Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1912 — Indiana Democratic by Over 100,000 Is the Prediction. [ARTICLE]

Indiana Democratic by Over 100,000 Is the Prediction.

The outcome of next Tuesday’s election as shown by careful polls of several big newspapers, including j the New York Herald, Cincinnati inquirer and Chicago Examiner, gives Wilson an overwhelming plurality of the popular vote and almost all of tue electoral votes. .The Herald’s poll gives Wilson 420 electoral votes; Roosevelt, 78; Taft, 11; doubtful, 14. The Enquirer gives Wilson 4 25; Roosevelt, 49; Taft 21; doubtful. 36? Roosevelt is given California, Illinois and Washington; Taft, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Rhode Island, Utah and Wyoming; Vermont is classed as doubtful. The Examiner gives Wilson 446; Roosevelt, 63; Taft, 22. Roosevelt is given California, North Dakota, Pennsylvania and Washington; Taft, Maine, Rhode Island, Utah, Vermont and Wyoming. The Examiner estimates that Indiana will give Wilson 190,000 plurality, and that Roosevelt will get 190,000 votes in this state and Taft 130,000; that Wilson’s popular plu'rality will be 2,217,000. The Enquirer says Wilson’s plurality in Indiana will be at least 100,000 and that In Indiana all parities have buckled down for a hard finish, but it is evident that tho Democrats will have the advantage in organization and In harmony and .that their candidates are popular generally with the rank and file. There is no change in the congressional situation. The Democrats stand to get 12 of the 13 almost to a car- , tainty and a splendid chance of landing the entire delegation.

The worm has turned at last. Thomas Taggart has demanded a retraction from the Indianapolis Star, the Chicago Tribune and the Bull Moose national committee of the charges and inuendoe that he is the proprietor of a gambling den at French Lick. As a matter of fact Mr. Taggart is not the proprietor of anty gambling establishment at French Lick or elsewhere and has no connection either directly or indirectly or remotely with any such establishment, if any exist there. Other newspapers that have published these malicious falsehoods will ’be brought to account by Mr. Taggart, who has long been the target for the forked tongues of political falsifiers. He has heretofore paid no attention to these charges, but they have at last reached the point where he owes it to himself, his hotel business and his friends that the venomous charges be refuted in the courts.