The Pulaskian., 1916-11-10
WILSON HAS 269
 ELECTORAL VOTES
CALIFORNIA REPUBLICAN STATE CHAIRMAN HOWELL coNcEDES
 STATE TO PRESIDENT.
BIG POPULAR VOTE CLAIMED
After Communicating With National Headquarters Members of Hughes Staff Said That the Question of
 Recount Will Be Considered.

New York-President Wilson has carried California and has been re- elected
 Fifty hours after the polls closed in California Republican State Chairman Powell conceded the state to the pres adent Thus the 13 votes needed to assure the president of majority in the electoral college dropped into the Democratic column and apparently ended the suspense and anxiety of an election which has been unparalleled in American political history.
 Wilcox Is Silent.
 Republican Chairman Wilcox, when informed that the president carried California, only replied:
 "I have nothing to say
 The California returns showed that with only 4S districts missing the presidents plurality in the state was 2,970.
 Barring some wholly unexpected turnover in the complete states lean- ing toward Wilson or a change on a recount, California's addition to the Democratic column gave the president 269 electoral votes without New Mex ico's three.
 Tn New Mexico the president was leading by 2,634 votes, with 158 dis tricts missing and it was not believed this advantage could be overcome by Hughes.
 Conceding West Virginia, New Hampshire and Minnesota to MT. Hughes-and he was in the lead in all three-only gives him 259 votes, seven less than the required majority
 Lead Is Fortified.
 With PIP votes in sight, President Wilson had six to spare for possible split of electors in California or sud den reversal in New Mexico.
 At Republican National Committee headquarters it was admitted that af- ter conferences between George w. Wickersham, former attorney general of the United States, Everett Colby of New Jersey, MT. Hughes, Chairman Wilcox and George W. Perkins of Baltimore, preparations were being made to begin legal proceedings for re-counts in states where the results were close Chairman Wilcox in cluded California, New Mexico, North Dakota, New Hampshire and Minneso- ta in his list of states where re-counts would undoubtedly be demanded
 Democratic headquarters was not behind the Republicans in preparing for legal developments Chairman Mccormick conferred with Alton B. Parker former Democratic candidate for president; Morgan J. O'Brien, De lancy Nicoll and John B. Stanchtield, all prominent New York lawyers.
 Claim Big Popular Vote.
 In an official statement the Demo cratic National Committee claimed PIP votes for President Wilson and a popular plurality of from 100000 to 100000
 ",ro say there will be any contest" !" declared the statement, "is an insult to the intelligence of the American people"
 It probably will still be another day before the full results are known from any of the four states left in the doubtful column, and certainly not un- til there has been an official count in New Hampshire, and possibly in Min nesota. As MT. Hughes is leading in Minnesota and West Virginia, and a change i'll these states could not af- feet the result, there may be no de- mand for extraordinary haste to bring about the proposed recount.
 Practically all the states where the result is close are carried in the Hughes colmun, and for that reason the Democrats pfofess to be not fear ful that any overturning could come from a recount.
 Hughes Remains Silent
 Word that California had been car
 
 New Orleans.-There were IS amendments on the ballot. All have oov.-iad oxnonf Mo