The Greenville journal. [volume] (Greenville, Ohio) 1850-1918, 1916-11-16


reported in several states 1t may wei
be that material changes will resul
from the official count. We owe 1t t
the country to take all necessar
steps to see that an exact and homes
count Of the vote is made. When tn
current seemed to be running agains
Mr.. Wilson on Wednesday the Demo
cratic managers announced their in
tention to demand a recount in ever,
close state.
All we desire to do is to make SURF
the vote is counted as cast"
The statement was given out follow
Ing a conference between George w
Perkins, George w. Wickersham, for
mer attorney general; Herbert Par
sons, National Committeeman; Senator
Weeks, Travis H. Whitney, Colonel
George Harvey and Mr.. Wilcox.
Charles e. Hughes will be the next
President of the vote contest goes to
the House, according to former Attor.
ney General Wickersham, of Washing.
ton, who feels sure the election will
be decided by Congress. Should
enough electors be deprived of votes
by contests to make tie in the elec-
toral college, or should neither can
didate have a majority of the total
electoral college, then the election
would go to the House. In such cases
the vote is taken by States, the repre-
sentation from each state having one
vote.
Were in Doubtful Column.
AS the fight closed in its last period,
the states of California, Minnesota,
New Mexico and New Hampshire were
in doubt, with the President having
the better of it in all except Mime
sofa. Each one, with the exception of
New Mexico, normally is solidly Re-
publican.
California, the home Of the most
radical of all the Progressives, showed
strong leaning to the President from
the start. The women and the Pro-
gressive had focked to the Demo
cratic standard
From the Democratic headquarters
was flashed to 100 cities that the sus-
pense was over; that the President
was reelected, and that the time for
formal celebration had arrived.
West Triumphs over East
1t was the final curtain for the most
nerve-racking contest for the presi-
The fight will have its legal tangles.
In conference at Republican headquar-
ters some of the leading attorneys OF
the city, among them George w. Wick
ersham, one time attorney general, de-
cided to begin proceedings at once for
a recount in the states where the
count has been close This includes
California, North Dakota, New Mex
leo, New Hampshire and Minnesota.
The Democrats had threatened re-
count proceedings in the event that
their cause was lost. They had made
sweeping inclusion of dozen states.
Watching every move made by their
rivals and listening with eagerness to
every return from the debatable |
states, powerful men in the Demo
headquarters and announced that they,
too, would take part in any proceed
ings for recanvass of the vote.
Lines Already Take Shape.
The lines early Friday had al
ready taken shape for a battle
of legal giants over the election,
and there were strong intimations that
before the curtain is really and truly
rung down upon the situation the bat
tie will have been taken to the House
of Representatives.
simultaneously with the declaration
that the Golden State had spoken its
final word and that the President had
carried off the honors of the remark
able struggle the Democratic National
Committee learned of the threatened
proceedings.
1t issued statement which said in
part:
THE President has carried the coun-
try by plurality from 100000 to 30O,-
BOO, with an Electoral vote absolutely
sure and with Minnesota, West Vir-
ginia and New Hampshire to be decid-
ed. To say there will be any contest
IS an insult to the intelligence of the
American people.
There is nothing to add to our
statements previously made. We have
claimed the reelection of President
Wilson since Tuesday morning. We
nave been fighting especially for the
States"
Pacifism Plays It's Part.
This continued straight through till
he final returns came along Thurs.
lay night. The tidal wave-and it
vas all of that-which rose in some of
he Republican strongholds rolled
through parts of the Central West,
md, strengthened and swelled by the
pirit of pacififism and almost unbe-
ievable prosperity, swept over the
arm lands, the wheat fields and the
'rairies of the West.
Women voted for the first time in
uinois. They did not go in the over
Thelming numbers expected to the
resident. But in the other II states
There women vote, Arizona, Colorado,
california, Idaho, Kansas, Montana,
Jevada, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
nd Oregon, they voted for the Pres
lent on the issue so constantly en- G
hasized by the Democrats He kept t
s out of war" There were roughly J
100000 women voters. Together the t
tates in which they vote have 81 cleo
oral votes. All these votes except "a =
those of Illinois and Oregon-Wiu
e cast for the President.
AcK TO LAW FOR HUGHES, Il
Washington.-Charles E. Hughes n