South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-31
CAMPAIGNS LAST
WEEK TO Be LIVELY,
Marshall and Fairbanks Leave
Other Fields to Return
to Home State.
Internatlonal News Service

International News Service:
INDIANAPOLIS. Ind. oct. 81
Seven days more and the shouting
will be over. one week from today
the voters OF Indiana will decide one
OF the hottest political battles staged
in the state for a score of years.
Probably never have the republican
and democratic parties entered upon
the last week of a campaign so deter
mined that the campaign shall be
carried on with utmost vigor right
up to the time of election. Leaders
of both parties appear confident
All the big guns at the command
of the chieftains in this fight. win
be loosed this week. Charles Warren
Fairbanks and Thomas Riley Mar
shall, republican and democratic
nominees for vice president. respect
lively, will leave fields in other states
and plead for the votes of Indiana
citizens. Sens. Taggart and Kern.
and republican nominees Watson and
New will put In hard ticks every day.
James =. Goodrich and John A. NJ.
Adair will end a remarkable fight for
governor. Charles +. Hughes. repub-
lican nominee for president, empha-
sizes the importance of Indiana in
the election by his two-day trip in
the state.
The organizations of both the lead
ing parties. as wen as the socialist
and prohibition parties, have their
plans completed for getting out the
vote" Judging from the interest
taken in the campaign this will not
be difficult. Before ten" clubs are
popular-the object being to urge
voters to ballot before 10 a. n. All
parties say they wish a fair election.
The United states department of JUS
tice has given warning that the cleo
tion must be fair, and Civic leagues
in many communities will be atch-
ing for violations Of the law.
There are plenty of chances for
crooked work. despite the registra-
ton law. In fact, according TO one
political chairman. the registration
law itself leaves loopholes which
must be carefully guarded.
Owing TO the present registration
law, necessarily there are many du-
plications on the registration books,
as there is no provision made for the
elimination Of voters who have
moved out OF a precinct previous to
the election of 1914 and prior TO
that Of 1916" this politician says.
This leaves a lOOphole in the reg
istration records which can be guard
ed only by ascertaining information
OF every voter in each precinct in
the country"
The candidates will not be the only
ones disappointed by election. In
every town in Indiana there are cleo
ton bets. and a safe guess would be
that a million dollars will change
hands on the outcome. In Indianap-
oils the betting is very close. In
some places Charles Hughes is a
favorite, in others even money is
being bet Many bets are beir g made
on the state. one man offers 70 bet
500 that Pres't Wilson will get
more votes than he did in 1912. An
other is said TO have bet $4,000
against a 4O-acre farm that Hughes
will carry the state. There are bets
that Hughes or that Goodrich will
lead the republican ticket, that Tag
CART will get more votes than Kern.
that neither will get as many as
Pres't Wilson-there is a bet for
every proposition that has two sides
TO II.