Word: republican
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Dates: during 1910-1919
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...CRIMSON went to press at 2 o'clock this morning, Charles Evans Hughes, the Republican candidate in yesterday's Presidential election led by a close margin with about 285 electoral votes to 175 for Woodrow Wilson, with 71 still to be heard from. A record number of votes was cast. Already reports from 2,602,459 popular votes for Hughes and 2,353,738 for Wilson have been recorded...
...York and Maine, it was impossible to say who would win. At times Wilson led two of the three states only to fall behind in them all later. As early as this however, the New York and Boston newspapers began to flash their lights showing a victory for the Republican party...
...England and Middle Atlantic states returned a Republican plurality with the exception of Maryland. Farther in the West, however, the voting was closer, with Wilson a slight favorite, although he did not secure as many votes in those states as he was expected...
...last elections in 1912, Massachusetts went for Wilson with 174,208 votes to 155,948 for Taft, and 142,228 for Roosevelt, and in 1908 returned 265,966 votes for Taft and 155,533 for Bryan. The state has always been essentially Republican and went Democratic only when the Progressive party was formed...
Much adverse criticism has greeted the decision of the New Haven Election Board that Yale students cannot vote in today's election. The Board maintained that the students were not permanent residents of the city and therefore were not qualified to register as voters. The Republican partisans are particularly disappointed since the straw ballot taken at Yale resulted in an overwhelming victory for Hughes...