The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1910-11-07
BOTH SIDES CLAIM
VICTORY IS
CERTAIN
Party Leaders in New York
State are Confident
STATEMENT BY GRISCOM
Democracy is Observation-Disclosures
League Vote Unknown and Dis
turbine Element

New York, Nov THE Sunday be-
fore election day found both party
camps humming with activity. The
Republican candidate for governor
gave out a last appeal to voters, sum-
marizing the speeches he has scatter
ed from the lakes to the sound. The
Democratic candidate gave out two
counter statements-one brief reply
from his home at Thomson and an
lother issued from Democratic state
headquarters In this city. Chairman
Prentice gave out revised and final
estimate of the returns in which he
claimed Erie county for Stimson by
1000 and the state by III, 900. Chair
man Huppuch rested on his estimate
of 100000 to 10000 plurality for Dix
made Saturday night.
MIR. Sumson himself went to his
country place at Cold Spring Harbor
to rest over night before his final eff
fort. He is carded to speak twice dur
Ing today and once at dinner in the
evening. Theodore Roosevelt got
back from Iowa Sunday morning and
hurried to Oyster Bay where he shut
himself off from all inquiries and re-
fused to make any prophecies. He
has engagements to speak seven
times for Stimson during the day and
once at dinner.
Constant repetition has emphasized
pretty clearly the lines upon which
the campaign has been fought out and
il is unlikely that any new issues will
be presented. The Democrats pin
their faith to Theodore Roosevelt dis
satisfaction with the high cost OF llv-
ing which they attribute in large part
to a Republican tariff; and the evil
dences Of official corruption laid bare
by the recent legislative commission
inquiry. These are the issues to
which John A. Dix, the Democratic
candidate for governor and the DEM
ocratic orators have most frequently
referred. The Republican leaders say
that any votes which Roosevelt's pol
icies may have cost the party among
business men will be more than Offset
by his increasing popularity among
laboring men and in the rural dis
trcts.
In statement given out Lloyd c.
Griscom, president of the Republican
county committee Of New York says:
"The Democratic campaign has been
based on the false assumption that by
violently attacking Colonel Roose-
welt the real issues of the merits or
dement's of the candidates could be
obscured The Roosevelt issue has
cost the Democrats five votes for
every one gained. / expect that the
normal Democratic majority In New
York county will be considerably re-
duced. According to my canvasses 1t
will not exceed 100000: this would lin
II the Democratic majority in Greater
New York TO between 10000 and To-
600"
The ammunition with which the
Republican speakers most often have
shot their guns is the alleged domi-
nation of the Democratic state organ
ization by Tammany Hall and person
al charges against Mr.. Dix. These
have included the assertion that he
worked his employees thirteen hours
day and that his demand for down
ward revision of the tariff was neon
sistent with the request Of his firm
for an increase OF the tariff on wall
paper. which he manufactures.
So far as the heads of the tickets
were concerned the Republican and
Democratic campaigns were conduct
ed along widely different lines. Mr..
Stimson was on the move almost from
the day Of his nomination. He spent
| the last three weeks OF the campaign
touring the state, delivering speeches
in some fifty counties. Mr.. Dix made
two speeches at his home in Thorn
son, one OF which was his formal &C
ceptance of the nomination. His only
speeches outside New York City
were at Buffalo and Troy.
To Offset the activity OF Colonel
Roosevelt the Democratic campaign
managers sent Alton b. Parker about
the state. He conferred his Are on
Roosevelt and a"agance-expres-
sion OF popular tendency which he
correlated.
The Independence League vote is
one Of the uncertainties OF the cam.
paign. The League has confined its
speaking campaign almost entirely TO
New York City and expects TO poll n
big vote here. II arguments adyan.
ced by William r. Hearst on the
stump and In his newspapers bear
fruit this vote will work lis greatest
harm TO Mr., Dix, for the League lead.
er from the first has concentrated his
iire on the Democratic candidates Ia.
Dor record. In return Mr. Dix de.
elared that an alliance exists between
Hearst aud Roosevelt.
AN unusually large Socialist vote
: expected in New York, owing main.
" the leaders say, to the incraasod
cost Of living. e''''u