The daily Gate City and constitution-Democrat. (Keokuk, Iowa) 1916-1922, 1916-10-21
ARE TALKING Of
LANDSLIDE NOW
Democrats So Confident Viii
|. son Will be Elected, That
Only Figures Remain
to be Told
ENTHUSIASTIC BUN1H
President Back After Aao1hes Sue
cesaed Trip, Well Plaesed
With Reception <hy H.
PeoplA
IBy Robert J. Bender, Omitted Press
Staff Correspondents


STAFF Correspondent
LONG BRANCH. N. J. Get 11-
Back at Shadow Lawn today. aneR
what he regards .the most successful
trip" of his campaign. President VIII
son prepared to launch his most vig-
orous efforts during the two weeks
now remaining before election.
This afternoon he addresses Z dele
CATION of farmers from the verandE Of
the summer white house here, Wednes-
day he leaves for Cincinnati. where he
speaks Thursday. returning to Long
Branch for another porch speech"
next Saturday. The following week
he speaks at Buffalo, New York City
and final speech at Shadow Lawn.
The democratic lieutenants no longer
believe the president will carry" the
election. They are talking ~iand
side" They're mighty confident
group of party leaders. They believe
that the trip Of the president through
rock ribbed Pennsylvania yesterday.
when thousands Of people met the
train at every station IN spite Of the
continuous down-pour Of rain, indi-
Gates "the way Of the tide" At Lam
easter last nights hts1T0o1nmautty which
hasn't gone democratic since the civil
war, fully ten thousand people waited
in cold drizxle for more than an hour
and gave the president q great ova-
tion.
President Wilson himself was tired,
but highly satisfied today. He Is con-
fident of the verdict Of the voters
two weeks from Tuesday. His long
visit with former Secretary Of State
Bryan, the first meeting they had en-
joyed together since Bryan's spectac-
ular resignation, put him in fne
spirits. The little luncheon party
which served to bring the president
and his former cabinet premier into
intimate touch again was UNIQUE.
When Bryan reached Pittsburgh the
president asked him to ride In the
same auto with him.
mo, this is your day." Bryan re-
piled, II am just an interested on
locker like the rest"
They rode in separate cars.
When they returned to the train
the president asked the commoner to
take luncheon with him. Again Bryan
demurred, but this time the president
said:
Come on now. I have a plate
laid specially for you"
On the Jump Now.
NEW YORK, Oct. 21.-With the
election a tribe over two weeks dis
tant, Democratic Chairman McCoy-
mick announced today plans for
campaign Of democratic speakers
throughout the country. Every avail.
able stumper under the democratic
committees direction will be kept
on the jump from now on. McCor-
mick said they had received many
requests from the people in sup
posedly purely republican strongholds
asking for democratic speakers. In
order to key up the campaign Nc
Cormick today installed a direct long
distance wire between New York and
Chicago headquarters and merely by
lifting the receiver can hereafter
talk to his managers in the west.
President Wilson will make his wind
up speech of the campaign at Shadow
Lawn on November 4-old home day
it has been designated by demo
cratic campaign managers. Officially
that will be set aside as New Jersey