The daily banner. (Cambridge, Md.) 1897-2008, 1916-11-10

night about 1880 O'Clock, that CAN
fornia had gone Democratic, ana
with New Hampshire and North Da-
kOta safely in the Democratic COZ
umn, the election Of Woodrow VIII
son was assured, with 2T3 electoral
votes. When it was authoritatively
learned that Wilson had come out
victorious in the hardest tight ever
made by a Presidential candi-
date, there was much rejoicing, not
only at the Democratic headquart-
ers in this city, but also by ali The
party men throughout Dorchester
county, some of whom had had their
hopes crushed on election night,
when at twelve o'clock the returns
pointed to the election of Hughes.
The retaining OF Wilson as Presi-
dent Of the United States for another
tour years means Il continuation or
he prosperity which the country has
..noMn under his past administra-
lion. The election OF Wilson is the
= oateSt victory ever achieved by
LAY Americana triumph over The
.nuneyed interests OF the country,
hyphenated Americans and ROoSe-
,eit and Hughes, two mighty factors
III the Republican party.
North Ga!-ota is definitely i'll the
wilson column. One thousand eight
hundred and fifteen out of 1859
precincts give Wilson 5U,Sl9; HUI
ghes, 1892.
The remaining ~ precincts are
sparsety populated, their entire reg
!Stered vote could not overcome the
SAT lead Wilson maintains.
The Union, leading Republican pa
per OF New Hampshire, received a
dispatch from the State House rep
resentative yesterday saying that
complete official returns in New
Hampshire gives the State to Wilson
by SO votes. They say tabulations i'll
the Secretary of States office, COM
pleted yesterday forenoon, showed
that Wilson had overturned Hughes
lead of the earlier reports and HAD
carried the State by SO votes.
Secretary Tumulty wired formal
notification to the President of his
reelection at 11.30 o'clock last
night, from Asbury Park, N j. The
message was wirelessed 10 the Presi-
dent aboard the Mayfiower. 1t was
as follows:
Il am here surrounded by the 10y
beg leave to send you our greeting
and congratulations. The cause you
have so nobly represented has at
last triumphed and we greet you.
Our hearts, our thoughts and our ar
fections go to you
The reelection of President Viii
son was assured late last night when
CALIFORNIA; 13 electoral votes were
placed definitely. in the; Democratic
column.
With only 4S precincts in Califor-
mia yet to be heard from and Wilson
leading Hughes by 1870 votes, Re-
publican Chairman Rowell, of that
State, conceded that it - had gone
Democratic. - 8,
When returns had been received
last night from 1889 of the -3,e2fa
precincts in Minnesota, the count for
President was: Wilson, 1889;
Hughes, 1876. Hughes plurality,
1877.
Returns from $50 of 63S precincts
in New Mexico give Hughes 29,251,
Wilson, 1855. These are revised
figures received from county CLERKS.
These also include precincts in all
but one of the 26 counties. Returns
of the Al precincts in SOcorro coun-
ty, the clerk announced. had been
locked in the ballot boxes. The clerk
OF Roosevelt county, 81 precincts,
gave ne figures, but announced that
Wilson had carried the county by
425. Socorro and Roosevelt coun-
ties were not included in the $50
precincts tabulated.
Voting by the States troops on the
border was two to one for Wilson,
according to the latest reports, and
it appears that the ballots of the
soldiers may carry the State for the
President.
That the result will be bitterly
contested is certain. The RepubIi-
can managers will not concede the
election of Wilson until the official
count in. every. doubtful States has
been completed.
Contests are already arranged for
in California, New Hampshire and
Kansas, though the latter State gave
Wilson substantial plurality. ss.The
ground on which the Kansas contest
will be based is that the voters did
not vote for individual electors, as
provided for in the constitution, but
directly for the candidates for Presi-
dent and Vice-President.
Following the lead of the Demo-
Gratis who yesterday arranged to
safeguard the vote against mistake
or mishandling, the Republican Ma
tional Committee today retained for
mer Attorney-General George w.
Wickersham, of New York, to take
full charge of the legal battle they
intend to wage if the unofficial count
gives the election to Wilson.
Mr.. Wickersham made a statement
in which he said:
We shall demand a recount in
North Dakota, California, New Mexi-
co and New Hampshire.
All day the interest in the most
exciting Presidential race since Gle
yeland narrowly won from Blaine in
1884 centred around the returns
from California and Minnesota.
The Wilson lead in California
steadily ebbed until late in the after
noon. Growing Hughes pluralities
in the strongly Republican county
and city of Los Angeles for time
threatened to wipe it out entirely. So
close was the fight in other States
that California might easily have
turned the tide of victory.
In the afternoon Wilson began to
| pull ahead again. At night it was
| Of