The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-11-07
FEELING OF CONFIDENCE PER-
MEATES THE NATIONAL
HEADQUARTERS.
Claims Of the Managers Is Parker
Will Have a Majority in
Electoral College.

tional headquarters in East Thirty
fourth street. Those who have been re-
sponsible for the conduct of the cam
paign are primed with facts and fig
ures which seem to assure beyond
question the success Of the Parker and
Davis ticket next Tuesday.
gers embrace the southern and Rocky
mountain states for Judge Parker, as
we'll as New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut, Maryland, Delaware, West
Virginia and Indiana. Two states are
placed in the doubtful column, Wis
consin and Illinois, although the dem
ocrats believe that there is unmis-
TAXABLE republican detection in both.
The claim in the electoral college is
therefore 264 for Parker and 172 for
Roosevelt. Wisconsin has 13 and Him
ois q electoral votes, and should both
Of these states be carried for Roose-
welt there would still be a majority for
Parker of SO votes, or 25 more than the
necessary 239 to elect.
The signed statement given out at
the democratic national headquarters
embraces the following claims:
Our canvass shows that we shall
certainly carry by good majorities the
states of New York, New Jersey, Con-
necticut, Maryland, Delaware West
Virginia, and Indiana, and that in
addition to these electoral votes we
shall have the majority if not all Of
tic electoral votes c. the Rocky noun
dc accurately tie result in Wiscon-
sil, bit tie vecyJ best information in
d.cc,es that Governor Peck will surely
be elected, and that the national ticket
Is in doubt.
illinois must also be classed in the
doubtful column, although there are
indications of republican detection. If
any one entertains any doubt con-
corning the electoral vote of the state
of New York it ought to be dissolved
by the unprecedented registration of
66S, 400 votes in New York city, and by
the reflection that this is first and
foremost a democratic city,
An unofficial forecast of democratic
success, based upon returns gathered
by leading metropolitan newspaper,
sizes up the situation as follows:
The thirteen states of the old south,
which are not open to real contest,
cast ISL electoral votes. To these the
Is votes of Maryland and West vfr-
ginia may be added, making 166. Of
the 476 members of the electoral COL
lege, 239 will be necessary for the
democrats to elect president. 1t will
be necessary, therefore, for the demo-
Gratis to get 70 electoral votes north
Of Maryland and West Virginia. Should
New York's 80 electoral votes be cast
for Parker, as the democratic man.
ayers are confident they will be there
would remain necessary for democrat
ic success only "a more electoral votes.
These thirty-four electoral votes
might come from either of the follow
ing combinations:
Group one-New Jersey, u, Della
ware, 8, Nevada 3, Montana, 8 In
diana, Is, making SO, two more than
necessary, or PAL in the electoral col
lege.
Group two-Indiana Is, New Jersey,
II, and Connecticut Z, making an even
"a, restoring the solid South Except
Delaware), New York, Indiana, New
Jersey, and Connecticut This would
be victory on the old battle-ground,
with lines unchanged.
Leaving out Indiana, which the re-
publicans declare is vital to democrat
ic success, the necessary "a votes could
be had by either of the following COM
bination would insure democratic vic
tory:
Group five-New Jersey, u, Della
ware 8, California 10, Colorado 5, Ne
vada 3, Montana 8; total, So.