The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-11-06

New York. Nov. 6.-Republican campaign managers in many ways are showing their fears of the result ot the election and the Democratic man. agers are confident There are nu- merous signs of popular decision on Tuesday that Hughes has made bad case, and Wilson a good one. Despite. the huge sum raised from Wall street and the representatives of many interests which had hoped to profit by a return to a Republican Administration, it now seems certain that President Wilson will win. This is the Judgment not alone of the Democratic managers but of many independent political observers and even some Republicans.
 Why?
 Glancing back as far as June, the facts that point to this outcome may be assembled quickly. The spectacle which so many well-informed people had forecast-that of two men of sub- stantially the same intellectual mold and stature, engaged with equal skill in a debate of the issues, did not ma terialize. Instead, this was the unex- pected contrast that was gradually un- folded:
 President Wilson CD took a defin- ite stand upon the record of achieve ment made by the Democrats under his leadership. CD gave definite promise as to the policies to be ap- piled and as to specific measures to be enacted in the event of his reelec- tion, (3) reiterated definitely his pur- pose to continue the policy of strict 4 definitely defied the powerful Ameri- can influences attempting to force this country into intervention in Mex ico regardless of the rights of Mexi- cans, (5) definitely aligned himself with the progressives in American politics and (6) definitely repudiated ''that small alien element amongst us which puts loyalty to any foreign pow CT before loyalty to the United States.
 MT. Hughes CD attempted indefin- +ite disparagement of the entire series of important domestic laws enacted under Wilson, CD resorted to indefin- ite prophecies of disaster in the event of the Presidents reelection (3) spoke indefinitely of the course he would have pursued if he had been in Will sons place, (4) because still more in-
 
 if elected President, (5) used inde- finite generalities on foreign questions which, however, threatened changes of policy that implied definite danger of war, (6) took all indefinite stand towards the Progresslves and CD com pleted the mystery by his many in- definite utterances, inviting the sup port of the schemers within the Uni- <a<7 Cfofa in nf ha and of Germany.
 The expected debate of the issues did not result. because Hughes did not raise issues that appealed to the country as such. He changed his ground from week to week, almost from speech to speech. For a time, it seemed that the Adamson Eight Hour law was to become his great dominant chord. But, by the end of September, this had grown too hot to handle.
 During early October, his sole issue appeared to be this: Wilson has made bad President and ought to be de- feated."
 When the returns began to come in from the State canvasses about the middle of October, and showed that the whole people were about to as- sert, in decidedly thunderous fashion Wilson is all right he turned to the old Republican standby, the tar if He lugged it to the fore in his speeches, and his managers drew in their unlimited bankroll and plastered tariff adds over the country. Unless Hughes and the Republicans were commissioned to enact the same sort of monopoly-favoring tariff repu- diated in the elections of 1910 and l1912, prosperity would evaporate over night and bread lines form from Maine to California--that was the last desperate play. Of course, it was move engineered by Penrose and the Old Guard in the hope of soaring into line portion of the labor vote lost by the attack on the Eight our law.
 The sum and substance of the pub- lie judgment in these last hours of the fight, in the opinion of those who have followed the campaign through out is that the record of Wilson and the Democrats is good, and that it's
 merit has been but emphasized by the hammering by Hughes.
 Hughes was nominated at Chicago by the Old Guard, as a means both of avoiding the choice of Roosevelt and of securing the German-American vote. Though his candidacy was de- nounced by Roosevelt as being fos-