The Washington herald., 1916-11-11
PROTEST PLANS
OF REPUBLICANS
To Be DROPPED
Recounts Will Not Be De,
manded Unless Fraud
Charges Crop Up.
WILCOX NOT CONCEDING
Hitchcock and Perkins Urge, Graceful
Acceptance of Defeat Upon
Chairmen.
CBy the international New. ser,iee.l

IBy the international News ser,IeeJ
New York. Nov. IO-The Hughes cam.
paign managers today abandoned theiI
plans to contest the election OF President
Wilson. They announced that no stepi
viii be taken 10 secure a recount in closs
States unless the official canvas OF the
vote discloses glaring frauds.
we have no evidence Of any such
frauds" added Chairman Wilcox in max.
ing this announcement
The work OF dismantling the extensive
F1Ith avenue HEADQUARTERS of the Repub-
llcan national committee was begun and
the campaign headquarters will be closed
tomorrow.
The only thing looking to make ths
election Of 1916 a closed incident OF Amer
lean history is the customary congratu-
lstory kilograms from the loser to the
winner. II is the present intention Of Mr.
Hughes TO send no such message until
the result OF the official canvass OF the
vote is known.
Leaders Accept Defeat.
Frank H. Hitchcock and George W.
Perkins today urged that the defeat
be accepted gracefully and the usual
congratulGtOry messages be sent
Chairman Wilcox vetoed this sugges-
tion, and let it be known that Mr..
Hughes lis in the hands" Of his cam
paign managers.
Chairman Wilcox was the only Re-
publican OF prominence at national
headquarters who refused to conceds
the election of President Wilson. He
gave out the following statement:
This result still depends upon the
vote of few close States. 1t must be
far announced are in most States un-
official and may be changed by the
official count required by laws of those
States. Twice during the unofficial
computation yesterday in California
mistakes in addition were announced
from that State substantially chang
ing figures previously given out. Il
is common experience that ille result
OF the official count always varies
from the returns first announced.
Where the vote is as close as that
reported in several States il mCy we'll
be that material changes VIII result
from the official count. We "w" il 10
the country to take all necessary
steps to see that an exact and honest
count of the vote is made. When the
current seemed to be running against
Mr.. Wilson on Wednesday tho Demo
cratic managers announced their in
tenllOn 10 uenldnu Il recount III NNfAy
close State.
Wilcox Explains Words.
"All We desire is TO make sure ihat tho
vote be counted as cast
Chairman Wilcox was careful 10 eX-
plain that by an exact and - honest
count" he did not mean that = recount
would be demanded.
George w NiCkPrsham. who was CALI
ed in on Thursday 10 direct the contests
il was then proposed to conduct. said
that IL was certain no steps would be
taken TO secure recount in any state
until after the official canvas and then
only II frauds were shown.
The decision to abandon the recount
proceedings was announced after a con-
ference with Mr.. Hughes at the Hotel
Astor. Among those who participated
IN that conference were Chairman Will
COX. Frank d. Hitchcock. and Charles B.
Warren national committeeman Of MiChi-
gan. II vas urged at this conference that
talk OF recountS and contests in the alb
sence OF definite proof OF irregularities
would be very damaging TO the prestige
OF the Republican party.