The Cairo bulletin., 1912-10-30
WILSON FORCES
AHEAD IN WEST
OF TAFT AND I. R.
Finish of Campaign Will See
Specs s.cular Battle Against
Moose in Illinois.
"CLEAN SWEEP, !" rs CRY
Iowa Has Recovered From
Roosevelt Fever and Will
be Democratic.
CLEAN SWEEP !" rs CRY

The Wilson campaign is expand
ing and becoming more efficient
| throughout the west.
| The slogan Of Democrats now is
yote the straight ticket and II is
exert.ng a powerful influence III
every state in the Mississippi val
Hey.
JUDGE Dunno is yoicing it to every
audience before which he appears in
Cook county and elsewhere. Distin-
euished speakers sent out by the
) national committee are echoing the
sentiment
Mr.. Bryan will urge 1t as a duty
| when he sweeps through central
Illinois this week Gov, Wilson's
managers are concentrating their
energies upon the middle west. They
lare certain of New England, and
the Atlantic seaboard. They want
Illinois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Minnesota.
beth Dakotas, Michigan and Kansas
III the pemoceatic column ncAy
week.
Ohio and indiana are conceded
The presidents state will yield a
Democratic plurality which is eari-
loryly estimated at from l5o.oeo u
250,0C0 indiana viii vote Tor wiz
SON by substantial margin.
Former Senator Rcyer,dge, who ~,
running for governor on the bah
moose ticket, has made desperate
attempt to carry the state for
Roosevelt and himself, bnt he will
not be successful, The Republican
electoral and state tickets viii be
defeated by margin so wide that
the prophets of politics are likely 10
be kept very busy after election fe-
uring out whether the party Of Linz
colin and Grant can survive the (
avalanche.
Illinois to Be Storm Center.
The most Spectacular battle Of the
last week of the campaign is to be
fought in Illinois II will be aimed
against bull moose domination The
Democratic managers have reached
the conclusion that the seeming as
cendancy of the Roosevelt star in
this state is due in part at least, to
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cnce, and they propose to make
amends for their omissions They
win cndeavor to rally the Dcmo1
Gratis OF Illinois to the Wilson stand
ard
with united patty rallylng solid
~ behind the ticket, national and
state, they aver that It win be
physical impossibility for Roosevelt
to win here. The law of percentage
will be against such decision by
the voters
An immense volume Of literature,
comprising chiefly extracts from Gov.
Wilson's speeches, is now being dis
tributed throughout Illinois. The
governors utterauces on the pro-
gressive issues and ideals of the
campaign have been collected with
infinite care and reduced to pamph
lets of attractive size and appear
arce.
These leave nothing fer progress
sive Democrats TO desire. They
prove that Gov Wilson is sound
upon every principle which they are
striving for, and, indeed, that he has
taken a position far in advance OF
his opponents on most of them.
The Democratic managers want TO
make az nearly clean sweep OF the
country as possible They are rea-
sonably certain now that Wilson
viii carry not less than forty states.
They would like TO make it forty-four
and that they deem to be entirely
feasible if they can secure the right
kind OF cooperation in localities
where heretofore there has been an
absence of harmony or efficiency.
Good News From Kansas.
News from Kansas is becoming
more re-assuring every day Two
weeks ago it looked as If Roosevelt
would carry Kansas by wide mar
gin. Investigation. however, con-
Quoted by the bull moose sponsors
has disclosed that he has not been
very successful in attracting to his
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