The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-10-12
FORSTER CLAIMS STATE FOR
 DEMOCRATS BY 25,OOO AFTER
 THOROUGH CANVASS IS MADE
Democratic Chairman Says Republicans Are Demorazed
 That 3o,OOO of Them Will Vote the Bull Moose Ticket That Wilson and Baldwin Will Run Neck and Neck, Polling Close to 100000 Votes.

l George Forster chairman of the
 Democratic state central committee, I has given out the following interview
 at headquarters in New Haven, with
 regard to the chances of Democratic
 victory in Connecticut, this fall:
 t'I have just completed a. statewide canvass of the situation, and it has
 been 8. very thorough canvass, too, and | it indicates Democratic success all along the line. have had special
 agents going over the state for over
 two weeks. These agents have taken straw votes in factories, stores, off ces, on street cars, steam cars. and in l all kinds of places and under all sorts
 of conditions. In many places we
 have supplemented their work by a postal card campaign, and in some places we have made a house to house canvass. The returns are now prac- tically all in, and I have had them am absolutely surprised at the Demo- cratic strength they indicate
 T am not much for this prophecy in the canvass of the state which we have made that am going to venture a few predictions, and you put them
 down in your notebook and see how near I come to it when the votes are counted. The Democratic national and state tickets are going to win by a
 plurality ranging anywhere from 20,- y
 the state Senate and we have fight ing chance of even getting the lower house of the General Assembly,. Our Republican friends will be mighty lucky if we don't carry every one of the five congressional districts. We
 are practically certain of victory in
 even chance in the other two.
 Our poll shows that the Bull Moose ] vote is seven-eighths of it a defec- ton from the Republican party The Ie@ e1,o hot | He ing vote, and that on election day probably nine-tenths of it will be polled
 by those who voted the Republican
 ticket two and four years ago. So
 far as our Democratic canvass indi- cates anything, the Democratic vote is
 not only standing firm, but, as in
 Vermont. is actually sTowing. I find
 that thousands of Republicans who
 voted for Taft four years ago have
 become disgusted with his adninistra-
 tion and are going to vote for wilson, Taft or Roosevelt. They look upon President Taft a failure and upon
 Theodore Roosevelt as a menace.
 'I think that the Bull Moose are
 going to get bewteen 30, 900 and 35,000
 votes in the state of Connecticut,
 and nine-tenths of these votes will be from people who voted the Republican ticket two and four years ago. Pres ident Taft is far weaker in this state than he was in 1908. and the Bull Moose defection has practically de-
 state. On the other hand, the Dem ocratic party in Connecticut, with Will
 son and Baldwin as standard bear CTS, is admittedly far stronger than in any previous campaign in recent years. We are going to poll upwards of 100000. votes for Wilson in this state this year. He is gaining strength every day. A conservative estimate, based on my present figures, gives him over e5,000 votes
 Allowing MT Taft everything, and
 treating him most hberally, I cannot