The review. [volume] (High Point, N.C.) 1908-19??, 1916-11-16


President.
New York.-On the returns up to
date President Wilson has received
8,5OS,085 votes and Mr.. Hughes $780,
951. Mr.. Wilson's popular plurality
is therefore 417134. He is majority
president which he was not when he
went into office In 1912 he received
6,293,419 votes.
1t has been said that Mr. Hughes re-
ceived the votes of the most populous
states of the Union and Mr.. Wilson
that of the less populou. There is not
SO mucch difference as might be ex-
pected. The states which voted for
Mr.. Hughes had, according to the last
census, 45,9O1, 739 inhabitants. Those
which voted for Mr.. Wilson had 49,
737,643 The difference in Mr. Hughes
favor is 164,096.
The latest returns from the close
states show the following results:
In California Wilson is leading by
3,431 votes, with a few scattering pre-
cincts missing; in Minnesota, where
some of the militiamen's votes have
been counted, Hughes is still ahead
by 286 votes with 81 districts missing;
in North Dakota, with IA districts miss
ing, Wilson leads by 963 votes; New
Hampshire, where the count has been
completed, gives Wilson a plurality of
63 votes.
From the reports of leading CORE
spondents in the different states on
the Influences which brought about |
Mr.. Wilson's election it is possible to |
get a clear idea of the part played by |
the different group votes" of which |
so much was said before election, and |
of the reasons which moved great I
bodies of voters to the decision they
reached
ProqressiVes and the Women.
Two classes Of voters, and two only,
eccCn1Dlished the result. They were
not the Gerrman-Americans, the labor
vote. or any of the groups standing for
special interests. They were the Pro
gressives and the women.
The split made in the Republican
pa" IN 1910. which became a break
in 1912, was not mended at Chicago.
The dispatches now in the hands of
the papers indicate no proba bility of
~.s being mended until the cause for
II is taken away. From the Hudson !
River to the Mississippi. the boilers ]
of 1912 were largely satisfied with
but to the East and West of
those boundaries, especially to the
West. they were not. And it was the
West that decided the election !
In New York ard Illinois the breach c
was apparently healed: there is no
sign of anything to the contrary, and
the same thing seems true of the j
states that generally follow the leader
ship of these two. That, however, I
vas as far as Colonel Roosevelt was 7
able to bring about reunion.
The Progressives of Kansas, Wash
n gton. California and the other West n
ern States have again defeated a Re- n
'ause the cther wing of the party was n
n control and made the nomination. N
Minnesota and Wisconsin voted for n
Iughos. but both have show that they n
ire as progressive as ever, Minnesota N
w accenting him SO narrowly and N
Wisconsin by LaFollette's victory. N
The woman vote and the Progress N
i've vote telescope each other, for in n
he critical states the women who N
urred the election were largely Pro- N
'ressives. But the women voted as N
0Nmen. too. Tho reports from the n
tates who're women vote show that O
he dream Of solidifying woman as o
fx ard swinging her vote this wav o
I'd that at the order of female pnliti- p
u leaders is shattered forever. But r
re women did make I'D their minds 8
g women in many Western tSates. S
ind voted without regard either to r
low the women politicians babe them r
u 70 now their own men folks voted U