Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1916-11-09
THE RESULTS in IOWA

| THE RESULTS IN IOWA
Returns from about one-half of the
| precincts OF the state indicate that
Hughes carried Iowa by not less than
10000 plurality over Wilson and
| that Harding carried the state by
100000 or more.
Harding men were claiming last
night that his plurality would exceed
100000 and some of them insisted
that it would go above 125,000.
1t was claimed by the Meredith
men that he would have the largest
vote ever polled for a democratic
candidate in Iowa.
At 2 a. m. the Associated Press
made the following estimate of re-
suits in Iowa:
Harding by 100000?
"The voters of Iowa today rolled
up plurality that may reach $4,000
for Hughes and Fairbanks and ap-
parently doubled that plurality for
Harding. The remainder of the re.
publican state ticket, while appar-
emily outstripped by the head of the
ticket, was elected by substantial
margin over the democratic slate.
"Mr. Harding in several cases
polled large majorities in counties
which are normally democratic and
Mr.. Meredith carried very few of the
ninety-nine counties in Iowa.
--latest returns indicated that
Iowa's representation in congress
would remain ten republicans and
one democrat
"For attorney general Horace M
Havner, the republican candidate,
easily won
while republican managers had
confidentially predicted the election
of Harding and even supporters of
Meredith had conceded the PROBABLE
ity of such result the overwhelming
majority of the gubernatorial candi-
! date was a surprise to even the most
! sanguine adherents of Mr.. Harding.
! Biggest Majority Ever.
Republican leaders last night on
the face of incomplete returns pre-
dicted Hughes plurality for presi-
dent in Iowa might exceed any re-
publican margin given by Iowa voters
in recent years. AS returns came in
from the various counties during the
night. Mr.. Hughes plurality gradu-
ally increased, and with third Of
the 2,297 predicts in the state heard
from. the indicated plurality of the
republican candidate for president
was more than $4,000. If the in
crease In Mr.. Hughes plurality
should be kept up throughout the
| remaining precincts in the state, re-
publican leaders said he might carry
| the state by 100000"
! Examination of the vote indicates
that most of the democratic and
| river counties were swung to the re-
| publican column in the state election.
| 1t is possible that Meredith did not
carry any county.
Respecting congressman 1t is
claimed that Steele was reelected in
the Eleventh, carrying Woodbury. by
$500.
( The Second. however, which the
democrats expected to carry, seems
| to have returned H. r. Hull.
The rest of the republican state
ticket was elected with Harding and
| by about the same vote However,
| there seemed to be trading in locali-
ties on the head of the ticket
Theophilus Beaten.
The returns on supreme Judge are
very meager. But such as have been
received indicate that Theophilus was
defeated, and that Judge Deemer was
elected.
In Polk county Deemer and Evans
| won two to one.
In Jasper county all but five pre-
| cincts gave Evans PSI, Deemer 235
| Theophilus 10.
Judge William Theophilus received
| nearly two-thirds of the vote cast in
| Rockingham township in Scott coun-
| ty. The totals were Theophilus "a
| Evans "a, and Deemer IA.
| Harding may have 10000 or more
| At the rate at which the first 49s pre-
cincts went his plurality would ex-
coed 100000
Meredith men insist the last figure
| is too high and are reluctant to ad
| nit that Harding will have as large
| plurality as Hughes.
An enormous vote in the rural
| precincts of the state was Anticipated
| because of the drilling rain which
| fell throughout the day and which
| was almost statewide. The rain had
no Derceptible effect upon the rIty
vote.
More than 400 automobiles were
| employed in Des Moines to transpor.:
reluctant voters to the polls, it was
announced by local campaign mana
| gers. The democrats used more than
the republicans, it was said, nearly
800 being employed by them.
| The state capitol was almost de
serted. The majority of state Off
Gals come from points outside of Des
Moines and there were only a few
cases in which the officials took ad.
vantage of the absent voters law.