The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-11-01
PREDICTS HUGHES LANDSLIDE.
WILLIAM BARNES, JR., MAKES UP
STATE PLURALITY or 200 900.
But work. work. work Is the watehword
-Oner Of $4,000 s+-1 To = Tha
Hughes Carries the state BY 100000
chairman Onner II Not For ecasting


chairman Corners IL Not Forecasting
Chairman Woodru ff Of the Republican
State committee sent out from headquarters
yesterday kilograms 70 all Of the county
chairmen and to others, calling upon them
to steady the Republican lines for Hughes
and the Republican State ticket in every
nook, crossroads town and hamlet In the
State. Mr.. Woodruff said that there must
he no overconitdence, but that the cry
Work! work. work." should he kept up until
the polls close.
William Barnes, Jr., who for eight years
was chairman Of the executive committee OF
the Republican State committee, his chiefs
being in that time Charles W. HackCtt,
Benjamin b. Odell, Jr., and George W Dunn,
made yesterday what was accepted as the
first official prediction of the Republican
campaigners. Mr.. Barnes has been at head
quarters of and on most Of the time since
they were opened and since Mr.. Woodruff
became chairman Of the State committee.
Mr.. Barnes returned To Albany yesterday
afternoon to be gone until after election day.
Before leaving town he said.
Il can say without the slightest quail
fcstion that ! believe that Mr.. Hughes
will sweep the upstate counties by at
least 200 900 plurality. During b eight
years when l was chairman OF the State
committees executive committee l never
hazarded any prediction as to the outcome
Of any political campaign. But now that l
no longer occupy a position OF such RESPONSE
bility | feel at liberty to say what think
and know. | have gone over most carefully
and pa~instakingly all the canvasses and
reports which nave been submitted to
Chairman Woodruff by the upstate county
chairmen. In the last ~gubernatorial cleo
ton Gov. Higgins received a plurality up
the State in round numbers Of 100, 900.
Out Of the 5000 upstate election districts
there are not thirty where the Republican
vote will show u decrease from the vote Of
two years ago, and in most II them we will
do better. In many Of the districts there
will be great gains. These gains have not
been confined to any one locality, but are
general all over the State. There Is not the
slightest doubt that Mr.. Hughes will beat
Gov. Higgins's figures by a big margin
Gov. Higgins was elected by a plurality
Of 5000. although the plurality against
him in the greater city was SO,ODO.
A we'll known banker, who did not care
to have his name printed, left SlO. 90 with
a reputable Wall Street house yesterday
to bet at odds of 1 to 2 that Hughes would
have over lD, 200 plurality in. the State.
Odell's plurality in the country districts
in 1902 was 49,, 1876 and in 1900 l55, $50.
Roosevelt's plurality in 1893 in the country
districts was lO1 ,708.
Concerning Erie county, George w Dunn
said yesterday at the Fifth Avenue Hotel
that from all he heard Hughes's plurality
would be between 1900 and 10000, and
Democrats who are remaining behind the
scenes said at the Waldorf Astoria last
n ght, Buffalo, Mr.. ConnerS's own town,
is simply ablaze for Hughes"
some Of the Republicans cared to make
any prediction about New York city's vote.
Augustus A. Van Wyck, Democratic candi-
date for Governor in 1893. had a plurality in
the city over Theodore Roosevelt Of ~, OO6.
John b. Stanchfield in 1900 had a plurality
in the city over Odell of 4s,263 and Bird s.
Coler in 1902 had a plurality over Odell in
the city Of I22, 1888. D-Cady Herrick's
plurality in New York city over Gov. Hig-
gins in 1904 was 10, 1871.
Chairman William j. Corners did not
care to make any predictions last night.
Three weeks ago Mr.. Corners was afame
with enthusiasm. claiming Mr.. Hearst's
election by all sorts Of pluralities. Yester-
day Mr.. Corners simply said to his friends:
Il think we have the game cinched." His
bearing was far different from that Of three
weeks ago. He didn't act and he didn't
talk like a confident man. Chief Clerk
John A. Mason Of the Democratic State
committee said that il was not probable
that Mr.. Corners would issueanyforecast.