The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-11-04

lfcan State ticket will be elected While the fight on national issues is three cornered, on the State ticket il is only g. two handed conflict and the Democratic State mana gers privately have admitted that only a land slide will pull their ticket through Della ware. and Maryland are debatable ground as in former years, although the Democratic organizations are more united than ever before and McCombs insists that his reports show a sweep ing Democratic victory certain Sc far as New Jersey is concerned. al- though the Bull Moose sentiment has been very strong here, the general expectation of the campaign managers has been that local pride will result in Governor Wilson polling plural ity of the vote and getting the States representation in the electoral col lege.
 break in the solid South. The Bull Moose leaders have been claiming that they would make great inroads on the Democratic control in Georgia, North Carolina and Tennessee. but private ly the managers have admitted that they did not get started early enough this year to sweep the control away from the Democrats
 West Virginia is in the doubtful col urnn and the silent vote here will de- eide. The sentiment for Roosevelt was so strong month ago that the State. was generally conceded to him, but hard work by both the Republican and Democratic organizations has evened up the fight and it appeared today to be anybody's race.
 Ohio, the home of the President, is claimed by the Democrats by the big gest plurality in it's history All of the polls submitted have shown the Democratic organiza ton. reunited and putting up strong fight and the Republican strength almost equally df- vided between the regular Republican organization and it's younger rival, the Bull Moose. But the managers of the Roosevelt candidacy insisted today that when the votes are counted an- other Democratic dream will have been shattered while the men to whom President Taft entrusted his campaign say that at the very last State pride is certain to prevail and that he will pull through although by a. very small plurality. The returns from Ohio will probably be late and the result may be in doubt until Wednesday.
 Illinois seems to have been conceded to Roosevelt during the last couple of weeks by some of the Republican managers, but, according to the conf1- nitteeman Martin Wade, who has been handling the middle west fight for. the Democrats from Chicago head quarters, the sentiment for Wilson has been spreading like wild fire in the last few days and he claims the State for the New Jersey Governor by fifty thousand. The State fight here is most interesting because Of the break that came between Col Roosevelt and Governor Deneen. This is one State that the silent vote will absolutely de- eide and wllere claims of campaign managers seem to be based entirely on hope rather than definite informa- ton.
 Indiana, claimed by the Democrats even before the campaign opened, has been the center of great Bull Moose activity. With former Senator Bev- erfdge making the fight as the Guber- material candidate, and with a, flex ible and very strong organization in every county in the State, the fight has been very bitter and it has been only in the last month that the Taft men have started to fight. The betting favors the Democrats here, but the silent vote will be large here also, and in the final analysis will be the de- cidfng factor. - Michigan and Iowa, because of the conditions prevailing, are debatable territory in which local matters will cut 8 great deal Of ice.
 Wisconsin will occupy the center of the stage far as the middle western States are concerned because of the attitude taken by Senator LaFo1lette. The public announcement by LaFoI- lette that he would not vote for Taft, Roosevelt or Wilson divided his fol- lowers The Roosevelt men have claimed the State ever since they opened their campaign, but the Will son followers have insisted that this claim was Unf ha and