The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-10-30
Democratic Speakers Being Urged to Hold Steadily
 to What They Have
STRAW BALLOTS ARE
 STILL DEMOCRATIC
Indications Now Are That the Vote in the Southern States Will Be Very Light Except in
 Tennessee
By 0. F. STEWART

Washington, October % 9--(Special )-One more line buck all together and the goal is crossed and the touchdown made and the victory won, declare the democrats in the great national scramble for the presidency. Our game is made. If the election were tomorrow we'd make a grand slam and sweep the country" This
 is the confident assertion of the demo- cratic leaders, and they now are en- gagged in exercising caution that no mis- play Is made right in the ninth inning that will cost them the game. The Snod- grasses in the out field are being care fully groomed and warned that the huff of ball now might cost the party the victory Speakers and field marshals are being given their final instructions, hold to what you've got a little while longer and we'll romp home with the grapes. The democrats now are fighting against the sense of democratic security which seems to prevail among the rank and file of the party; they fear overconfidence. and they are urging full attendance at the polls so that the partys candidate may not only be elected but that he may get a majority of all popular votes cast Reports from the south indicate general apathy. and the leaders who are doing their utmost to bring out big vote do not believe that anything like full vote will be boiled in the southern states where the results are assured.
 In Tennessee, where there is a fight, with the republicans protesting to believe that they might win, there Is apparently more interest than in any other strictly southern state
 Wilson Denies Wall Street Story The from New York to the effect that Governor Wilson has made agreement with Wall street and big business that in the event of his elec- ton there will be no extra session of Congress to legislate on the tariff is bit- terly denied by the democratic leaders and characterized by them as being the last desperate stand of their defeated foe. Governor Wilson himself has denied the story, and declares that he has no under standing with Wall street or any other street person or interest regarding what he will do if he Is elected He has not committed himself to an extra ses- sion of Congress nor against it. He will. it is declared, be governed by what seems best when the bridge is reached It is the general opinion, however, that there will be an extra session of the Congress for the purpose of tariff legislation.
 The New York Herald's straw vote con- tinues to show that Wilson has firm hold on the situation. This weeks vote shows a small decrease of his percentage in the total vote, but it is pointed out by the Wilson leaders here that this is caused by the fact the vote taken this week included several rock ribbed repub- lican states, Vermont being one, a state which is conceded to the republicans, and whose vote if figured in the total is bound to show to the disadvantage of the democratic candidate. It would be like figuring a straw vote in Alabama and Georgia into the general figures of several really contested states, which
 would undoubtedly reduce the general percentage SC Roosevelt and Taft.