Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1916-05-17
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FAvORS WILSON,
SAYS D0REMUS
Congressional Committee
Chairman Says President
viii Garry Mississippi VAL
ley Republicans Confident

SPECIAL eessssPososNes 10 MOANING JOURNAL
Washington. May l6. Frank f.
Doremus member of congress from
one of the Detroit tMieh) districts
and chairman of the democratic con-
gressional committee, Is about as hard
q man to get word out of as the
sphinx. But Mr. Doremus broke hls
policy Of silence today severely in let
ting out noise like the end of the
campaign with all doubtful precincts
tucked away in the victory column.
Mr.. Doremus said "All our re-
ports show the president strong in ev-
cry state. I think he will carry every
state IN the Mississippi valley"
Wilson VIII Garry Minnesota.
Does that include Minnesota 2"
asked timidly for | find that many
people down here do not connect Min
! nesota with the Mississippi valley.
They think it is in Skagway or Omaha.
But Mr.. Doremus was equal 70 the
test. He knew Minnesota was in the
valley, in fact that II started the val
! ley and carried it on by its own I'M
aided efforts for distance of 200
| miles, and he assured me that Wilson
would carry all of those zoo miles
! suggested to him that such thing
as Minnesota voting for a democratic
president had not been heard OF here
tofore, that many Minnesotans be-
lieved 1t would take constitutional
amendment to make such an act legal,
hut he persisted that the reports were
sternly to the effect that Minnesota is
for Wilson.
The causes of this anticipated revo-
luton in Minnesota politics. Mr.. Dore-
mus finds, is the absence of prepared
ness sentiment in the state and the
gratitude of the people for Wilson
keeping us out Of the European
war
Rely on Ford Vote.
AS member OF the house. Mr.
Doremus has had opportunity TO study
the moves of republican congressman,
and he is convinced by their votes on
the army bill that the Mississippi val
ley constituents are not standing for a
more complete preparedness than the
democratic program provides.
If these congressman have mistaken
the sentiment of their constituents in
this regard. then Mr.. Doremus may
have to revise his estimates of major
tiles in the valley Al the present
time, however, there is no question the
democrats are banking on the Ford
vote as a vote that will swing back to
Wilson en- bloc if the republicans at
Chicago attempt to put over any such
playful prank as calling upon the
country to prepare FOR emergencies.
If this vote IL properly gagged by the
democrats, they have confidence that
it will prove the decisive factor in
such states as Nebraska Kansas, Iowa,
the Doktas and Minnesota
Woman Voter LiI<os Wilson.
This phenomenal popularity of the
president, il must be said, is hard to
find In the east II certainly is not
rampant in Washington. But then
presidents, fol some reason, are never
popular here. probably because the
people get too close to them and thus
their halo suffers. But from other
parts Of the east come reports that
the president is phenomenally popu-
lar. | give but one instance: "a lady
voter from California. She voted for
Wilson in 1912 and, never having seen
him. wished to gaze on her first pres
ident. She did and when she left the
White House. after shaking hands
with the president. said she liked him.
was glad she had voted for him and
would do it again. But she was
troubled about one thing. the perfect
hatred of Wilson that she found in