The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-11
SOCIALISTS POLL
 ABOUT 100000
 THROUGHOUT us.
Part of the Strength Divert ed to Wilson-Head of
 Ticket Cut.

t Present returns show the Socialists didates throughout the country. The indication is that the national ticket would have boiled considerably 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, So- cialists believe that Wilson received from 500,000 to 6O0,O00 Socialist votes. Benson ran far behind state the country Meyer London, re- elected 10 Congress from the Twelfth New York district, polled five times as many votes as Benson. Wilson ap- parently got the difference between the local and the national vote
 According to the estimate of Adolph Germer, national Socialist executive secretary, with headquarters in Chi cago, there were 100000 votes cast for Benson. For state candidates it was estimated that close to 100000 votes had been boiled.
 The return from state tickets are the most gratifying the Socialists have ever had. In such conservative centres as Vermont and Rhode Island it appears that Socialists have been elected to the state assemblies Two Senators and eight Assem- mb1ymen were elected from Milwaukee as we'll as Milwaukee's entire county ticket. Pennsylvania reelected and Massa- chusetts elected assemb1ymen. Abra- ham I. Shiplacoff, formerly the lone Socialist in the New York assembly, will have companion in Joseph A. Whitehorn. who was elected from the Twenty-frst district, Kings. Ship 1acoff was reelected from the Twen- ty-third district Kings.
 At first it was believed that Victor l.. Berger and Winfield R. Gaylord had been elected to the House of Rep resentatives from Wisconsin, but later returns proved they had been defeat ed. In New York, Morris Hillquit put up a strong fight in the Twentieth Congressional district. The returns show Congressman Isaac Siege1, Re- publican, the winner by several hum dred votes, but Hillquit watchers will hold a meeting to determine wheth- CT to demand a recount.
 There has been evidence of fraud" said MT. Hillquit. 'The question is whether there has been enough fraud to show that the tide in the vote was prove all that
 Tn Minnesota Thomas Van Lear was elected mayor by plurality of
 
 cia1ists were also elected to two seats in the council and one membership in the school board.
 A. Grant Miller was defeated for the United States Senatorship in Ne vada by a few hundred votes. In Chicago, ~Cunnea. the Socialist peren- nia1 candidate for states attorney, boiled 80,0O0 votes. It appeared at first as if two candidates for the Cali fornia Assembly had been elected, but later returns showed them running behind the candidates of the old par ties.
 James H. Maurer, state president of the Pennsylvania Federation of La bor, was reelected to the Assembly from Reading for a fourth term. Dis trict Attorney Zabel was reelected to a third term in Milwaukee and Robert Bueck was elected sheriff, making Milwaukee' third Socialist sheriff. James Lawson, a labor man of Barre, Vt, was elected to the Yer mont Assembly and a Dr. Reid. ac- cording> to latest reports, as elected from Providence to the Rhode Island Assebly.
 Haledon, N. J., the little Socialist community outside. Paterson, where the Socialists held their meetings when they were barred from Paterson, reelected Mayor Ernest Brueckmann to a third term. He received 317 votes.
 Watch us in 1920" say the so- cia1ists. There won't be any Will son with an appeal to pacifists and labor men and you'll see the size of the. vote we'll get" I
 CIGAR MAKERS OITTT