Omaha daily bee., 1908-10-31
No ESTIMATES ON THE VOTE
Chairmen Of Party Committees Both
Decline to Give Out Figures.
ONLY CLAIMS ARE ON CONGRESS
Democrats Insist they Have n Fight
ing Chance in Five of the Eleven
Districts I'm the state-stu-
dents Ureed to Vote.
,From a staff Correspondent

from a Staff Correspondent)
les MONIES, oct 9l-(Special)-The
cnsirmcn of botn the republican and the
democratic state committees have an
nounced they will not under any circum-
stances give out any estimates" on the
. vote Of Iowa next week. Both take the
\ ground that the usual claims Of political
Acommittees are prepared for their effect
Ipon the vote and are not International In
hsraeter. and that they would not dare
% tell the exact facts In regard to the
matter for fear their own party associates
would condemn them. Hence, there will
he no Official claims as TO Iowa. The
national committee. in fact, have already
been turned down and will have 60 do their
own guessing as 10 what lows will do.
Tho only matter they have discussed is
that relating to members OF congress. The
democratic committee claims there are five
distTicts-the First, Second, Sixth, Seventh
and Eighth-in which they have "a fight
Ing chance for success. The republicans
do not admit this, but do admit that 1t Is
n close race in three or four Of the dis
tricts.
Chairman Price Of the democratic COM
mittee, when asked the question direct, re-
fused to make a claim that Bryan will
carry Iowa. He says that he has never
at any time made this claim. But he does
claim that the Roosevelt majority of 1884,
COO will be very greatly reduced. Fred
White. democratic candidate for governor,
on the other hand, docs claim that he Will
be elected governor and Is making his
campaign upon that supposition.
Something Of n sensation in politics was
created today by the discovery that some
Of the railroad employees Of the state are
n receiving in their envelopes on railroad
buslness'' along with instructions as to
operation of trains. all of the literature
! prepared by the Lacey committee, and that
J among railroad men this is regarded as
equivalent to instructions how to vote.
There was talk Of prosecution of the per-
sons guilty of this plain infraction Of the
state laws, but the nearness of the cleo
Non will probably prevent.
RVotinE Not to BE Trusted.
The county officials of Polk county
decided this morning not to trust the
voting machines entirely. They gave an
order for tho printing of ballots TO be
on hand at every voting precinct for
use In an emergency and so as not to
cut out the voters Of the county. In
case it Is found that at any precinct the
machines will not be able to care for all
the voters the ballots will be used. This
was done on the insistence of a largo
number of the people of the city.
Eastern star Omcers Elected.
The order of the Eastern Star, in "es-
sion here today, elected officers as fol-
lows: Grand matron, Mrs. Elizabeth
Bills. Davenport; grand patron, Austin
Meredith. Newton; grand secretary, Mrs.
Marie jackson, Council Bluffs; grand
treasurer, Mrs. Ida Webster, Waukon.
The next place of meeting will be Sioux
City.
Greek Priests Under Suspicion.
Two Greeks who have been touring the
state turned up In Des Moines today,
where they appeared at the state house
and were promptly notified to leave.
They have given various names, but usu-
ally that Of Anton and Nicolo. andArep-
resent themselves as soliciting funds
for an orphanage over in Turkey or
Greece. They have letters of commenda-
tIon and produce good credentials, but
VII is suspected they are the same per-
Nsons who got into jail in Michigan for
fraud. They secured practically nothing
here.
Attack on Prohibition Law.
Horace Boies, formerly governor, now
in retirement, has made public a letter
/. in which he urges that Iowa repeal the
7 prohibitory law so as to permit the man.