The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-11-04
Then It's All Over but the Vot-
ing Next Tuesday.
Gov. Hughes Winds Up Today
With Five Speeches.
WOMEN ESTABLISH RECORD
Hughes Boosters Tour 11,7OO
Miles in % States.
Ha2Iy and Benson Made Rec
ord Tours of Their Parties.

New York, Nov. 4.-Candidates for
the presidency and prominent cam
pa1gn orators in general will make
their last spoken appeals for votes to-
day. Some time around midnight
when the last cheer has died away, the
last red fire has burned out and the
last parader has gone home, the ma
1onal campaign will be virtually over
Charles E. Hughes ended his political
travels yesterday but the last day of
his campaign is one of the hardest. He
makes five speeches here this after
noon and tonight will deliver his final
address at a rally in Madison Square
Garden which will close the greatest
Republican rally of the campaign in
New York city. President Wilson at
long Branch will make his last speech
before an audience from his home
state.
No Campaigning Monday.
Both candidate will spend two days
that intervene before election quietly,
the president at Shadow Lawn and
Mr.. Hughes at the hotel where he has
made his headquarters since he left
Washington. ]. Frank Hanly. the
Prohibition presidential candidate, will
reach his home in Indianapolis tonight
after a final Cay of speechmaking
thru Indiana.
Since September s, Mr.. Han1y las
travelled nearly 10000 miles thru
didate, Ollan L. Benson, who has made
campaign speeches in almost every
part of the country, is today en- route
east from Kansas City, Mo-, where he
spoke last night.
The increase in the number of the
states where women may vote for
president this year has gi-en women Il
greater part in this campaign than
ever before. The most extensive cam
paign trip ever undertaken by femi-
nine political workers ended here last
night when a special train brought
back the women who have been trav-
cling thru the country to win votes for
Mr.. Hughes. They have journeyed
11,700 miles and addressed 191 meet
ings in twenty-eight states.
Send Out Floods of Advertising.
Both Democrats and Republicans
are supremely confident of victory.
Both great parties wound up the cam
paign with a flood of advertising in
the newspapers thruout the country
which in volume has never been sur
passed in political history.
The Prohibitionist candidate, ].
Frank Hanly, completes his appeal
for votes in his home city of Indiana
polls and Allan Benson, Socialist can
didate, speaks in Louisville. Benson
has one more speech after the official
close of the campaign-in Milwaukee
tomorrow.
S2,OOO,0OO in Wagers.
Probably $2,O00,000 will change
hands here on Tuesday at verdict
which the American voters register at
the polls. There was rush to get mon
ey down today while the odds fluctuat-
ed fractional1y around 10 to I u on
Hughes
Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, former
president and leader of the exodus
from the Republican ranks virtually
made his last appeal in behalf of Re-
publican Candidate Hughes. at Bridge
port, Conn. Altho the colonel has sew
eraI times heretofore bade farewell to
politics. his closest friends believe this
Bridgeport address may mark his val
edictory in active participation in pol
itics
In the Democratic camp, the wo-
mems bureau sent women cartoonists
over the city. drawing campaign pic
lures to illustrate points made by wo-
men StumperS.