Connecticut western news., 1916-11-09
WHITMAN A VICTOR.
Calder Defeats MCCOmbs For
 Senator.
NEW JERSEY IS REPUDLI LICAN

Landslide For Hughes and Fairbanko an New York and IlIinois-Early Re- turns Indicated Big Victory For the Republican Ticket, but Later News Showed Democratic Gains.
 New York, Nov. S.-Incomplete re- turns seem to indicate the election of Hughes and Fairbanks over Wilson and Marshall. The insistent claims of the Democratic managers that Wilson has won were to some extent substantiat. eo, however, by the sudden shifting of Massachusetts, Minnesota. and Cali fornia into the doubtful column and xhe absence of any conclusive returns from Nebraska, Kansas and Washing ran-
 That states like Ohio, Massachusetts and Minnesota, always counted as sure Republican, should cloud with Sioubt the election of a Republican candidate for the presidency was re- Earded as the most amazing political development ever witnessed ill this country. At 1 o'clock the Republicans made claim of 2S4 electoral votes-- 266 are necessary to elect. Vance Me Cornick, Democratic chairman, ant Joseph Tumulty, secretary to the pres 1dent steadily maintained that tue Democratic candidate had been re- elected and will receive 273 votes in the Electoral college. With the states named above in the doubtful column, Hughes, who seemed early in the even- ing to be sure of 300 electoral votes, has but 254, or twelve less than the number needed for election.
 Vance Mccormick, chairman of the Democratic national committee, made the following claim today: We got them. The western vote is rolling up every minute. My reports show that Wilson will have close to 300 votes in the electoral college"
 The Democrats will control the sen ate with a majority reduced to four.
 There were landslide majorities for Hughes in the bigger states, and he may prove to have a landslide majority on the popular vote, but he will have no landslide majority in the electoral college. The states which went for Wilson by smaller but still safe major Mies have prevented that.
 The east went for Hughes by over whelming majorities, and Wilson did not carry single state in this section unless, as is unlikely, he has carried Delaware. The Democrats had been counting on the middle west, but they Eec&oned on it in vain. The middle west as a section went for Hughes, and most of its more important states went for him by majorities as great propol' rionately as those in the east. The same is true of the far west.
 Hughes majority in the so called doubtful" states of the east were: New York, 11S,OO0; New Jersey, 45,OOO; Gonnecticut, 10000.
 lin 6fAe "doubtfur' states of the mid dIe west Hughes majorities were: Hi pDis, 175;000; Indiana, 600O0; Michi- {gan, 10000; Wisconsin, 25,OOO to 3O,- 800. In this section Wilson may have saved Ohio by a very small majority, and Nebraska has gone for him by 10000 and Kansas by 15,000.
 1n the doubtful states of the far west Hughes carried the greatest number of them-Caifornia by a great majority Han Oregon by 10000. He lost Colo radb by 12,000, Nevada, Utah and per haps Washington.
 The moment he heard the result Colo mel Roosevelt issued a statement de claring that he would make no recon nlendation to MT. Hughes either with resgard to appointments or to his legis IatiYe policy. The only statement com fng from the presidents offices was that the election of MT. Hughes was not conceded there.
 , Pennsylvania, which went for RoOse yeti four years ago, leads the Hughe; majorities with 100000.
 How New York Voted.
 The vote in New York was impres sfVe. Tn this Democratic city Wilsol was slaughtered right and left, and h. carried it by the petty majority of 40 OoO. He was expected by the Demo rrats to carry Buffalo, but he lost by 3,5OO. The state went for Hughe by 119,O00.
 Hughes carried Queens by 2,90O, an Mn Brooklyn Wilson had the surprising Nv small majority of COCO.
 Whitman was reelected governor T37.D0O. running ahead of Hughe through the state as whole. He wa s.,af, heavily In some places, noticea bl Sn Rochester, despite the fact thi Dorhester is the bailiwick of his poll Fcal friend George W. Aldridge.