The log cabin Democrat., 1916-10-31
INDICATIONS POINT 10 WILSON VICTORY HUGHES STOCK SLUMPING From New York to Pacific Drift
 is Towards President
 Wilson.

Washington, Oct. 3p.-Unless every sign is lie and every fair semblance
 delusion, President Wilson will be re- elected on November :.
 From New York to the Pacific coast
 the drift is still toward Wilson. Chair
 man Wilcox of the Republican Ma tional Committee is turning official statements with an industry born of desperation, claiming that the Repub- lican slump stopped last Tuesday when the Wilson wave reached it's crest It is up to Chairman Wilcox to issue statements even if his eXplan- ations in defense of the losing cause of Candidate Hughes are unsubstan- tial as the mist-like dessert, sillabub, which Uncle Remus said was like the "dream of dram"
 The expert mathematicians at Re publican headquarters say that Hughes will be elected because there are more Republicans than Democrats in the United States That may be true, but all Republican voters are not going to support Candidate Hughes | is with the aid of Republicans, Bull
 Moosers and Independents that the Democrats expect to elect President Wilson
 Obviously the slump in Hughes stock in New York. Connecticut, Della ware, West Virginia, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Min nesota, Kansas, Nebraska, Washing
 ton, South Dakota and California is
 due primarily if not exclusively to Re publican and Moose voters changing
 to Wilson. No Democrat claims that the Taft and Roosevelt vote of 1912 combined could not elect Candidate Hughes, but no Democrat who had
 studied the political map in the past six weeks or two months will admit that the old Taft Roosevelt vote of four years ago will be or can be de livered to Hughes en bloc.
 Wherefore it is unquestionably true Ethat if President Wilson is reelected
 it must be with the aid of Republicans, Moose and Independent votes. It must
 be apparent, then, that Chairman Wilcox gets nowhere by mere asser- tions of a Hughes victory because
 there are more Republican voters than Democratic voters in the United
 States.
 This city, the capital of the nation, ordinarily the sorriest place in the country from which to view a great
 national political campaign, due main- ly to the fact that political sentiment Is founded upon personal interest, is
 right now surcharged with the feeling
 that President Wilson will be re-elect- ed; this, too, despite the fact that Washington is a Republican city ow- ing to the tremendous negro popula- tion. To what, then, is this Demo- cratic optimism due? To multiplying
 evidences of drift to Wilson in
 states normally Republican, to reports
 brought here every day by observers
 representing every shade of political opinion, by press reports and by pri- vate correspondence.
 Ask the average Republican in the
 street what he thinks about the race
 between Wilson and Hughes and nine
 out of 10 will answer:
 Tt will be very close; looks like Wilson has a mighty good chance'
 Ask if he thought that a month ago,
 and he will reply:
 No, because then it looked as if
 Hughes would have a walkover, but since that time Wilson seems to have
 made formidable gaisn in the doubt
 full states"