The Hawaiian gazette., 1916-11-07
HUGHES WINDING
Up HIS CAMP Align
FULL OF Confidence.
In Series of Speeches In Brook
Ign He Vigorously AssaiIs the
Democratic Record
CAMPAIGN MANAGERS
DIFFER IN FORECASTS
Socialists After Independent Can
vass, Announce Republicans As
Well In the Lead
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NEW YORK. November 81 re
| turn home, pretty sure that the fight
has been won and that when the votes
are counted next Tuesday night, it will
he found that a Republican President
has been elected" said Charles Evans
Hughes Yesterday when he arrived in
Brooklyn at the end of his last journey
as Republican candidate for the Presi
dency of the United States.
During the day Mr.. Hughes delivered
four addresses in Brooklyn, in the
course of which he assaulted the admin
istra ton s foreign policy, both in Mex
leo and in Europe. He argued that
whereas President Wilson was running
for reelection on the ground that he
"kept US out of war, he had really
| been at war with Mexico.
Mr.. Hughes reiterated his former
statements that if the administration
had in the beginning adopted firm
policy and made the nations of Europe
understa nd that he meant what he said,
the Lusitauia would never have been
|
one hundred American men, women
and children.
Consistency Needed
| If the administration, he added, had
been consistent in its dealings with
Mexico, instead of befriending first one
and then another bandit leader, the
United States would not now be spend
| ing millions of dollars in maintaining
on army in Mexico and on the border
between that country and the United
( States, and hundreds of Americans who
have fallen victims to the various war
ring factions that for years have over
run Mexico would today be alive and
happy.
| Coincident with the return of Mr.
Hughes to his home State, betting on
the election took a turn yesterday in
| his favor. Early in the campaign the
| odds were ten to six that Mr.. Hughes
would be elected. Later on. however,
the odds dropped to ten to eight. But
yesterday, after looking over the
ground. the betting fraternity shifted
the odds to ten to seven. Odds of five
to three were offered that Hughes will
carry New York, and the same odds
were offered that he would even win
out in Ohio.
wilcox Confident
Chairman William R. Wilcox Of the
| Republican national committee issued
statement last night expressing com
pletc confidence in the election of Mr.
Hughes by a heavy majority. His es
innate gives the Republican candidate
more than three hundred votes in the
electoral college, and he says Hughes
Will carry all States that are normally
Republican.
TpIrgrums received here from Chi
cago from Alvin r. Hart, western man
aver of the Republican campaign. eX
press equal confidence in the success
nf Mr. Hughes. Sentiment in favor of
the Republican candidate, he says, is
more favorable than at any previous
time during the campaign. Included in
h" list Of states that Mr. Hart claims
will be Republican ar" Wisconsin, In
Iiaua Illinois, Ohio, North and South
Dakota. Minnesota, Idaho and even
Missouri ard Kentucky.
Democrats Unafraid
| Thomas Walsh, Democratic campaign
marnTcr in the West, however, makes
| eUhH!lv strong claims for the success
f his rrnhidatr. Prospects for Wilson,
h" snii, were never brighter, and he
| nddrL that reports Indicated that every
Statr in the West claimed by the Re
pmhhrluS was either safely Democrat
ir or in the doubtful class.
The Socialists con"edP the probable
rIrc ti"u of hughes The secretary OF
the Rational Socialist party yes.pr-
| day issue statement in which he