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WILSON WITHIN 11 VOTES OF THE GOAL
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WILSON IS LEADING IN ENOUGH STATES
TO GIVE HIM THE PRIZE IN GREAT
RAGE EOR PRESIDENT OE UNITED STATES
New Hampshire Goes for Wilson on
the Complete Returns Though
Repubs. Insist
CAL., MINN., NEW MEXICO, N.
DAK., DOUBTFUL STATES NOW
Idaho And Washington To Wilson
And West Virginia To Hughes
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NEW YORK, N. Y„ Nov. 9.
As the day grew older every scatter
ing return was scanned eagerly, but
little change was recorded in results
in those states previously reported as
"doubtful.” Early this afternoon, Wil
son had a lead of 4,523 over Hughes
in California, with five hundred and
fifty-three precincts not yet reported.
Among these missing precincts, how
ever, are Sierra county and twenty-six
polling places in Toulumne county, in
which districts two years ago, Senator
Phelan, democrat, polled sufficient
votes to insure election over a republi
can opponent who had maintained a I
substantial lead in other parts of the |
state for more than a day. This cir-1
cumstance led many political observ-|
ers here to assert that California is [
safely democratic, but others refused ■
to concede the state to Wilson, and it
is being continued in the “doubtful”
column at 3 o’clock this afternoon.
In New Mexico the count proceeds
slowly, with approximately half the ■
voting precincts in the state heard I
from, and Hughes leading Wilson by a!
bare margin of 258 votes. New Mexico i
has only three electoral votes, and us
ually is scarcely considered in national
elections, but today keenest interests
centers in the final report from Santa
Fe, Wilson supporters pointing out
that New Mexico's vote with that of
California, which it is anticipated will
be cast for Wilson, is sufficient to elect
the president, even conceding Minne
sota, other doubtful state with a heavy
electoral vote, to Hughes. That New-
Mexico may finally land in the Wilson
column is indicated by statistics
which show that of the fifteen counties
yet to be heard from seven normally!
return democratic majorities, six are
considered as safely republican, and
two vote variably, sometimes return
ing democratic and again republican
majorities.
In Minnesota, which state has twelve
electoral votes, and where the lead
switched frequently during the day,
at 3 o'clock this afternoon Hughes led
Wilson by 307. Twenty-six hundred ;
and sixty precincts throughout the!
state give Hughes the lead indicated,!
three thousand and twenty-four voting
places having sent in their returns to
day and Wednesday.
Shortly before noon all precincts in
North Dakota had sent in reports, ex
cept seventy-four, these giving AVilson
a lead of 700 votes over Hughes, and
apparently placing that state’s five
electoral votes in the democratic col
umn.
West ATrginia, though not conceded
AMEHIBMOSHMER
MF.M BE R ASSOC I A fE D PRESS
by National Chairman Vance McCor
mick, appears to have gone republican.
Four hundred precincts had not been
heard from early this afternoon when
Hughes lead had reached approximate
ly four thousand, but it is thought here
that reports from these precincts will
not affect the republican majority ma
terially.
It is commonly reported here this
afternoon that re-count proceedings
are to be instituted in many doubtful
states, democrats and republicans
alike, seeming dissatisfied with reports
from certain voting precincts, and in
some instances, whole states. Chair
man Vance McCormick, of the demo
cratic national committee, today en
gaged special counsel to aid his com
mittee in these proceedings, to be
started in New Hampshire, and prob
ably elsewhere, w-hile Republican
Chairman Willcox was reported to
have advised republican national com
mitteemen in certain states to engage
counsel in the event re-count proceed
ing are started.
Hughes 200 Behind in California.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal., Nov. 9.—Re
publican State Chairman Rowell said
that morning he estimated that county
leads for all California showed Hughes
running about 200 votes behind Pres
ident Wilson in Tuesday's election. He
refused, however, to concede the state
to AVilson.
New Hampshire AViison’s By 121.
CONCORD, N. H„ Nov. 9.—With two
precincts missing this afternoon, Wil
son’s lead over Hughes in New
Hampshire was 121 votes.
Full Returns Give AVilson Hampshire,
CONCORD, N. H., Nov. 9. —Complete
returns received at the office of the
secretary of state here, partly certified,
give New Hampshire's electoral vote
to AVilson by 117 plurality. Republi
can managers, continue to claim, how
ever, that final certification of the re
turns will show a slight majority ofr
Hughes.
Five States Still Doubtful.
NEW YORK, Nov. 9.—With the presi
dential election concluded since Tues
day night, the result in the state of
California, Minnesota, New Mexico,
North Dakota and New Hampshire,
continued doubtful this morning,
though there are continuing indica
tions that the final result will show
the re-election of President Wilson by
one of the closest majorities yet re
corded in the history of the nation.
Over night returns received at na
tional political headquarters here, and
verified by usually authentic agencies
seemed to give West Virginia, with its
eight electoral votes to Hughes, while
I iaho, with four, and AVashington,
with seven electoral votes, have gone
i into the AVilson column. The placing
cf these states as indicated gives the
pres"! nt a lead of eight electoral
votes over Hughes, with neither can
didate having sufficient votes to insure
election. The Hughes states, according
to the latest returns at noon, have a
total electoral vote of 243, or 23 less
'han necessary to elect, while those
states carried by Wilson have 251,
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AMERICUS. GEORGIA, THURSDAY AFTERNOON. NOVEMBER 9, 1916
| THE WAY THEY VOTE |
The electoral vote by states was
classified as follows when the Times-
Eecorder went to press:
Wilson Hughes D’bt-ful
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 .. 12
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 .. .. I
West Virginia 8 ..
Wisconsin 13 ..I
Wyoming 3 .. .. I
Totals 255 243 33'
Necessary to elect, 266.
“BlLir IXTON IS i
IN TSE GIH TDDftY
Mr. “Billy” Exton, one of the ad
vance agents of the famous John
Robinson circus, arrived in Americus
this morning on board of one of the
advertising cars used by this attrac
tion, and is spending the day in the
city making arrangements for the
exhibition, which is to be given here
on November 22nd.
Mr. Exton is one of the cleverest
advance agents in the country. He
is known in every newspaper office in
the United States and numbers his ■
friends and acquaintances by the le-1
glon.
Speaking today of the John Robin-1
son circus Mr. Exton states that it is I
larger and better this year than ever I
before and declares that those who ■
witness their performances here will
be well pleased.
“Billy” will leave for Detroit to- i
morrow, more than likely still there's
a chance that he will be here during
the winter quarters.
DEMOCRATS HOLD MAJORITY
IN LOWER HOUSE OF CONGRESS
NEW YORK, Nov. 9. —Congress-
ional returns from all parts of the
United States, tabulated at democratic;
national headquarters here this after
noon show that although reduced, the
democratic majority in the next con
gress has been maintained. Figures
just announced show that 212 demo
crats have been chosen to seats in
I the next house, and 203 republicans,
1 democratic majority of nine.
J. ELMER POOLE GOES
TO FRUIT GROWERS MEET
J. Elmer Poole attended the Fruit
Growers’ association in Atlanta this
week. He returnedsihis afternoon just
in time to get in Kk ballot for the
city primary. He ishiterested in rais
ing fruit and quite an authority on the
subject.
circus advance
cm comes with
PM ROLL TODAY
Late last night the Number One ad
vance car of the John Robinson circus
arrived in Americus ana early this
morning, the occupants consisting of
twenty-eight billposters, lithographers,
banner men, etc., came forth to do
their duties in behalf of the monster
tented amusement enterprise that they
are with. By noon the entire city
and surrounding country was one
mass of glittering billboards and one
could see the big circus in the picture
form, for there were pictures of ele
phants, lions, tigers, clowns, and in
fact everything that one may expect to
see in putting out the paper.
Not only were the men busily en
gaged in putting out the paper and
banners for announcing the day and
date of the show, but many of them
were seen to be very busy, looking in
and around the stores picking out their
new suits, in fact when a man com
pletes his season, he as a rule buys
everything from head to foot, and it
will be seen that the men that are
buying their new outfits here are do
ing so in acocrdance of this rule. As
a result of the advance car closing
here today, there is a payroll of ap
-1 roximately SI,BOO, and these men who
will finish here today will go forth to
their homes and winter positions that
are, no doubt, awaiting them.
Other Things to Do.
Those that are not otherwise engag
ed, are doing the cleaning up of the
car in general and making everything
ready for the winter quarters, and
when the car is put away for the long,
weary winter months, it will be put
away in such condition that it will bear
the closest inspection at any time dur
ing the time of idleness.
Advance Car No. 3 will arrive here
next and will immediately go through
the same routine as No. 1, and then
will come the show, and as soon as the
performance is over at night, they will
go direct to their winter home, where
everything is now being put in readi
ness for them.
The wintering of these big show's in
Americus means much to the people
of the city, and it will, no doubt, leave
here this coming spring on its annual
tour with a contract to return to Amer
icus for many winters to come.
ARTILLERY W
ACTIVE ON THE
WESTERN FRONT
| PARIS, Nov. 9. —French troops dur
! ing last night repulsed a heavy German
! attack on Sailly-Saillisel, on the
I Somme front, hand-to-hand fighting
i figuring in the engagement. Artillery
I along the Somme front today is report
ed as very active and infantry fighting
there may be anticipated within the
next forty-eight hours.
Teutons Defeated in Dobrudja.
PETROGRAD, Nov. 9. —Rumanians
in Dobrudja have driven back advanc
ed detachments of Teutonic forces in
i that region, the Russian wai office an
nounced today.
The Berlin war office announced this
afternoon that Teuton troops in Do-
I rudja are retiring, and that Russian
I forces operating in Transylvania have
been repulsed. French and British at
tucks on the Somme front, it is re
| ported, were repulsed.
EATING IS GREAT
LONG SOIL Os A.
L. I. BORDER BOYS
BY CLIFF WHEATLEY,
(Special Staff Correspondent.)
CAMP COTTON, El Paso, Texas,
Nov. 9.—" Water, the water, please,’
thus said Corporal Thomas G. How
intgon, as he reached his knife for
another stab at the beefsteak. For
the Americus Light Infantry, encamp
ed out here in Texas, one hundred
yards from Mexico, is just about the
most stuck-up outfit in tne Second
Georgia Regiment, and over the ar
rangement of the conditions in the
dining hall. The mess hall has been
the bane of Captain FOrt's existence
for several weeks, and seeing a chance
to remedy the defect. Captain Fort
made the “bread line” a thing of the
past, and instead instituted a table
d'hote service, that would make the
most exclusive brownstone fornt
boarding house in New York take a
back-seat in the peanut.
Table orderlies have been formed,
and as waiters they are all head-ones,
but Ira G. Hallman—dear to the hearts
of the T.-R. force—the first orderly
appointed, was sadly disappointed at
the utter lack of tips that flowed his
way. One corporal did come around
with the Samaritan act, and a large
juicy “Pied” was the offering. “Top”
sergeant Guerry presided at the love
feast, and a rising vote of thanks was
given “that cute little fat man,” who
won the heart of more than one little
girl at Camp Harris. Dissatisfaction
was found only in one corner, and
‘ ‘Duzie’’ Hayes and .his colleague,
Allenius Green, were the main con
tenders. Duzie and Allen are the cooks
of teh outfit, and the preparation of the
tables, and washing of all tables is
their first work. A wholesale strike of
the salad slingers threatened 'or
a-.vhi’ >, but the Dove of Peace, person
ified in Mess Sergeant Ben Hollis
Haw'kins arrived on time, and oil was
poured on the turbulent waters; but a
compromise was effected, whereby
Duzie and Green received a detach
ment of dish-washers in the kitchen.
Howell McMath Has walked his
post for many moons, but never in
such a manner as he walked it last
n’ght, when Company I. was on regi
mental guard for Camp Cotton; and
“AVahoochee” makes the assertion
that it was some guard. McMath
went on guard with the second relief
at eight o'clock, and was given post
number six, right on the border, and
received steel-jackets to help him
along with his task. And at ten |
o’clock “Wahoochee’s” relief came,
with the measured tread of the mili
tary man, and the border, he knew,
was near. But, Howell McMath, long
of limb, and long of military affairs is ;
short on memory, and shorter on his I
knowledge of direction and distance.
But, to the story again—His relief
was coming, and from the regulation
direction, but McMath had forgotten
which way the relief would come, and
the body of men coming with lights
playing all around with the shadows,
resembled Mexicans, and Howell
thought his relief would come from
the opposite direction. So “Wahoo
chee,” remembering his instructions
sent out the warning; but the bunch
didn’t halt. “Halt, who goes there?”
again rang out in the stillness of the
Mexican night, but the body of men
didn’t hesitate; the next call to halt
was feeble, for “’Me” had put a few
hundred yards between him and the
“Mexicans”, and of course Howell was
surprised to hear one of the men call
in bona fide Queen's English, “A gang
of rabbits, don’t you want our hind
foot?” Howell came back and told
the relief how near death they came,
but the boys wondered at “Wahoo
dhee's” lack of breath left, and
thought their chances for a military
death were slim with Howell at the
business end of a Springfield Model
190 X
The boys of Company I, can get
along without air, they can live with
out water, but life without a Tlmes-
Recortler in camp folows directly
Sherman’s definition of war. In other
words, the Americus boys at Camp
Cotton must have a paper. A scout-
I WILSON AFTER READING NEWS
DECLINED TO MAKE COMMENT
LONG BRANCH. N. J., Nov. 9.
President Wilson, who has been at
Shadow Lawn since Monday read a
summary of election results compiled
by the Associated Press at 11 o’clock
this morning, but declined to com
ment on tlie election at that hour.
EARLY Ml 15
GIVEN FREEDDM
BL I LEE JBRY
LEESBURG, Ga. , Nov. 9. —Early
Brown, charged with the murder of H.
A. Stewart, was acquitted of the
charge in Lee Superior court, a ver
dict of not guilty being returned at
10 o’clock Thursday morning.
The case against Brown, charged
with the murder of Stewart, was tak
en up in Lee Superior court Wednes
day afternoon about 2 o’clock. The de
fendant was represented by Wilkerson
& Yeomans, of Dawson, and R. R. For
rester, of Leesburg. Brown did not
introduce any testimony, only his
statement. He gave a clear account
of his trip with Stewart from the time
he left Leslie with him until the offi
cers arrested him near Leesburg after
the killing. In his statement he
claimed self-defense, and that Stew
art had beaten him with liis firsts in
an earlier difficulty with him, and that
in the latter, Stewart stopped the car
and reached for his gun to shoot him,
when, it is stated, that he (Brown)
shot him in self defense. The argu
ments began at 5 o’clock. Yeomans,
of Dawson, and Forrester, of Leesburg,
spoke for the defense, and L. J. Bla
lock for the state as solicitor. The
jury received the case at 8:30 o'clock
Wednesday night, and rendered their
verdict of not guilty at 10 o’clock.
It is quite probable that court will
adjourn Friday.
The jury in the case of Rich Drane,
for murder, in Lee Superior court, re
turned a verdict Wednesday after a
short deliberation of guilty, with a
recommendation. His attorney secur
ed a new trial for him. It is not
known whether he will make appeal
for a new trial from this verdict.
Drane was represented by R. R. For
rester and the state by L. J. Blalock.
MR, BAKER 00E5
NOT ACCEPT CALL
Dr. C. Ross Baker, of the Woodlawn
Baptist, church, of Birmingham, Ala.,
has declined the call to the First Bap
tist church of this city, to the pastor
ate.
Dr. Baker wrote a letter to the local
church, declining the call after sev
eral weeks consideration. He would
have succeeded Dr. Lansing Burrows,
who resigned some time ago.
It is expected that the First Baptist
church will take other action within a
short time.
ing party was sent out to find extra
issues of Times-Recorder. and they
found one in the home of Captain and
Mrs. James Furlow, in El Paso. Cap
tain Furlow is atatched to the quar
termaster's depot, and is well-known
in militia circles, as well as the reg
ular army.
Company I. can’t live without
Times-Recorders and tobacco, and by
way of gentle hint, Thanksgiving
comes in Texas, just as it does in the (
''Empire Seate of the South.” Pay
day, dear reader, is still a long way
off, and Company I. is running out of
smoking tobacco every day. By
Thanksgiving Day. the boys will be
smoking cactus leaves, unless some
body takes a hand at home and sends
a bundle of smokers. A committee,
appointed by the Mess Sergeant to
prepare a Thanksgiving dinner, wants
to give every man a ten-cent sack, box
or tin of tobacco on Turkey Day, and
(he people at home are urged to re
member the boys on the Rio Grande.
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AMERICUS VOTES
IN THE PRIMARY
WITH LARGE VOTE
A heavy vote is being polled in Utae
city primary, and with much interest
and large crowds gathered around the
polls.
The managers at the single booUr flkr
the city primary are Justice of Pe«e»
V.. T. Weekly, Gordon Howell, W1 T.
Lane and Clerks R. T. Hawkins, R. G.
Christian and W. C. Sullivan, Jr.
The voting was brisk in the first
hours after the polls opened at *
o’clock. At 8:30 this morning. ba£M
No. 100 was voted. I’he polls clo»« at
6 o’clock, and with this ratio there
should be a large vote polled of the
registration of 875 voters.
The official ballot is:
FOR MAYOR.
(Vote for One.)
LEE ALLEN.
L. G. COUNCIL.
FOR ALDERMEN.
(Vote for Three.)
E. L. BELL.
S. L. HAMMOND.
IL O. JONES.
H. B. MASHBURN.
11. L. MIZE.
FOR CLERK AND TREASURER.
(Vote for One.)
E. J. (DOC) ELDRIDGE.
F J. PAYNE.
A. L REES.
E. W. TULLIS.
FOR POLICE COMMISSIONERS,
(Vote for Two.)
H. T. ANSLEY.
ALLEN CHAPPELL
H .C. HORTON.
J. L. SPARKS.
WILLIS SHIVER HURT
WHEN HE FELL ON STICI
Willis Shiver, the little two-year
old son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Shi
ver, on Lee street, happened to a very
serious accident Tuesday moramg.
The little fellow was playing out ia
the yard when he fell on a stick about
a foot long, which went through the
child’s mouth and cut an ugly gash in.
his throat about an inch deep and 1
inches long. The accident occurred
some time before dinner on Tuesday,
but the child had not shown much
sign of being hurt, and it was isight
before the wounds were discovered
in his mouth. Dr. Henry B. Allen was
then called, and has been treating the
little fellow, and hopes that he will
soon have him straight again. The
many friends of Mr. and Mrs. Shiver
trust that the little fellow will sooa
be. all right.
SUFFRAGE LOSES BY
I, MAJORITY IN lOWS
SIOUX CITY, la., Nov. 9.—The ma
jority against woman suffrage in lowa
v ith one-fourth of the vote not count
ed today was 1,279.
FOREIGNERS LEAVING
CHIHUAHUA CITY NOW
EL PASO, Tex., Nov. 9.—A1l foreign
residents at Chihuahua City, Mex, am
expected to reach the border tonight.
The colony, traveling by special trai»„
left Chihuahua City, when it was fear
ed that Villa would attack the tow*
with as orce superior to that of Car
ranza.
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