Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1916 — FORECLOSED FOR WILSON. [ARTICLE]

FORECLOSED FOR WILSON.

Chicago Tribune, Supporting Hughes, Says Women and Labor in Illi- . nois Are With President. < The Chicago Tribune is one of the most bitter papers in the country in behalf of Hughes. In reviewing conditions in Illinois October 2 the Tribune said: “Illinois is a doubtful state on the presidency. At this moment the chances are even that Wilson will carry the state, taking all conditions in Chicago and downstate into consideration. These are the facts in the case and Republican state leaders know that they are. “Two things stand out with impressive force in stacking up political conditions as they now prevail in Illinois: “I—The failure, or the lack of initiative, in organizing Republican women voters downstate. “2—The apparent concession, without any objection raised by the Hughes managers, that the labor vote in the downstate industrial centers is foreclosed for Wilson.”