The sun., 1916-10-30
Candidate, in Fine Trim,
Makes Four Speeches in
Former State To-day.
CONFIDENT OF VICTORY
No Drift to Wilson Found in
Republican Stronghold Of
North Country.

starting westward for q brief and brisk
campaigning tour in Ohio and Indiana
He will make four speeches in Ohio to-
morrow. ut East Liverpool. Steubenville.
GAINESVILLE and Columbus.
The latest news OF the Ohio situation
that has reached The Republican candi-
date is that the drift to Mr.. Wilson has
been checked. and that Republican pros
poets are Frightening daily. MIR. Hughes
plans, therefore. to give Increased mo-
mentum to the sentiment which has de-
veloped for him in the Buckeye State.
Private figures as to the probable
electoral vote rs the situation now stands
reached the Hughes special train to-day
In this city. These are said TO represent
the judgment Of Frank II. Hitchcock.
They put down 242 electoral votes as
York and Indiana are included in this
list. which Is so conservative that Con-
necticut and Wisconsin are not In II.
simultaneously with the receipt OF
these figures come reports from Repub-
lican managers In New England and in
the middle West that II begins TO look as
II n Hughes landslide is in sight. These
managers are no longer admitting close
contests In various States. They send
WOTu " Nv Cduutuhte tUdt t1clT COh-
fdential polls are showing remarkable
indications Of Hughes pluralities.
sise OF Pl1ralities.
Here in the north country, in the coun-
ties Of st. Lawrence. Franklin n JEFF
ferson. there Is only one thing which
concerns the local Republican leaders
and that Is as to how big a plurality can
be rolled up. Politics in these Repuh-
llcan strongholds is seldom a matter Of
guesswork.
In the old days they used to know
within a hundred votes or so Just how
much they would have to furnish late at
night to o%verwhelm the Democratic
plurality below the Bronx River. and
when the hour struck the votes were
supplied.
Things have changed very little. The
Republican poll in this county. ST. Law
renee. indicates u plurality for Mr..
Hughes OF $500. The record Republi-
can plurality was for Mr.. Mckinley.
$500. Jefferson county promises. on the
basis OF similar polls. $500 and Franklin
will do as well.
In other words. the north country is as
solidly Republican AZ ever. There Is
absolutely nc sign Of n drift to Wilson
not the slightest hint OF u~ndcrcurrents
Of Wilson sentiment whio, might be
manifested on election day. The Inn
portant thing for the Republican State
committee to consider Is getting the vote
out.
AWAY back In the numbering districts
in the Cranberry Lake iegion, are nun
dreds of men who could no: be hired
TO vote anything but a Republican ticket,
but some are apathetic and others have
no easy means Of travelling ten or fifteen
Ill - N.
get the vote out there can be only one
answer to the result In these fa- M
State counties.
Demand for Protection.
The reasons stand out plainly for any
| ono 10 see. and the biggest reason OF al.
Is the general demand for a protective
tar'ff. Ogdensburg looks across the -.
Lawrence River to a young country
which Is able to send butter. eggs, milk.
lumber and cheese and a lot OF other
things that make or break prosperity
for this part OF New York into the
United States free Of duty.
That does not hurt so much now be-
cause there are war prices for al. these
things, but the farmers are thinking and
talking about What Will happen when
the war ends and war prices disappear
an" Sai'eua eo'.',Hues " coiHpe's
heavily and without handicap. They re-
call the times OF twenty months ago
when prices Tor dairy products were
pretty low,
This sentiment 10 strongly In evidence
among Democratic farmers Robert Dali
zell. or many Republican VIC
tories up this way. knows OF more than
thirty Democratic m who have ar.
ounce thai they are going to vote tbs
Republican ticket on the tariff issu!
alone.
Republic an farmers are manifestins
much more than the usual interest. A,
the meeting last night local leader.
pointed TO several back country Repub.
licans who had not attended "A political
rally for fifteen years or 80. There wIs
n uniqAe circumstance connected with
the Ogdensburg meeting.
Special trains coming In from man,
small towns and rural districts brough,
SO many voters to town that IL was i'm.
possible to find room for all of them IT
The opera house. The local committe.
therefore asked the women not 10 attert
the meeting. urging OF course the neces.
eity OF permitting Mr.. Hughes IN talk tr
the men since the men do the voting
women stsy Av.v.
Inc women very amiaoiy stayed AVA
ana the result was mat the audience wa,
n solid mass OF voters. This mornins
the Democratic here, tin
Neics, owned by Capt. Henry Holland
Collector OF the Port. printed Mr.
Hughes's speech in full because Demo