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VOL. XXXIX.
PITTSBORO, CHATHAM COUNTY, N. C, NOVEMBER 15, 1916.
NO. 15.
uontracts will be made.
WILSON HAD
SUPPORT OF
WOMAN AND
MOOSE VOTE
Western Progressives Turned
To Him Almost En Masse
But Not Those of East
PEACE WAS POWEREUL
ISSUE WITH THE WOMEN
MOOSE AFRAID OF HUGHES.
HYPHEN SHOT TO PIECES.
LABOR VOTE DIVIDED.
NEW HAMPSHIRE WILSON'S
Leads New England State by 63
Votes. Gains in California with 17
Precincts Missing. Hughes Drops
in Minnesota, but Still Maintains
Safe Lead. Wilson is a majority
President.
New York. On the returns up to
date President Wilson has received
8.508,085 votes and Mr. Hughes 8,090,
951. Mr. Wilson's popular plurality
is therefore 417,134. He is a majority
president, which he Was not when he
went into office. In 1912 he received
6,293,419 votes.
It has been said that Mr. Hughes re
ceived the votes of the most populous
states of the Union and Mr. Wilson
that of the less populou. There is not
so mucch difference as might be ex
pected. The states which voted for
Mr. Hughes had, according to the last
census. 45,901,739 inhabitants. Those
which voted for Mr. Wilson had 45,
737,643. The difference in Mr. Hughes'
favor is 164,096.
The latest returns from the close
states show the following results:
In California Wilson is leading by
3,431 votes, with a few scattering pre
cincts missing; in Minnesota, where
some of the militiamen's votes have
been counted, Hughes is still ahead
by 286 votes with 27 districts missing;
in North Dakota, with 14 districts miss
ing. Wilson leads by 963 votes; New
Hampshire, where the count has been
completed, gives Wilson a plurality of
63 votes.
From the reports of leading corre
spondents in the different states on
the influences which brought about
Mr. Wilson's election It is possible to
get a clear idea of the part played by
the different group "votes" of which
so much was said before election, and
of the reasons whjich moved great
bodies of voters to the decision they
reached.
Progressives and the Women.
Two classes of voters, and two only,
accomplished the result. They were
not the Gerrman-Americans, the labor
vote, or any of the groups standing for
special interests. They were the Pro
gressives and the women.
The split made in the Republican
partv in 1910, which became a break
in 1912, was not mended at Chicago.
The dispatches now in the hands of
the papers indicate no probability of
its being mended until the cause for
it is taken away. From the Hudson
River to the Mississippi, the bolters
of 1912 were largely satisfied with
Hughes, but to the East and West of
those boundaries, especially to the
West, they were not. And it was the
West that decided the election.
In New York and Illinois th breach
was apparently healed; there is no
sign of anything to the contrary, anT
the same thing seems true of the
states that generally follow the leader
ship of ' these two. That, however,
was as far as Colonel Roosevelt was
able to bring about a reunion.
The Progressives of Kansas, Wash
ington, California and the other West
ern States have again defeated a Re
cause the other wing of the party was
in control and made the nomination.
Minnesota and Wisconsin voted for
Hughes, but both have show that they
are as progressive as ever, Minnesota
by accepting him so narrowly and
Wisconsin by LaFollette's victory.
The woman vote and the Progres
sive vote telescope each other, for in
the critical states the women who
turned jfche election were largely Pro
gressives. But the -women voted as
women, too. The reports from the
states where women vote show that
the dream of solidifying woman as a
sex and swinging her vote this way
and that at the order of female politi
cal leaders is shattered forever. But
the women did make up their minds
as women in many Western tSates,
and voted without regard either to
how the women politicians bade them
or to how their own men folks voted.
; m m
rvrmi
Popular Vote and Pluralities
-Vote in 1912.-
Wilson.
82,439
10,324
68,838
283,436
114,223
74,561
22,631
36,417
93,171
33,921
405,048
281,890
185,325
143,670
219,584
60,966
51,113
112,674
173,408
150,751
106,426
57,114
330,746
27,941
109,008
7,96g
34,724
178,289
20,437
455,573
144,507
29,535
423,52
119,156
47,064
395,619
30,142
48,355
48,942
130,335
221,589
36,579
15,350
90,332
86,840
113,197
164,409
15,310
Rep.-Prog. States.
32,420. .Alabama .'.
9,970. .Arizona
45,970. .Arkansas
287,524 . . California
130,692. .Colorado
102,453. .Connecticut
24,884. .Delaware
8,814. .Florida
27.200. .Georgia
58,337. .Idaho
640,091 . . Illinois . ."1 ..... .
313,274. .Indiana
281,624. .Iowa
194,967. .Kansas
218,278. .Kentucky
13,157. .Louisiana
75,038. .Maine
112,742. .Maryland
298,176 . . Massachusetts . . .
366,828. .Michigan
190,190. .Minnesota
5,138.'. Mississippi ,
332,192. .Missouri ,
40,968. .Montana ,
, Nebraska ,
. Nevada ,
.New Hampshire.
.New Jersey
. New Mexico
126,905.
8,816.
50,721.
234,245.
26,080.
845,580.. New York
98,269 . . North Carolina . .
48,816 . . North Dakota . . .
506,393. .Ohio
90,786. .Oklahoma
72.273. .Oregon
720,731. .Pennsylvania. . .
44,581. .Rhode Island...
1,829 . . South Carolina .
58,811. .South Dakota ..
113, 169.. Tennessee
55,608. .Texas
66.274. .Utah
45,375. .Vermont
45,065. .Virginia
184,143. .Washington
135,866 . . West Virginia . .
189,539 . . Wisconsin
23,792. .Wyoming
Votes
Wilson..
87,396
29,641
96,110
466,106
170,295
99,687
25,255
60,000
110,000
70,000
869,152
333,588
170,071
315,780
189,348
68,000
64,027
134,216
247,753
231.161
178,548
91,000
372,841
87,124
118,428
12,448
43,767
200,853
31,874
766,710
158,000
54,279
578,000
140,000
113,688
510,747
39,853
68,000
45,449
138,647
230,000
81,850
23,100
60,107
200,000
118,332
180,465
27,617
in 1916
Hughes.
26,250
19,363
46,347
462,828
96,852
106,378
26,634
12,000
28,000
55,000
1,044,608
1 340,882
219,817
278,152
162,333
9,000
69,660
113,695
268,138
302,488
178,808
59,788
90,743
9,842
43,724
262,080
28,880
876,172
110,000
53,154
496,720
110,000
124,526
695,734
44,159
1,500
50,192
97,553
75,000
52,925
39,600
21,132
185,000
120,359
204,418
19,998
Pluralities.
Wilson. Hughes
61,146
10,278
49,763
3,278
73,443
48,000
82,000
15,000
37,628
37,015
59,000
20,521
86,000
27,426
27,336
27,575
2,606
63
2,994
48,000
1,125
81,280
30,000
66,500
41,094
155,000
28,925
38,975
15,000
7,619
6,691
1,379
175,456
7,294
49,746
5,633
20,385
71,327
260
61,277
109,456
10,838
184,987
4,806
5,443
16,500
1,027
23,953
6,293,117 7,604,594.. Totals 8,508,728 8,091,547 1,173,590 756,418
Popular plurality for President Wilson on present returns, 417,172.
Gain over popular vote in 1912, on present returns, 1,215,726.
Note All the returns shown in this table, with the exception of those
from New Hampshire are unofficial and, with the exception of returns from
New Jersey, Oregon, and Vermont, incomplete. Here is a list showing miss
ing votes in some state where a number of districts rot heard from have
been specified: Arkansas, 531 out of 1,765; Colorado, 109 out of 1,451; Iowa
487 out of 2,297; Kansas, 230 out of 2,443; Maine, four small preetncts miss
ing; Michigan, 275 out of 2,260; Minnesota, approximately, 2,500 votes, in
cluding border votes, to be heard from; Missouri, 140 voting precincts
missing; New Mexico, 40 out of 638 missing; Washington, 283 out of 2,385;
West Virginia, 12 precincts missing.
WOMEN A GREAT FACTOR.
Helped Wilson Win the West Hold
to Parties in Illinois.
In the greatest of the suffrage states,
Illinois, the women divided on the
same lines as the men and voted
about the same.
"The result," says a Chicago corre
spondent, "was to swell the vote of
the state without changing the result,
except in sporadic cases, where purely
local affairs were at stake."
The Republicans in Illinois appealed
bo the women in opposition to the slo
gan, "He kept us out of war," by bring
ing in women to give personal experi
ences fn Mexico and m Europe and to
tell of their vain appeals for protection
under the American flag. If "He kept
us out of war" had any effect on the
Illinois women, this move offset it.
In many of the downstate counties
the election officials did not separate
the vote of the men and Tjwomen. Where
the distinction was mate, the down
state totals were: Wilson, men,
232,592; women, 142,470; Hughes, men,
275,968; women, 187,806. This portion
of the vote gave Hughes a plurality of
43,367 on the men's vote, and 45,336
on the women's.
"He kept us out of war," seems to
have had no Influence on the women
of Illinois, but on the other hand they
did not rise to the argument of the
suffrage leaders, who wanted them to
make suffrage the sole issue; there is
too little difference between their vote
and the men's forf any such thing to
have happened.
In Montana, as in Illinois, the women
appeared to -be actuated by the same
wishes and motives as the men.
How Wilson Led Hi T
States. Wilson
Arkansas 96,110
Colorado 158,257
Delaware 25,255
Florida 60,000
Idaho 70,000
Illinois 869,152
Indiana 333,588
Iowa 170,071
Kansas 315,780
Maine 64,027
Michigan ., 231,161
Massachusetts . . . 247,763
Montana 87,124
Nebraska 118,428
New Jersey 200,853
New Mexico 31,874
New York 706,716
North Dakota ... 54,270
Rhode Island; 39,353
Tennssee 138,647
Texas 230,000
Utah 81,850
Vermont . 23,100
Washington 200,00
West Virginia 118,332
Wisconsin . 180,415
icket.
Governor
93,562
145,156
23,987
31,250
60,500
521,207
324,833
148,843
198,000
67,219
192,825
230,102
75,931
117,839
165,605
27,065
; 697,007
19,458
25,384
131,974
200,000
77,465
15.212
160,287
120,20?
171,785
REPUBLICANS SURE
OF HOUSE CONTROL
WILL HAVE A MAJORITY OF ONLY
SEVEN MEMBERS OVER THE
DEMOCRATS.
THREE DISTRICTS IN DOUBT
ELECTORAL VOTE.
Votes of Members of- Minor Parties
Which Have a Total of Nine Votes,
Might Prevent Election of Speaker
Mann.
Washington. Returns from all ex
cept three of the 435 Congressional
districts in the country make It clear
that the Republicans will have a
majority of at least seven over the
Democrats in the next House of Rep
resentatives. Granting victories to the Democratic
candidates in all three doubtful dis
tricts, the Republicans will still main
tain a majority over their major party
opponents. If the Democrats should
capture the three doubtful districts,
and the five members who have been
elected by independent movements or
minor parties should join with them,
combined opposition would have a ma
jority of one over the Republicans.
But one of the minor party candi
dates will join the Republicans, and
it is assured that two others will vote
generally with that party.
This means that Republicans will
be able to elect their candiate speak
er, organize the House and control the
committees. The Republicans may
gain one and perhaps two of the doubt
ful districts. The third doubtful dis
trict is likely to go to the Democrats.
The line-up of the House of Repre
sentatives in the next, or Sixty-fifth
Congress as far as shown by returns
to date, will be as follows:
Republicans 217
Democrats 210
Prohibtionist who will act gener
ally with the Democrats 1
Socialist, who will act generally
with the Democrats 1
Independent, who will attend the
Republican caucus 1
Protectionist, who will attend the
Republican caucus 1
Progressive, who will act gener
ally with the Republicans .... 1
Doubtful (one in New Mexico and
two in Pennsylvania) 3
Total membership , 435
Admits Miss Rankin Wins
In telegraphing to Washington
that he had been re-elected, Congress
man John H. Evans, Democrat, com
ceded the election of Miss Jeannette
Rankin, Republican, as a Congress
man, or it may be better to say, a
Congresswoman at large from Mon
tana over Harry B. Mitchell, Demo
crap, Congressman James J. Britt, Re
publican, of North Carolina, whose
election was in doubt, telephoned to
Chairman Woods of the Republican
Congressional Campaign Committee,
from Asheville that the count in his
district had been completed and that
he was successful by thirteen votes
over his Democratic opponent, Zeb.
Weaver.
LINE UP OF THE NEXT HOUSE
State
Alabama . .
Arizona . . .
Arkansas .
California . .
Colorado . . .
Connecticut
Delaware . .
Florida
Georgia . . .
Idaho
Illinois . . .
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Massachusetts .
Maryland
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
New Hampshire. .
Nevada
New Jersey
New Mexico
New York
North Carolina . .
North Dakota ....
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania ....
Rhode Island
South Carolina . .
South Dakota ....
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont .x
Virginia
Washington ......
West Virginia ....
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Rep. Dem. Others.
10
1
7
6 4 1
1 ,3
4 1..
X
4
12
2
21
9
11
3
2
4
11
2
12
8
2
1
3
2
1
10
26
3
9
2
3
29
2
2
2
2
1
4
4
11
1
6
4
5
9
7
4
4
1
1
8
14
1
16
9
13
6
1
7
1
8
18
2
9
1
1
1
1
1
29
15
13
6
18
15
12
Wilson Hughes
Alabama 12
Arizona 3
Arkansas . . , 9
California 13
Colorada 6
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida 6
Georgia 14
Idaho 4
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas 10
Kentucky 13
Louisiana 10
Maine
Maryland 8
Massachusetts ..
Michigan ,.. ..
Minnesota . .
Mississippi 10
Missouri 18
Montana 4
Nebraska 8
Nevada 3
New Hampshire 4
New Jersey
New Mexico 3
New York
North Carolina 12
North Dakota 5
Ohio v... 24
Oklahoma .'. . . 10
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South .Carolina 9
South Dakota
Tennessee . . ., 12
Texas 20
Utah 4
Vermont
Virginia 12
Washington 7
West Virginia
Wisoonsin
Wyoming 3
Total 276
14
45
5
38
5
8
13
255
POPULATION OF WILSON AND
HUGHES STATES
States. Wilson.
Alabama 2,138,093
Arizona 204,354
Arkansas 1,574,449
California 2,377,549
Colorado 799,024
Connecticut
Delaware
Florida 751,130
Georgia 2,609,121
Idaho 325,594
Illinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas 1,690,949
Kentucky 2,289,906
Louisiana 1,656,388
Maine
Maryland 1,295,346
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
Mississippi 1,797,114
Missouri 3,293,335
Montana 376,053
Nebraska 1,192,214
Nevada 71,875
New Hampshire. . 430,572
New Jersey
New Mexico 327,301
New York
North Carolina.. 2,206,287
North Dakota... 577,056
Ohio 4,767,121
Oklahoma 1,657,155
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island . . . .
South Carolina . . 1,515,400
South Dakota
Tennesse 2,184,789
Texas 3,896,542
Utah 373,351
Vermont
Virginia 2,061,612
Washington ..,. 1,141,990
West Virginia ...
Wisconsin
Wyoming ....... 145,965
Hughes
1,114,756
202,322
5,638,591
2,700.876
2,224,771
742,371
3,366,416
2,810.173
2,075,708
2,537,167
9,113,279
542,610
7,665,111
542,610
583,888
355,956
1,221,119
2,333,860
Total 45,737,643 45,901,739
REPUBLICANS WILL WAIT
FOR THE OFFICIAL COUNT
Will Not Concede Wilson's Election
Until All the Doubtful States
Are Canvassed.
Total 216 210 9
Doubtful North Carolina, 1; New
Mexico, 1; Pennsylvania, 2. Total, 4.
Progressive.
Independent.
Socialist.
Total membership, 435.
New York. It may be Thanksgiving
before Charles E. Hughes sends Presi
dent Wilson a telegram of congratula
tion. That is, it may be Thanksgiving
if the Republican candidate remains in
the hands of the Republican National
Committee. For Chairman Willcox
said that he would make no conces
sions before the vote in all the doubt
ful states had been "officially canvass
ed." It was explained that this meant
when the secretary of sitate in each of
the doubtful states had certified to the
results. While the official canvass
started in California Monday, it does
not start in North Dakota until Nov.
17. This will take from a week to ten
days, and Thanksgiving comes this
vear on Nov. 30. When Chairman
Willcox was asked for an estimate of
the time to elapse before the Republi
can leaders would decide who had
been elected president, he said he
would make no estimate. He did say
that he regardd ten days as a "safe
minimum" rf the time to elapse.
Mr. HughtBs had nothing to say. He
was asked for a statement as he re
turned to the Hotel Astor from an auto
mobile ride but would make no com
ment. He has let it be known that he
will make no public announcement of
the result of last Tuesday's election
until the official figures in the doubt
ful states, Minnesota, New Mexico,
North Dakota and especially Cali
fornia has been made a matter of
record.
DEMOCRATS LEAD
5 00
PRACTICALLY OFFICIAL RE
TURNS FROM NEARLY EVERY
COUNTY.
AMENDMENTS ALL CARRY
Both Weaver, Democrat, and Britt,
Republican, Claiming Election in
The Tenth District.
Raleigh. Having heard definitely
from the vote in nearly all of the
state the estimated plurality has
been amended and it is practically
sure that the Democrats will lead in
North Carolina by over 50,000. Eighty
two counties heard from give the
flSSsfip!'' "
THOMAS W. BICKETT
Governor-Elect of North Carolina.
ZEBULON WEAVER
Democratic Candidate In Tenth Dis
trict. Both Mr. Weaver and J. J.
Brittt, Republican, are claiming the
Election in this Districtt.
Democrats a plurality of 49,211.
Twelve counties in the lot went Re
publican, and seventy Democratic.
Although the vote for the constitu
tional amendments was exceedingly
and disappointingly light to their ad
herents, nevertheless the apparent
absence of determined effort to defeat
the amendments gives hope that they
have carried. Mr. W. S. Wilson, who
has actively championed the four
continues optimistic. The fact that
only one county thus far has reported
defeat of the amendments leads him
to believe that although the vote will
be inconsequential compared to the
Democratic vote, yet it will be suffi
cient. Both Congressman Britt, Republican,
and State Senator Zeb Weaver, his
Democratic opponent, continued to
claim election to Congress in the Tenth
district, and that it will undoubtedly
take an official count to decide.
From all indications, the Democratic
majority will be the greatest since
1900 when Aycock swept Spencer B.
Adams off his feet by 58,987. In 1904
Robert B. Glenn defeated Charles J.
Harris by 49,256. Governor W. W.
Kitchin's majority in 1908 was 49,
256, while Governor Locke Craig car
ried the state in 1912 by 45,486.
BANDITS MASSACRE
100 MEN AND WOMEN
ZAPATISTAS SLAY MEN, WOMEN
AND CHILDREN WITHOUT
MERCY. ,
ONLY ONE PERSON ESCAPES
Attack Train in Wilderness of Stats
of Morelos. Leave the Slaughtered
in Heaps Besides Cars. Attack Oc
curred Nov. 3.
El Paso Tex. An indiscriminate
massacre of nearly 100 women and
children and Carranza soldiers who
were traveling on a train near Con
treras state of Morelos, which was at
tacked by Zapata followers, is report
ed Mexico City newspapers received
here. After the attack on the train
the dead lay in piles besides the cars,
the papers state.
Only one person, so far as known,
escaped death at the hands of the
bandits. He was Captain Antonio
Priegos.
The attack occurred November 3.i
The pasenger train, covered by a mili
tary train, eight kilometers was halt
ed in a mountain wilderness after the
military train had been allowed to pass
unmolested. For 15 minutes the Zapa
tists kept up the slaughter, slaying
men and women who prayed for mercy
and killed the babies who accompan
ied their mothers, the papers declare.
Soldiers abroad the passenger train
were without their accoutrements and
unable to offer any resistance. Among
the list of dead given in the Mexico
City papers is the name of Col..
Garido Alfaro, two majors and three
captains.
When a releaf train reached the
scene of the attack several hours after
it occurred the Zapatistas had satter
ed into the hills.
CHEERING CROWD GREET8
PRESIDENT AT WASHINGTON.
Upon His Return to Nation's Capital
to Take Up Waiting Public Prob
lems. Hundreds Sought to Shake
His Hands.
Washington. President Wilton
came back to Washington Sunday
ready to take up waiting public prob
lems and begin framing plans for his
second term in the White House. He
has been away two months. A cheer
ing crowd packed the railroad station
and waited outside in a drizzle of rain
to welcome the President. As he ap
peared walking down the station plat
form acompanied by Mrs. Wilson and
flanked by secret service men hun
dreds began shouting and rushed for
ward in efforts to shake his hands.
Mr. Wilson walked through the sta
tion with his hat off bowing and smil
ing, and was taken through the presi
dential waiting room to an automobile
outside. Secretary Baker, Attorney
General Gregory, Secretary Tumulty
and Senator James of Kentucky were
among those who greeted him. Mrs.
Wilson, Miss Margaret Wilson and
miss tieien wooarow nones, a. cousin,
accompaunied him here to the trip
from New York, where the party
landed from the yacht Mayflower.
FOUR TROOPERS MEET
TRAGIC DEATH8, LAREDO
Demented Corporal Shoots and Kills
Two Members of Troop K, Another
is Hit by Train. Fourth Found
Dead.
Laredo, Texas. With the finding of
the body of Michael Headin, a private
of I troop 14th cavalry, the number of
United States soldiers who met tragic
deaths here Saturday was increased to
four others were privates Jones and
McKnight of K. troop, Fourteenth
Cavalry, who were shot and killed by
a corporal of the same troop, who of
ficers believe, was demented and Paul
Torrey, a private of the supply com
pany of the Ninth Infantry, who was
struck by a train and killed.
There were no bruises on Headin's
body, which was found in a road near
the camp and the cause of his death
has not been determined.
ATLANTIC FLEET TO
VISIT PANAMA CANAL.
. Washington. Arrangements for a
five-day sightseeing trip to the Panama
Canal for the officers and men of the
Atlantic fleet, were announced by the
Navy Department. The fleet will visit
the canal during the spring exercises,
beginning March 17.
VILLA BANDITS NEARING
THE AMERICAN LINE8.
Chihuahua City, Mexico Villa ban
dits who loo'ted the Mexican Central
train at lagunna station and executed
the 29 Carranza guards October 3, are
now marching toward San Buena Ven
ture (El Valie, near the American ex
peditionary forces outpost. The ban
dits are in command of Gen. Silvestre
Quevedo, who lotted the Gallego sta
tion last week. A cavalry column
from the Carranza garrison at Sauz is
pursuing the bandits.