Show 1 THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK As Seen by a Close Observer-It Looks to Him Like the Americans Lead things are as badly out a political way as they the and particularly in it is Wing the fates to put one's n record with a j guess at how any contest is as where different con-h prevail to what obtain we should be unusually about what we say and a each statement as authentic and this has been n mj observed in the subset which is wholly partisan bias or 1 rums at giving things just as to be from the best usable sources of i it is to be s wholly to the vote in Salt a there being no time particular necessity for I fins country indications the probability of their i pg or determining results is The result in county will practically in this total vote last the vote for mayor as American Republican Democrat Socialist Amer- this to beat the in this city would re- defection from their vote The u the question of how if the Americans vose hj desertion or pere the deserters will herein prefigured that P f the other parties will much from such but rely to gain considerably as mere canvasses are far from being e as to how they will l 1 to show up at the 1 others give r but j j ass of any particular other small division of a county or by two or three different canvassers representing different if they are anywhere near may be of some a canvass like that of the who in most cases put themselves on the reverse side in every doubtful case and only classified those whose answers were such as to carry possesses some It thus came about that last year they fairly on their it having resulted substantially in accordance with previous this in determining registration they knew to a man who to look after and have brought into the registration the result being that they succeeded in gathering in the astonishing proportion of 98 per cent of the number they had counted on in the neighborhood of of This is mentioned more to show the attention to details and the systematic methods pursued by Chairman Dunbar and his aides than as reaching a One of the largest district votes received by the Americans last year was in the where it was the Democrats getting the and the Socialists one of the smallest the Thirty-fifth showing up and 4 Both the American and Republican vote in these districts can be relied on to increase In the the vote last year was Americans Democrats Republicans Socialists the canvass this year shows a large increase in both the principal but most for the the figures Americans Republicans the Democrats trailing with It is either of the first not likely two will up so strongly m for reasons already the actual and very probable falling off will be that any so the figures may be permitted to offensive and The between the Republicans liquor which defeated the Americans two years is still on and will operate the same direction but perhaps not to the same Even if it and the Americans receive as much as half of what they claim from the new they will The claim is made for them that their vote in the city will be greater this year than which is rather a rose-colored carried it would mean American victory in the county if they got no votes at all outside whereas they are reasonably sure of as many as they had two years ago and a few Another factor is to be reckoned The through the prohibition are making albeit these are silent and not much in More particularly in the rural districts is this going and reports received at headquarters are of so encouraging a nature as 1 to cause the prediction to be freely made that they will have votes in the This would not be far from carrying as the total vote is not likely to be if over and by far the greater part of such gain would be at the expense of the Of much of it will relate only to the legislative but it will carry the whole thing in many if not majority of and it is a circumstance to be reckoned with in any To sum it all it seems out of the question that with Democratic gains sapping the Republican and not the American the latter could On but one hypothesis can such a proposition be made to square with existing facts and a falling off in the American compared with last as would amount to a complete such a violent overturning as is invariably accompanied by premonitory symptoms of a striking and if any of these are in evidence they are not visible to the ordinary eyesight Relying on human agencies and using the only sources of information at hand is all that the best or us can do in such always steering clear of letting our preferences prejudice our best laid schemes gang aft and disappointments are the common lot of The count of the ballots will tell it alL |