The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1916-09-13

Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louis
lana, Arkansas, Oklahoma and Texas,
with an electoral vote Of 149; doubtful
states with republican leaning-New
York, Massachusetts, Connecticut, New
Jersey, West Virginia, Ohio, Indiana,
Kansas, South Dakota, Montana and
Idaho, with 154 electoral votes; doubt
full states with democratic leaning
Maryland, Missouri, Nebraska, Colo
RADIO, New Mexico, Arizona and Ne
vada, with as electoral votes. Two
states are placed in the Her
AIDS reasonably sure" republican
list that have very decided
democratic leaning this year
California and Illinois. Also sew
eral states set down as doubtful
with republican leaning are being
strongly claimed by the democrats.
Indiana is one and West Virginia IS
another. The number of votes neces-
sary to elect is 266. According to the
Herald's view the republicans, to win,
must get 81 doubtful votes, while the
democrats must get 1T doubtful
votes.
There is a probability of the election
turning out this way: Democratic
votes conceded by the republicans
149-plus the As votes of New York,
the ID votes of New Jersey, the s
votes of Maryland, the votes of West
Virginia, the Is of Indiana, the 20
votes of Illinois, Is votes of Missouri,
the 8 votes of Nebraska, the i3 votes
of California, and "then some" But if
the democrats carry the doubtful
states just named Wilson would have
3O7-which would be Al more than
necessary. In 1912 Wilson's electoral
vote was ABS.
The outlook for the reelection of
Wilson and Marshall is indeed roseate,
but it is yet too soon to more than
speculate on what account this or that
doubtful state will give of itself on
the 7th of November.
II y
a DISQUIETING feeling in the
5A business world has usually
marked presidential campaign years,
and time was when industrial depres-
sion set in several months before the
election. Even when manufacturers
kept their mills
Continues and factories
Without Interruption we'll in opera
ton, as was
the case in 1900 and 1904, there was
4 halt in business and activity was
not resumed until the election was
over.
1t has been very different this year.
Notwithstanding the falling off in the
crops, prosperity continues in full
swing. The steel industry has made
it's highest records during the last
nine months. Not only has production
been unprecedented in volume, but
steel makers have made record break
ing profits. Never have wages been
as high as they are today and never
was the country as flush with money
as it is now.
The party out of power, struggling
to get in has looked forward to hard
times as an effective argument why
there should be a change in political
control at Washington. But the full
dinner pail this year has deprived the
opposition of its favorite appeal.
As brisk as general trade is in most
sections it will increase as the holiday
season approaches. Unless all signs
'ail the last quarter of 1916 will be
he best of the entire year.
m HE democrats of Maine were
u naturally disappointed in the
lefeat of their state ticket Monday,
,ut in the country at large there was
10 surprise. Maine is normally re-
publican and had it
Result in Maine gone democratic the
Not Surprise effect on Mr..
Hughes campaign
would have been staggering.
In 1912 the Pine Tree state elected
republican governor in September
and gave it's electoral vote to Wilson
n November. The progressives were
strong four years ago. Roosevelt's
vote in Maine was 48,493. Wilson's
vote was 51,113, which gave him a
of 1920.
The Maine progressives had all been
and in this weeks state
election they acted as they did in the
state election of 1912-voted for the
republican candidates; but when it
came to the presidential ticket they
drew the line and startled the nation