The Washington herald., 1916-10-18

Chicago, Ill. Oct. 17.-President
Wilson will get the bulk of the Middle
West progressive and independent
vote. Vance c. Mccormick, chairman
of the Democratic National Commit
tee, said today, as he boarded a train
for the East
New York. Oct. 17.-Frank Hitch
cock, a member Of the advisory COM
mittee Of the National Republican
Committee, today characterized Charles
Evans Hughes chances in the West as
fair" Mr.. Hitchcock has just re-
turned from a Western rrIp.
Asked if he felt confident of Mr..
Hughes election the former Post
master General replied:
We never feel confident of any
thing until the votes are in and
counted"
New York, Oct. 17.-ResoIutions en-
phatically indorsing the administration
of President Wilson, which were passed
unanimously and enthusiastically by the
annual convention of the Farmers Grain
Dealers Association of Illinois, assembled
at Decatur, were received at the head
quarters of the Democratic National Com
mittee yesterday. The resolutions said in
part:
During the last three years there has
been a record of unparalleled achieve
ment in Federal legislation and admins
tration in the interest of the farmer
This association acknowledges with graf
itude the endeavors made and results ac-
complished in behalf of the development
of agriculture and the advancement Of
the interests of the farmer and tenders
its grateful appreciation thereof"
New York, Oct. 1.-THE tremendously
high enrolment of Democrats from the
Southern States in the Hughes Alliance
is strongly significant of the great vote
which Mr.. Hughes will get from Demo-
cratic ranks all over the country. Every
day the Hughes Alliance receives a large
number of enrolment cards signed by
men who report themselves as lifelong
Democrats.
New York. Oct. 1.-THE Hughes Ma
tional College League announces that its
enrolment has now reached 5O,OOO and
that local branches have been established
in 1888 different cities. From dozen to
a score of new branches are formed every
day Those which have started active
work include nineteen in Indiana and
thirty-three in Ohio
Charles Elliott Fitch, of Loomis Hill
Farm, Syracuse, N. Y, 81 years DID, writes
to the league that his first vote was for
lSlnCOln anu "udI Will IN all prODa Dlllty
I've his last will be for Hughes.
New York, Oct. 17-A T. Hert. in
charge of the Western headquarters of
the Republican party. today asserted that
Charles e. Hughes will carry all of the
normally Republican States within the
Jurisdiction OF the Chicago headquarters
and will break into the column of nor
mally Democratic States, with Missouri
and Kentucky.
There is no doubt whatever about the
outcome in the West" said Mr.. Hert.
Charles E. Hughes will carry every Re
publican State beyond all question. He
has made a wonderful campaign in that
section, is being ably supported all along
the line. and the State organizations are
doing splendid work in every State.
Among the rank and file the enthusiasm
] Is unbounded for the head of the ticket -
New York, Oct. 1.-THE Progressives
of the country are supporting Hughes
and not Wilson for the Presidency, be-
cause they are for real accomplishments,
not fine phrases. So says George w, Per
kns, chairman of the executive commit
tee of the Progressive National Commit
tee, and close friend of Col. Roosevelt, in
an open letter to President Wilson, made
public here today. when the good name
and welfare of a people are at stake" :"
wrote Mr. Perkins, everything else must
be put aside"