Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-07
EXPECT STATE TO
CAST HEAVY VOTE
Indications Point to Total of 1885,
600, With 10000 Wilson
Plurality.
LOOK FOR VICTORY IN NINTH
Seventh and Fifth Districts Safe
ly Democratic, Despite Re-
publican Inroads.
LOOK FOR VICTORY IN NINTH

From sunrise 10 sunsc: to-day. be-
tween 125.oro and 10000 Virginia
voters will go 10 the polls TO register
States. for one United States Senator
and for ten members OF the House Of
Representatives In fcw cities tn"
electorate will vote also for certain
municipal officers NOTABLY In Rich
mond. where Graham B Hobson Will
bc chosen for Il thrce-year term on
The Administrative Board
In spite Of II campaign that has
been in q marked degree serene. IN
contrast L" III. lively days Of 1912.
when tn. Republicans split and tho
ProErcsgivcs went cunning for indie
pendent support. the state Is expected
10 cast large vote. Under tn.
stimulus Of the. Republican break in
1912, that party cast 5000 votes in
Virginia for Roosevelt and Taft. II is
believed that nearly that number will
be policd to-day by Hughes Wilson
in the same election received $4,000
votes. and viii probably run ahead Of
this figure in to-days bnllotinE
Whatever the American voter de-
cides--Th"thcr he VIII bring Woodrow
Wilson. of Virginia. another four-ycar
term, or hand the rcins "f govern
ment over to Charles T.. hughes. OF
New York-Virgiuia' strength will 20
undivided TO the President, Allowing
hughes the fun strength developed in
Virginia by TAFT and Roosevelt at TIE
last election. President Wilson Will
carry the old Dominion hy a plurality
of at least 10000. and viii receive all
p,
college.
FEW DISTRICTS FELT
FULL FORCE or CAMPAIGN
Except for the Ninth District and
possibly the Seventh nnd Fifth. Vir-
sinia passed through tho presidential
campaign practically untouched by tho
pre-elcctlon disturbances that fell 10
the share OF the gre;,, doubtful states
10 the North and Wesl. In every dis
tr.ct there wm- sporadic cumpaig n
speaking. For the most part 1t was
directed TO meet desuitory campaigns
Ing prosecuted 10y Republican cnndi-
dates for Congress. non. of whom the
Ninth again excepted, had reasonable
chance for election
Many sections Of the State never
heard the voice OF the campaign orator.
This was true Of the city OF Richmond.
where. for the iirst time Ia many years.
the presidential campaign passed with
out a single public Democratic or Re
publican address. The few political
meetings that were staged in the state
capital We're under the auspices OF the
Socialists.
In spite Of the even tenor OF the cam
paign III Virginia, the state approachcs cs
election day with a high degree Of in
tcrcSt. As tn" northcrinoSt of the
solid South group, Virginia is never
Isolated from the political passions tina,
sway her neighbors To In. North and
West. and much of the keen feeling
that rules in the doubtful states has
communicated itself 10 the Old DO
mfnion More than any other Southern
state. Il is accessible TO the Republican
influences OF the capitalistic ccntcrs OF
., ihe North. In every large Virginia City
there is cnScouccd q small body oi
active Republicans, who have seen to
1t that their campaign Literature. has
hecn given the widest possible circu-
lation.