The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1908-10-12
According to Democratic
Newspaper Canvas
BUT HUGHES FALLS BEHIND
Canvass Indicates Very Close Vote for
Presidnet, but Overwhelming Victory
for chanler, Who Gains in Almost
Every County in the State.


vass of a percentage of the voters IN
the reater New York and estimates gath
cred by its correspondents from Repub'
ican and Democratic leaders in the fifty.
seven counties in New York above toe
Bronx.
The canvass was made TO determine
the trend of the minds of the voters
regarding the presidency. Special atten-
tion was paid to the contest for the
governorship of the state of New York.
The probable results of the election
for president and for the governorsaip
of New York are indicated by tne fol.
lowing tabulation of estimates made by
experts from the figures collected by
The World:
For President.
Taft Bryan.
Above the Bronx .l4s,500 l,400
Below the Bronx ..... l3l 500
Totals ...........l4s,500 l33,206
Taft's indicated plurality
in entire state . 1924
For Governor
Hughes Chanler,
Above the Bronx .......ll3,050 1000
Below the Bronx ... 303,7s5
Totals .............ll 3,050 800, 6s5
ality in entire state loS.es5
Replies were received from s,9l9 Of
the $4,000 voters OF the five borougas
in the Greater New York to wnom post
cards with return coupons had been mail
cd. They were asked TO indiuate their
preference for president and 10 state the
name of the candidate for whom they
mad voted four years ago.
The upstate estimates sent in by The
World correspondents are those of the
leaders of the two parties and not Of
The World. They reflect the conditions
as viewed by those leaders three weeks
before election, presenting the first out
line OF the work of forming the lines
of battle The conditions that exist
to-day may be materially changed dur
ing The three weeks remaining OF the
campaign, and the figures may be re-
vised in many instances that cannot now
be anticipated. The registration Of vot-
ers has just begun in upstate counties.
The totals Of the majorities in the
hfty-seven counties above the Bronx,
show estimated majorities in ffty-two
of them for Hughes aggregating ll3,050
and majorities in the other three for
Chanler aggregating 1900. In the same
counties two years ago Governor Hughes
received maiorities aggregating l35,342
and Mr.. Hearst 377 According to the
estimates presented by The World to.
day, Governor Hughes win lose above
the Bronx p, 2O2 votes and Mr.. Chanler
will gain over Hearst 1923.
The estimates show even more marked
changes in the presidential situation.
Four years ago fftyfve Of the same
fiftyseven counties gave Mr.. Roosevelt
maiorities aggregatinF 2l3, 495, and Park
er of 33S. The counties covered in the
table printed to-day show maiorities for
Taft aggregating l4S,500 and for Mr..
Bryan of 1000 So that according to
the estimates Mr.. Taft will lose, ii
present conditions continue, 64,995, and
Mr. Bryan win gain LOOP. The esti.
mates show that while Mr.. Taft will not
hold all Of the Roosevelt vote of four
years ago, he will command at least 65
per cent Of it.
The reductions noted in the estimates
are mainly in the factory centers and
are due to these causes:
|, Industrial conditions affecting many
thousands OF employees.
2. The dissatisfaction of voters with
the old parties
3. Opposition to Governor Hughes be-
cause of his reforms
1t is a significant fact that none Of
the new parties figures in the calcula-
tions of the leaders of the old parties
st vote is referred to, but apparently
Is not disturbing factor in the opinions
Of the regular organization leaders, who
are depending on the hold of the older
parties to keep voters within the old
lines.
Duchess county. which indicates
Top from the Republican column, is the
nome of the Democratic candidate for
governor and TO this fact is attributed
The probable change on the part of the
voters of that county The slump in
he Republican maiorities of the other
counties is due to many causes, of both
, general and local nature.
Mr. Taft is not conceded to be as pop
liar a candidate as President Roosevelt
n as good a vote -getter. Little il any
explanation is offered by the Republican
eaders to account for the indicated fall.
ng off in their party vote beyond the
act that it is primarily due to industrial
'auses
BETTING IN FAVOR OF TAFT.