Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1916-11-13
Record of Vote in California
Reuiewed by Chairman Wilcox

Colonel Roosevelt. The democratic
state chairman claimed the state by
10000
"On November 7, the Chronicle
said that storm had delayed reports
and that no figures were available
from four counties. Returns from
3,o6S precincts out OF 1872 gave Mr..
Wilson lead of 6.237.
"On November s, the Associated
Press announced that Colonel Roose-
welt was in the lead l30 votes. Six
changes had been made in the vote
from Los Angeles in the previous
twelve hours, each change increased
the lead Of Colonel Roosevelt. With
three Los Angeles precincts out and
1856 precincts elsewhere in the state
out, the Wilson vote stood at $780,
l2S, and the Roosevelt vote at 280, ,2S5.
Wherefore of Collapse.
The collapse OF the Wilson
plurality was due to the way election
figures in Los Angeles had been COM
piled The democratic chairman
placed the Roosevelt majority in that
county at about 10000.
The clerk OF the county was ap-
pealcd to by political leaders for an
accurate count, He made semi
official tabulation of the returns,
which showed startling discrepancies
from the results obtained unofficially
by political headquarters and newspa-
pers. Much of the discrepancy was due
to the scratching of Wallace, who
headed the progressive electors.
"On November returns compiled
from 4,293 precincts out of 1872 gave
Colonel Roosevelt 28l ,4o7 and Mr..
Wilson 2S0,843. .
"On November Is returns from all
but five out of asp precincts gave
Colonel Roosevelt the state by TWEEN
ty-four votes.
"On November II it was announced
that Secretary OF State Jordan went to
Los Angeles to take personal charge
of the count.
"In November "a it was announced
that the district court of appeals in
Los Angeles had thrown out one pre-
cinct which had given Colonel Roose-
welt majority of l04.
"On December the Chronicle an
nounced that if there were no more
changes due to court decisions and to
the auditing by the secretary of state
there would be, according to the Off
cial count, two democratic electors
and eleven progressive. A change Of
ten votes would elect another demo-
crat, It was said"
Mr.. Wilcox had conference with
Charles E. Hughes today, during
which the situation was discussed. No
announcement came from Mr. Hughes
in regard to his own plans. Mr.. Will
cox said afterward that he and, he
thought, Mr.. Hughes, would remain
here until the first Of next week. He
said he did not expect official counts
from the doubtful states to begin COM
ing in before then and II would gbe
more than a week at least before they
were complete. He would not venture
a guess on how much longer than that
II might take.
Wilcox Statement.
Later Chairman Wilcox gave out
this statement:
"The national committee is not
raising the cry of fraud nor is it 60
ing out searching for fraud. We
have received any number of conf
munications, signed and unsigned by
telegraph, letter and telephone alieg-
ing fraud, from all parts of the coul-
try, but in all cases the communica-
tions are referred by US to state Of
ficials for investigation.
"The national committee is simply
in the same position as state officials
who are waiting for the result OF the
official count and whose duty It is to
certify what electors have been
chosen"
Split Not Likely.
Los Angeles, Cal, Nov. ll.--A DIFF
ference of only 654 votes was found
today between the highest and lowest
Of the democratic electors in the
semi-official count conducted by the
register of votes. Election officials
expressed the opinion these figures
made it seem unlikely the official
count would result in splitting Cali
fornia's electoral vote.
mr. NJ ~