The Democratic advocate. [volume] (Westminster, Md.) 1865-1972, 1912-10-18
wilson Way Ahead.

.,--, the preference OF more thaI
WIZ rotes from 80 States on rec
l5O'Vvv New York Herald poll showed
ord the dov that Wilson was far in tine
% ouluIP Roosevelt and Taft Taft il
leau uing but slightly upon the Duil
Moose that it is conceded by
N roanagers Of the several parties
the I Governor Wilson will carry
that .,ond on the popular vote, the
Mar' sabt in this State has narrowed
real n5 one between the Taft and
down .o ~ forces for second place
th third in the history Of Maryland
SELDOM Seldom have political lines been
poHtsd as completely as they are in
-bis contest. Dn,io.ns hove
lied the old party and are with
.arnor Wilson. While It IS gen
CIH WI believed that Governor Wilson
tl 51i oorrv the State by substantial
VIII Witty even if he does not every
ns s!;oation is that his plurality will
ilui n'nre than $4,000, which will give
D. IN +hn States eight electoral votes.
nl Ii looks at present that Wilson will
INV the following States
cH Vow York, Massachusetts, New
-cov Pennsylvania, Maryland,
o JeIoT!, ONO, Indiana, West Vir-
L G kentucky, Wyoming, Missouri,
Eansas. Oklahoma, Nebraska, I'LL
r ha Wisconsin, Minnesota, Iowa,
eoiS, Takota. Utah, California, Ari-
GU New Mexico, Nevada and Colo
L Lo4o and the Southern States, which
I 100. An electoral vote Of about 41O.
necessary to elect 266.
wilson Iowa victory is figured in
,b;s fasion and thefiguring is boundto
oarrv conviction to the impartial
nudge Bryan polled 205,000 in that
Clare against Taft. That year there
we're slightly fewer and this year
there will be slightly more than 5OO,-
900 votes cast.
In other words, the old Republican
majority here was little more than
10000. for the reason that there were
approximately $4,000 Socialists and
Prohibitionists.
Roosevelt will, on November 5, poll
more than $4,000 votes. Taft will
poll more than $4,000 votes. Neither
Of them can hope to draw any materi-
al strength from Wilson and by these
simple calculations the Democratic
candidate has the States electoral
votes.
One of the most significant devel-
opments of the present presidential
campaign has been the large number
Of Republicans of National promi-
neuce who have sacrificed their party
affiliations and come out in support
of Governor Woodrow Wilson's can
didacy. More than Il score of these
Republicans, all of whom avow pre-
gressive principles, are to be found
this fall fighting in the ranks with
the forces of the New Jersey Cover
nor.
Most notable, perhaps, among
these dissenting progressive Repub-
licans is Dr. Harvey w. Wiley, the
Governments former chief chemist;
Rudolph Speeches, whose war on
graft and civic corruption in San
Francisco has made him a National
figure Louis Brandies, the noted
Boston lawyer-reformer; U. S. Sena-
tor John Works, of California; Sena-
tor Robert NJ. LaFollette, who is de-
voting his trenchant pen to Cover
nor Wilson's cause; Senator John J
Blaine, of Wisconsin,, one of Senator
LaFollette's chief aids in the fight for
the Republican Presidential nomina-
ton; Jacob Schiff, the noted banker
philanthropist; Claus A. Spreckles,
the California sugar refiner, who has
spent fortune and fifteen years of
his life in a war on the sugar trust;
his brother, John D. Spreckles, pub
Usher of the San Francisco Call and
lifelong Republican; Wallace
Batchelder, lawyer and former Roose-
welt Rough Rider, who was, the third
term party's State chairman in Yer
mont until his split with Colonel
Roosevelt; DR.. ]. N. Hurry, Health
Officer of Indiana; DR.. William Jay
Schieffelin, wealthy philanthropist
and civic reformer; Charles r. Crane
OF Chicago; Raymond B. Fosdin, for
mer Commissioner of Public Ac-
counts of New York; John B. Rath-
ON, publisher of the Providence, r
H. Journal; Rev. Madison c. Peters,
Tor years active in civic reform in
New York; Erman ]. Ridgway, pub
Usher of Everybody's Magazine /;
Henry c. Niles, former Pennsylvania
State chairman of the Lincoln Party
samuel S. Fels, manufacturer, of
Philadelphia; Powell Evans, manu-
lacturer, OF Philadelphia, and a host
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