Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-11-05
STILL WORKING LIKE BEAVERS
Both Political Parties Will Keep Up Until the Last Min ute-Only Two Days More Before Election Day
 --IIoW Will Labor Vote 1.-The Outlook.

to gather and hold such large and at- 'tent1ye crowds. This has been es- pecially the fact in New Haven. The reception given to Eugene Debs on his recent visit to Connecticut was warm CT than he was accorded four years ago when he made of New England The populist vote may not gain large ", as Thomas E. Watson, candidate for the presidency, did not come here to arouse enthusiasm although the state committee did its best to fill the gap. =.
 Four years ago the prohibition party boiled totalNof 1,617 votes against 1929 for DeRs and 9OS for Maloney, the latter being the labor candidate for presidency. AS Bryan had the populistic endorsement at that time there was no vote cast for that ticket for president Most of the election returns collected next Tues day night will take into consideration the prohibition and popuIist vote plac- ing the socialist vote in the scatter ing column" The prohibitionists claim that they will do better than ever before due to the fact that the county committees which are named in August have conducted an aggres- sive campaign in nearly every city and town. Dr Swallow, the presiden- tial candidate has spoken here several times and was enthusiastic receiv- ed.
 It should not be forgotten that in this election under the new law a plurality will elect a state officer in- stead of the necessary majority which obtained prior to 1902. The demo- crats are building their hopes on this change, believing that Judge Robert son and General Bishop are going to be strong enough to overcome the plu- rality of Governor Chamberlain two years ago which was 16,O0S, and take their seats which they might not have if a majority were necessary. To off, set the claim that Lieutenant Gov ernor Roberts will not be as strong a candidate for governor as he was for second place. two years ago, the re- publicans point out that he only ran. about 1,2O0 behind Governor Chamber lain, and that his only weakness was in the cities and this will be offset next Tuesday by the large number of first voters which has swelled regis tration. They further claim that Governor Chamberlain was popular candidate and that Mir Roberts run two years ago was Remarkable one from this fact. During the last week the impression has grown that the democratic state has gained strength in the cities but has not materially changed the outlook in the small towns New Haven and Bridgeport are both looked to to give this ticket a big vote and it is also likely to carry several of the other cities. The demo- cratic state ticket it is predicted will run greatly ahead of the national tick ct although Judge Parker's visit here on Thursday awakened greater en- thusiasm than had been shown by the democrats during the campaign. Con- necticut is a republican state by pre- cedent and the republicans naturally turn to an array of figures of results in elections since 1888 as evidence that they have no misgivings of the ver- dict which will be rendered on Tues day. The element of uncertainty has led the newspapers of Connecticut to make elaborate preparations for an- nouncing the progress of the count