Evening star., 1916-10-12
HUGHES ADHERENTS
: FEARING ILLINOIS
Are Unable Definitely to De-
termine the Trend of the
Woman Vote.
PARTY LEADERS WARNED

Special Dispatch to The Star.
CHICAGO, October 12.-Illinois is in
teresting. Look at this Sucker state,
whose residents prefer to have it called
the Prairie state, from any angle of
politics that You will, and jutting out
will be seen the salients of interest
Within few days the state sentinels
of the republican party have passed
the words Watch out!'' from the far
thermost post in Egypt to the guard
house post in Chicago The republicans are
alarmed lest, after all, Hughes may
lose Illinois. Why the cause for the
alarm? The answer is the woman's
vote, concerning which no man appar-
entity knows definitely anything more
than any human being can tell from
minute to minute about a woman'S
mind.
The women have registered in large
numbers, and this year. for the first
time. they can vote in Illinois for Pres
ident and Vice President. Campaign
ers who have returned to Chicago from
down the state say that most of the
women are "for peace at any price"
which means, according to present-day
political Interpretation, that they are
for Wilson. Other campaignerS, and
among them women-for women are
speaking from the Ohio river to Lake
Michigan-say that Illinois women are
NOT for peace at any price; that they
hold the honor of their country as
dearly as any man of them all. and
that November I will be the day to
show forth rebuke for those who
have credited, or rather d!scredited.
Illinois women with a desire to vote
for a man simply because he has kept
the country from the battlefield.
Republicans Claim State.
Republicans here say that Hughes
will carry the state, but that he will
run 10000 votes behind Frank 0. Low
den. who is the republican candidate
for governor. against Edward F. Dunno,
. the democratic incumbent. The situa-
tion here as it affects the guberna-
torial situation is curious. Illinois. po-
litically speaking, is a progressive
state. a fact which was proved four
years ago when Theodore Roosevelt car
ried the city of Chicago by enor-
nous majority and came close to car
rying the state over Taft and Wilson.
Edward +. Dunno. whom the democrats
are trying to elect governor, is a pro-
gressive democrat, while Frank o.
Lowden. his opponent, always has been
known as an extremely conservative
republican. not to say standpatter and
not to say reactionary, although both
names freely have been applied to him.
Yet today in this progressive state the
republicans believe and some democrats
in the bushes are willing to admit that
Lowden will be elected over Dunno by
over 20o.e00 majority.
The thing that ought not to enter
into the situation seemingly does
enter into it, religion. or perhaps bet
ter a lack of real religion on the part
of men who look on political cam
Daigns with prejudiced eyes Mr.
DDnne Roman Catholic q a
10 more bigotry in him than has Mr..
Lowden, who is Protestant. There
seems to be sharp democratic fear that
down the state. way down toward the
Ohio river, the native American ele-
inent which is almost wholly demo-
cratic may vote in large part against
Gov Dunno because he believes 'in an
ism - hich IS not our ism.
There is another fear which besets
the democrats SO far as the head of
their state ticket is concerned. Just
before the primaries the Roger SulIi-
van element in Chicago declared
cratic opponent. The query is as to
whether or not Rogers following will
carry their animosities into the booths
the first Tuesday in November. The
on the national ticket, but on the state
ticket, seemingly. there is a division
of the kind which makes for disrup-
ton So it is that the republicans
Lowden. and will be exceedingly
happy if Mr.. Hughes can come through
with 100000 less.
Rosy Prospect on Congress.
One but expresses an opinion which
every indication seems to buttress
when he writes that SO far as the con-
gressional ticket in Illinois is con-
cerned the republicans this year are
going to make a fine showing at the
polls. Four years ago Joseph G. Can
non, William 3. Mckinley, William
Warfeid Wilson, George Edmund Foss,
William A. Rodenberg and some other