The sun., 1916-10-21
HUGHES NDT.R. TO
TOUR CONNECTICUT
Both will Campaign There
Especially to Swing NUM-
ton Workers in Line.
DOUBTFUL VOTE IS LARGE
Reassuring Advices Received
From OhiO-JOhn Il. Dos
PassOs for Hughes.

with the campaign about 70 enter ls
stage the vote OF the thousah''
OF munl,ion workers is beginning 10
loom as an important factor in some OF
the doubtful States. notably ONO an"
Connecticut. Were 1t not Tor TINS ee-
ment, according to the Republican man
ayers. these two states especially. couiu
he put down as absolutely saie ior
Hughes and Fairbanks. But with ~
one able 10 tell exactly how ,hese
workers whom the war has aioeu arc
going to vote. these two states arc ="
the doubtful class.
The inheritance OF this vote In Con-
n.cticut has been impressed upon tno
Republican lately ny .eie-
grams from the Nutmeg state chairman
Rohrback, who In the last fe" DAYS ia,
appealed for help from the ha''on,t
committee. As a consequence NOT ohly
will Mr.. Hughes visit the state ""' ~
will col. Roosevelt.
Nr Hughes ia to sneak at Hartford
Thursday Plans for the Roosevelt trip
are tentative. hut he will probably MAKE
a speecn at bridgeport. Both the Hush's,
and Roosevelt speeches are TO be a'h'u
at the munition workers.
40, OOO New voters.
Relatively speaking Connecticut mas
enjoyed more war prosperity than any
other state In the Union bridgeport y
perhaps the biggest war boom town vi
the country, and Is harly able IN house
all It's workers. In Hartford conditions
are almost as bad. Politicians estimate
that the number OF men OF voting az.
drawn into the state by these conditions
AT about 50. 900. Their votes can easily
swing the state. Tn. 'o,ai vote OF the
three parties at the lest iTesloeh'i'
election was $4,000.
The Republicans are finding ~ some
what difficult to make many @: 'heS'
war munition workers see that TINS wal
prosperity rs ephemeral. In the speeches
/ That are TO be made 10 these men Hrta'
stress Is to be laid pom the Repubii'
| can tariN as an antidote for the attei
the war slump. While there ~ "a as
tiuct Wilson trend in the labor centres
Just now the Republican leaders IN th'
State believe that the Hughes aho
Roosevelt speeches will convert many at
these workers Though adnIitting ina
they are having some trouble IN the
munition centres the state leaders have
told the National Committee that they
believe by election day the State Will b'
safely Republican.
SituatiOn In ohio.
Concerning Ohio National Chairman
Wilcox had a conference yesterday
with Harry NJ. Dougherty, who was de
feated in the primaries in Ohio by MY
ron T. Herrick. Dou2herty was Thu
state chairman in 1912. He assured MI
Wilcox that conditions were improvin,
and that the Republican ticket woulc
win.
Although the Democrats are claiming
New York. their p%retensions are laughe,
at by the Republican State organization
state Chairman Frederick c, Tanner ha
lately been getting figures from tn
county chairmen and announced ycs'er
day tina, reports received thus far from
a. OF the 81 upstate o"un'i"s showed
that the rural vote N"u.3 - up 20 II
normal figures and thai - "ouI'
have a comfortable tn 30 th'
state.
Herbert Parsons aud County thar
man Koeu.ns are OF the opinion mat th'
Wilson plurality In this city will not eN
coed 10000. which would give the stat
60 Hughes 10y loo. o0o, II not more
John T. los p,ssos, the constitutions
lawyer and puhlicist, though a Demo
c,,'. has come out for Hughes. In {
letter he has sent 10 democratic lawyers
Mr.. DO rassos attacks the President fol
the .Adamsou LAW. declaring that IN I
the President has wandered INFO th'
field OF paternalism and that the Adam
son &C, in its analysis. was "a rrau'
uuou The w~orkingmeh and seems to h'
nothing but an expedient 70 get theil
votes