Arizona republican., 1916-11-10
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SAN FRANCISCO, Nov. 9.-Except in the event of some exceptional hap pening Wilson has carried California, conceded Republican Chairman Rowell at S:25 o'clock tonight.
 Mir. Powell conceded the state after reviewing returns showing a plurality of. 2,970 for Wilson with only AS scat tered precincts of the state incomplete.
 These returns showed 42 of 5S coun- ties in the state completed. In all but ten counties in the state, returns had been back checked and corrected. The possibility of error was thus reduced to q minimum
 After making the statement to the Associated Press .conceding California to Wilson, Chairman ROwell carried on a conversation by wire with George w. Perkins who was in the offices of the National republican committee in New York. Later Mir Rowell made this added statement to the Associated Press
 While the face of the returns as compiled by the Associated Press show Wilson ahead in California, so many startling changes have happened in the count during the last twelve hours that it will not do to reach final con clusion on anything less than final in- formation. The official count begins Monday and we shall watch the count ing of every vote in every county seat in the state.
 T estimate that there will be differ cnce of 4,000 or 5000 between the high and low man on the electoral tickets and this is greater than any possible majority in California. This means q split electoral vote.'
 The announcement that Mir. Rowell has conceded California to President Wilson. was not unexpected" said O. K. Cushing. chairman of the democrat ic state central committee.
 From the information we hear from all counties in the state we confidently expect that President Wilson's major i ity in California will not be less than | 3,200. To see that a proper count is assured in the state the democratic committee is offering. a reward of $5,- 000 for evidence showing tampering with the ballot boxes or other irreg- ularities."
 l Efforts continued through the night to bring in the few remaining isolated l precincts, two or three to the county in most instances. One precinct on the 1 border of Lake Tahoe might be miss ing for days, it was said. The tele- i phone was broken and efforts to com municate from Placerville. forty miles away, were fruitless.
 l Concession of the state for Wilson on the face of the returns altered in i no way the determination of both par
 ties to keep a sharp watch on the semi official count by county clerks and the final official count by the sec 1 retary of state. With a plurality of 1 less than 5000 in moro than 900, 900 votes, a difference of one vote in each precinct might change the whole result. | At S:30 tonight the democratic cen tral committee telegraphed to the two chairmen of the speakers bureaus
 that we can positively assert that
 President Wilson has carried Califor- mia by 1000"
 The telegram was addressed to Ho- mer S. Cummings, New York, and Charles F. Horner, chairman of the speakers bureaus in those cities. The
 telegram read:
 After repeated communications with
 every county in the state we can pos 1 itively assert that President Wilson
 has carried California by 2,000.' | The state complete may not be
 counted for twenty-four hours It
 seems very likely that the official
 count will be required to determine
 the result.
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