Salt Lake Tribune | 1908-11-02 | Page 2 | Both Sides Equally Confident of Victory

I BOTH SIDES EQUALLY CONFIDENT OF VICTORY CHICAGO, Nov. . Although almost all official business hnd boon completed the night before, thero was considerable consider-able activity about the national headquarters head-quarters of both the Republican and Democratic parties hero today. After going over all available sources of late information, William Hayward. secretary secre-tary of tho Ropublican national committee, com-mittee, asserted that from his viewpoint, view-point, all anxiety as to the outcoino of , the election had been eliminated, and thai New York. Ohio, Illinois and Indiana In-diana arc safely Ropublican. At ! Democratic headquarters opinions were ?quallv optimistic. Vice-Chairman John'E. Lamb repeated former predictions, predic-tions, claiming 205 electoral votes and including in his list of Bryan 6tates New York, ana Ohio. Both beauquurter& were crowded with visitors during the day.