The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1916-11-09
NATIONAL VOTE
SHOWS CLOSEST
RACE IN YEARS
CLAIMS OF VICTORY MADE BY
BOTH REPUBLICANS AND
DEMOCRATS.
HUGHES WINS BIG STATES
New York. Pennsylvania, Illinois and
Indiana Give Pluralities to Re
publican Candidate-W,'-
son Wins Ohio, Ne
braska, Kansas,

braska, Kansas,
New York. Nov. Selection returns
received up TO o'clock Wednesday
morning, while still incomplete, made
Wilson reasonably certain of 227 votes
in the electoral college and seemed to
give Hughes 245. There were SO votes
still in doubt, 266 being required for
an election These states were count
ed for Wilson: Alabama, Arizona, Ar
kansas, Colorado, Florida, Georgia,
Kentucky. Louisiana, Maryland, Mis-
sissippi Missouri, Montana, Nebraska,
Nevada, North Carolina, Ohio, Okla
homa. South Carolina, Tennessee, Tex
as. Utah and Virginia total 22G
For Hughes there We're claimed:
Connecticut. Delaware, Illinois, Iowa,
Maine, Massachusetts, Michigan, New
Jersey New York, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island Indiana, South Dakota,
Vermont, Minnesota, Wisconsin and
Wyoming total 245,
At BIS "A. m, returns from Chcy
enne took Wyoming from the Hughes
list and placed it's three electoral
votes in the doubtful column.
These states were doubtful Cali
fornia. Idaho, Kansas, New Hamp-
shire, North Dakota, New Mexico,
Oregon, Washington and West Vir-
ginia, total So From the doubtful
states the returns came in slowly.
The chairmen Of the republican and
democratic committees both claimed
victory for their respective candidates.
The republicans seemed to have the
best prospects in Oregon and West
Virginia In the other states listed as
doubtful, except California, the demo
cats appeared to be Leading.
New York Vote to Hughes.
Hughes carried New York by plu-
ralty estimated at 10000. Wilson
carried New York City by about 49,,
900. The returns outside of New York
City are incomplete, but they indiacte
an upstate plurality of 10000 for
Hughes.
IiiIIblN ElN'N IlbSll'o Al pun amy
which republicans claimed would
reach 10000 Many women voted
the national and state tickets, in some
districts the ratio being about two
thirds of the male vote.
Indiana, the pivotal state of many a
presidential election, gives its fifteen
electoral votes to Hughes by 25O0O
plurality The republican ticket won
in Indianapolis by large plurality
Goodrich, republican, is elected cover
nor and New and Watson, republicans,
are elected to the senate
Connecticut. the only doubtful state
in New England, went republican. The
stale was the scene of a desperate po-
litical battle and the democrats made
signal gains in the industrial cities,
but the republicans in the rural dis
tricts rolled up plurality for Hughes
Result in Two Dakotas.
North Dakota is claimed for Hughes
on the basis of incomplete returns,
but the outcome is uncertain in South
Dakota, where the figures indicate
that Wilson has the advantage by an
extremely narrow margin.
The returns indicate a plurality for
Hughes in Idaho, but in Utah presi-
dent Wilson has a shade the better Of
the contest. In Nevada also the result
is close, but with Wilson the fayorite
in the early returns
President Wilson has probably car.
ried both Nebraska and Kansas by
narrow margins. Capper, republican,
has been elected governor OF Kansas
Nothing definite as TO the complex
ion of the next congress was available
early Wednesday morning. 1t was
conceded that the democratic majority
IN the senate bad been decreased by
two -one by the republican victory in
Maine last September and the other
by the election Of William Calder from
New York, who defeated William Ne
Combs
Doubtful states with large electoral
votes practically conceded 10 Hughes
are New York, Indiana, Illinois and
New Jersey The republican candidate
for president also carried Pennsyl-
yania, Connecticut Michigan. Iowa,
Wisconsin and other states which
make il appear reasonably certain Of
his receiving at least 22l votes in the
electoral college The - electoral
votes Of ohio are conceded TO Prcsi.
dent Wilson. In California. Kansas
and Nebraska the race H. very close.