Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1916-11-05
Ht:rtnLICANS ACTIVE WHEN
THEY LEARN OF DRIFT

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the Republicans had don. no work
among them. When they discovered
tho drift among the female electorate.
and learned that the Democrats were
organizing tho working women in all
the cities. III" Republicans became
active. and they now report that the
women will divide about as tho
men do.
The Herald poi,s@ $50 women i'll
different parts % the state. \ ma
iority of G9S III this group wcro tor
the President. OCT OF G.@29 straw
votes taken III Chicago tCook County,.
the Presidcn, received Il majority OF
53i. Among S,G12 voters pollcd lex
elusive OF wouicn) in the down-Statc
section. there WAS Il majority for the
President Of l9S. Although every CT
fort was made to have this vote prop
erly apportioncd among tho various
classes OF voters, the criticism might
oc made that the polls were taken too
frequently in the cities and TOO in
frequently in the rural communities.
The political leaders arc pretty we'll
agreed that President Wilson will
have Il malo majority III Cook County.
and that the Republican ticket will
receive Il much larger plurality in the
doWn-Statc section. That has been
tho way tho Illinois vote usually has
divided. Tho women have the whip
hand in the state. and both campaign
managers frankly admit that. 81 far
as they are concerned, their state
mcnts rs 10 what the women will do is
mere gUcsSwork. The Republicans be-
licvc that. with some exceptions, TIE
women will do as the women voters
have invariably done III the other
states where they votc-rollow their
husbands. brothers or fathers. and
merely ~acccntuatc tho political lines
which always divided the state.
ILLINOIS MAY DECIDE
RESULT OF ELECTION
The. great manufacturing and farm
ing state of tho Central West, with its
twcnty-nine electoral votes, i'll the es-
Innate of the political managers, easily
may decide the election. The genuine
estimates OF both camps leave the two
nominees separated by so narrow q
margin that twenty-nine votes could
give either the lead. if tho estimate
are correct.
1t is believed ;hat az least 500. 600
womc will vote in Illinois. The num-
Der may run as high as 700. 600. It
may fall as low rs $4,000. The vcry
registration among this new branch Of
electorate, however, would indicate
THAT the women will cast a very heavy
vote.
There is 4 drift Of labor votes to
tho President IN Illinois, hut tho indi-
cations arc that il Is not so marked
as the campaign enters its iinal stage
as IL was soon after the Adamsou law
was enacted. There is "a very largo
railway vote in The state. Chicago
being the WORLDS busiest railroud CEN
ter, ana in some OF the other cities.
such ~ Peoria, Joliet. Fast St. Louis.
Alton, Rockford, Rock Island, Spring
field, Decatur and Galcshurg, there are
many railway employees, many OF them
normally Republicans. Who declare
They Will vote for the President on the
one issue Of the Adamson law.
New Yorl; occupies a highly import
ant place in the calculations OF all thc
political managers. With its ~forty-ilvc
electoral votes it has ccidc other
elections. The Ilcra!d's straw vote in
dictates that tho Republican strong
ho!ds outside the metropolis viii give
= largo, but reduced. plurality for tie
Republican ticket. In the city the
President received 30 per cent of Tho
total straw vote. IN the upstate Sec
lions Nj. Hughes received 90 ncl cent.
IAc vote IL thr Iifty-Scvcn counties