The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-11-08
eWATCHFUL WAITING
FOR THE RESULTS
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Hughes. First returns. available short
ly after six o'clock, showed Wilson
leading. Then came a Hughes sweep.
with a tremendous lead in New York
and reports of big plurality for the
G. 0. P. in Kansas. Massachusetts
preliminary reports added to the re-
publican candidates growing list
But once again the swing changed.
A Wilson drift set in; Ohio went I'M
istakably democratic; the presidents
managers began to question Massa-
chusetts returns they gained as lat
er returns from Indiana and Offset the
first favorable Hughes trend. At s
o'clock this morning the president was
five votes ahead OF his republican OPP
ponent in the returns as gathered by
the United Press. c
In that hour statements of claims
ISSUED from both democratic and
republican headquarters showed five
states. California, Indiana. Minnesota,
New Hampshire and Wisconsin, claim
ed by both parties. Their total vote
is Al. United Press returns hold sew
en- states, whose electoral vote totals
81, as those from which Hughes must
gain the thirty-four votes necessary
to bring his count to 2e6, majority.
and from which Wilson needs 30. 1t
is apparent, both from the United
Press listing and the conflict Of claims
between rival party managers, that
either presidential candidate must
carry at least three states to win.
Swinging to Wilson.
by Perry Arnold, United Press STAFF
Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. S.-The swing
was to Woodrow Wilson at 9 o'clock
today in the closest presidential race
the nation has known since 1876.
The president needed twenty nine
votes to attain the electoral college
majority of 266 necessary to election,
with the states of Minnesota, New
Hampshire, New Mexico. Oregon. Cali
fornia. Indiana and Kansas in doubt.
According to United Press returns, he
appeared to have an advantage as the
vote count proceeded in Oregon. Min
nesota, and Kansas. The electoral
votes of these three states total q.
AS goes the presidential election, so
apparently will go control of the ma
tional house Of representatives-but
mighty slim control either way. There
was time during the shifting tides
of the night when it appeared likely
that two or three socialists might have
apparent tie Of 215 between the re-
publicans and democrats.
s. The next house will have member
ship of three socialists gain Of
sixty-six percent. The three are Vic
tor L. Berger, of Wisconsin; a former
congressman and the first socialist
who ever sat in the halls of congress;
w. r. Gaylor. also of Milwaukee, Wis.
and Meyer London, Of New York ire
elected.)
In the Louisiana delegation. usually
solid in the democracy, there is rara
avis among democrats--a protection
est''-W. p Martin. On the face OF
early morning returns, it appeared
that the republicans had failed to gain
the ten senators whose votes they
needed to obtain control of the upper
house at Washington. Rhode Island,
home Of the former apostle Of rock-rih
ped republicanism, Senator Nelson B.
Aldrich. furnished one of the biggest
surprises Of the night when it rejected
Senator Henry F. Lippitt republican.
in favor of Peter Goelet Gerry, demo-
crat Another wheel horse of republ-
canism who went down into defeat
was Senator George Sutherland, of
Utah, succeeded by w. H King, demo-
crat. In Delaware, Senator H. A Du
Pont, republican. was beaten by J. o.
Wolcott, democrat.
At 1000 O'clock.
IBy Perry Arnold, United Press STAFF
Correspondent
NEW YORK, Nov. Sat 10 O'CLOCK
today the latest returns showed an
increase of IL electoral votes for
Wilson since a. m, making his
total 24S.
In the same time the changes re-
corded gave Hughes total of 245
and left 40 electoral votes doubtful.
There was a strong drift toward
Wilson in Minnesota, North Dakota
and Oregon. The democrats also
CLAIMED they were gaining in Califor-
MIA. Wilson's present total leaves IL
votes necessary for election.
The changes indicated were as fol-
lows:
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