The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-11-08
BOTH PARTIES
CLAIM VICTORY
Campaign Managers Awaiting
the Verdict of the People.
QUIET AT HEADQUARTERS
ODDS AT THE FINISH ARE ON
ROOSEVELT.
UlET AT HEADQUARTERS

n EW YORK, Nov. From politi-
Nv clans to the people; from the cam
paign managers to the voters:
from the spellbinders TO the ballot
boxes the presidential election of 1904
IS now committed. For months the
leaders have planned. for days and
nights they have schemed and for
weeks the people have waited for to-
morrow, when they viii make theiT
choice. Right up TO the hour when all
EFFORT has ceased the campaign man
ayers OF both parties were confidently
claiming success with serenity which
seemed remarkable in view of the wide
divergence of expressed opinion
1t IS not TO be expected that any per
son connected with a political cam
palgD viii surrender his right to claim
all doubtful states and no one in this
campaign even privately or in conf
dence is willing To cOncede defeat The
confidence of the managers is shared
by their followers and on every hand
the stout declarations Of partisans for
their party candidates are heard. To-
night all is quiet: by tomorrow night
the country will know who has been
elected president.
Case Given to the Jury.
Aside from the preparations for the
receipt of the election returns there
Yves little evidence of the close of the
political campaign today unless it
might be found in the absence of
familiar faces about the national and
state headquarters and hotels. There
was nothing that indicated any excite
ment or undue interest and in fact the
political headquarters. both national
and state showed little of the activity
that has been noticeable up to the end
of last week. Nothing that either cam
paign committee could do at this late
day. it was recognized. would affect the
result, and this accounted in part for
the quietude, il being well known that
the case had gone TO the great Ameri-
can jury.
Headquarters Quiet.
The extreme quiet of headquarters
was also apparent at the hOtels-and
those haunts where politicians often
cOngregate TO discuss the prospects of
the different candidates were deserted
nearly all day by the men who are
most interested i'm the election.
Election returns will be received at
all the headquarters. Chairman
COrtelyOu VIII go to Hampstead. L. l.,
10 vote. and upon his return will re
main at. the committee rooms all the
evening.
Vice Chairman NicoH Chairman
of the executive committee and Secre-
taTy Woodson. viii receive the returns
at Democratic national committee
rooms.
Chairman Cord Meyer and other
Democratic state committeeman will
be at the Hoffman house William
Barnes, IN, Of the executive committee
viii be in charge az the Republican
rooms in the Fifth Avenue hotel
Evidences Of breaking up were ap-
parent today When members of the
various committees were observed
clearing out their desks Of things that
have accumulated during the cam
paign. II looked very much as if tht
end was near at hand.
serenely Confident
Both parties entered uDon the last
day of the campaign with expressions
of absolute confidence En- the success OF
their respective candidates
The members Of the Democratic com
mittee were at headquarters quite
early. Vice Chairman Delaney Nicol
was i'm charge at the Democratic head
quarters and Trey Woodson, secretary
of the committee. and J. G. Johnson
members of the committee for Kansas
were also there Secretary WOods0r
entertained d number Of neWspapeTmeT
with stories to Illustrate his confidence
| in the result Mr. NiCOil i'm a more
| serious frame OF mind, expressed the
1 opinion which has heretofore beer
given that the Democrats Mould have
4 a sufficient number Of electoral vote:
! to elect Judge Parker.
! Vice Chairman Sheehan of the COM
| mittee did not 90 TO headquarters. but
went 10 the rooms in the Waldorf
! Astoria where ne has directed his part
/ Of the campaign for the past six " eeks
Business Wound Up.
The chairman CT the Republican COM
! nittee came to national headquarters
I about y o'clock, an hour earlier than
! usual Considerable activity was OBJ
served around the headquarters. A
( great many men who had been making
I speeches and who had been actively at
/ work in the campaign were in the COM
mittee rooms, closing up their business
! with the national committee. A state
nent in reply 20 that given out by the
! Democratic national committee last
night was prepared and issued by the
4 representatives Of the Sound Money
: league OF four years ago.
Governor OdeH, chairman of the Re
publican state committee. just prior
To leaving Republican headquarters fol
his home AT Newburgh expressed his
absolute confidence that the Republic
ans would carry New York state
Asked as to how far Higgins would
run behind Roosevelt he said 10000 OF
40, 0O0,
viii the national ticket have enough
votes to pun Higgins Trough the
governor WAS asked
"Oh, yes" he responded. Eve will
have margin enough. Murphy refer-
ring TO the leader Of Tammany HalD
win have 10 carry Greater New York
by more than 10000 in order TO beat US.
odell's Last Statement.
The governor followed this remark
with a statement that he did not know
whether he should make that asser-
ton. because he had not been giving
figures and did not like 10 give figures
on questions of this kind but he after
wards asserted that his statement that
the Democrats would have to carry
Greater New York by more than 140, 900
was warranted
AT the Democratic state headquarters
none of the leaders appeared early in
the day with the exception of Chairman
Rode of the bureau of organization.
II was stated that the work Of lie COM
mittee had been completed and they
were ready for the contest tomorrow.
Secretary WOodsOn, who remained at
Democratic headquarters nearly all
day. had a long distance telephone
conversation with Chairman Taggart.
who assured him that he was confident
of carrying Indiana. A telegram from
John McGraw OF West Virginia, mem
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