The Republican journal., 1916-10-19
ALREADY A LANDSLIDE.

New York for Hughes by nearly 300
900; New Jersey for Hughes by more
than 81 900; Illinois for Hughes by $780,
900; Indiana for Hughes by Is, 900; Ohio
for Hughes by $4,000. Every State out.
side of the solid South for Hughes by de-
cisive majOrities, with the exception of
Missouri, Nebraska, Colorado and Neva-
da; where the fight will be close, but the
odds in favor of Hughes. These are the
reports reaching the Eastern and West
ern headquarters of the Hughes Cam
paign Committee today. They came from
the State chairmen and the county chair
men and the precinct committeeman in
the several States. They are the re-
suits of preliminary polls. They are
confirmed by information pouring into
New York through the channels of the
banking and business world. They give
an accurate account of the trend of DO
Utica! sentiment today as it is observed
by those who are in closest touch with
the currents of popular opinion. If the
election were held tomorrow Mr. Wilson
would go down to defeat rebuked and re-
pudiated by more people than any other
presidential candidate in a two-party
contest
But election day is not tomorrow, it is
one month from tomorrow. The main
work in the meantime for all is to mobi-
ize the army of reputation and protect
Its morals from over confidence. In many
Sta es the campaign has just begun. 1t
was formally opened in New York last
| night by Mr.. Root, who pronounced "the
judgment of the world" upon the Ad-
ministration with the authority attach
ing to the president of the Hague Tri-
hllp al col
fairness of the statesman that the world
recognizes and respects il Mr.. Root. 1t
was formally opened in Chicago last night
by the eloquently constructive and con-
vincing speech of Mr.. Beveridge, who
marshalled the tenets of a creed of
advancing Amerlcanism which went
straight to the hearts of Western men
and women whose hearthstones are to-
day the nurseries of national vision. 1t
was formally opened in Trenton the night
before by MIR. Taft, who has bent almost
backw ard through the last three long
and lowering years In an effort to re-
train from crltlclsng the AdminsIra-
ton, until the cowardice OF its course
and the okedness of its processes
forced him to condemn his successor in
the White House for his disgracefu dis
righteousness and for the supineness of
his subserviency and surrenders to force.
1t will be opened in Massachusetts to-
morrow by Senator Lodge, and within
fortnight IN dozen other States by both
the ex-Presidents and the next Presi-
dent, assisted by the ablest leaders the
nation can muster in the task of clean
ing it's own conscience at home and of
restoring its own good name abroad.
When we face the fact that we are
now engaged in the most momentous
civic conflict since the Civil War, only
the money-mad and Indifferent among
the electorate will fail to do their part,
to the end that, in the noble words of
Mr.. Root. America may be revealed
again in the hearts of her people; that
they may realize their love of country;
that their patriotism may be quickened;
that they may be ready again to live for
her honor and die for her duty as their
fathers lived and died, and as millions of
men are living and dying now for their
countries on those sad battlefelds of the
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