Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 257, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1916 — Democracy on Thin Ice. [ARTICLE]

Democracy on Thin Ice.

Republicans do not have to rely on -’claims,” but can poirrt to facts in answer to the effort the democrats are making to create the impression that the “trend is toward Wilson.” The democrats talk about a “drift” in California, in that state voters have registered themselves as republicans compared with 77,830 democrats. The figures in some other states “claimed” <by the democrats are*: Washington, 214,600 registered as republicans and 34,970 as democrats: Michigan 284,640 republicans and 29,935 democrats; New York 298,097 republicans and 158,718 democrats; Illinois 420,959 republicans and 189,343 as democrats; New Jersey 187,414 republicans anff 119,513 democrats. The states in that list cast 123 electoral votes, and there is not one in the lot that : is not expected to go republican by those who are posting bets on the election. The democrats are conceding New England’s fortyfour votes to Hughes. No democratic politician who would have his judgment respected will contend that Hughes can not count on Pennsylvania, lowa, Minnesota, North and South Dakota, Kansas, Utah, Oregon and Delaware. Those twenty-one states practically insure Hughes 262 electoral votes —within four of enough to elect. -t- Wilson is certain of 136 votes m, the twelve states of the solid south. He must get 130 from the remaining fifteen states,, a majority of which are normally republican, without permitting Hughes to get so many as four votes. The list includes Orizona, Colorado, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Mexico', Ohio, West Virginia, Wisconsin and Wyoming. A slip in any one, excepting Arizona or Wyoming, which have only three votes each, would be fatal to Wilson’s chances.