Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-10-22
ALL CLAIM VICTORY.
Each Of the Three Parties Secs a Way
to Win.

to Win.
The managers Of the Progressive
party will make no formal claim" of
electoral votes for Colonel Roosevelt
until day or two before election. II
they could be persuaded today, says a
New York dispatch of Saturday to the
Cincinnati Enquirr, to set down fig
ures, showing how 1t Is possible to
elect Roosevelt and Johnson, they
would add up a total of 284 votes in
the college for the Proressives.
Tonight the Republican managers
formally claimed" 280 votes for Taft,
and yesterday it was predicted the
rock-bottom figures Of the Democrats
would give Wilson a minimum of $50
electoral votes.
lege Is 266, 1t Is manifest that IL any
one Of the three estimates Is even ap-
proxlmately correct the other two
must be woefully wrong.
Neither Senator Dixon nor any Of the
Roosevelt managers Is prepared to give
out a table Of electoral votes. They
are not Claiming Roosevelt's cleo
tion. There are many states which, in
their cold judgment as politicians, they
would not set down as sure for Roose-
welt, but which they are strongly in
clined to believe he will get and which
their various state chairmen are en-
phatic in declaring will be carried by
the Progressives.
II Roosevelt Is to be elected, these
are the twenty-four states which the
Progressive managers believe will Is
found In his column: California, Col
orado, Connecticut, Idaho, Illinois,
Kansas. Maine, Massachusetts,, Michi-
gan, Minnesota, Montana Nebraska
Nevada, New Jersey, New York, North
Dakota, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylva-
MIA, South Dakota, Vermont, Washing
ton, Wisconsin and Wyoming.
1t will be noticed that the great
eastern states Of New York, New Jer-
sey, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania
are included in this list. The Progress
sive managers really believe they have
an even chance in the first three, II
their reports are to be relied upon,
while they are confident Of Pennsylva-
mia. The loss Of either New York or
Pennsylvania would upset the figures.
The Progressive managers. when
they attempt to get down to figures,
realize fully how hard 1t Is to tabulate
enough votes to elect Colonel Roose-
velt Their party is new and they have
no established method Of getting at the
strength Of their support. Their re-
ports encourage them greatly, and they
are absolutely convinced and would
be willing to bet that Taft will be
third.
Reports received by Senator Dixon
from the various state chairmen Of his
party have frankly amazed him. Some
OF these chairmen are amateurs at the
game, while others are old-time poll
ticians. But the reports from both
Ia ,hafa
TALLY the same in character; they re-
port Progressive sentiment that even
he, the executive head of the new par
ty, finds 1t difficult to believe 1t can ex-
For instance" said Senator Dixon,
1T Is common thing to concede Utah
to President Taft. I have done 1t my
self. I understand the Democrats will
also concede 1t to Taft. Yet our state
chairman in Utah writes me that the
man who puts Utah in the Taft col
umn Is perpetrating a joke. He saws
the Progressive party will carry 1t be-
yond question"
The Progressive managers are rely
voters whose sentiment cannot be
reached through canvasses or polls,
and they don't believe that the Demo-
Gratis or the Republicans have any bet
ter information concerning this vote
than themselves.
If Roosevelt should be elected they
believe that his electoral vote would be
much larger than 2S4, because they
think there will be landslide in that
event.
But in cold figures they cannot add
up more than 2S4, and some Of these
states they privately admit are DOUBT
full and can only go Progressive through
revolution. They are banking on
that revolution.
The Republican estimate of 280 elec-
one that has been put forth It came
from the Chicago headquarters last
night, prepared by Davil Mulvane, of
Kansas and Joseph B. Healing, Of In
diana. It puts the following twenty
three states in the Taft column: Con-
necticut, Delaware, Idaho, Illinois,
Iowa, Maine, Massachusetts, Mary
land, Michigan, Missouri, Montana,
New Hampshire, New Mexico, New
York, Ohio, Oregon, Pennsylvania,
Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont, Wash
ington, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
The Republicans concede 1872 elec-
toral votes to Governor Wilson, or say
that he is likely to carry them as fol-
lows: Alabama, Arkansas, California,
Florida, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississip-
pi, North Carolina, South Carolina,
South Dakota, Texas and Virginia.
They place 119 electoral votes in the
doubtful column, as follows: Arizona,
Colorado, Kansas, Kentucky, Indiana,
Minnesota, Nebraska, Nevada, New
Jersey, North Dakota, Oklahoma, Ten
nessee and West Virginia.
No states are conceded to Roosevelt
by the Republican national managers.