The Little River news., 1916-11-11
Wilson, Wins With 272
 Electoral Votes Sure

StlOA6 dcHu lOWdIU Illc DeIllOCIdIlC candidate.
 Wilson has certainly carried 31 Northern. Southern and Western stat es, with two hundred and seventy-two electorial votes. Hughes carried four teen Eastern and Northern states and two Western states with an electorial vote of 243.
 California, which had wavered for two days between Wilson and Hughes, settled all doubt as to the outcome of the election at 10 o'clock, when the lead of the president was increased so that. with but sixty-five districts miss ing his plurality was 3,112.
 In New Mexico he took the lead from Hughes and was 2,634 votes ahead with 158 districts unreported. At the same time North Dakota became sure for Wilson, and Wilson gains were re- ported in West Virginia, Minnesota anG New Hampshire.
 Republican Deserted.
 When the news of Californias de- cision reached Republican headquart- CTS in New York the place wal in- stantly deserted. There is still talk of making contests and many law yers, headed by Former Attorney Gen. eral George w. Wickersham, have been engaged to take all pd sible legal steps to fight for Hughes to the last ditch.
 So decided, however, were the m:..t night returns that none of the Repub- lican leaders had any confidence that either recountS or recourse to the courts could save their candidate.
 The result of the election, which was clcuded Ey doubt and conflicting re- ports for two days, has upret all pre- ceCents in American policies. Wilson has been elected by Republican states on which G. o. F. leaders counted so surely that they took little trouble or expense to make prediction fights within their borders.
 Without New York or Illinoi1. which declared declsively and immediately TOT Hughes, the Democrats found en- ough strength in the Middle and Ex- treiro Nest~to overcome the great electorial votes of these and many oth- CT populous 'anG important states. Of the Western states, where a Hughes victory. practically conceded by Dem ocrats' Hughes was victorious only in Oregon. In the Middle West, Iowa and South Dakota only voted for him.
 New England's rock-ribbed Republ- lcanlsm almost cracked under the strain of the trend toward Wilson. Re publican pluralities of former years dwlndledl till they almost disappeared. In the case of New Hampshie it will require an official count to decide the claim of the Republicans that their hold upon solid New England is still unbroken.
 The result in New England is a savage blow at the confidence of the high protectionists that the tariff will le continuing issue in American pol itics. There is no evidence in analy- sis of the vote in New England that the tarlff WAl even considered by the yot- CTS.
 From the general result it is clear that as the men stand in the suffra ge states, sc did the women.
 Tn Illinois men and women seemed about equally divided The sta.e went Hughes by a large plurality.
 In Kan as, Colorado, Montana. Washington, Oregon and California, where women also voted, Wilson was successful but his pluralities were not sufficiently large enough to indicate that the women voters supported him as a unit.
 Wilson and New Jersey.
 One of the unusual, if not unexpect- ed. features ot the result was that MT. Wilson lost his own s.ate of New Jer- sey by more than 50,000, losing his own town and his own dis s.rict. The Democratic candidate for United Stat IS Sen atOr from New Jer ey. James A. Martin, went down with the Wilson defeat.
 May Lose House. That the vote for president and vice president was personal and not partis- an is shown by the fact that the Repu- 1 blicans made very considerable gains in the congressional voting With nine seats in the House of Representatives have wiped out the Democratic major- ity of that body and to have gained control by at least one vote. Senate Goes Democratic. The Senate, where Republican gains have been offset by Republican losses, will remain Democratic by safe working majority of perhaps twelve votes.
 Prohibition Gains.
 Prohibition made decided forward step. .
 Michigan has voted for state wide