the influences which brought about
M Il,
get a clear idea of the part played by
the different group votes" OF which
so much was said before election, and
OF the reasons which moved great
bodies of voters to the decision they
reached.
Proeressives and the Women.
Two classes OF voters, and two only.
accomplished the result They were
not the Gerrman-Americans the labor
vote, or any OF the groups standing for
special interests. They were the Pro-
gressives and the women.
The split made in the Republican
party in 1910, which became break
I'm 1912, was not mended at Chicago.
The dispatches now in the hands OF
its being mended until the cause for
it is taken away. From the Hudson
River to the Mississippi. the boilers
OF 1912 were largely satisfied with
Hughes. but to the East and West of
those boundaries. especially to the
West, they were not. And IL was the
West that decided the election.
In New York and Illinois the breach
was apparently healed; there is no
sign of anything to the contrary. and
the same thing seems true OF the
states that generally follow the leader
ship Of these two. That. however.
was as far rs Colonel Roosevelt was
able to bring about a reunion
The ProgressiTes OF Kansas. Wash
ington, California aud the other West
ern States have again defeated a Re-
cause the other wing If the party was
in control and made the nomination.
Minnesota and Wisconsin voted for
Hughes, but both have show that they
are as progressive as ever. Minnesota
by accepting him so narrowly and
Wisconsin by LaFollettes victory.
The woman vote and the Progress.
sive vote telescope each other. for in
the critical states the women who
turned the election were largely Pro-
gressives. But the women voteo as
women. too The reports from the
states where women vote show that
the dream os solidifying woman as a
sex and swinging her vote this way
ard that at the order of female politi-
cal leaders is shattered forever. But
the women did make IN their minds
as women I'm many Western tSates
and voted without regard either to
how the women politicians bade them
or TO how their own men folks voted