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Show AS SEEN AT THE NATION CAPITAL IH(.lll:s MT TO Hi: MINOHITY PltOIDKNT. Hon, .1011111111111 Itoiirne. lr.. Pnlilciil of llio Itcpiihllniu Piibltill) Ao-(Inllou, Ao-(Inllou, (;tvi-i Out Some Flsiirr-i 'Hint m- MoM Intcn-llmc I'lnli In the "snfel) I'lrol" Coliiiiin. Tin 'Hun Hpeclul Hervbe WAHHINdTON. H C. Aug J.-e Tin Itppubllcnii Publicity inwoclntlon, throiiKh It preeldeiit. linn. Jonathan llourne. Jr. today mive nut till" statement nt henditttnrtera here. If the eotintr) ote nt the presidential presi-dential clertlnn tlili )enr hk It voted nt the coiiRreiMlonxl eliitlnn In 1914. Hughe will enrry Callfiirnln, Colo-rnib Colo-rnib Conneetletit. Delewnre, Idaho, llllllole Iomh. .MiiiMHcliiiiiettii. Mlchl-Kan. Mlchl-Kan. MlnneeotH, Nevmln. New llnmp-j-Uir New Jersey. New Mexlen. New Vrk North Imkotn. tiregon. Penn-Uania Penn-Uania llliodc lelnuit, Hmith Unkoln. Ftah eriiioiit, WHulilliKtou. Went irginlH WlmitiiMn and Wyoming. There ft ten Imve two liunilreil nml elglitv el Votee In the electoral college col-lege a iimorlt of whlfh Ik only two hundred nml Mxt-M Clear Plunillt) or Vote-.. In each of there Mutes, two year ago. the republican connre-sloiml ticket rwelved u dear plimttliy of vnten. In these sin ten lomblned the republican enndlilntiN for congres try velvrd 1,076,167 voti-s, while the democratic ctimlldnti-ii for emigres received only 3.IIZ.&IH Votes the total republleun pliirnlfi being 913,-Est 913,-Est In each of these slates. In 1914 there wn nn nrganltcd progressive enmiwlgn except In Nevada. North Dakota. Ftah and W'Wcluisln. although al-though In Ftah there nn n fusion ticket running In oppiMltluu to the repulillonns. The total progressive vole In these slate was 716,341,. and the combined republican-progressive plurality over the democrat wn I,-HRX.930. I,-HRX.930. Two enrn ngo there were five slate Indiana, Knows, Maine, Nebraska and Ohio which nre fairly to be clasvd a normally repiibllciin. but where the democratic congressional congres-sional ticket rctclvcd a plurality of vote ranging from n beggarly 363 In Maine to an Impressive t:.7&3 In Indiana. In-diana. Hut the progressive vote In each of these five stale was fur In excel of Die different c between the republican and ileinocratlc totals, and ranged from 3111 In Nebraska In flO.lHO In Indiana. In Kansas the progressive vote In 1911 amounted to 74,441; In Ohio It im 47.91. and In Maine It wu 17,96. These five state will cast Mxty-thrce vote In the electoral college. How will the) vote thl cur? l-oiig Hud In Itcpubllnin-. "Hopeful dcmoiratlc stntlstlclun estlmnte the division of the former progressive vote upon different proportion pro-portion In each Instance, howevir, giving the long end of It to the republican re-publican nml In no Institute claiming that more than 30 per cent or the bull moose will support Wilson Pp-on Pp-on this extreme hypothesis, let ii examine ex-amine the vote of the five slate where a democratic plurality wa found In the congressional election of 1911. "The republican vote or Indiana In 1914 wn 311,110, the progrenslve ..tiMiliiv U0 010 uml the democrat 376,li93. Dividing the bull moose Mrength on the basis or 70 mid 10 per tent, respectively, to the repub-llcnii repub-llcnii mid the demoi rat, the vote or Indiana thl year should be republican, republi-can, 394,163; democrutli. 3u3,90l. The margin I too small for comfort on cither side, mid Indiana must remain re-main a righting territory until the vole ore counted The progressive aided, It I wild, by democrutli' funds tire maintaining mi organisation In that etnte, but couiietent observer believe that from K& to 90 per lent of the moose will vote for Hughe und thnl the number who will support Wilson ure negligible. Fpon thl ba.ls. Indiana should go for Hughe and Fairbanks by neurly 30,000. "Illeeillng Hamsun" Figure. The seventy. thirty division applied ap-plied to Halisa would give that state, to the republican republican, 340,-316; 340,-316; ileinocratlc, 318,163. In Maine the result would be republican, 73,-xs.8; 73,-xs.8; democratic, 66,071 In Nebraska Nebras-ka the rigure would show republican, republi-can, 113,376: democratic, 113,830. Thl I another hairline of demarcation demarca-tion hut there I no bull moose ticket In Nebraska thl year, and ultiin tli eiintom u III hn it hard one. the Indication ure that Hughe will carry the stale. The same division or the progressive, vote In Ohio would prodme figure ror 1916 republican. 611,038; democratic, 498,663, It I, therefore, it fair nuniitloii that. In addition to retulnlng the state w tilth ' disclosed it clear republican plurality In 1914 und which usure a majority of the electoral college the republl- ' can ticket will thl year gain Kansas. ' Maine and Ohio without iiiiestlon and secure for Hughes and Fairbanks a ' total or 336 nut or the 631 vote In ' the electoral college with more than n righting chance to add the twenty-three twenty-three votes of Indiana and Nebraska to that number, making 349 or a ma- J Jorlly or 167. Hughe will not be a minority president. Figures upon ' which the foregoing I based are ta- ' ken rrom the "World Almanac," and In detail follow. I Willi Itepubllcun PluralltlcN. ; California Itepubllcun. 380,4931 1 progressive, 168,984; democratic, ' 130,179, Colorado Itepubllcan, 99,900: pro- greiulve, 16,986; democratic, 97,480, Connecticut Itepubllcan 89,000; progressive, 6739; democratic, 78,110, Delaware Itopubllcan, 33,913: pro-grcuslve, pro-grcuslve, 1853; democratic, 30,681. Idaho Itepubllcan, 46,365; pro-gresslve. pro-gresslve. 839i; democratic, 39,73(1., Illinois Itopubllcan, 417,878; pro- grc-ilvi 13 1. 45 demm-ratli. 191 04 Iowa Itepiibllntn. 107.471; progressive pro-gressive 19.098. detitiHTHtlc, 119.1X2 MNttoflchitsett ItcptibllcBli. 311 -slo progressive, 19,118. dmocratl Michigan Uepilbllrnn. It S.I U- progreselve. 47.760; demwrhlli. 119-762 119-762 Ml lines.. In llellbllcnn, 181. 4!. progressive, 11.718; tlemnerntli 87 16 Nevmln ItepHblleHM, Mill; demo rat le. soil. No progressive tbket New llnmpMiIre lleptihllenn. 4 4. prngr4t. MS"; demix-mlb 11.111 New Jersey tteptlh!ten. 179.930 progressive. 17.971: democratic. 173.-988 173.-988 New Mexico llepubllenii. 11.M1. irgreelve. 1698; deinornttle, 19.-XOI. 19.-XOI. New York Itepubllemi. 611.110. pnigresolve, DI.148; dcmoenillc, 887, 899. North Dtikotn Itepubllcun. 10.791. demiHTHtle, 16,680. No progressive tliket. Oregon ItrpublleHli. 101.107: progressive. pro-gressive. itl: deiiloernlle. 83.998. I'eiins) Iviinbt IteptlbtleMii. I69.-911. I69.-911. progressive. 110.891; ilemiHTntle. 119.013 IthiHte Island ItepubllcHll. 89.001: progressive. 1911. ibiiiocnitlc, 18.M6 Holith Imkotn IteptihllcHti. 81.814, progreestv e. 1801. democmllc, 17.781. I'lnli Itepllhtlcnn. 81.940; tfelllo-irntlc tfelllo-irntlc i fusion I. t.tt7 Vermont llepiibllenu. 36,9X0, pro-Hre-Ie. 9816, itcmocrHtli. 11.688 Washington llcpuhllcwii. 118.001 : progressive. 66.666. democratic. 96.-681 96.-681 West Virginia Itepiibllnin. 11)7,. M. progremlve, 8786; ilemocrntlc. 106.317. Wisconsin Itepllblliltll. 189.169, ilemocrntlc, 116,601. No progressive tliket Wyoming Itepuhllciiti, 31.363; progressive. pro-gressive. 1308; democrntlii, 17,346. llcpiihllcni.Pmgtrltc Pliirnlllle. Indiana Itepubllcun. 331.110; pro-greeslte, pro-greeslte, 90.040; ilemocrntlc. 376,893. Knnsrt Itepubllcnn, 188,106; progressive. pro-gressive. 71.441; ilemocrntlc. I9S.X10. Maine Itepilbllitltl, 60,318; progressive, pro-gressive, 17,968; democrallt, 60.683. Nebraska Itepubllcan. 1 1 1.199; progressive, 3111. dentin ratlc, IIS,-886 IIS,-886 Ohio llepiibllcau, 177.163 progressive, pro-gressive, 17,981; dcmotrutlc, 181.168. |