The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-11-11
SOCIALIST VOTE
SHOWS GAINS
Of 10 to 80 Per Cent. in State
Tickets Throughout
the Country
TOTAL VOTE WAS
ABOUT 1000, 1000
Part Of Strength Was Di-
verted to President
Wilson

New York, Nov. ll.-Present returns
show that Socialists made gains in the
vote for state candidates throughout the
country The indication is that the ma
tional ticket would have polled consider.
ably more votes but for the peace and
labor slogans of President Wilson's cam
paigners
While the vote estimated at present
for Benson is from 10 to 30 per cent
better than the Debs vote of 1912, Social
lists believe that Wilson received from
100000 to 100000 Socialist votes. Ben
son ran far behind tate and congress
sional tickets throughout the country.
Meyer London, reelected to Congress
from the twelfth district polled five
times as many votes as Benson. Wilson
apparently got the difference between
the local and the national vote.
According TO the estimate of Adolph
Germer. national Socialist executive see
rotary, with headquarters in Chicago,
there were 100000 votes cast for Ben
son. For state candidates it was esti
mated that close to 100000 votes had
been polled.
The returns from state tickets are
the most gratifying the Socialists have
ever had In such conservative centers
as Vermont and Rhode Island it appears
that Socialists have been elected to the
state assemblies Two senators and
eight assemblymen were elected from
Milwaukee as we'll as Milwaukee's. en-
tire ticket Pennsylvania reelected and
Massachusetts, elected assemblymen.
Abraham l. Shiplacoif, formerly the lone
Socialist in the New York assembly, will
have companion in Joseph A. White
horn, who was elected from the twenty
first district Kings Shiplacof was re-
ceived from the twenty third district,
Kings.
At first ii was believed that Victor /
/. Berger and Winfield r. Gaylord had |
been elected to the House Of Represen- !
tatives from Wisconsin, but later returns |
proved they had been defeated. In New /
York, Morris Hillquit put up a strong
fight in the twentieth congressional dis |
trict, The returns show Congressman
Isaac Siegel Republican, the winner by
several hundred votes, but Hillquit
watchers will hold a meeting to deter.
mine whether to demand recount.
"There has been evidence OF fraud
said Mr.. Hillquit yesterday. "The ques-
ton il whether there has been enough
fraud to show that the tide in the vote
was really the other way. A recount
viii prove all that"
In Minneapolis Thomas Van Lear
was elected Mayor by a plurality of
more than 5000. Minneapolis Socialists
we're also elected to two seats in the
'ounci and one membership in the school
)oard
A. Grant Miller was defeated for the
United States senatorship in Nevada by ,
few hundred votes. In Chicago, Gun
lea, the Socialist perennial candidate for
tate's attorney, poled 10000 votes. 1t ;
ppeared at first as ii two candidates for .
he California assembly had been elect
d, but later returns showed them run
ling behind the candidates of the old
'arties.
James II. Maurer, state president of
he Pennsylvania Federation of Labor, Z
vas reelected to the assembly from
reading for fourth term. District At
orney label was reelected to third
ERIN in Milwaukee and Robert Bueek :
ras elected sheriff, making Milwaukee's
bird Socialist sheriff James Lawson, a
,bor man of Barre Town, Vermont, was
lected to the Vermont assembly and y
DR. Reid. according to latest reports, r
'as elected from Providence to the
hode Island assembly. II
HaIedon, \. j., the little Socialist COM Y
lunity outside Paterson, where the So II
alists held their meetings when they II
ere barred from Paterson, reelected Il
Iavor Ernest Brueckmann to a third II
,rm. He received 3l7 votes. III
"Wateh us in 1920" say the Socialists. II
There won't be any Wilson with an
opeal to pacifsts and labor men, and
QUIZ see the size of the vote well
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