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Show ; ! PRE-ELECTION PREDICTIONS. M !"M0W that ifc is a11 over' let,3 look ' back at some of the campaign H claims made by excited gentle- ',men in different parts of the country v On Sept 24, President Taft said in New York: , The third term leaders recently con-Heeded con-Heeded that we would pick the state tj of Utah out of the solid west ana, after ? conferring with Chairman Hilles and others recently in the west, there is every reason to believe that the Republican Re-publican party will carry Michigan, 'Washington, Idaho and Wyoming, ji Moreover, if the proper kind of a cam-i cam-i 'tpaign is waged, we will carry Oregon, t I(Kansas and Minnesota, where the 1 t' third term strength has rapidly waned 11 !js!nce the recent tour through that bcc- JI 'ftion by the party's candidate. ' On the same day a New York dis- jj patch says: i Chairman Hilles was especially enthusiastic en-thusiastic concerning the outlook for ijthis fall. Mr. Hilles has just return-: return-: ed from a trip through Michigan and j 'Illinois and said he didn't think there ' . was a show for the Bull Moose candi date in that part of trie country. He ' conceded that Governor Wilson would Uput up a good stiff fight but predicted 'tthat there would be a big victory for the Taft forces in November. ii On Oct. 17 the Republican national committee said it wasn't possible for . !Taft to get less than 280 electoral jivotes and Wilson was conceded 132. , " On Oct. 20 the president eaia ,it was j! "obvious that neither the ErpgressivQ 'nor Democratic nominee will be elect !"'ed." Then Chairman Hilles came along ',with a table showing just what stages Taft wa3 going to carry. True, he ad- ,.mitted this table was subjedt to later , revision. In another column we show tthe "revision." , - n |