Atlanta semi-weekly journal. (Atlanta, Ga.) 1898-1920, 1916-10-31
4 AMERICANS REPORTED SLAIN WHEN GERMAN i
SINKS BRITISH STEAMER WITHOUT WARNING
SWING IS FOR WILSON,
SAYS VANCE MCCORMICK
West on Fire for President and
Looks Like Landslide,
Says Chairman
BY RALPH SMITH.

CHICAGO. Oct. 30.-"T have to move
fast to keep up with the Wilson pro-
cession," said Vance c. Mccormick,
chairman of the Democratic national
committee, who arrived in Chicago this
morning on a flying trip, the last he
expects to make to Chicago before cleo
tion. The national chairman expects to
return this afternoon at o'clock.
THE good news is coming so fast
and 50 persistently that / must keep
moving if I am to keep up with the
campaign. Honestly. il looks like a
landslide. 1 find conditions in this ter
ritory improved over what they were
when l was here two weeks ago and
that is saying a whole lot.
"You know things looked mighty good
to me then and I returned to New York
inspired with the conviction that the
west was on fire for the president. I
could smell the smoke, then, now I can
almost see the blaze.
Il am here to tell you honestly,
frankly and enthusiastically, that the
west has no edge on the east in this
matter of loyalty to the president. The
east Is mighty warm in its support OF
Wilson and Democrats generally. 1t has
improved daily for the past two weeks
and states that were doubtful may be
counted safely for the president at
this time.
NEW YORK FOR WILSON.
Take New York, for instance. New
York is for the president and for him
big You do not have to take my word
for it. Examine the newspaper polls
Of the state. read the views of indie
pendent political experts. writing for
the New York City papers.
ITO be sure these polls and these
newspaper reports confirm and cor
roborate private advices that come TO
me from all quarters of the state. The
gains the president has made and is
Still making in communities that have
heretofore been Republican strongholds
are almost incredulous to me.
They would be so If it were not for
the fact that / appreciate that patri-
otism in these communities outweighs
and overshalows party ties. In Greater
New York I know Of my own knowl-
edge that the presidents strength has
been a source of surprise and gratifica-
ton TO the local organization whose
leaders confidently believe that the
greater city will roll up one of the
heaviest Democratic pluralities in many
years.
"I see by the Chicago papers that
Frank II. Hitchcock claims the election
OF Mr.. Hughes. and gives a list of states
that he processes TO believ the Repub-
Iicans will carry. This estimate is Just
another evidence of the fact that Hitch
cock Is still working in the dark. Hitch
cock must have taken a hatpin and
speared at the map of the United States,
and announced as the states Hughes
will carry the states that he speared.
HITCHCOCK'S CLAIMS.
"Of the twenty-siX states he claims for
Hughes I do not regard six Of them as
certain for the Republican candidate.
The significant thing about the Hitch
cock estimate is that he didn't have
the nerve TO claim Ohio, because he real
lied that he would have made a joke of
his whole statement. If the Republicans
admit the loss of Ohio. as Mr.. Hitch
cock does. why should they claim or ex-
pect to carry Indiana and Illinois.
1.-The sentiment for Wilson in Ohio
that makes Mr.. Hitchcock concede the
state to the Democrats does not stop
at imaginary state lines. II extends
all over the section. and by this token,
not to mention our confidential reports
and first hand advices, we know that
Illinois and Indiana also are for the
president. This same sentiment is sweep
ing strong to the Pacific coast
Il confldentally tXpect the president
to carry Connecticut. New Jersey, Del
aware Maryland and West Virginia, in
fact the situation now looks as If these
states are no longer in doubt. In these
states as in New York the newspaper
polls and the opinion of political writ
ers corroborate and confirm our private
advices from dependable sources. The
swing is toward the president and there
is no signs of abatement