The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-09

1T don't think so,'' he said. "but I can't tell. I think the last returns show that we will carry the state, no matter what the soldier vote should be-" ...
 Will you demand a recount in any of the close states?"
 Tt is little early to say just what we shall do about that" was the reply. We shall wait until the official can vass is made, of course. The vote in New Hampshire is very close, our last estimate of the plurality being only 152. It may be that recount there will be necessary"
 Have you taken any steps to pre- pare for contest?"
 Certainly. We have got into touch with alI persons connected with our organization and authorized them to obtain counsel and see that we get a square count. We are carefully watch ing every place where anything un- usual might occur"
 The chairman said the last reports showed Indiana to be close, but he said the Democrats did not claim it. He said he had kept President Wilson advised over the telephone all day as to developments and had told him that he was Ere-elected.
 The Democrats at National Head quarters made, up yesterday in their enthusiasm for their gloom of Tues day night when the early returns showed Hughes to be leading. About 100 sleepy enthusiasts who did not
 leave headquarters at all Tuesday night were joined by several hundred more during the day, and every bulletin chalked up on the big blackboard in the: room adjoining Chairman McCor- mick's private office was greeted with well that could be heard block away. At 6 o'clock yesterday morn ing. when it was announced that the President had certainly been elected, the. chairman was lifted bodily upon a table and forced to make a speech. 'I congratulate the country on the election of Wilson, he said. t'The members of the national committee and the staff which assisted the com n1ittee during the campaign deserve the greatest of credit"
 1 Mir. Morgenthau also made a short 1 speech in which he congratulated the country on the reelection of the Pres 1 tdent. Then there were cheers for the President, Chairman Mccormick, MT.
 Morgenthau and finally for the people 1 of the West, to whom the chairman declared the success of the campaign was due. An hour later further good news was received, and Chairman Mc- Cormick gave out this statement: President Wilson was reelected yesterday by the people of the United States He will have 3O4 votes in the Electoral College, and this number may be increased by belated returns l from doubtful states. The victory is l emphasized by the reluctance of the enemy to admit defeat and is a com plete repudiation of fthe unfounded claims sent over the country by the Republican National Committee last night"
 ! The joy grew greater as the day proceeded. By nooh the rooms were damned, and when a telegram from O. K. Cushing, California state chair
 man, was received saying the Demo-
 crats had carried the state the crowd formed into a cheering procession to
 the street Sheriff Kinkead, ..the fight
 ing sheriff" of Bayonne, and John J.
 Fitzgerald, ex-mayor of Boston. found ] a band somewhere and real parade
 was started. It went first to the Re-
 publican headquarters at 511 Fifth
 avenue, where Chairman Wilcox was
 serenaded, and then to the Hotel As-
 tor, where MT. Hughes has headquar-
 ters. All during the day Chairman Mccormick was in communication
 with Democratic leaders in the doubt
 full states advising them to watch the ] ha1lot counting closely ora get in the l latest returns.
 | MT. Mccormick went to his home at Harrisburg last night for a few days. Ind members of the comittee's Pub.
 licity Bureau gave a dinner to Df-
 rector Robert Woolley at the Waldorf.
 "The election of 1916 and the vic- 1 tory of President Wilson is now a mat
 ter of history said Col E. M. House l yesterday. Our eyes and our thoughts are now on the future. President will
 son has not only been reelected, but he will carry California, Minnesota 1 and New Mexico, as we'll as New Hampshire. make this statement on the basis of that sixth sense which
 any man who has dabbled in politics for 40 years is bound to develop" Republicans to Fight, Too.
 After day tense with excitement. during which the felings of the Re-
 publican campaign managers had fuctuated between fears and hopes while the result of the Presidential
 election hung: in the balance, they took steps to fortify themselves
 against an. adverse decision by seeking l legal aid to protect the interests of
 the party in close states"
 This decision was reached after a conference among Chairman William
 R. Wilcox, George W. Perkins.
 Frank HI. Hitchcock, Charles B. War
 ren, Republican National Committed 1 man for Michigan, and Cornelius N.
 Bliss, Jr., treasurer of the Republican National Committee.
 | Word went out last night to Ma ] tiona1 Comitteemen in all close and
 doubtful states to retain lawyers to 1 look after the party's interests. The l only inference drawn from this by the
 handful of Republican leaders beyond
 reached was that steps would be taken to contest the election and petition
 the courts fir a recount of the vote in such states.
 Republican leaders whose memory
 reaches back far enough declared last
 night that not even in 1884, the ex-
 citing Cleveland Blaine year, when the result was determined by a plurality in this state slightly above HOO for Grover Cleveland, had excitement run so high or the result remained so
 much in doubt on the day following 1 al 5td this 1,eor