The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1916-11-10
WILSON s VICTORY
NOT IN DANGER
BY RECOUNT
Unless Il Should Affect State Of
California
HIS SUCCESS APPEARS DECISIVE
still a Few Returns to Come In But
Enough Available to Make the
Outcome Certain.

San Francisco. Cal, Nov. Cali
fornia has given her electoral vote to
Woodrow Wilson.
The Republican Chairman. c. H..
Rowell, admitted at S.25 o'clock to-
night that Barring some exceptional
errors in the count the President had
carried the State.
Mr.. Rowell conceded the State af-
ter reviewing returns showing a plur.
ality of 1870 for Wilson, with only
forty-eight scattered precincts of the
$3.50 in the State not complete. These
figures were: Wilson, 465,194;
Hughes. 462, ,224
These returns showed forty-two of
fifty-eight counties in the State com
pleted In all but ten counties in the
State returns had been back-checked
and corrected. The possibility of err
ror was thus reduced to a minimum.
The figures from 5.S23 of the $50
precincts are Hughes, 462,2S9; Wilson
465,254. This makes Wilson's plurali-
~ 1856.
ST. Paul, Mimi. Nov 9.-Three
nights of unofficial canvassing have
failed TO take Minnesota from the
doubtful column of the Presidential
race.
Charles L. Hughes maintained a
slight lead over President Wilson
throughout today, the standing con
tinued so close that politicians of both
parties declared tonight that only the
official count would settle the contest
When returns had been received
from 2,940 precincts out of S,O24 in
the State. Mr. Hughes had plurality
of 672. the count standing Wilson.
1855: Hughes 1920. The pre-
cincts yet to report there numbered
"a.
Except for President Minnesota de-
livered its customary big Republican
majority, as shown in the pluralities
of Governor Burnquist and Frank B.
kellogg. candidate for the United
States Senate. Republicans also were
uniformly successful on the rest of
the State ticket.
Fargo, n d., Nov. 9.-North Da-
kONd > nNt NVAGo III lliG I-ACNNOA OIL W.T.
lege were conceded to President viii
son late tonight by William Lemke,
Chairman of the Republican State
Central Committee when returns
from all but thirty-three precincts in
the State gave the President plurali-
ty OF 1850 over Hughes.
Returns from the scattered outly-
ing districts trickled in all day The
reports from 1926 precincts out of
1859 in the State give Wilson 54,SOS
and Hughes 52,74S.
Charleston, w. Va. Nov. g.
Hughes was leading Wilson in West
Virginia by 4,014 votes tonight, with
109 precincts to be heard from the
total vote being: Hughes 1896;
Wilson. 13l 1862. During the last
twenty.four hours Hughes continued
to maintain lead in the neighbor-
hood of 1000. and early tonight when
remote districts began to come in the
vote for him was increased.
Santa Fe. Nov. 9-Four hundred
and eighty of 63S precincts in New
Mexico give Hughes 29,251, Wilson
31.SS5.
These are revised figures received
from county clerks. These also in
clude precincts in all but one of the
twenty-siX counties, Returns of the
forty-seven precincts in Socorro coun-
try, the clerk announced, had been
locked in the ballot boxes. The clerk
of Roosevelt county, twenty-seven pre-
cincts. gave no figures but announced
that Wilson had carried the county by
425 Socorro and Roosevelt counties
were not included in the $50 precincts
tabuated.