HUGHES WON CLOSEST ELECTION IN YEARS

As the 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.

Early in the evening, with reports from only a few states, Massachusetts, New 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.

In Massachusetts, Boston went for Wilson, but the plurality was not great enough to balance the greater plurality for Hughes in the remainder of the state. Conditions were the same in New York. The city returned a winning number of votes for Wilson but the votes from the northern part of the state turned the total vote in Hughes' favor.

In all the New 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 to.

In the state elections, Samuel W. McCall was returned as governor with a plurality of about 30,000, and Henry Cab- of Lodge '71 was re-elected United States Senator with a plurality of about 20,000.

At the 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.

Following is a list of the states heard from with a summary of the popular and electoral votes cast in each:

Electoral  vote  Popular  voteHughes  Wilson  Hughes  WilsonAla.    12  618  6,283Ariz.    3  820  1,100Cal.  15    6,458  6,271Col.  8    85,778  75,374Conn.  7    76,871  69,666Del.  3    735  536Ga.    14  8,517  43,991Ida.  4    4,599  3,847Ill.  29    197,631  175,325Ind.  15    136,240  122,715Iowa  13    87,363  69,542Kan.    10  4,640  4,920Ky.    13  155,198  192,087La.    10  453  6,793Md.    8  31,767  37,467Me.  6    63,645  58,779Mass.  18    208,425  198,317Mich.  15    24,266  20,454Minn.  12    7,683  7,674Mo.    18  65,680  77,930Mont.    4  2,475  6,089Neb.    8  4,154  5,034N. H.  4    23,594  20,870N. M.    3  2,541  2,710N. Y.  45    838,038  709,446N. Dak.    5  3,545  4,129Ohio    24  115,596  122,000Okla.    10  778  1,523Ore.  5    6,438  3,698Penn.  38    293,743  186,926R. I.  5    4,333  2,899S. G.    9  3,830  6,452S. Dak.  5    6,210  5,371Tex.    20  7,216  40,811Utah    4  14,716  24,597Vt.  4    11,300  4,316Wash.  7    127  123W. Va.  8    1,027  954Wis.  13    94,772  86,031Wy.  3    1,942  1,933Total  285  175  2,602,459  2,353,733Gr. Tot.  460    4,956,19