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UNOFFICIAL RETURNS SHOW
PRESIDENT WILSON RE ELECTED
Result So Close In Several States That Republi
cans Demand a Recount—Democrats May
Not Have Working Majority In House
of Representatives.
President,
WOODROW WILSON.
Vice President
THOMAS R. MARSHALL.
New York, Nov. 11. —One the face of
the unofficial returns, the above is the
choice of the American people for
chief executive officers of the nation
for the next four years, but the result
is so close in several states that Re
publican leaders are not willing to ac
cept the verdict until a recount of the
ballots has been made in these states.
The situation is extraordinary and
has resulted in days of nerve-racking
strain for the people of the country.
If the election officials of a few remote
precincts in a few states know how the
nation has been waking breathless to
hear from them, they must be swelled
up enormously with a sense of their
importance. For on those few pre
cincts has depended the nation’s choice
of its chief executive.
That Mr. Wilsou’s victory over Mr.
Hughes will not be conceded without a
recount in the close states, such as Cal
ifornia, New Hampshire, New Mexico
and North Dakotu, was determined at
conferences of the Republican leaders
here. Chairman Willcox asserted a re
count would be demanded wherever
the margin of Democratic victory was
so small that comparatively few votes
would turn the scales. He and his as
sociates say they take the position
that there should be no cloud upon Mr.
Wilson’s title to the presidency. The
Democrats, for their part, declared
that there must be a recount in New
Hampshire, even though the returns
gave the state to Mr. Wilson.
That the returns are still incomplete
is due to the presence on the border of
the National Guard of a number of
states. The soldiers are permitted to
vote by mail, their ballots being for
warded to the auditors of their home
counties, and in Minnesota especially
the vote of the Guardsmen is likely to
cut a figure iu determining whether the
state goes into the Wilson or the
Hughes column.
Minnesota was as bad as California
in the matter of shifts, and as its dele
gation is nearly as large, it, too, was
watched with the intensest interest.
Through days and nights of counting,
the race was a see-saw, with but a
thousand or so of votes separating the
candidates. Neither side would ad
mit defeat, and even now both are
awaiting the soldier vote and the offi
cial count
New Hampshire a Surprise.
Perhaps the most surprising ©f all
the states was New Hampshire. It
alone of all New England failed to give
the Republican candidate a substantial
plurality, and for days no one knew
in which column it would land. The
astonishing closeness of the vote was
shown by the rival claims, three days
after the election’, of 100 plurality for
Hughes and 84 for Wilson. In the cir
cumstances it is no wonder that the
managers of both parties should de
mand a recount.
New Mexico, with three electoral
votes, attracted national attention by
placing itself early in the list of doubt
ful states, and as it soon appeared that
almost every electoral vote would be
vital, the returns from down on the
border were grabbed hot off the wires.
After veering back and fortli for days,
New Mexico was definitely placed in
the Wilson column, though there, too,
the president’s margin was so scant
that a basis was afforded for the call
for a recount. A few mistakes dis
covered in the figures of the precinct
officials might well swing the state
over to Hughes.
Willcox Demands Recount.
On Friday National Chairman Will
cox of the Republican party handed
out the following statement:
“The result still depends upon the
vote in a few close states. It must be
borne in mind that the returns thus
far announced are, in most states, un
official, and may be changed by the
official count required by the laws of
those states.
“Twice during these unofficial com
putations yesterday in California mis
takes in additions were announced
from that state, substantially changing
figures previously given.
“It is a common experience that the
result of the official count almost al
ways varies from the returns first an
nounced.
“Where the vote is as close as that
reported in several states, it may well
Centenarian Favored WilsonT”^^
Streator, El., Nov. 10.—Mrs. Thomas
Morgan, former Civil wnr nurse and
more than one hundred and one years
old, was conveyed to the polls here.
“Well, grandma, whom do you want to
vote for?" inquired the election Judge,
who offered to assist her in marking
her ballot. “Mr. Wilson, God bless
him," was the reply.
lowa Brigade Votes in Texas.
Brownsville, 111., Nov. 10.—The total
vote of the lowa brigade gives Wilson
961, Hughes 992.
be that material changes will result
from the official count.
“We owe it to the country to take
all necessary steps to see that an ex
act and honest count of the vote is
made. When the current seemed to be
running against Mr. Wilson on Wednes
day the Democratic managers an
nounced their intention to demand a
recount in every close state.
“All we desire is to make sure that
the vote is counted as cast.”
Botli sides conceded that no matter
what action might be taken in regard
to a recount there was little likelihood
of a contest being carried to the house
of representatives as it was after the
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Ilayes-Tilden campaign in IS7C. Legis
lation enacted in 1887, it was said,
made the state sovereign in pronounc
ing judgment in a recount of the pres
idential vote.
How Congress Stands.
Congressional election returns, near
ly completed, assure President Wilson
in the forthcoming administration a
Democratic senate, but with five dis
tricts still undecided, the best that the
Democrats could claim was a plurality
of four votes in the house.
Upon the basis of revised returns
the Democrats have elected 215 mem
bers of the house and the Republicans
211. In addition there have been elect
ed one Independent, one Socialist, one
Progressive and one Progressive Pro
tectionist.
Four districts in West Virginia, two
of them nominally Democratic, and two
Republican, and one district in New
Mexico, are still undecided. If these
districts do not change, the Democrats
will have 217 and the Republicans 214,
a plurality of only three.
As there will be four members of
other minority parties, a working ma
jority for the Der- ’rats is improbable
unless some of the minority members
should choose to cast their lot with
the administration forces.
The senate, according to latest fig
ures, will consist of 54 Democrats and
42 Republicans, a majority of 12. The
Democratic majority in the present
senate is 16.
An unusual feature of the result is
the election of the first woman to con
gress, Miss Jeanette Rankin, Repub
lican, apparently having been elected
in Montana.
Six States Go Dry.
Prohibitionists are jubilant over the
results of the election where prohibi
tion was an issue. From Washington
the legislative committee of the Anti-
Saloon league issued a statement, say
ing:
“Prohibition lias taken another
great leap forward. Michigan has
voted for state-wide prohibition by
75,000 majority, Nebraska by 35,000,
Montana by 20,000 and South Dakota
by 25,000. Idaho lias adopted a pro
hibition constitutional amendment by
a majority of 3 to 1. Utah has prob
ably elected a legislature pledged to
enact state-wide prohibition. Wash
ington, lowa, Colorado, Arizona and
Arkansas have defeated attempts of
the liquor people to secure the adop
tion of proposals which would nullify
their prohibitory laws.
“Thus 24 states out of 48 —one-half
of the states of the Union—have now
declared for state-wide prohibition,
Women Vote as Do Men.
From the general result it is clear
Goes 5,000 Miles to Vote.
Jarroid Valley, W. Va„ Nov. 10.—Dr.
W. Byrd Hunter voted here, having
traveled 5,000 miles, he said, to vote
for Wilson. Doctor Hunter is stationed
at the bureau of fisheries on the Seal
islands, Alaska.
Guardsmen in Texas Vote.
El Paso, Tex., Nov. 10.—Twelve out
of seventeen military organizations of
Pennsylvania troops in the field give
for president: Hughes, 1,717; Wilson,
I.SOB. For senator the figures were:
Knox, 550; Orvis, 249.
that as the men voted in the suffrage
states, so did the women.
In Illinois men and women seemed
about equally divided as to prefer
ence. The state went for Hughes by
a big plurality.
In Kansas, Colorado, Montana,
Washington, Oregon and California,
where women also vote, Wilson was
successful, but his pluralities were not
sufficiently large to indicate that the
woman voters supported him as a unit.
Farm Vote the Factor.
There are several great outstanding
facts concerning the result of the elec
tion, one of which is that iaijor, in all
the big industrial states except Ohio,
declined to give its undivided support
to President Wilson despite his claim
to it on the score of having persuaded
congress to pass the Adamson “eight
hour” bill. New York, Pennsylvania,
Illinois, Massachusetts, Michigan, In
diana, all gave the Republican candi
date pluralities, and Ohio’s vote in fa
vor of Wilson is not certainly to be at
tributed to the labor vote.
Another interesting development was
the independence of the West, which is
asserting that it elected a president
without the aid of New York and Penn
sylvania and other big western and
central states. When it was found,
early in the evening of election day,
that the empire state had gone for
Hughes, the newspapers of the metrop
olis, even those that had supported
Wilson, conceded the victory to the
Republicans, without waiting to hear
from tho middle West. When the re
turns came in from these regions, it
was found that the farmer and stock
raiser had decided the election.
Yet another fact that calls for com
ment is that Governor Johnson of Cal
ifornia, running on the Republican and
Progressive tickets, has been elected to
the United States senate by something
like 300,000 plurality, and yet state
went Democratic on the presidency.
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THE ELECTORAL VOTE
States Wilson Hughes
Alabama 12
Arizona 3
Arkansas 9 ..
California 13 ..
Colorado 6
Connecticut 7
Delaware 3
Florida 6
Georgia 14
Idaho 4
Illinois 29
Indiana 15
lowa 13
Kansas 10
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 10
Maine 6
Maryland 8
Massachusetts 18
Michigan 15
•Minnesota
Mississippi 10
Missouri 18
Montana 4
Nebraska 8
Nevada 3
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey 14
New Mexico 3
New York 45
North Carolina 12
North Dakota 5
Ohio 24
Oklahoma 10
Oregon 5
Pennsylvania 38
Rhode Island 5
South Carolina 9
South Dakota 5
Tennessee 12
Texas 20
Utah 4
Vermont 4
Virginia 12
Washington 7
West Virginia 8
Wisconsin 13
Wyoming 3
Totals 276 243
•Result in Minnesota, with 12 votes,
will not be known until soldiers’ vote
is counted. It is possible that recount
in close states may change the total to
some extent.
New York Centenarian at Polls.
Dorchester, N. Y„ Nov. 10. —John D.
Wilson, one hundred and one years
old, voted here for Charles E. Hughes.
He visited the polls early, declined the
assistance of friends and cast his bal
lot on the modern voting machine.
Arkansas to Stay Dry.
Little Rock, Ark., Nov. 10. —By ma
jorities against the proposed constitu
tional amendment which would substi
tute local option for the present state
wide prohibition were reported in
early returns.
Inurmtional
SUNWSGIOOL
LESSON
(By E. O. SELLERS. Acting Director of
Sunday School Course, Moody Bible In
stitute. Chicago.)
(Copyright. 1916, Western Newspaper Union, i
LESSON FOR NOVEMBER 19
FROM MELITA TO ROME.
LESSON TEXT-Acts 28:11-31.
GOLDEN TEXT—I am not ashamed of
the gospel; for it Is the power of God un
to salvation to everyone that believeth.—
Rom. 1:16.
In this lesson we see somewhat of
the human- side of Paul’s character.
No man appreciated fellowship more
than he. Look up Acts 17:15; 18:5; I
Cor. 7:0; I Thess. 3:1, 2; II Tim. 4:21.
I. The Sea Journey (vv. 11-14).
Paul left Melita (Malta) probably Feb
ruary, A. D. 60. From there to Syra
cuse was a distance of between 80 and
100 miles. From the island of Syra
cuse (now n part of Italy) to Rhegium
was one day’s sail. From Rhegium to
I’uteoli was ISO miles. I’uteoli (mod
ern Pozzuoli) is in the Bay of Naples,
eight miles from the modern city of
Naples. Paul and his band who had
done so much for the Maltese were
specially honored with many honors,
(v. 10.)
In these verses we have a picture of
Paul seeking out his brethren wherever
he went, thanking God and taking
courage as they came to meet with
him and converse with him. It is a
picture upon which we ought to ponder
deeply and be grateful that it reveals
to us a side of Paul little known and
appreciated.
11. The Land Journey (vv. 14, 15).
At Puteoli, Paul and his companions
began tlieir march to 140 miles to the
city of Rome. After a march of 60
miles they reached the famous Appii
Forum, i. e., “The market of Appius.”
Here Paul is met by the first dele
gation from the church at Rome, who
were waiting to welcome liTm and
Luke and escort them to the capital
city. A second delegation met them at
the Three Taverns, or “The Three
Shops,” as we would call stores in the
modern sense. These Christians had
come at no small cost, as they had to
walk 46 miles to the Appii Forum and
33 to the Three Taverns, and then
walk the same distance back to the
city. Thus it was that the sight of
these friends cheered Paul and he
thanked God. We can well imagine
the joy of those souls, the communion
enjoyed by those pilgrims as they
journeyed toward the imperial city.
We can see In the letters which Paul
wrote from Rome plain signs of his
longing for sympathetic friends and can
imagine how he must have felt upon
being thus greeted on his journey. We
can also imagine something of the
blessing and inspiration which must
have come to those Christians who met
this famous soldier of the cross and
had the privilege of escorting him to
the city.
111. In Rome (vv. 16-29). Having
entered into the city the centurion Ju
lius, who had become a friend of Paul,
delivered the prisoners to the captain
of the guard. This officer we are told
was a liberal-minded man, one of the
few good people in the corrupt life of
the city. Paul was probably first taken
to the forum, which was the center of
imperial power and magnificence and
near which was the “house of Caesar.”
(Phil. 4:22.) Paul was not sent to
prison for it was against the law to
put a Roman into prison without a
trial, but he was permitted fo dwell
by himself in “his own hired house.”
Of course, there was a soldier who
guarded him. This was the city where
Paul had so long desired to preach the
Gospel. (Rom. 1:14-1G.) As in other
places, he first turned to the Jews, for
lie loved his own people no matter how
much he had suffered at their hands.
He got them together that he might
preach unto them Jesus and sought to
conciliate them.
In Paul’s preaching he always em
phasized that a Messiah was risen
from the dead as a guaranty of all
other resurrections. In his day, as in
this present one, there were those
who spoke against this, and yet that
resurrection was to conquer the world
and to save it from moral ruin. Those
present had had no word out of Judea,
(v. 21.) At a later and a public meet
ing (v. 23) there came unto him, that
is, into his lodgings, great numbers to
whom Paul sounded the Gospel of the
kingdom and gave his personal testi
mony. He proved out of the law of
Moses and out of the prophets, com
mon ground for them all, that the Mes
siah had truly come, the prophecies of
the kingdom of God had been fulfilled,
and that Jesus by his life and death
and teaching had shown the Jews how
perfectly the latter were fulfilled. This
Faul did from morning till evening,
following the same line as in - his
speech before Agrippa and in other
places where he had been testifying.
All of his explanations and testimon
ials centered in Jesus. It was no ab
stract mental theory for an improved
order of society but a definite reign of
a definite person, Jesus of Nazareth.
Paul is a great example for any Bible
student to follow.
As on so many other occasions,
Paul’s preaching caused a division, (v.
26.)
And again he turns to the Gentiles,
(v. 28.)
Paul told them plainly what lay at
the root of their unbelief (v. 27), and
though they refused the salvation it
was none the less of God.
TURNED TO OLD
FRIEND CARDOI
And Soon Was Perfectly Well and
Strong, And Better Than She
Had Ever Been, Says
Kentucky Lady.
Narrows, Ky.—Mrs. C. F. Askins, of
this place, writes: “About 15 years
ago I had got into a run-down state,
my back ached all the time, felt weak,
my hones seemed to ache all over. I
had weighed only 104 lbs. when I
married, and never had been right ro
bust since I reached womanhood . . .
but after my marriage I seemed to
get worse all the time for two years
. . . until at this time my brother’s
wife . . . advised me to take Cardui.
Therefore, 1 began taking it, and in a
short while I began to improve, my
health and strength began to be built
up, and also my flesh.
After my first child’s birth, over two
years had passed by, but the . . .
didn't appear. My husband got me
some medicine from our doctor, which
did me no good, tho he intended it to
bring the . . . about, for he said the
blood was going to my head and caus
ing it to ache, which also helped to
make me so dizzy. . . So I turned to
my old friend Cardui and began tak
ing it and . . . soon I was perfectly
well and strong, gradually gained
flesh until I weighed about 195 lbs.,
and was so stout and strong, better
than I ever had been.”
Cardui, used by thousands of wom
en, and prescribed by physicians, must
be a good medicine. Try it. —Adv.
GREAT ACTOR ON HIS DIGNITY
Richard Mansfield's Rebuke to Subor
dinate Who Spoke Lightly of
Theatrical Production.
With reference to fine discrimina
tion in the use of the well-known Eng
lish language, it is possible to overdo
the tiling.
Diving into the trunk of recollections
for the suitable illustration to adorn
this remark and point the moral, we
find it in Richard Mansfield’s occupan
cy of the Garrick theater in New York
days of hilarity on that stage.
To Mansfield this theater was a tem
ple. He tolerated no lightly spoken
references to it. One day, when an
attache reported, Mansfield gave in
structions and started for his dressing
room.
“I’ll see you after the show,” said
the business lieutenant in parting.
“‘After the show?”’ repeated the
actor-manager, with dignity. “Are we
acrobats?”
“After the performance,” replied his
associate, humbly.
“ ‘The performance!’ exclaimed
Mansfield. “Are we ants?”
“I’m very sorry,” mumbled the
crushed manager; “I’ll see you ufter the
play, sir.”
“I shall be pleased to see you then,”
answered Mansfield.
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ate and healment, in most cases, com
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Best of References.
The cook is leaving today and wants
me to give her a recommendation, but
I don’t know what to say.”
“You might say she is a good work
er.”
“A good worker! She’s anything but
that.”
“Oh, I don't know. She has worked
us for SBO a month and her board,
hasn’t she?”
To Drive Out Malaria
And Build Up The System
Take the Old Standard GROVE'S
TASTELESS chill TONIC. You know
what you are taking, as the formula is
printed on every label, showing it is
Quinine and Iron in a tasteless form. The
Quinine drives out malaria, the Iron
builds up the system. 50 cents.
Superficial Elegance.
“Don’t you admire the hand of iron
in a glove of velvet?”
“Yes,” replied Miss Cayenne; “but
what you more frequently observe Is
the rough neck under a fur collar.”
How True.
“It hat in your opinion is the most
startling transformation?”
“When a note becomes due.”
WOMAN’S CROWNING GLORY
li her hair. If yours is streaked with
ugly, grizzly, gray hairs, use “La Cre
ole” Hair Dressing and change it In
the natural way. Price sl.oo.—Adv.
A woman is always ready to admit
a man’s superior intelligence if lie’ll
admit that she knows more than he
does.
Dr. Pierce’s Pleasant Pallets are the orig
inal little liver pills put up 40 years ago.
They regulate liver and bowels.—Adv.
Some wirepuller* are telegraph line
men and some are politicians.