Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1916-11-02

doing better now. Hughes will prob
ANY curry the state by n small plu-
ralitN, as it has never vet failed to go
republican in a presidential Gle ction
Montana is close. The primaries had
not been held when I was there but
reports this week from the best posted
newspaper men say that Senator
walsh is worried AT the surprising
strength of jeanette Rankin the. young
woman Whn-Won the Republican nom
iuation for congress rnar' Cor congress-
woman0 -at-largc. She defeated her
nearest male rival in the primaries by
over 1000 and she bids fair to sweep
the state at the polls ON election day
ana bring the whole republican ticket
through with her with the possible eN-
ccption of governor. Governor Stew
art, tDem) is very popular ana has
a. good record and will likely ho re-
elected Miss Rankin, if oluctod VIII
be the first womaii hicrfibcr or" con =
gross Montana is gbrnI ''drN' I'm addt
ton to the other surprising c0pcrs
it IS getting ready to cut up this fall.
Nebraska Is very close and unccr-
tain. There is Il bitter wet and dry
fight on there. The farmers are very
prosperous. and they are pacihsts,
very largely. Henry Ford carried the
spring for presidential nomination.
Bryan has lost much of his strength
there hut he seems to have just about
enough left. with other favorable con-
ditions to, run the state dry ard for
Wilson. Bryan is eXpecting--so they
say. in Lincoln and Omaha-that
Wilson will be defeated. and that he
Brran) will bob UP as the democratic
candidate for president in 1921 against
Hughes, with a dry plank and a fed
cral amendment for woman suffrage
plank in his platform.
Nevada is one of the States where
republican prospects have improved
materially in the past two months.
The Improvement has been steady and
sure. Hughes now has a fair chance
to carry it.. The Nevada state Jour
nal the leading democratic paper in
Nevada. The Pittman land grant bill,
and all his works. George y. Kilborn
the owner and. editor, is a power in
Nevada. The .ittman land grant bill
under which the 100000 acres of
land owned by the United States gov
ernment in Nevada. are to be coded
to the state. is the big issue in the
senatorship contest. Plat. the repub-
lean candidate, at first stood for it
but so much opposition developed he
has come out against it. Grant Miller
(socialist, stands a fair chance of
beating both Pittman and Plat on
this issue. The woman's party leaders
are doing effective work for Hughes
in Nevada. Miss Anne Martin. chair
man of the Woman's party, lives IN
\ Reno.
Hughes will carry Wilson'S home
state of New Jersey by upwards of 10000.
| An indication of the feeling there is the
I fact that at the recent primaries the re-
| puhlicans pollcd nearly 1890 more votes
! than Wilson obtained at the regulnr ele' +.
tion Of 1872! -
New York, .fI1iches's home state, Will
| turn up somewhere from G5.e'0 to 10000
for him The democratic plurality in
| greater New York city. even With Tam
| many Hall working hard for Wilson as
| they are expected to do since Wilson
made the deal with Murphy. will not
| exceed 10000 and is more likely to be
less than so 00o.-whe the republican
plurality for Hughes upstate is con-
sorvatively figured at from 125, 600 to 150
0O0. Hughes has never yet failed to carry
| his own State. even under unfavorah bic
conditions. and he is stronger now than
| ever before.
"Ohio is one Of the most interesting
| studies in the history of American
politics For years democrats like Brand
| Whitlock, Tom Johnson and others
struggled in Toledo Cleveland and else
where to improve municipal government.
Latterly, with Tom Johnson's death and
Whitlock's removal to Belgium, many of
the cities of Ohio fell back one by one
| into the clutches of old-tine predatory,
machine republcanism, and the Ohio
voters, remembering what Whitlock and
! I.l 60. Il ,l,.
are sore Rotten republican administra-
| ion is what ais the Republican party
| in Detroit and Chicago and many other
places, too, if anybody should ask Nou'
| But to gel back 90 ohio. It is SLOWLY
swinging back towards Hughes II the
election had been held last week
actually believe Wilson might have car
red it. BY NovGphcr :, with the present
rate of gain. IN Ehes will carry it by a
| close vote.
Oregon will give Hughes good
plurality. ....
| "Washngton will probably give Hughes
a small plurality while Poiudexter, Gor-
mer progreasivel viii go back TO the
Senate by an overwhelming vote
West Vreinit leans TO IIughos al
though accurate newspaper polls seem to
i show Wilson slightly in tho lead Suther.
! land. republican,, viii defeat Chiffon fo'
SENATOR
| WISCONSIN is. in n turmoil II anyhodF
! can predict what the. .nalGer Sate- VIII
| do lie or she 10 welcome ia go 10 It,. FOR
| one, give it up. .Lahu.et.",. who Not ed
! for the .Adamsou l.H. and. tho Under
wood tariff law mlJ other Wilsoniau
measures, is not mcItiuniug hughes ir
his speeches hnt has bitterly as.suiicd
| hH-hee' arguments and pol, les. virtually