The Penn's Grove record., 1916-08-18
OPINION DRIFTS
TOWARD WILSON
Democratic National Committee
Feels Well Satisfied.
PRoeREssNEs COMING OVER
Sentiment In the Doubtful States Be-
coming More and More Favorable
to the President, Says State
ment to the Public.

Drift of opinion in doubtful states
is toward the reelection of President
Wilson, according to a statement is
sued by the Democratic national com
mittee. The statement says:
'The Progressives la 1912 polled A.
119,50 votes. That was 634,551 nor
votes than were cast for President
Taft. OF course, the leadership and
the personality of Colonel Roosevelt
had much to do with bringing forth
such strength of the independent vote
then.
Colonel Roosevelt Is out of 1t now.
He has deserted the party which he
himself created. Disappointment at
the colonel's action has grown to re-
sentiment.
1.-THE Progressives are reading the
record. They are waking up to the
fact that whatever advance has been
made along their highway of reform
and it is a steady, consistent advance
during the last four years-have come
through the Democratic party. The
P~rogressives are studying the Demo-
cratic candidate, and they are awak-
ening to the realization that he is the
one real progressive In the field"
The drift in the doubtful states is
toward Wilson, the statement says.
Michigan, this year." it continues,
"gives every promise of being a genu-
Inc fighting ground for Democracy.
Reports from the different cities are
fast accommodating t prove this.
'"The presence of Woodrow Wilson
at Detroit, the insurrection of the Pro-
gressives against the Perkins-R Roosevelt
delivery, and the great prosperity ev-
erywhere throughout Michigan are
leaning strongly in favor of Democ-
racy.
Mechanics who we're getting 50 and
So three years ago are receiving
81 to Sc, and they are centent with
present conditions.
"The mobilization of the troops to-
ward the Mexican border has sent a
message home that no other single act
could to impress the people of Michi-
gan with the full benefits to the ma
ton of the Wilson peace policy.
1T looks very clearly from all of
these reasons as if Michigan with its
former $4,000 Republican plurality
could be converted into a good work.
ing plurality for Democracy and Wood
row Wilson.
"A close observer of the conditions
in Ohio is wen more emphatic in the
declaration that Ohio will be a posi-
tive asset to the Woodrow Wilson cleo
ton this year. Some of the most con-
s~ervative business men of Cleveland,
Toledo and other important cities are
making the open declaration that Ohio
will be Democratic this year.
~The appointment of the secretary Of
war and the recent appointment of the
Supreme court justice, both of whom
are held in high esteem by the people
of Ohio, will give an added incentive
for the Ohioans to join the ranks of
the new Democracy of Woodrow Will
son.
1.-THE Golden state, too, has all the
earmarks of being added to the Demo-
cratic ranks. On account of the great
dis~affection caused by the Progress
sive convention, California is sorely
nettled to a degree that it has never
been in recent years.
Massachusetts is turning over with
dis~affection toward the standpatters.
Matthew Hale, n of the most rom
spicuous of the Progressives, has OPEN
ly come forth against any Progressive
Hughes combination. The feeling in
Boston, Lowell, Lynn. Fall River,
Springfield, and Holyoke, where many
Progressives abide, is very strong in
its resentment against the apparent
bargain and sale of the Progressives
at the Chicago convention"