New-York tribune., 1910-10-31
ST|MSON IS. FAST
GAINING GROUND
Friends More than Satisfied with
Results of Two Weeks OF
Campaigning.
SENTIMENT CHANGE MARKED
Have Been Steadily
Growing Larger and More
Responsive, Stimulating
Better Speeches.

Troy. y. Y, Oct. 50.-Henry L. StiinSon.
Republican candidate for Governor, is gain
ing ground in his canvass at a rate which.
if continued and accelerated this week. as
is natural with the pace at the end of
race. should land him in the Governors
chair next January l. The two weeks of
campaigning upstate which he completed
here last night have produced many
changes in the situation Not the least inn
portant one is the different spirit among
Republicans Some who a week ago were
saying nothing could save the ticket are
as clipper as you please about the prospect
now.
This Improvement in the situation began
about the fore part of Mr.. Stimson's sec
ond week OF upstate speechmaking. Where
things before were dead. they began to re-
vive. The audiences were bigger and more
responsive. and as natural result the
speeches were better: conditions among the
Republican workers in the various COM
munities seemed better. County campaigns
We're getting into their swing. The dulness
and general whats s-the-use?" air which
had been encountered all through the first
week Of the candidates trip departed. In
their place was a growing enthusiasm. cou-
ped with the beginning of work for Re
publican success-in some counties the first
real work done by the organizations for the
state ticket.
So marked was this Improvement that
Mr.. Stimson's associates on his campaign
trip and friends of his in communities
where he had spoken are exhibiting the
liveliest satisfaction. They say ~, fire
is burning pretty well now. and Tith the
increased draft will blaze up so brightly
this week that the Republican strongholds
upstate will be afame on Election Day.
If New York City does as we'll for Stim-
son as il did for Hughes two years ago
Stimson will be elected by from 20 600 TO
2, GOO predicted one of MT. Stimson's
associates. He added the comment that
his information was that New York ought
TO hold at the Hughes mark. while some
sanguine persons thought it would do bet
ter for the Republican candidate.
Comparison with Hughes Campaign.
II was just such a change in the tide of
public sentiment which was encountered
in the Hughes campaign two years ago,
about a week after the Governor returned
from his Western stumping trip for
William II. Taft His campaign in this
state had been neglected that he might
work for the national ticket. Meanwhile
the racetrack gamblers and the liquor
interests particularly-had been working
overtime against him. a systematic cam
paign had been started, the results of
which showed strongly in the loss by the
Republicans Of Erie County through the
loss Of the great German and Polish East
Side Vote-the liquor interests stronghold
Yet despite all this week after Hughes
lfer,ns- In,
sentiment before that strongly against
him. had changed. The change was so
marked as TO be almost visible and tangi~
BILE. After that nobody who was observing
affairs closely had any doubt about the re-
suit. Men who have been travelling the
state the last week say they perceive the
| beginning OF such a change in Stimson's
favor. II isn't so distinct as was the
Hughes change. Naturally IL wouldn't be
| Hughes had been Governor two years and
had behind him strong following Of in
dependence. quiescent up to that time who
| needed only his powerful campaign appeals
| TO stir them TO effective action Hughes
had the advantage uf running in a Presi-
Genital year, when the county leaders who
were most unfriendly to him didn't dare
hang back much OF intimate too strongly
the advisability of cutting the head of the
state ticket
Stimson is running in an off year" His
| record, splendid as il is. hasn't been srread
abroad to the Uttermost parts of the earth.
| as had Hughes's even in his first cam
paign. Stimson isn't being supported bv
| the Republican organization in a few coun-
ties with the loyalty which these counties
gave. perforce, to Hughes in a Presidential
year. Stimson has against him the anti
] a--aT+
fierce in this campaign. Finally, Stimson's
campaign suffers from lack of money
and q lack of county workers and detailed
effort which only well oiled machinery can
supply. The Republicans upstate have
/ been told they'll have TO finance their cam
paigns without help from the state com
mittee.
The Democrats have plenty Of money,
seemingly. Mr. Stimson saws it's. Wall
Street money. and upstate Democrats don't
! deny that. Anyway, it's paying for Demo-
cratic canvasses-real ones-in counties
where such q thing has been unknown for
decade 1t is going TO pay for the ex-
penses attendant on having Democratic
watchers al the polling places, the Demo
cratic leaders say. Also it's going TO paw
for getting out the voters in the wav the
Republicans used 10 do II in the rural dis
tr1cts. Consequently Democrats are licking
Their chops and smiling expectantly.
Anxious About New York City.
Upstate leaders are very anxious about
New York City, on which they can get no
line. They say New York must hold lin
TO the 1908 vote for Hughes That was low
Hughes lost New York City by about 81 600
While White running for Lieutenant Gov
ernor, lost by only 10000 A falling off I'm
the upstate Republican vote is expected
and can be handled, they say. if only New,
York City is up TO the mark Indications
are now that this falling off won't be so
bad as was feared a week ago. Still il
VIII cost many votes above the Harlem
even allowing the utmost which can be
expected from the nea Stinson trend
The new spirit Of confidence among I'm
state Republicans has come as the result
OF several widely varying causes Rooea-
Welt. the dreadful. dire sinister Roose
vet Is one Of the chief among these
Roosevelt doesn't seem to be a dreadful
figure of dire import 10 the average man in
the street or IN average farmer I'm tho
held. whatever IA" may he to the business
crook and the political manipulator. Judg-
lnS 10y the comments made fn some ulacas|
through the state where he has spoken for
Sumson he is q potent force in two dirac
uons. He seems not only 10 have stirred
up enthusiasm around the state. hut 70
have inspired among machine Republicans
the notion that it won't be entirely safe