The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1904-10-01
REPUBLICANS
GIVE UP HOPE
No Likelihood That They Will.
Get Electoral Votes Of
West Virginia.
CoRNWELL Will BE ELECTED
Significant Republican Adnis-
sion Gives Democratic
Look to Indiana.
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tFrom Our Regular Correspondents

(From Our Regular CORRESPONDENCE
WASHINGTON, d. c., Sept. ao.-1t is
said tho Republicans have about con-
cluded that 1t Is useless to hope to
carry West Virginia for Roosevelt anu
Fairbanks. They believe the Legislature
will be safely Republican, but many OF
the national leaders who, are in close
touch with the situation in that State
admit privately that Parker Ind Davis
will capture the electoral vote. It is only
within the past ten days or less that the
Republicans have awakened to the dan
ger In West Virginia. Heretofore they
had claimed the state by from 900 to
10000 majority. But since they have got
closer to the situation they have learned
much There is not the slightest doubt
that the best informed leaders, including
Senator Scott himself, would be surprised
IL the state went Re publican at all.
Will Elect Cornwell.
There is little ground for the hope
that the Legislature will be Democratic,
but there Is good reason to believe thai
Senator Cornwell will be elected Y to tho
governorship.# It Is said the Republicans
admit that the chances are In favor Of
the defeat OF the Republican. candidate,
A West Virginia Republican Of Epromi-
nence said here a day or two ago he did
not believe Dawson would have been
nominated had 1t been realized what a
load he would prove. It has been DEM
Eonstratcd that he Is the most unpopu-
lar man in the party in some respects,
and his record as Secretary Of State and
hi To- col }nry vvhi
/ have proved extremely unpopular withsthe
mass Of the voters, make his defeat not
unlikely. sS5 3i 5i
Virginia is no longer in the
doubtful column, said State Senator
Campbell, secretary Of the West Virginia
Democratic State Central Committee, at
the headquarters Of the National Con-
sgressional Committee to-day. There is
no doubt Of the election OF Cornwell.i
The seven electoral votes of the State
will BIO cast for Parker and Davis as
surely. as election day come, and three
of the five members of Congress will be
Democrats. The defeat of Dayton / in the
Second District, Is assured. He has seen
the handwriting on the wall, and Is trying
10 get into the mb-proof of a Federal
.judgeshlp. But old Judge Jackson refuses
to. give up his place son the bench, and
Dayton cannot get@a place OF the kind
until the Judge retires. Day on will be
retired after the fourth OF next March.
The Gaines Edwards imbroglio In the
Third Is only healed on the surface and !
believe Henry 2 3, Davenport the Demo
cratic nominee, willsbe elected by aafe
majority. Davenport. by the way, is "a
grand nephew 81 Henry Clay.
y AS evidence of the fact that the Repub-
.licans are scared, Senator q kins has
within the past few d avs made show
OF great activity in West 1rirgl MIA Y visiting
county chairmen. and apparently trying
to put some snap into the campaign.
His peculiar brand Of that Z; al ticle b has
smoothed the waySto Republican! victory
in the state before. Indeed the Repub-
lica campaign fund has settled every
election in West Virginia for yea rss--since
1854, at least 81 s53 s#S i