Norwich bulletin., 1916-10-25
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ed more votes than both Maritime and Westcott combined. Frelinghuysen won with 89,s61 to S1,4s0 for Murphy. The total Republican vote was 187 ,414, the total Democratic vote 119,513. In | this primary, the borough of Prince ton, where MT. Wilson is exception ally well known, cast 575 Republican votes and only 262 Democratic votes. son had S65, and the combined oppo- sition FOG. The figures show what a change has occurred in MT. Wilson's home borough.
 Tn Massachusetts, where the Dem ocratic fight was over the guberna- toriai nomination, the total vote was 1 S1,052, while in the Republican prim- aries, Gov. MoSall, unopposed received 115,242.
 Back on the Pacific coast, the prfxn- showed exactly the same Kind of re- | suits, 214,660, voting in the RepubIi- can primary and only 349T0 in the Democratic primary. The Democrats have been making some talk about carrying Washington That means they only expect about S0,00o of the Republicans who voted in the prima- ries to vote the Democratic ticket at the election. That is a fair sampNs of the quality of these Democratic claims.
 'Wisconsin, Michigan, Illinois, Kan
 
 all given the same kind of an indica- tion.
 In Kansas for instance, 13S,916 vot- CTS cast ballots in the Republican primaries and only 47,445 in the Dem ocratic primaries, the Democratic city to claim Kansas, but they nave talked about carrying Michigan, Ill., inois, Ohio and Wisconsin. But in each of these states, the voters have shown at the primaries what they will do in November. In Michigan 2S4,640 votes were cast in the Repub- lican primaries and only 29,535 in the emocratic. In Illinois 420,959 Repub- Icans voted In the pramaries against 238,50 Democrats. In Ohio PSF, ATS Republicans voted in the primaries against 189,343 Democrats. In Wis consin 83,012 Republicans voted in the primaries and only 39, ,601 Democrats,
 New York state gave precisely the same kind of indication, 29S. 897 Re- publican votes being cast at the prin- aries only 15S,718 Democratic votes. Of Course, the primaries vote is never as large as the vote at the eiec- tion. Election day is always a holi- day, and the polls are open all day long. Primary day in most states is not holiday and the polls are us- ually open considerably less than the full day. The full vote, therefore, is never poiled at primary, but thezS is one striking feature of all these primary votes, the meaning of which is absolutely unmistaka ble. This fea- ture is the great prepOnderance of in terest on the Republican side. In every. case, without exception, it was the Republican voters who had the interest and took the trouble to get to the polls. No clearer evidence could be given of the intention of the vot- CTS to manifest their Republican pre- ference on November 7th.
 Tn none of the states outside of the solid south where a primary election has been held this year, has the Dem aCratic vote cdEae within hailing dis tance of the Republican vote.
 Down in Maryland, a similar in dicatiOn has been given at The regis tration, where intending voters ex- press their hearty affiliations for the ensuing year. In this registration, the Democrats have lost more than 1000 and the Republicans have gained more than 2,e00 m9king net change of moro than 1000 or considerable more then enough to overcome the Demo- cratic majority at the last election.
 The Democrats have been enter taining themselves with amusing claims about the possibility of their carrying Pennsylvania. We are just in receipt of the figures of the en- rollment on Philadelphia, which shows 242, ,54G voters enrolled as Republicans and only 35,f79 as Democrats.
 These figures are incontestable. They show beyond possibility of ques- tion how utterly preposterous has been