Coulee City dispatch. [volume] (Coulee City, Wash.) 19??-19??, 1916-11-09
Election RESULTS
SHOW CLOSE RACE
Early Reports Wednesday Say Wilson
and Hughes Contest Even---Looked
for Landslide Not There.

At 4:45 o'clock Wednesday morn
ing the returns in the nation, while
still incomplete, found Wilson mana
gers counting 256 votes in the elec-
toral college and seemed to give
Hughes 254. There were 21 votes
still in doubt, 266 being required for
an election.
These states were counted for Will
son: Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas,
Colorado, Florida, Idaho, Kansas, Ken
lucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Missis-
sippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, North Carolina, North Dako-
ta, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina,
Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Xirginia,
Wyoming and Washington. Total 256.
For Hughes these were claimed:
Connecticut, Delaware, Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana, Maine, Massachusetts, Mich
igan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New
Hampshire, New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, South Dakota, Yer
mont, West Virginia, Wisconsin. To
tai 254.
d.. III.
enne took Wyoming from the Hughes
list and placed it's three electoral
votes in the column with Wilson lead
ing
These states were doubtful: Cali
fornia, New Mexico and Oregon. To-
tai, 81.
From the doubtful states the re-
turns were coming in slowly and
there were indications that the full
result would not be known before
noon.
The chairmen of the republican and
democratic committees both claimed
victory for their respective candi-
dates.
Shift Toward Wilson.
The result of the election still was
officially in doubt with a decided
shift toward the reelection of Presl-
dent Wilson. Upon a dozen doubtful
states from which the returns are
slowly coming depends whether Mr..
Wilson has been reelected or wheth-
er the next president of tbs United
States will be Charles Evans Hughes.
Chairmen of both national commit
tees claimed handsome majorities in
the electoral college for their can
didates, but the actual figures make
good the claims of neither. They
did, however, show steady trend
toward President Wilson all through
the west.
Aside from the uncertainty of the
result the most remarkable thing
about the election was the sudden
wiping out of the Hughes majorities
piled up in the east by the returns
coming in from the west. When the
republican landslide in New York be-
came known and was quickly follow
ed by the heavy republican victories
in New England there was ver1t-
able stampede to announce the elec-
tion of Mr.. Hughes and the defeat of
President Wilson.
IN IDAHO.
Partial returns from 80 counties
out of 81 in Idaho give
President: Wilson 28,104, Hughes
22,5O7.
Governor: Alexander 23,698, Davis
23,5O1.
Congress-: French 1922, Smith
1895, Kerr 17497, Frazier 16,9OS.
Nonpartizan judiciary: Dunn 1883,
Rice 1856.
For the dry amendment 5667 and
against 3468.
These figures include the 10 coun-
ties of north Idaho and 20 OF the
27 in south Idaho.
Both the state chairmen are claim
ing the state.
Alaska Is Probably Dry.
Scattering returns show a lead for
prohibition in four towns in Alaska.
Montana Prohibition in Doubt.
Heelna Mont, Nov. president
Wilson appears to have swept Mon
tana. U. S. Senator Henry L. My
ers seems assured of reelection by
a majority of at least $4,000, while
o1ootinu Of Gouorpor Copouo1 S