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Newspaper Forecasts Disturb the
Repubaicans-New York Herald
and Brooklyn Eagles Polls Garry
no Comfort Into Republican
Camps-RepubIican Sent Their
Speubinders Back to the Attack.
Taking no Chances.
By R. M. Larner.
Washington, Oct. 31.-"Judge Parker
has all of the Republican leaders busy
with their explanation remarked a
conservative Republican to-day, while
discussing the sudden enthusiasm and
hopefulness of the Democrats in New
England and the Middle West.
President Roosevelt and his man.
ayers are disappointed and seriously
troubled by the actual conditions in
New York, Indiana and West Virginia,
as disclosed by the New York Heralds
poll published yesterday. and storm
signals have been sounded at Repub-
lican headquarters in New York.
There was a genuine scare in admin
istration circles here to-day over the
unexpected change in the situation
during the past few days, and scouts
and couriers, who have been in the
field in West Virginia and Indiana
during the past two weeks, who came
into camp with extravagant predic-
tons OF Republican victory, have been
sent back to take another look over
the field.
Marked Changs I'm Outlook.
An administration organ. the Wash
ington STAR received this dispatch to-
day from a staff correspondent in New
York: Democrats hopeful. marked
change in the political outlook in
New York due to newspaper polls"
This is to be a Democratic week in
the campaign. The political pendulum
Is likely to swing far over toward the
Democratic side within the next four
Gays. Whether il will swing far
enough to indicate Democratic nation
al victory is a question to which
Democratic managers are not ready to
give positive affirmation and to which
the Republican managers enter a stout
negative.
There has been an undeniable in
crease in Democratic hope among the
rank and file, there was a state of 10y
was traced to the newspaper polls
made by the Brooklyn Eagle and the
New York Herald
A close friend of the administration,
who saw the President to-day, in
discussing the Democratic buoyancy
with me said: I'VE cannot derive much
comfort from the Herald's poll. 1t APP
pears that In many instances the con-
dluons were less favorable than the
poll indicates. Subsequent develop
snents have demonstrated that the SIT
uation in New York is far more dis
oouraging in New York than is re-
Nealed by the poll. The same trouble
eAlsts In Indiana and West Virginia
Speakers Ordered Back.
SO serious is the situation that or
GERS were to-day issued to send all
me ablest speakers available back to
New YORK, Indiana and West Virginia
20 Try TO check the rising Democratic
wave OF aggressiveness and hopeful
ness. We are not DISCOURAGED. but
some OF our scouts have brought back
misleading reports of the actual state
OF the public mind in several very i'm
portant states"
There are but few Democrats OF
prominence now In washington, as
very available man Is hard at work
lor Parker and Davis wherever their
services can be utilized.
representative Findlay OF South
SaIonna, member of the Democratic
congressional Committee. was the
anklng official at headquarters to-day
the absence Of Chairman Cowherd
Ei no ~ hard at work IN Missouri. NIr
Snu'ty says Democratic prospects
nave greatly improved within the pasi
nnfek, and the effective work of JudRs
arher and the managers a having
100 enect in all of the debatabls
republicans Caught Mapping.
Inc star says. The Republicans
Sem 20 have been caught mapping IN
YORK city. Chairman Cortelyou
~. kone West, confident that the East
ra-.. .seefe, and left behind him ar
AslaeaA for three pFlnoipai mest.