The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1912-09-20
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CONFIDENCE ALL AROUND.
 (Hartferd Times


 We have not noticed any diminution of confidence in the election of Wood row Wilson son the part of his sup porters- To the: ordinary democratic or independent mind it does not seem possible that as many as half the states hitherto regularly Republican on election day will elect either the Taft or the Roosevelt electoral ticket this year. In assachusetts. for in stance, the Democratic expectation is that about 100000 votes will be cast for Roosevelt and Johnson. The vote in that state for Taft in 1908 was close to 266, 1000. Subtract the smaller from the larger number and we have 166,- 00O But it is probable that many Mas sachusetts men who voted for Taft four years ago will vote for Wilson this year, while last year Governor Foss had POT. 900. We shall be sur prised if the Wilson vote in the Bay State is not as large as the FHoss vote of 1911. : It certainly ought to be not far from POO. 900. There is not much have more than 150,000 this year, and Roosevelt will do well if he gets f00,- 900.
 So it goes in all the Republican states east of the Mississippi river. In national politics now steast'' is the Atlantic side of the Mississippi and west is on the Pacific side. Ut looks like a clean sweep of the west for the progressives," declared the third term candidate in San Francisco, yes terday He is reported as believing
  ifornia, Oregon, Washington, Idaho. Minnesota, Iowa, North Dakota and Missouri. He regards Wisconsin, Ne vada- and Montana as good fighting grounds'' His confidence in the strength of his cause is said to be Abas- ed on what appears to him to be evil that part of the country, and he is of course impressed by the large size of the audiences which greet him on his tour. His inclusion of Iowa certain lxy Inn1r fO1s a ern that state gave Bryan POO, 900 votes to 1000 for Taft and with Bryan on the stump heartily supporting Wilson there will be no falling off in the Dem ocratic vote there. A majority of the Iowa Republicans are as bitterly opposed to everything that MT. Roose- patters' in any state of the Union. Iowa therefore is no more likely to give it's electoral vote to the third term candidate than is Massa sachusetts. The man is plainly chasing rainbows.
 Now we come to the Taft confidence, and it is the most wonderful thing of New York Tribune to-day from staff correspondent who has been talking with President. Taft and MT. Hilles, at Beverly, begins follows:
 The tide has turned President Taft is coming into his own. This novelty of the third term movement has worn pedagogue chosen at Baltimore has failed to meet the expectations of his own party or of that great army of in depen6ent voters on whom, in the last analysis, depends the verdict of the electors. This is the conclusion dra wn by President Taft and those close to him from the reports which have reached him from all sections of the country during the last few days. Not alone do the national headquarters at New York and Chicago report a radi- cal change in popular sentiment, but state chairmen and local observers, writing from all parts of the country. confirm the assertions of the generals of the Republican party
 The result in Vermont and Maine, the small showing of the third term CTS in the Michigan primaries, the fact that Lodge has consented to open the presidents campaign in Ohio. the straightening out of the electoral tick