South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1916-10-23
Sentiment in Indiana Changes
in Week and G. o. P. Lead
erS See Defeat Ahead.

Now, Times Special Service:
INDIANAPOLIS. oct. 23.-Swept
back by the most tremendous tide
OF Wilson sentiment that has issued
from the ranks Of the voters in In
diana during the present campaign,
republican leaders here tonight
stood speechless, and gazed at the
wreckaEe OF the structure they have
sought TO build since Charles Evans
Hughes was nominated at Chicago.
Still confident that money and the
pressure Of employers upon their
employees will yield a scant victory
i'm tho state for at least a part of
their state ticket. the leaders in the
republican party. for the first time
since the fusion Of part OF the pro-
gressives with the Hughes followers,
late this week admitted that the
-osy dreams they have been clutch
ing fast arc fading when practical
analyses of the Indiana situation are
forced before their unwilling eyes.
The roll Of the tide 10 the Wilson
ticket has not been super-induced
10y great newspapers-fOr the largest
are against the Wilson ticket in In
diana-nor has il been the sudden
climax OF a great campaign, as is in
Dictated to the average Indianian,
who woke up this week To realiza-
ton that much of the republican
fireworks popping off around the
counties was like the dog with much
bark and no bite. II has come like
the mushroom-the seed Of which
had been here all along quietly.
Suddenly the proximity OF the cleo
ton and perhaps the over-zealous
efforts Of the republican spellbind-
ers. began 10 draw out expressions
of opinion from the real voters.
Democrats Surprise.
The resultant sweep of votes TO
the Wilson Marshall ticket has not
only given advocates of the success
Of the national democratic ticket a
real surprise at its enOrmity, but it
has likewise given the Indiana dem
ocratic state committee leaders the
most enthusiastic week OF the cam
| paign
For instance Bernard Korby. state
chairman of the party, today sent
out from state headquarters a letter
explaining certain things 10 demo
cratic trench" workers through the
state. At the close OF this letter
was appended the following:
Conditions are growing better
every day for the democrats We
will elect Wilson and Marshall, our
senators. our congressman. and the
entire state ticket. We will hold the
counties we now have. and we have
an excellent chance of carrying a
number OF counties that ave here
tofOre been carried by tie republic
cans. Let us make il the biggest
victory ever achieved in Indiana"
If Mr. Koroly's statement con-
! corning the counties OF the state is
| true-and he is the one man, who
| ought TO know most about il just at
\ this juncture in the campaign-Indi-
ana will go democratic by perhaps
] more than $4,000.
All Are Optimistic.
Mr.. Korbly is not the only opti-
mistiC gentleman in Indiana OF a
! democratic turn OF mind. The writ
er Of these dispatches has not con-
/ ferred with a single democrat during
| the week, who has not had glowing
reports of the biggest trend of the
/ campaign towards the Wilson ticket
and he has conferred with practic-
ally every one of the big state lead
ers and dozens of outstate demo-
Gratis, who have appeared here this
week for organization or other pur-
poses.
The optimism is not based entirely
on reports from party workers by
any means. The republican work
ers. returning here from speaking
tours and from organiZational work
and from mere viewing Of the con-
ditions" has brought back the word
10 the republican headquarters and
to other places here that IF Mr..
Hughes carries Indiana il will be in
spite of himself and that instead of
a walkaway for the republican ticket
the campaign has narrowed into a
fight that may go either way.
What Stick Said.
From the northern part Of the
state democratic leaders are sending
word that Wilson VIII carry our
districts" That the republicans. If
I confident that Hughes will carry the
state are just as confident that the
indiana ticket will fail, is substan-
tiated by the statement made during
the week by W. a. Slick, St. Joseph
county republican. Slick is credited
( with saying: Watson is out of it."
This statement is believed TO ex-
press the opinion OF the great part OF
the Indiana republicans regarding
the state ticket and the leaders them
selves will not honestly deny that the
Watson-New crowd is a stone around
it's neck.
Besides this type of information
there is much else available. A
newspaper correspondent for foreign
papers. who has been in the west and
south for many months. returned &c
indianapolis this week This man is
known all over the state for his &C
/ curate political sense. Everywhere
he went. away from Indiana. ne said
they're all talking wilson" He said
he hadn't heard anything but Will
son"
Papers Are Unfair.
The republican press in Indiana Is
"whooping il up" and is unfair &c
Democrat, meetings ia many ways