The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1917-11-08
LATE RETURNS
DON I CHANGE
THE OUT COME
Revised Figures of Election
Interesting
OHIO STILL IN DOUBT
On tho Prohibition Issue--FinaI Fig.
ures From New York Show Mitchell
Barely Beat Hillqut.

election districts missing early today
out of total of 5,772 in the state, ths
majority for woman suffrage in the
election yesterday stood at 94,292.
The remaining districts which are
mostly in rural districts upstate, are
not expected to change the result ma
terially. The vote was Yes, Gal,
4S1; no, 5471S9.
The results OF the elections through
out the country showed different
trends.
Suffrage won in New York, but lost
in Ohio.
The Democratic swept New York
city the Republicans, Philadelphia.
Prohibition won in New Mexico;
The result is close in Ohio.
John +. Hylan, Democratic candi
date Tor mayor, received plurality
of 1895, the greatest ever accorded
a mayoralty candidate in New York
The Democrats will absolutely con
troll the board of estimate, the city
financial machinery.
The soldier vote, estimated at So.
600 cannot affect the result of either
suffrage or the mayoralty in New
York.
Morris Hillquit, Socialist candidate
for mayor of New York, polled l42,17s
votes. Mayor Mitchell received l49,
307.
Edward Swami, the Tammany can
i {ot, m az
elected
The Republicans carried the-state,
when they reelected Merton b.
Lewis, attorney general.
The Republicans swept Massachus-
etts. re-electing Governor Mccall and
the entire ticket by $4,000 more
plurality than last year The anti aid
amendment to the state constitution
providing that no appropriations OF
public money be made for privately
controlled institutions. was adopted.
Virginia elected the Democratic
ticket headed by Westmoreland Davis
for governor.
In Maryland the election is very
close with the Republicans claiming
the advantage
The Socialist vote in New York city
was four times that of last year
Ailluuit defeated Mayor Mitchell In
the Bronx and almost tied him in
Brooklyn and Queens. The increase
was $40 per cent over the vote in
1918.
The Socialists elected seven alder
men, but the Democrats will control
the board with forty-five members
the Republicans having fifteen.
Ten Socialists were elected to the
assembly from the greater city, with
a tie vote in another district between
the Democratic and Socialist candi
dates.
The Socialist vote fell off in Chi
cago a bipartisan judiciary ticket be
ing elected by about 10000
In Dayton. Ohio, the three Socialist
candidates for the city commission
running on an anti-war platform
we're defeated by nonpartisan candi
dates.
The Socialists made strong at
tempt to return to power in Sche
nectady but the Republicans elected
their ticket.
With 252 districts missing out of 8,
765 in Ohio, the prohibition forces
have a majority of 1,444. The return!
are slowing coming in and the resul
Is fiuctuating.
Prohibition carried every county II
New Mexico.
Asbury Park, long no license cen
ter and one OF the best known OF Jer
sey summer resorts, went wet by al
most two to one. The license yot
will be the first step in a campaign
for the repeal of the nonllquor law.
Local option won in New Jerse,
and drastic liquor law is predicted
as the result of the election The LEI
islature is Republican.
Anti saloon leaders claim tina
seventy-five towns in New York wer
won by the dry forces.
The Republicans will retain contro
of the New York state Legislature
The combined opposition vote vii
fall forty-eight votes under the Re
publican total.
The Democrats will control the le
islature in Kentucky
The vare-Smith machine in Phila
delphia has probably won by q nal
row margin. Returns with FEY
more than 100 districts missing ou
of 1886, give their candidates plural
ties ranging from 2747 to 9,640 owe
the town meeting party The soldie
vote may change the result.
The New York soldier vote wi
| probably be completed by Decembe
/.
Wall Street paid out 100000 o