Mohave County miner., 1916-11-04

within the next week or two. Melvin D. Hildreth, state secretary of the league, writes to national headquar- ters that the memberships are coming in so fast that he is swamped with work and that Wilson's prospects are bright in North Dakota.
 OHIO-F. E. Myers, Ashland manu- facturer and president of the Cleve- land & Southwestern Railway com pany, is a member of the executive committee of the Wilson Business Mems league of Ohio, with headquar- ters at Columbus. The organization is non-partisan. w. A. Julian of Gin cinnati, who is president, says: "The election of Hughes would hamstring the business of the country. The busi- ness men of Ohio want prosperity con tinued, and they propose to vote for Wilson"
 OREGON-The reelection of Wood row Wilson by an overwhelming ma jority that will declare the apprecia- tion of the American people for the presidents humanitarian policies is the prophecy of Dr. Esther Pohl Love joy, former commissioner of health of Portland and member of the advisory council of the Democratic national committee. Dr. Lovejoy, who was e member of the Wilson notification committee from Oregon and a dele gate to the convention at Atlantic City of the National American Woman Sui frage association, declares that not only the direct vote of the women of the suffrage states but also the indi- rect influence of the women in states where women have not the ballot will augment the electoral vote for the Democratic candidate to landslide di- mensions.
 WASHINGTON - Forecasts of a sweeping victory for President Wilson come to the Woodrow Wilson Inde- pendent league from President R. ?. Oldham, of the Washington league, as the result of the recent primary cleo tions there. Two new branches of the league have been organized in Seattle, both with large memberships. One of both with large memberships. One of these, composed of workingmen, is headed by E. P. Marsh, president of the Washington State Federation of Labor, and Robert L. Proctor, presi- dent of the Seattle Central Labor Council. The other, composed of busi- nessmen, is under the leadership of William H. Gorham, lifelong Re publican who voted for Taft in 1912 and whose father was chairman of the Republican national committee under Grants administration. The success of the Independent league in Wash ington is shown by a meeting recently held in Bremerton, where, of the 1000 persons present, 500 joined the league at the close of the speaking.
 WISCONSIN-Robert T. Herrick of Milwaukee, a lifelong Republican, is out with a formal statement saying he will support President Wilson for re- election.
 "I took part in the Harrison, Me Kinley and Roosevelt campaigns" he said, land voted for every Republican nominee for the presidency from 1888 until 1912, and until the last two years, was a great admirer of Colonel .Roosevelt's vigorous political methods and generally of his policies.
 q feel that we have the right to de- mand from Judge Hughes that he make a plain, direct statement, defin- ing his attitude in unmistakable terms upon the great and critical issues of the pending campaign. Casting aside selfish political motives that might otherwise govern our acts, would it be playing the part of patriotism to exchange by the arbitrament of our ballots, the man who has been tried and tested, President Wilson, for one whose abilities in constructive state manship are problematical and who persistently evades a definite and clear demonstration of his views upon so many public questions ?"
 WEST VIRGINIA-Charles D. FL liott of West Virginia has made public Q letter in which he advises Theodore Roosevelt that he cannot follow the latter into the reactionary Republican camp. Mr. Elliott, who was formerly adjutant general of the West Virginia national guard, was a delegate to the Progressive convention at Chicago last June and visited Colonel Roosevelt at Oyster Bay prior to the convention. The letter says in part:
 You are asking too much of us to go back to this old crowd. Realizing that Hughes was nominated by the