New-York tribune., 1918-11-05

"All Over but Shouting"
Governor Predicts ON
Eve of Election
Republican Lines
Are Reported Solid
Nominee Expects Party to
Come Down to Bronx
With 100000 Lead

Governor Whitman went to bed last
night at the st. Regis confident that
''it's all over but the shouting" and
that he and his colleagues on the Re-
publican state ticket will be elected
by at least 15O,000 plurality.
From all over the state yesterday he
received messages from the Republi
can leaders, who unanimously reported
the Republican lines solid and aggres-
sive, and only hoping for good weather
today to swell the estimated Republi-
can vote.
The Governor is confident that the
Republicans will come down to The
Bronx with a margin Of 100000. Attor-
ney General Lewis, last fall in an cleo
ton that was comparatively quiet, had
an aggregate plurality of mere than
100000 above The Bronx, and the
greater New York Democratic plurality
cut this down less than 100000 votes.
100000 Plurality. Glynn Says
Chairman Glynn says that the Re-
publicans will carry the state by 200,-
900. He said:
u do not believe that the Austrian
armistice, and ali the credit that the
Democrats are claiming because Of
the Administrations achievements, will
rattle the Republican phalanxes around
the state. The attempt to make polit-
ical capital out OF the Brooklyn rail-
road wreck is too transparent to fool
intelligent persons.
Whatever vote is given Mr.. Smith in
greater New York will be heavily off
set by the Republicans and upstate
Democrats who will not take another
chance on Tammany rule and all that
it means at Albany. Mr.. Smith is
counting on his plurality in greater
New York because of his active polit-
ical and other connections and the
wholesale promises he has made-many
promises involving legislative action
which he would oe unable to carry out
if he were elected.
"There has been only one issue in
the campaign, namely, Can Alfred E..
Smith give the state rs good govern
ment as Governor Whitman has given ?
"The Harris episode, which forced a
,hangs in campaign managers right i'll
he middle Of the campaign, spoiled
any chance that the candidate might
have had of inducing voters tc forget
Tammany methods, and the candidate s
refusal to discuss his official partici-
nAtion in the last Tammany admiriis-
tFation at Albany has lost him votes
in every county in the state. He closes
his campaign very much weaker than
when he entered it,"
Governor Whitman and Chairman
Glynn are counting on a plurality of
more than 10000 in Erie County, 10000
in .Chautauqua County, $4,000 in Mon
roe County, 5000 in Onondaga County
and $4,000 in Westchester.
Almost Immediately following the
close of the polls tonight at O'Clock
the returns will begin to come in
In the city of Buffalo 23O election dis
chimes.
Claim Buffalo by 10000
The Republicans are counting or 1
Democrats should carry it it woult
furnish "straw" that might indicate
the general result in the state with
out waiting for late returns.
Seventeen voting machines will b.
used in Auburn and fourteen in James
town. Forty machines will be in use
in Schenectady. ten in White Plains
hfteen in Suffolk County and twely,
10 Ithaca. All the election district
in Yonkers arc so equipped. Re
surns from these voting machine pre-
SkhStSe uiA Va WiiSu oiOutu De III o.
o'clock, should furnish trustworth,
line on the result as whole. allow
ing all the time for Democratic
plurality of about $4,000 to 175,o0o il
greater New York
Governor Whitman will vote a
asual in the florist shop in Sixth Ave
nue.. near the St. Regis, and probabl,
will remain in town over night. II.
said last night at Republican stat
committee headquarters that on ac
count of the work piled UP for him a
MS office in Albany he might go Their
n the afternoon. State Chairman
6iynn went to Syracuse last night t,
vote. He will be back at headquarter
iate this afternoon