The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-04
"SILENT v0TE'
 WILL DECIDE Uncertainty as to Where It All Will Go-Certainly
 Not to Taft Women to Vote in Six States = Their Vote
 Wholly Uncertain Summary of the Situation From an Impartial Source Surface Indications Point to Landslide.

| SNeW YOFk, Nov. .4-W1th all prev iious methods of foreeasttng thrown in
 to tn ediscard, and the greatest silent
 vote" in the history of the Nation
 lined up in every doubtful State. the Presidential election which will take place tomorrow bids fair to hang up
 records in many ways. For the first ! time since the Popu1ist party was an active factor in American life there I is a third party with a chance. How
 much a chance only the count of the
 votes will determine. But the fact that at the head of the National Pro- gressive party is Col Theodore Roose- welt, and that it has an active work I ing organizat ton in every State, makes Lit a most potent factor in the result.
 should there be DemoeEatic land nd
 managers of that party and seeming I ly indicated by newspaper polls in
 many localities, ]; then the progressive organization may have the chance of capturing the regular Republican or ganization in many of the States
 The last word came for the cam l tfrnistic in their claims. Whether they personally believe the situation warrants their enthusiasm Is known thusiastic party man cannot complain over the modesty of the individual
 managers. Yet masked behind the claims is the admission privately of at least two of the managers that their public utterances reflect more of hope than anything else. They say silent vote has been go impressed on them that they have Just taken the known possibility, added to it a gen eral average of other figures. and then made public what they hope will be the result
 If Charles D. HIlles is to be believed President Tafts reelection Is as cer- tains nothing burt 8. picture of the ut William F. GcCornbs is sure that Wilson and Marshal1 will carry every
 State with three or four exceptions, tains nothing but, pfctpre Of the ut ter triumph of Col Theodore Roose- welt.
 n The aa.stern g group of states con ditions are topsy-turvy. Starting up in Maine the Republican organization
 is almost cut in half and the Demo
 of sweeping the State although the
 Bull Moose organization was not con- cedihg this result but up to. the very the field. It seemed almost certain
 that the result here was between Will
 son and Roosevelt and that President
 Massac achusetts and Connecticut1 were
 the other battle grounds in the New
 England group In these three States
 outcome so rests with the way the silent vote is cast that all reports of polls submitted to headquarters con
 Caln6Q two S9LS, the 1tfGL very rosy TOT public consumption.s and the second, very pessimistic. made it very plain that the party managers had been un- able to get any real line on the lean early line on New England tomorrow
 It will come from Massachusetts where some Of the polling places close early in the afternoon It will be possible to forecast the result in the State befnre six o'clock and if Wilson,
 Roosevelt or Taft show big gains in
 5fra,s
 1t will be likely, judging by past ex-
 perfenceA, that all of New England
 will vote about along this line. Rhode Island, a great manufacturing States and high tariff community. has been generally conceded by all of the cam patgn managers as morally certain for
 Bull Moose orators have tried to stir up sentiment for Roosevelt and have claimed to be successful.
 tions has been a Slogan @ in every cam -paign. Only three times in the his tory of the country has a Presidential get the electoral vote of the Empire State. The fight in New York has been very bitter and party lines have tse,s hssn shsd snashsd in every sect section ' Old
 Moose campaign upstate, while be- low the Harlem River, in the balli- wick vic, of Tamnany HaH, old line Dem
 for Roosevelt and Johnson. Tam
 many will poll almost it's normal vote
 in Manhattan and the Bronx, but come will be in Kings county where
 Timothy L. Woodruff, admittedly one of the cIeverest of campaign manag-
 CTS, has devoted his entire time for the last three months to organize the Moose forces. Most of his strength the Democrats say. has come from the this is true then the Democrats ought to carry Kings county rather easily, but Woodruff said only. today that his
 personal polls indicate that the Bull than both of the old parties com bined., Queens and Richmond, which city. will probably vote along normal lines and the; outcome should be at least a normal greater city plurality will happen up State is hard to say. In addition to RooseveIt's personal popularity, he has been aided in the
 State by the strength of Oscar S. Straus. the Progressive Guberna torial candidate. who is very popular in the cities of the State, having been a Cleveland Garfe nd Demoerat Per a, unsn he left the
 The first returns in New York will come about six o'clock at night from Buffalo where there are voting ma chimes and will show the swing. If Wilson carries Buffalo he will prob ably sweep the State according to the party veterans who have kept in on the State ticket is fully as inter eSting as the National. When Tammany got control of the. Legisla- ture following the election of Governor Dix, they amended the State election law so that separate ballot is pro- vided for the Presidential electors and the State ticket This was to save the ticket in Presidential year when the "cornfields" voted their full strength Republican. With the split in the Republican party. the Demo crats have greatly regretted the new law and it may compiieate the result so far as the State ticket is concerned as it makes splitting easy.
 Roosevelt, Wilson andaTaft manag- CTS have been claiming 0Pennsylvania