Evening journal., 1916-10-30
UGHES ELECTION
Seems CERTAINTY
|verything Points to Old
lime Republican Victory
This Year
ANDIDATE MAY
HAVE 3I4 VOTES
OBVIOUS, SAYS
REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN.

REPUBLICAN CHAIRMAN. '
aCcrtainly s1i electoral votes.
1possibIy considerably mOre,-for
hughes and Fairbanks
.Only when the Republican
PARTY is suffering from some un-
Howard circumstance have the .
Democrats n chance to win
-The Republicans are acting
! ogether this year."
eMr. Mccormick amuses himself
BIZ claiming Connecticut, MasSa-
Ahnsettes. Illinois, Michigan and
Minnesota"
4Since 1912 much has occurred
o increase the feeling against Mr..
3Nllson." -,
aCharles Evans Hughes will
kucceed Woodrow Wilson on next
Inauguration day"
T.
ANEW YORK. oct. 3O.-"The cam
8 IN is practically ended, and there
4 nothing to it but the election Of
Hehes, said William r. Wilcox
sirman OF the Republican Nationa
#mmittee. at Republican Nationa
& adonarters last night.
i "When the votes are counted on
ID he night Of November Z, it will be
zound that at least 314 Hughes
#,nd Fairbanks electors have been
81 hosen and il may be a consider
Nahle number more. ] look for an
x,ld-time Republican victory.
Everything points that way.
& "Remcmber that this is kepuoli-
Ehan country. There are more Re
&DnbNcans in its than there are Demo
s rats The Republicans outnumher
4 he Democrats in normal times by
Hnorc than million. They outnum
fher tho Democrats in many States,
Aud tho aggregate of the electoral
4rotes for ten sure Republican States
g. much greater than the aggregate
NJ the electoral votes Of the sure
Democratic States.
8C. o. P. Ills Democratic Chance.
III is only when the Republican
Hpartv i suffering from some unto
|zuard circumstances. such as operated
Haoainst II four years ago. that the
<Denocrats have any chance to win
4 Rational election in this country.
*rhe trouble with the Democratic
managers in their extraVagant claims
No. .sictorv this year is that they
h. s.tiu thinking and talking In
4 iernNe,ef 1919, whereas this Is 1915.
\ Tlle sRApublicans arc acting together
4 this year and they very much out
n humber the other fellows.
@It IS perfectly obvious that Mr..
& NcC ormick and his colleagues in put
ting out their extraordinary claims
figure the States which gave their
Electoral vote TO Wilson in 1912 as
Democratic But the fact is that there
0crc no more Democratic states IN
1912 than usual.
"Mr Wilson carried only four
cen States four years ago-the
same old solid South and nothing
more. They were; Alabama, Ari-
iona. Arkansas. Florida. Georgia,
4 Kentucky. Louisiana. Mississippi,
4 North Carolina. Oklahoma. South
q carolina. Tennessee, Texas and
q Virginia. Those are the only
d states IN which Mr. Wilson Sc
n rured he majority of the popular
n vote and 81 is only those States
& which he can be SAID TO have
n carried. Every other State in the
n Union voted against him.
& eMr. Roosevelt secured the cleo
n loral vote for six States. Calitor
81 MIA, Michigan. Minnesota. Penn
q sylvania. South Dakota, and Wash
3 5ngton. and Mr. Taft two States
4 Utah and Vermont. The remain
/ ing twenty-six States gave thei
4 Electoral votes 10 Wilson. but n
4 bach case by a minority vote, II
i leach case against the expressed
4 preference OF the majority OF thos
1who voted.
"The electoral vote Of Ties
twenty-six States aggregates 2Sl
,0r more than a majority OF tn
Electoral College These State
salone. all of which voted agains
Wilson four years ago. can cleo
fhis successor. These States ar
}Colorado. Connecticut, Delaware
&ldaho. Illinois, Indiana. Iowa KaI
}sas. Maine. Maryland. Massachi
sets. Missouri, Montana Nebrai
tka. Nevada. New Hampshire. Nel
Jersey, New Mexico. New Yorl
North Dakota. Ohio, Oregon
Rhode Island. West Virginia, Wi
consin and Wyoming.
IL ~In eighteen of these States tn
majority adverse to Mr.. Wilso
l. was substantial, running in som
cases up into the hundreds of thou
sands. In the other eight cases
L. was not so large. but that group {
IL eight includes four States whic
II not even Mr.. Mccormick woul
think OF putting into the Wilso
column Maine. New Hampshir
Rhode Island and North Dakot
\ The other four Of them. Marylan
Missouri. Nevada and New Me
leo. are all close and doubtful.
III Mr. Mccormick has bee
amusing himself by claiming Co
/ necticut, where the majority a.
verse TO Wilson in 1912. was q
1872; Illinois. where it was 24I
.014; Massachusetts. where IL W
s134,76Ss Michigan. where il W