The Hartford herald. [volume] (Hartford, Ky.) 1875-1926, 1910-11-02
Accurate Forecast of PO-
litiCal Situation
SHOWS DEMOCRATIC VICTORY
In Congressional Elections =
High Cost of Living
Playing a Part.
CHANCE FOR MASSACHUSETTS,

New York, Oct. 29.-The New
York Heralds forecast of the politi-
cal situation shows first that the
next Congress will be safely Demo-
cratic by substantial majority; that
New York State is apparently land
sliding to Dix, who will probably car
ry the whole Democratic ticket
through with him. This may insure
control of the Legislature and the
election Of a Democratic United
States Senator The moving causes
to effect this great change are fear
of Rooseveltism- CRsarism and the
high cost of living.
In New Jersey Woodrow Wilson
seems assured of election by from
10000 to 10000 majority.
Connecticut is debatable ground,
with the chances favoring the Re-
publcans Ohio seems safe for Har-
mon by an increased plurality
In Massachusetts, Foss is making
such Roadway that the State is class
ed as doubtful.
In Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, the
Herald's correspondents report that
the Republicans will win and that it
is not unlikely that the United States
Senate will be under Democratic-In-
surgent-Republcan control.
Roosevelt's tour seems to have
missed fire, and the former Presi-
dents charges against Democratic
Candidates Dix, Foss and Baldwin
have acted as boomerangs. In a
word, the Herald's reports indicate
that the country, except in the radi-
cal belt, will follow the example of
Maine, and on November 9 the DEM
ocracy will be in a position to en-
ter the next Presidential campaign
with an undisputed chance Of sue
cess. -
Senator Root made a very adroit
speech here last night for the Repub-
lican State ticket, but as Senator
Root is an able and exceedingly
adroit man, this is what might have
been expected. His appeal to the
"old guard" to save the State for the
Republicans was pathetic.
The World to-day takes off Roots
speech as follows -
Senator Root is mistaken. The
way to stop Theodore Roosevelt's
nomination for President in 1912 is
not to elect Mr.. Roosevelt's tickets
in 1910, but to defeat Mr.. Roose-
velt's ticket in 1910.
"SenatorRoot argued in his speech
last night that If there is an over
whelming Republican disaster on No
vember s. the Taft Administration
may not be able to hold the party
together, in which case the national
convention would be quite likely to
look for a Moses to lead them out
of the wilderness, and they might
go to Mr.. Roosevelt.
1--WE beg leave to remind Senator
Root that Moses never entered the
promised land and nobody know
where he was buried. If Mr.. Taft
loses Ohio and Mr.. Roosevelt carries
New York, nothing can prevent Mr..
Roosevelt's nomination in 1912. But
If Mr.. Roosevelt is decisively beaten
in New York, he is done for, Moses
or no Moses. He has made himself
the issue and a Republican defeat in
this State is a Roosevelt defeat. A
Republican victory is a Roosevelt
victory with all that it implies. The
way to prevent Mr.. Roosevelt's nomi-
nation is to overwhelm the Roose-
welt ticket in New York, smash the
new nationalism' now, smash the
new dictatorship now"
The anti-food trust campaigners
who are supporting John A. Dix and p
the other Democratic candidates are
sending through the streets twenty
five sandwich men with signs on
their backs, calling attention to the
high cost of living under the Payne
Aldrich tariff bill. Mayer Schoen-
field, who is in charge of this move
ment, has issued pamphlets showing
the cost of living ten years ago and
the prices to-day. He declares there
has been an increase of 43 per cent.