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WILSON SURE 136 ELECTORAL
VOTES; HUGHES 70
225 IN DOUBT
New York, Nov. 6. Viewing .the
election situation today it appeared
that the people of New York, Illinois,
Ohio and Indiana wouldcome near
est" to holding the balance of power
in saying who shall be our next pres
ident and if senate and house of rep
resentatives shall be Republican or
Democratic. Both sides claim the
electoral vote of these states, which
totals 113, nearly 43 per cent of the
236'votes necessary to a choice.
The strongest Republicans con
cede the Democrats the 136 electoral
votes of the Carolinas, Georgia, Flor
ida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Texas, Arkansas, Tennessee and Ok
lahoma, though the Socialists are
claiming Oklahoma. Democrats ad
mit Hughes will get the 70 votes of
New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode
Island, Iowa and Pennsylvania. Ev
ery other state is claimed, by both
sides.
In Illinois lies the real enigma
close to 300,000 new women voters.
Because they are new in the exercise
of the franchise and because they
are women, political prognosticators
were exceedingly shy in making any
predictions on the Sucker state to
day. In New York the state with the
big 45 votes the last' minute claims
were:.
Republicans: Hughes will "win
New York by from 100,000 to-150,-000.
. Democrats: Wilson will win by at
least 100,000.
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BENSON; CLOSES CAMPAIGN
WITH ATTACK ON BOTH PARTIES
Milwaukee, Nov. 6. 10,000 per
sons wildly cheered Allan L. Benson,
Socialist presidential candidate, in
his final appeal for votes here last
night. Great applause greeted his
denunciation of both old parties and
bid advocacy of th? cause of Social
ism here the American hotbed of
Socialism.
Benson ridiculed the boasted
achievements of the Democrats in
the interest of the laboring class of
the nation and the claims of both
the Democratic and Republican par
ties as the friends of labor. He again
attacked the Hay-Chamberlain mili
tary law, a clause in which, he, de
clared, gave the president power dur
ing times of war to compel men to
fight.
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WOMAN INJURED AT ASCHER
LAKESIDE THEATER
Mrs. Laura Mead, 4886 Magnolia
av., is in a serious condition at" the
Ravenswood hospital the result of
being caught under a great plaster
scroll that fell from the ceiling in
the lobby of Ascher Bros.' Lakeside
theater, 4730 Sheridan rd.
The scroll chanced to break' from
the ceiling and fell just when Mrs.
Mead was passing out from -the ma
tinee. She was crushed to the mo
saic floor by the falling mass, her
skull was fractured, three ribs brok
en and a tooth knocked out.
She was rushed to the Ravens
wood hospital while theater em
ployes were set to work clearing
away the debris and scrubbing the
blood-bespattered wall and floor.
"The scroll was, I should judge,
five feet in diameter," said Dr. Ev
erett B. Williams, 4030 Greenview
av., who is attending Mrs. Mead. "I
went down to look at it after the ac
cident I think it must have weigh
ed at least 100 pounds. What sur
prised me was that it was jiot set
against lathing1 or wire screening,
but was set direct to the concrete
celling."
Though an account of the accident
was spread upon the police dep't ac
cident blotter, where all newspaper
reporters might see it, no loop news
paper has carried a line about it.
Ascher Bros, own eight big movie
theaters in the city and advertise all
Of thjm w the loop djtflieg,
