New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-10-29
Vote and Victory Are Theirs,
HiIIes Tells Republicans.
BOILERS IN FOLD AGAIN
Chairman Confident of New
York, Massachusetts, Mich
igan and Illinois.

The effort to destroy the Republican
party and It's President has failed" said
Chairman Hilles OF the Republican Ma
tional Committee yesterday. with the
election only a week OF. President Taft s
friends have every reason TO await the
outcome with confidence. All that re-
mains for Republicans is 10 keep up the
fight until Election Day, go to the polls
and vote their straight party ticket and
the victory will be theirs"
Mr.. Hilles did not attempt to make any
division OF the electoral votes among the
three Presidential candidates. but he eX-
pressed confidence that the Republicans
would get New York, Massachusetts.
Michigan and Illinois. all OF which states
have been placed In their own columns %
| the managers Of the opposition parties.
| The national chairman went on to say
New York, with It's forty-fve electoral
votes appear certain for the lFeSluehI
and the Republican nominee for GOV
ernor Michigan, with fifteen more erect
oral votes, which the third term Leaders
! have been claiming without warrant, WI
! give "a substantial Republican piuIaItS
| as also will Minnesota. Massachusetts
where the Third Term party mas mace d
| strenuous campaign, has swunB DaGh
! into the Republican column, with clsh-
| teen more electoral votes. New lamp
shire with one Of the Seven Little GOV
ernors," stands firm for Republican prin-
| ciples and Republican Candidates, WIN
| four more electoral votes ana 50 al a!Chs
! the line. Illinois, claimed by botp me
| Democracy and the Third Term pa ~
| early in the campaign, will give its TWEEN
| tv-nine electoral votes for Taft and Sher-
man. ,,, -.
may slump. as California, Wilson rather
! than the third term candidate is the
stronger, and the issue IS where It has
| been from the beginning OF the campaign
| between Taft and prosperity on one side
and Wilson and industrial collapse on the
| other.
The tide has been running steadily and
| with increasing volume in favor OF Pres
| ident Taft for a month, Chairman Hilies
declared. The third term boilers had
returned to the Republican fold, and SEN
slble Democrats preferred TO have pres
| ent conditions in business, manufact-
uring and other pursuits continue than to
bring on period OF uncertainty lack oil
| confidence and dire results .......r
best of ALL" he added, Republicans
in every state are standing up with cour'
age and confidence inspired by belief In
their party, Its principles and its candi'
| dates"
Discussing the issues, Chairman Hilles
| said:
The Wilson issue OF "readjustment OF
| the tariff has been a losing issue. From
! various states come reports showing that
| business interests. agricultural interests
manufacturing interests and the grea'
| army OF American wOrkmen have decld'
| Il al nh oil nnA a
for the continued supremacy OF the Re-
| publican party, the party Of prosperity.
| DIR. Wilson has been unable 10 square
| his utterances against labor unions ano
| the foreign workmen who have come 70
our shores to improve their condition
| before his candidacy with the insincert
! vaporings of candidate seeking votes
| The American voters have sized up" DIT
! Wilson and have discovered he lacks
| weight for q statesmans ...
Third term apostles admit their cause
| Is doomed and are eNertihg their lniiu'
| ence now to help DIR. Wilson TO win oven
President Taft Their purpose thus is
straw votes, canvasses made by party
organizations and by individuals, show
| an increase OF support for President Tart
with a corresponding decadence Of the
! third term campaign
Every business man knows" added
Mr.. Hllles, that President Tafts admin.
| istration has steered the United States
| away from the effects Of the panic of
1907 and into period Of prosperity and
Industrial progress"
| BY way Of showing how strongly the
tide had turned toward President Taft
Chairman HiIles quoted an Independent,
| who for many years had conducted a
personal canvass Of his district in this
! city.
"slnce the campaign of 1896" this man
said TO Mr.. Hilles. IT have made a can.
yass, which has been confined exclusively
| TO the smaller business men, such as
! grocers, druggists, small drygOods mer-
| chants. fruitereTs, etc. After the Presi.
| dental nominations I found Democrats
| who mad voted the Republican ticket fol-
! sixteen years who intended TO vote for
| Wilson; also few Republicans who In
tended to support the Democratic ticket
vote for Wilson TO assure the defeat OF
| Roosevelt
! About month ago I again made my
| canvass among the same people and
found that the Republicans had come
back to Taft A few OF the Gold Demo-
Gratis were wavering.
"A few days ago ] made a. third can,
| vass, To my surprise, / found that
nearly all the so-called Gold Democrats
now intended to vote for Taft. They
| said their change was due to the fact
| that they had reached the conclusion
that II would be a mistake to experiment
! with the tariff"