Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-10-30
Great DRIVE FOR
BALLOTS WILL BE
MADE THIS WEEK
Strenuous Time for the Can
didates and Party Leaders
in Closing Days of the
Campaign.

New York, Oct. 30.-If the plans Of
opposing managers do not miscarry,
this, the closing week of the ma
tional campaign, will outstrip any
thing of the kind heretofore seen in
this country. Both sides are bringing
forward their heaviest artillery in pre-
paration for a big drive to rout old
General Apathy, whose presence has
troubled the political managers in
every section of the country since the
beginning of the campaign. From now
until the opening of the polls next
Tuesday morning there is to be no let
up in the efforts to awaken the masses
of the voters to the Importance of the
issues involved in the election. Demo-
Gratis and Republicans. Prohibitionists
and Socialists, alike are planning for
a week of unprecedented campaign ac-
tivities.
Every available speaker is to be
pressed into service during the week
that remains of the campaign. No
town, village or cross roads hamlet,
however. small, is to be without it's po-
litical rallies every night this week. In
the larger places the leading political
parties are preparing for demonstra-
ton that will eclipse anything of the
kind seen in many years. In number
of cities the old-fashioned torch-lght
professions, such as were common in
the political campaigns of quarter of
century ago, will be resorted to by
both Democrats and Republicans in an
effort to arouse the people.
CENTERS IN METROPOLIS.
New York city is to be converted in
to a bee hive of political activity
There will be several thousand meet
ings held in the five boroughs by mid
night of Saturday. There will be near
ly thousand meetings in the Brook
Ign borough alone. In Manhattan.
every hall from the Battery to the
northern limits of the Bronx has been
hired for next Saturday night. Humid
reds of automobiles will carry the
spell binders about the city and will
be kept on the go until the polls open.
The week will be a strenuous one for
the candidates and the "top-line"
speakers of all parties. President Will
sons two important speeches of the
earlier part of the week are to be de-
livered In opposite ends of New York,
the first in Buffalo and the second in
Madison Square Garden in this city.
The visit to Buffalo Is scheduled for
Wednesday. According 90 the present
program he will speak in the afternoon
before a lunch club and at night in the
Buffalo auditorium. He will then re-
turn Immediately to New York to APP
pear Thursday night at the big Demo-
cratic rally in Madison Square Garden.
The president win make his final
speech OF the campaign at Shadow
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be the "Old Home Day." devoted en-
tirely to New Jersey friends and
neighbors of the president.
ITINERARY OF HUGHES.
Mr.. Hughes enters upon the final
week of the campaign in Ohio. Begin
ming at East Liverpool this morning he
is to be heard during the afternoon at
Steubenville and GAINESVILLE and will
close with a speech in Columbus to-
night. Tomorrow and Wednesday are
to be devoted to Indiana. Thursday
he will turn eastward for the final lap
of his tour. The remainder of the
week will be spent in New York state.
Two days will be devoted to speech
making in the principal cities and
towns of the Hudson valley The
wind will come with the big Re-
publican rally in Madison Square Gar
den, at which Colonel Roosevelt and
former President Taft, together with a
host of other Republican leaders Of ma
tional prominence, are expected to ap-
pear on the platform with the nominee
for president.
Former President Taft starts the
closing week of the campaign in
Michigan. Tomorrow night he is
scheduled to appear in Philadelphia.
From the Quaker City he is to jump
back into the battle-ground of the mid
die west for a speech at Columbus
Wednesday night. The remainder of
the week will be devoted to New York
state.
The heads of the Prohibition and
| Socialist national tickets will devote
the last week of the campaign to the
states of the east and central west.
Particular attention will be paid to
New York, Ohio and Indiana.
! Colonel Roosevelt is expected to de-
| liver several speeches in New York
, city and vicinity during the week.
/ William ]. Bryan has accepted an in
vitation to tour Illinois in behalf of the
Democratic ticket during the early half
of the week. Following the Illinois
tour he probably will return to Ne
/ braska to devote the last few days of