The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-10-03

in the Chamber of Commerce and among local politicians to have them brought back to Richmond. The mat ter was agitated for several years and finally, after the road had been reor- ganized as the Southern, the Virginia legislature, in response to local sen timent, enacted a law requiring the company to keep executive offices in Richmond, as we'll as to hold it's an nual meetings there.
 Regarding the offices the letter of the law was complied with, but it's purposes could not be carried into ef- feet without serious inconvenience TO the rapidly growing organization. The company had the best of the argument, and when the leading busi- ness men of the Virginia capital ac- cepted the situation the agitation was dropped. An executive office was maintained in Richmond in charge of a clerk who got busy once year ar ranging for the handful of stockhold- CTS that would attend the meeting.
 If the annual gathering next week is as large as President Harrison hopes to see it, an adjournment will have to be taken from the Southern's small quarters to a public hall. A crowd of stockholders will be a reve- lation to Richmond, but hospitable reception is assured regardless of numbers.
 1O OTH parties are working hard to lO carry New York, for aside from the large electoral vote of that state the old saying that "As goes New York so goes the union" has senti-
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 is supposed to draw other doubtful states into the winning column. If, for instance, it were pretty we'll understood few days before the election that New York was certain for Wilson, New Jersey and Indiana would easily fall into line.
 In campaigns of years ago demo- cratic optimists have figured on vic- tory without New York, but they were merely dreamers. Outside of the "solid south" there were no normally democratic states and of states that were doubtful there were few.
 New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and Indiana were carried by Tilden and by Cleveland, but in 1912 Wilson, with the aid of Roosevelt's progress sives, had a landslide that changed materially the political map, placing in the democratic column that year many states which had been known as republican strongholds. With Roose- welt back in the republican party it would be too much to expect Wilson to carry all the old republican states he carried four years ago, but he has a good fighting chance in several of the largest of them. The democrats are almost sure to carry California, as we'll as Indiana, and the prospects of carrying Illinois and Ohio seem to be growing brighter every day.
 Including Maryland, West Virginia, Kentucky and Missouri in the south the democratic ticket would have 173 electoral votes to start with. If to these were added the votes of New Jersey, Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Me- braska, Colorado, Oklahoma and Cali fornia-all worth struggling for-the total would be 286, which would be 20 more than necessary. Thus New Jersey with IA votes could be lost 10 the democrats and still Wilson would be the winner.
 Yes, Wilson might be elected with out New York, but what would be quite possible with present conditions is hardly probable. The silent vote of the Empire state is always large, and as indicated by the small progressive vote in the recent gubernatorial pri- mary it will be larger than usual next month. The battle will be fiercer from now on and the Wilson forces and the Hughes forces will make their greatest drives in New York.
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