The Washington herald., 1916-10-16
Political Notes

| Commission on Industrial Relations, en-
| ters the national Democratic campaign as
| a speaker for President Wilson at a meet
ing at COopers Union tomorrow evening.
Mr.. Walsh will speak on the principles
underlying the eight-hour workday and
on other issues which concern social JUS
tice. The only other speech by Mr.. Walsh
in New York State will be at Schen-
! ectady Tuesday night His tour will con-
tinue for three weeks through mining and
industrial centers in West Virginia, Ohio
and Indiana.
New York, Oct 15.-with the Presiden-
tial election less than four weeks of, the
Republican campaign managers admit
that the campaign, so far as the Repub-
liCan party is concerned, has struck
slump. 1t first showed itself two weeks
ago. and try as they will they have been
unable to find anything to stop it. The
greatest detection, they admit, and one
that Is worrying every one of the leaders,
is the loss OF the labor vote One of the
most astute of campaign managers has
been absent from national headquarters
doing his utmost to counteract the effects
of this loss.
| Whereas a month ago it was predicted
at Republican headquarters that Charles
Evans Hughes would be elected by a vote
In excess of that given to William How
| ing to dope" out his election with the
bare 266 electoral votes necessary to OBJ
] tain a majority of the 531 in the Electoral
( College.
| AS a result Of the apparent decline of
the Republican campaign becomes more
evident every effort is to be made to
carry this State, for while none of the
! Republican assertions for victory omit
New York and New Jersey. the Demo-
Of
dent Wilson without the assistance OF
these two States.
Chicago, Oct. 15.-'I am going to vote
! for Wilson," was the announcement to-
day by Miss Jane Adams, Of Hull House,
called by Theodore Roosevelt Americas
greatest citizen" The most widely known
social worker in the world arrived in Chi
cagO from sick bed in Maine in order
to cast her first Presidential vote for Wil-
son.
Miss Adams was the central woman
figure in the Progressive National Con-
vention in 1912. Her appearance on the
platform in that memorable gathering
caused a demonstration lasting half an
hour and second only to the demonstra-
ton accorded to Col. Roosevelt himself
I am too i'll to prepare a formal state
ment," said Miss Adams today. but to
| the direct question from friends 1 have
answered that intend to vote for Wood
row Wilson. I am too i'll to do any po-
| litical work.
New York, Oct. 15.-Although Vance c.
! Mccormick, chairman of the National
| Democratic Committee, is hopeful of
! Pennsylvania giving a good account of it.
1 self from Democratic point of view on
| election day, he laughIngly says he has
/ no illusions about the keystone State
! being found IN the Democratic column. Il
| don't know where the idea gained circu-
! lation that I ever thought that my own
| state would go Democratic" he says
! and I think that some of the other ma
| tonal committeeman must have thought
I was chasing rainbows when the story
went out that had made such a predic-
| tton. But 1 do say that Pennsylvania
| will give an increased Democratic vote
this year and the situation in that State
Is most interesting, as there is not a lit
tie resentment being shown against Sem
ator Boies Penrose The reduced Re-
| publican registration Of 5000 shows how
| deep that sentiment Is, while the Demo-
! cratic registration shows a big increase "
Baltimore. Nd. Oct B-MaryIand is
classed az doubtful in the present cam
paign- There are from 1,50o to 1000 men
in the State whose votes as independents
swing in every national election. Nearly
all voted for Wilson last time, but the
indications are that they will divide up
| at the coming election. As for the Pro-
gressives, not nearly all Of them have
returned to the Republican fold. Many
will support Wilson.
| Former Representative Geo A. Pearre
OF the Sixth District is the leader of the
latter element. At a recent conference
! Of Progressives at which Charles ]. Bo-
naparte, chief lieutenant Of Col Roose-
| welt in Maryland. came out half-hearted-
| ly for the Republican national ticket be-
| cause Roosevelt had asked him to, Mr.,
| Pearre, for years a party leader in the
! strongest Republican part OF Maryland,
came out flat-footed for Wilson His
course made a deep impression upon other
! PrOgressives.
The two Democratic factions IN BaltI-
more have been wrangling for months.
/ United States Senator John Walter
! Smith, chief Of the State organization,
cannot get along with the city bosses in
control, and none of them not even Smith
himself. Is any too fond of Wilson, this
because he is not a spokesman. The cam
| paign on the part of these leaders has
been listless
Only one Baltimore newspaper Is sup
| porting Wilson, The Sun. 1t has been
Castigatins the Democratic politicians for
/ their lack of spirit in the campaign and
urging the rank and file of the party to
follow the national party leaders and not
the State and city bosses.
! Taft carried the State by 600 over
Bryan in the popular vote in 1903, al
though a majority of the electors were
for Bryan. In 1872, while Wilson had a
plurality of 5771S over Taft on the vote on
| the highest eleCtOr, the combined vote of
! Taft and Roosevelt was IL, ,745, or Il votes
more than the highest Wilson elector, who
! received 112,674