Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-18
Betting on the General Result
Is Now Ten to Three In
New York
ABOUT EVEN AS TO THE STATE
Some Reasons Advanced by Republic
cans Why Their Party Ticket Win
Carry the State-Depcnding Largely
on the Rural Population-Voters
Have Decided. y

New York, Oct 1s.--The betting
odds on the curb in this city are now
10 to 3 In favor OF Roosevelt and even
at these figures there is not much Par
ker money in sight. This is on the
general result.
So far as the state is concerned,
the betting is about even as between
Herrick and Higgins for governor. and
where odds are given against Higgins
they are considerably smaller than
they were ten days or two weeks ago
all of which Is believed to indicate
that the republican situation here is
improving.
Republicans hope to carry New
York, especially for the Roosevelt cleo
tors, because of what they say Is the
improved character Of the upstate
outlook. Rural New York is cut Off
the same bolt with rural Vermont. and
what Vermont did. it will do SO the
republicans argue. There is a good
deal of talk about apathy all over the
country and many members OK poth
parties profess to be unable to SAUSAGE
torily interpret 1t. This isn't true OF
the republican leaders In New YORK,
however. They point to the apathy
which existed in Vermont prior to
the September election 1t was SO
marked as to cause great anxiety
among republicans everywhere. Meth
err side could arouse enthusiasm The
meetings were poorly attended, the
few voters who came did so from
sense of duty, the speakers were chilled
to the bone night after night, and the
outlook was unpromising. The demo-
Gratis said: 1.-The vote will be light
and that will mean a falling off OF the
republican plurality. Out OF every
block of ten voters staying at nome
on election day, seven will be republl-
cans and only three democrats. This
apathy is all In our favor
Strangely enough, the republicans
had no words with which to meet this
democratic assertion and all they could
do was to hope for the best and walt
for the vote to be counted on election
night. Then they discovered that the
apathy Of the campaign had been due
to the fact that the voters had made
up their minds what they were going
to do. Vermont more than held it's
own so far as the republican plurality
was concerned, and on the basis OF the
democratic claim, Judge Parker's cleo
ton was out of the question.
Cannon Not So Anxious.
Speaker Cannon was quoted Satur-
day as being at loss to understand
the apathy which has taken possess
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speakers anxiety Is not as great as he
would have the country believe lie
campaigned in Vermont this fall, and
he knows what the situation is IN
New York His Saturday utterance
was simply intended to suggest that
there should not be any oyerconf1dence
on the part of republicans.
Northern New York, as l have said,
above. Is cut off the same bolt with
Vermont. Its rural citizens are closely
akin to those of the Green mountain
state in habits Of thought, In speech
and in political leanings. 1t Is fair
assumption that what Vermont did last
month. rural New York will do next
month. and that will mean that the
Roosevelt electors will come down to
the Harlem river with plurality of
anywhere from 100000 to 100000, which
cannot be offset by any democratic
nlurality which can be rolled up in
greater New York.
This is the basis of the hope which
republicans have that New York this
wear will be for Roosevelt Coed
weather will mean a heavy poll, while
bad weather will mean small poll.
In the cities, on the contrary, and 1T is
here that the democratic vote is chiefly
located weather conditions cut no f1e-
ure either way.
odell Wants Legal Vote.
Recent activities Of the republican
state committee in this city indicate
that the city vote will be more nearly
legal this year than it usually Is. Gov
ernor odell, chairman of the commit
tee. who has SO much at stake in this
campaign, is paying particular atten-
ton to the city during the registration
period. which is now at hand. and 1t is
said that there will be a total of about
100000 republican challenges OF al
legged fraudulent voters who desire to
have their names placed on the poll
books. Nearly all of these challenges
will strike straight at the democrats,
whose methods Of colonizing and MAX
tnp citizens out OF foreigners for cleo
ton purposes, are well known to the
general public.