Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-11-05
AFTER JUNGLE JOSEPH"
DEMOCRATS WOULD LIKE TO GET
HIS SCALP.
Special Correspondence of The Star.


CHICAGO. ILL.,. November 4. 1905.
With the campaign closed today. on the eve
Of the election the success of the republican
state ticket is conceded by all the Illinois po-
litical managers. The only question which
will be settled at the polls tomorrow is
how large the republican majority for the
state ticket will be and how many mem
bers Of the legislature the other parties will
elect.
Republican managers forecast the cleo
ton Of the state candidates by about the
same pluralities they received in 1902. The
same plurality for the republican state
ticket now means a heavy falling on from
the plurality of 1904. but the latter was an
abnormal one. and as the vote Will pc
lighter this year the republicans will be
satisfied with electing their state ticket
by from $1,000 to 100000 plurality.
The democratic managers are silent In
regard to the chances Of their state can
didates; they make no claims for the cleo
ton Of any of them. and privately admit
their defeat. The best the democrats hope to
do is to cut down the republican plurality
to about $1,000, which they would consider
The prohibitionists. while not claiming
they will elect any one. assert they Will
poll all the way from 100000 to 100000 for
their state ticket. The managers OF the
two big parties admit the prohibitionist vote
is likely to reach 100000 for the head Of
their ticket.
The socialists are making large gains,
and claim they will poll $1,000 votes In the
state. Their claims are considered as
greatly exaggerated and other party lead
ers think the socialists will do very we'll
If they get 10000
The managers Of all parties admit the
legislature will be republican on joint bal
lot The three minority parties all expect
to make gains. and this Is conceded by the
republican state committee.
In the congressional contests in Illinois
the republicans. after all claims and con-
cessions are considered. will suffer ma
terial reduction Of their majority in the
delegation. The republican state managers
claim the first. second. third. sixth, sew
enth, ninth and tenth districts In Chicago
and Cook county. and in the country. the
eleventh, twelfth. thirteenth. fourteenth,
fifteenth, sixteenth. seventeenth. eighteenth,
nineteenth. twenty tWenty-thlro'
twenty-fourth and twenty-f1fth districts.
The democrats. however, are sanguine
that they will carry the first. fourth, fifth,
eighth, twentieth. twenty-first. twenty
third and twenty-fourth. with splendld
fighting chance to win in the twenty-second.
In addition the democratic leaders say they
are very hopeful that they can defeat
Speaker Joseph G. Cannon in the eighteenth
district and Representative Graft in the six
tenth.
Since the closing of the campaign
on Saturday night both Chairman
Boeschenstein of the democratic state
central committee and Chairman West
of the republican committee have pusied
themselves in obtaining what they term an
accurate forecast Of the result Of Tuesday 8
election Their estimates Of the results vary
| widely. Chairman Boeschenstein claims that
the democrats will carry Cook county by
! 10000 votes and that they will certainly
| gain six to eight representatives. Chairman
West asserts that the republicans will have
| plurality Of at least $4,000 In Cook coun-
| ty, and allows the democrats one represen-
tative in addition to one they already have
in the twentieth district. It Is admitted
! generally that the legislature will elect a
| republican successor to Senator Cullom
| The Independent League claims $4,000
votes in Cook county, while the democratic
| estimate allows them $4,000 and the re-
| publicans give them $1,000.