The Lexington intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1901-1949, 1916-10-20
INDEPENDENT SWING
TO WILSON INCREASES
Coast, Middle West and East All
Report Strong Drift Of Senti-
ment to President.
DEMOCRATS CONFIDENTLY
CLAIMING CALIFORNIA
Ninety Per Cent Of Washington hide
pendents and PrOgressives Have
Declared for Wilson.

0N~A4ANA
AS the campaign progresses,
the Independent drift to Presi-
dent Wilson gains momentum
and volume throughout the
country.
The weeks reports to the
Woodrow Wilson Independent
League bring word that ffty-six
new branches have been estab-
lished in Southern California
that the organization has been
extended to every large commun-
ity Of North Dakota; that the
Presidents success in averting
war and in passing the Child
Labor Law has won the women's
vote in Colorado; that in the
state Of Washington ninety per
cent of the Progressive and In
dependent voters have declared
for Wilson and that in the great
States Of New York and Illinois,
the swing of the Independent
vote to Wilson approaches a.
stampede.
Conservative estimates in
Southern California are that IS
per cent Of the Independent and
Progressive vote Of that State
win be for the President, which
will mean his carrying the cleo
toral vote of California by the
largest majority ever given any
candidate. Isidor Jacobs, who
organized the northern Califor-
MIA Branch of the Independent
League, is now in New York
and states that it is only a ques-
ton Of how large a majority the
President will obtain in CaHfor-
MIA.
The Farmers for Wilson.
From North Dakota, Melvin D..
Hildreth, General Secretary Of
the Wilson League in that State,
reports:
/ have just returned from a
two days tour across the north
ern part Of the state. We had a
special train and at every town
there was an organized club to
assist in the work of the distri-
button Of literature. never be-
fore have seen such enthusiasm.
Whenever an indoor meeting
was held it was necessary to
turn hundreds of people away.
And the outdoor meetings were
attended by enormous crowds. II.
am firmly convinced that the
farmers of the State are for VIII
son.
While it is certain that the
State of Maryland will be for the
President, it is interesting to
note the fact that one of the
leading citizens of little but i'm
portant Quaker community of
Sundy Spring, Maryland, shows
how the Quaker vote of the en-
tire United States will be cast.
Allen Farquhar writes the Inde-
pendent League as follows:
l am an enthusiastic supporter
of Woodrow Wilson, though it is
not on partisan grounds. It is
because he stands as a great
rock in a weary land he is pro-
gressive, without being revolu-
tionary he is safe, sane and
sound, without confusing conser-
vatism with a standpat stagna-
ton; he has too clear an intel
lect; to believe that a great ma
ton like America should still
wear hampering swaddling
clothes-miscalled Protection"
which ~intefere with the natur-
al laws Of trade; his record is
without fear and without re-
proach, whatever scandal leaps
to light he never can be sham
ed" and-best Of all-he has
kept us out Of war.
It is President Oldham, of the
Washington State branch of the
Independent League who says ,
that at least ninety per cent Of
the p~roornucixo ond Tndoronl