Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 267, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1916 — Willcox Sees 366; McCormick 368. [ARTICLE]

Willcox Sees 366; McCormick 368.

“It’s Wilson sure”—Chairman Vance McCormick, democratic national committee. — “It’s Hughes sure”—Chairman Wm. ,R. Willcox, republican national committee. And there you are, both sides claiming the verdict by a one-sided count. The managers of the fival candidates uttered these words with the utmost sincerity and frankness on the eve of the election. Chairman McCormick stated th 37 the president will have at least 368 electoral votes. In his Sunday statement ho put-iUat -36L-hut_now thinks that the landslide is to be so tremendous that the democrats will carry Utah also. New York, New Jersey, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio and Wisconsin arc perfectly safe, according to McCormick. Willcox sees 366 electoral votes for Hughes and states that his election is a certainty even though he should lose some of the states that are expected to swell his total. “There is no doubt about New York, Indiana, Illinois, Ohio or Wisconsin,” said the republican chairman, “artff we also expect to carry many more-of the socalled doubtful states.”