Arizona republican., 1916-11-12
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 NUT CONCEDED
 BY MIR. WILCOX
tRepublican A. p. Leased Wlrel


 showing the fluctuation of the lead between President Wilson and Colo mel Roosevelt in California in 1912, from day to day for a month afte- election. and how the state finally went in favor of Roosevelt after Will son was first credited with winning, was issued here today by Chairman William R. Wilcox of the republican national committee. to show precisely why the republican national commit tee cannot, at this time. concede the election of MT. Wilson and must await the official count in this and other states"
 The record snows," Mir Willcox's statement read. that MT. Wilson was first in the lead; that subsequently, this leaG was taken bv Colonel Roose- welt, ard that finally the delegation to the electoral college from Cali fornia was divided. two electors being for Mr Wilson and eleven for Colo mel Roosevelt.
 -''The files cf the san Francisco Chronicle show the following:
 "On Wcdnesday, November 6. the day after election ip 1912, the Chroni- cle said the indications were that MT Wilson had . safe plurality over Colonel Roosevelt The democratic state chairman claimed the state by 20. GOO
 "On November '. the Chronicle said that storm rad delayed reports, and that no figures were available from four counties. Returns from 266S precincts out of 1872 gave MT. Wn- son q lead of e237.
 "On November s, the Associated Press announced that Colonel Roose- welt was in the lead by 130 votes. Six changes had been made in the vote from Los Angeles in the previous twelve hours, each change increasing the lead of Colonel Roosevelt. With three Los Angeles precincts out and l25 precincts elsewhere in the state out. the Wilson vote stood at 2SO, 125 and the Roosevelt vote 2S0.255.
 The collapse of the Wilson plural rres in Los Angeles had been com piled.
 The democratic county chairman placed the Roosevelt majority in that county at about 13,000. ''The clerk of the county was ap- pealcd to by political for an accurate count He made a semi official tabulation of the returns which showed startling discrepancies from the results obtained unofficially by political headquarters and news
 
 due to the scratching of Wallace, who headed the progressive electors. "On November g. returns compiled | from 4293 precincts out G4372 gave Colonel Roosevelt 2S1, ,497 and MT. Will son 2S0.S43.
 "On November 13, returns from all but five out of 4372 precincts gave l Colonel Roosevelt the state by twenty four votes.
 "On November r, it was announced that Secretary of State Jordan went to Los Angeles to take personal charge of , the count.
 "On November 24, it was announced | that the district court of appeals in Los Angeles had thrown out one pre- cinct, which had given Colonel Roose- welt a majority of 1O4. On December 1. the Chronicle an- 1 nounced that, if there were no more 1 changes due to court decisions and to | the auditing by the secretary of state there would be, according to the of | ficial count, two democratic electors and eleven progressives. A change of | ten votes would eject another demo- l crat, it was said"
 | MT. Wilcox had a conference with | Charles E. Hughes today during which | the situation was discussed No an- 1 nouncement came from MT. Hughes in regard to his own plans. MT. Willcox said afterward, that he and, he thought | MT. Hughes, would remain here until | the first of next week. He said he | did not expect official counts from the doubtful states to begin coming in be- l fore then, and that it would be more than week at least, before they were | complete. He would not venture a guess on how much longer than that | it might take.