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Show MM IS CERTAIN TO DEFEAT WALSH Massachusetts Claimed by Anti-suffrage Forces; Suffragists Suf-fragists Hopeful. By International News Sen-Ice. BOSTON, Oct. 31. Anti-suffrage forces j declare tonight that the woman suffrage, amendment will be defeated In Tuesday's election by 75,000 votes. Reports from every section of the state, they said, showed that suffrage would not carry a single counts'. The suffrage workers did not offer fig- i ures, but through Mrs. Gertrude Halladay Leonard, chairman of the executive ! board of the state organization. announced an-nounced that they were confident of victory, vic-tory, because of the thorough campaign they had made and the fact that "'the .great majority of men and women promi- nent in the life of the state" were with i them. No predictions are being made regard- I Ing tho slate ticket. The betting Is evon. 1 When the Republican state convention adopted a platform intenaed to conciliate the Progressives and Charles Sumner i Bird. Joseph ' Walker and other Roosevelt1 leaders returned to the party, the chances , of Samuel W. MoCaU, the candidate for governor, brightened appreciably and his , election was regarded as assured. Since that time, however, the prospect has become be-come clouded and no'one dares venture a prophecy. The candidacy of William Shaw, general gen-eral secretary of the United Society of Christian Endeavor, running as a prohibitionist, prohibi-tionist, haa become aggressive. Tho Republican campaign haa shown more harmony and greater hustle than last year and McCall has aroused far greater enthusiasm. The interest in the suffrage question Is sure to draw out a great proportion of Massachusetts famous fa-mous stay-at-home votes and In years gone by this has always meant a Republican Republi-can sweep. But the minor candidates mentioned above have complicated the situation. sit-uation. Governor Walsh has th united support of his party. Last year his vote was 12 -000 greater than Mc-Call's. The Progressive Progress-ive vote in that election was 32,000 It is not thought that Shaw and Clark will make sufficient Inroads upon the Republican Repub-lican vote to return Walsh a winner. |