The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1912-11-05
LOOK FOR A GREAT
VOTE OVER nation
Keenest Interest Has Been
Shown in the Presiden-
tial Campaign.

NEW YORK, Nov. 5.-The most Wig
orous presidential fight of recent years
came to an end last night, with the
| leading candidates for the nations
chief office continuing their personal
appeal to voters almost to the last mo-
ment President Taft, speaking from
his train in Ohio on his trip to Cincin-
natl; Col. Roosevelt, addressing voters
at Long Island points close to Oyster
Bay, and Governor Wilson, addressing
meetings at Passais and Paterson,
gave to the conclusion of the long cam
paign a touch of personal activity that
emphasized the interest in today's bal
! loting.
| More than the presidency is at stake
in the elections. The Republican fore
es have concentrated their efforts in
doubtful states to prevent an overturn-
/ ing of local organizations, or a capture
of the legislatures in states heretofore
safely Republican. The Democrats
have made an organized assault upon
number of states to control the leg
islatures, so that the majority in the
United States Senate may be swung to
the Democratic column.
Against Republican predictions that
the senate will remain Republican,
Democrats national leaders claimed
enough states to give them the senate,
and to greatly swell their majority in
the house of representatives, which
they captured in 1910.
The influence of women in the cleo
no hi NIL ho ha N
any previous election. Each national
| headquarters has had an organized
bureau to appeal to women workers,
presided over by women well known
in public and social life. In the six
Western states where women will
vote, Wyoming, Utah, Colorado, Cali
fornia, Idaho and Washington, their
ballots will be an important factor in
the results In five other states, Ari-
IONA, Michigan, Kansas, Oregon and
Wisconsin, the right of women to vote
will be an issue at the polls.
Fine weather pervails in the major
ity of states. The uncertainty caused
by the new party ticket, the more
! than ordinary urgent appeal of party
managers to all voters to go to the
| polls and the local interest caused by
! fights for state offices and control OF
state machinery indicated a record
vote in almost all sections of the coun-
try and popular presidential vote of
huge proportions.
Final Geographic instructions to
state and county chairmen in all OF the
! a of
night from the various national pOliti-
cal headquarters in Chicago. All of
the party managers renewed their con-
! fidents predictions of success, but all
emphasized the necessity of keeping
up the fight until the polls have clos
ed finally tonight.
Joseph f. Davies sent out warn
ing to Democrats, urging them not to
be led stray by overconfidence.
81 am convinced" said Mr.. Davies,
that Woodrow Wilson will win the
greatest political victory the United
States has known in fifty years"
David w. Mulvane, in estimating the
Taft vote in advance, declared that the
President would get 315 electoral
votes and Wilson 1872 electoral votes.
In addition Mulvane lists total of "a
electoral votes as doubtful.
Medill Mccormick asserted that a
Progressive landslide had started and
that Col. Roosevelt would be elected
by an overwhelming plurality.
Chairman Jones of the Prohibition
party said that the Prohibition cause
had received thousands of recruits
from the silent" vote of the country.
The Socialists expected to double
the Socialist poll of four years ago,
and several of the party leaders insist
ed the Socialist vote would be tripled.
CALIFORNIA WOMEN CONTROL.
SAN FRANCISCO, Cal, Nov. s.
California for Roosevelt and Johnson
by 10000, for Wilson and Marshall by
10000, were the predictions of rival
campaign managers on the eve of the
election The result lay with the wom-
en- voters.
Professional predictions apart, it
was the best opinion of politicians of
ala parties that the addition of La Fol-
latte and Taft Stranqt RI tho norma