The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-10-14
REPUBLICAN ESTIMATES SHOW
THAT MEAD WILL RUN FAR
BEHIND ROooEVELT.
Now Figured From Party otanopoin'
That the Railroad Candidate
VIII Be Defeated.

tv central committees published in the
Observation-Disclosures Wednesday morning,
show that the most encouraging re-
publican estimates indicate that A. +.
Mead. the railroad candidate for COVER
nor will run far behind the Roosevelt
electors in practically every county in
the state These reports evidence the
very glaring confession on the part of
republican campaign managers that
the majority given Mr.. Mead will fall
below that given the electoral ticket by
1875
As might be expected these reports
are colored with a very rosy republic
can tint, but there are only six coun-
ties which do not report that Mr.. Mead
is running wei! in the rear of the pres
idential ticket one OF these is What
com county. Mr. Meads own county
where the republican state committee
man claims that Mr.. Mead is running
along with the electoral ticket, despite
the Well-kuoWn fact that the republi-
can party i'm one legislative district in
that county is split from top to bot
tom by fractional war which has re-
suited in the nomination of rival legis
latiye tickets Another county which
makes no concession Of a detection is
Snohomish. in which the disaffected re-
pubicans are known to be very numer-
Gus and thoroughly organized.
Rosy Republican Reports.
An indication that the men making
these reports have given the best pos
sible cooriug 10 them is contained in
the fact chat they conceed but three
counties to Judge Turner, Lincoln by
300 majority. Whitman by 500 and
Okonogan by 40. They even claim for
Mr.. Mead such we'll known Turner
counties as Spokane Stevens, Tousuz
Walla Walla, Columbia and Kittitas,
ana claim that Mr.. Mead will break
even in such counties as Garfield and
Ferry.
The counties in which the republican
managers confess that their candidate
for governor will run Den1nd their
electoral ticket and the extent to which
they cOnceed that the majority for the
former viii be smaller than that of the
latter are: Asotin. $50: Chehalis, 400;
Clarke. $50; Columbia, 200 Cowlitz
$50; Douglas. 425; Ferry, $50: Franklin
500: Garfield. $50: jefferson, so; King
5000: kittitas, 400; klckitat, $50: Lew
is. 250; Lincoln. 1900: Mason, 100:
okanogan, 740: Pacific, $50; Pierce
2200; San Juan. $50: Skamania So;
Spokane, 2O00; Stevens, 500: Thurston
80: Wahlliakum. SO; Walla Walla.
400; Whitman $500: Yakima 400, total
1873.
These reports were collected in this
manner. The Post-Intellgencer wired
to each member Of the state central
committee and to the chairman of each
county central committee, republican
and democratic, for estimates on the
vote for president and governor. These
We're published without comment. For
the purposes of this calculation only
those reports from the republican
committeeman and chairmen are taken.
Naturally there is wide variation of
opinion between the reports of the re-
publican and these of the democratic
estimators
While the republicans conceed to
Judge Turner only three counties.
Whitman. Lincoln and Okonogan, the
democrats claim for him, by varying
maJoritleS the counties of Adams. Che
Ham Douglas, Ferry, Franklin, Garfield,
Pierce. Skamania. Spokane, Stevens
and Whitman. Stevens county. which
the republicans claim for Mr.. Mead bv
800 votes, the democrats claim for
Judge Turner by 1000. Spokane. which
the republicans claim for Mr.. Mead bv
900. the democrats claim for Judge
uiief Dy 525U. Pierce county which
the republicans claim for Mr.. Mead bv
200, the democrats claim for Judge
Turner by 1900. Whatcom county in
which the republicans claim Mr.. Meads
vote Will equal that of the electoral
ticket the democrats claim the cleo
toral majority Will be $500 for Roosevelt
ana Mr. Mead's majority but 500.
Ever since the campaign opened the
democrats have claimed that there
would be large detection from the re
publican vote in favor of the democrat
ic state ticket. But this is the FIRST
general admission from the most rer-
"pte republican sources that the de-
Hectlon would be anything like as largo
as TINS. \ difference of 1878 between
the estimated majorities of Rooseve,t
ana Mead means that the republican
campaign managers have found 94oo
republicans who. although voting for