The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-10-12
GETTING ALARMED.
Republican Headquarters in the West
Gloomy and Discouraged
OVER OUTLOOK N TIE EAST.

Gloomy snd discouraged
OVER OUTLOOK IN TIE EAST
They Conceed Loss of New York. an
Fear Connecticut and New
Jersey Will Go Demo-
cratic Too.
A dispatch from Chicago says gloom
mingled with conSternariop, has com
over the western Republican head
quarters at the news which ctme
from the East that New York stat
is practically lost for Roosevelt.
An reports agree that the presiden
Is not going to carry his own state
Political writer's, who have beer
studying the eastern conditions, Re
publican orators and even the conf
Dental representatives OF the party
managers, are all agreed that New
York is almost certain to 60 10!
Judge Parker By a plurality which
may reach $4,000.
The Republicans, who admit tha,
the state is lost, put the margin al
from 5000 to $4,000.
For the president to lcse his owr
state is urquestionably a severe bio"
to the Republican cause. The cam.
paign managers at Chicago headqusr.
ters are beginning to ask, What next:
II New York can be lined up II
the Democratic column 50 early IN the
campaign, the managers are wonder,
ing how about New jersey, Delaware,
Rhcda Island and Connecticut. 1t Is
not to be forgotten that Mckinley
carried New York by l43.6G6 four
years ago. II that plurality can be
wiped out and replaced by a plurality
estiuated all the way from Is, 600 to
$4,000, what is to happen in a state
ike Delaware, which went Repuoll,
can by the narrow margin Of 3,611:
SOME OTHER STATES.
Here also are the pluralities OF
some other eastern states which are
quite certain to participate in any
such wave Of Democratic sentiment
as appears to be sweeping over the
a tlantic coast states:
Connecticut, % SO; New jersey,
Sc, ,Sse; RhoGe Island. 1892; west
Virginia, p, ,o6s; Maryland, Is, Gal; IN.
diana, 26,4
It has been a precedent unviolateo
that the lead Of New YORK is followed
by the states in the immediate vicin.
ity which are subject to similar indu-
epces. as New YorE goes, New Jer'
sey and the rest Of them have a way
OF going.
The Republican managers ceased
scme time ago to make serious claim
to Maryland, and even West virginia
has been placed by them in the doubt
full class, which Is coming now to be
the Democratic class.
The wave Of Democratic sentiment,
which has been predicted oy the Par
ker managers, has put in its appear
ance, and the western people have
begun to wonder how long it will be
before Indiana leaves the doubtful
class for the Democratic column, and
Illinois is taken out OF the Repuoll-
can column and classed as doubtful.
It is q simple mathe matical calcula-
tion which has been made by the Re
publican managers here, showing that
the campaign is now far from being q
one-sided affair.
HOW THE GAME LOOKS.
The game now locks about Ike
this: Number OF votes In the electo-
,al college required tc elect, 2Ss; con-
csded to Alton B. Parker.
The solid South Gncluding West
virginia and Maryland,) l66; New
70 <, 80: likely to 60 with New York,
New jersey u, Connecticut !, Della
ware 3, Rhode Island I, total IS.
Total in the East for Parker, 23l.
The fifteen electoral votes IN In
diana would more than decide the
election in favor Of Parker.
In addition TO the chance Tor Wln'
ming Indiana the Democratic mana
gers have the chance OF carrying t~c
or three Of the far western states
which went Democratic in the last
presidential election-Coloraoo, MOI
tana, Nevada and Idaho.
Senator VIM. G. Clark, OF Montana
IS putting time and money into carry
ine Montana for Parker, and oelleVe:
II IS an even bet proposition, belnI
willing to back his belief with h.!
money. Montana and Idaho eacf
have three electoral votes and COLO
rado has FIVE.
ppyAN FoRCE