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HUGHES WON IN PRINCETON VOTE

Had. Plurality of 138 Out of Total of 1,218 Straw Ballots.

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Princeton, N. J., Oct. 18, 1916.--Charles Evans Hughes secured a plurality of 138 votes over Woodrow Wilson in the straw ballot presidential election conducted here today by the Princetonian.

Out of a total of 1,218 votes cast, Hughes secured 673, Wilson 535, Hanley 12 and Benson 2.

The voting was done by states, and in all but one out of five states, Hughes led in number of votes. And in the one state, Connecticut, where Wilson was in the lead, his plurality was only one vote. Omitting Hanley and Benson, the total number of votes cast by men of New Jersey was 298 and of those 151 were for Hughes and 147 for Wilson; by men from New York, a total of 218 votes with 131 for Hughes and 87 for Wilson; by men from Pennsylvania, a total of 190 votes with 108 for Hughes and 82 for Wilson; men from New York, a total of 218 votes with 131 for Hughes and 87 for Wilson; by men from Pennsylvania, a total of 190 votes with 108 for Hughes and 82 for Wilson; by men from Connecticut, a total of 13 with 6 for Hughes.

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