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Show If it- WH0 wLL W,N THE L'l ELECTION 1 I j II Over the telephone: "Mr. Editor, ft f f (Can you tell us who is going to be , W elected?" ' Had the editor a secret wire lo the ' i ml A Discerning Mind, he might have- )l "Jrl made an intelligent reply to the voice ! iHr- fnfm over the telephone, but depend- I H ing solely on a source lof information ! IL made up of the tremendous bias of i fl $f politics as represented in the Republi- : can an Democratic parlies, he an- t j lift swered "simply: W "No!" ' The editor was about to quote from 't Ri the advance information from the Lit- Ht erary Digest and the Review of Re- jjn .views' when the receiver clicked and lift central called "Number." i Bjfc But for the benefit of our readers, Hjf we will quote from those two sources j U of public opinion. The Literary Di- u ge'st says: ill LITERARY DIGEST FORECAST i Hill Published in Issue of Nov. 4, 1916. i I f Fivo So-called Big Doubtful States ' j f? New York i5 Electors. U - H Total Hughes Yote 4335 nj Total Wilson vote 2085 7 I lyj New Jersey 14 Electors. VH Total Hughes vote 3315 Jj(H " Total Wilson vote 1761 ); Ohio 24 Electors. I M Total Hughes vote 3658 am Total Wilson vote 2893 i lljil ' Indiana 15 Electors. M Total Hughes vote 2572 if Mil Total Wilson vote 1615 nm Illinois 29 Electors. I i Blji Total Hughes vote , 4062 j jjpill Total Wilson vote 2290 I lilt Tbc ovemer issue of the Review ' ''IP! of Reviews says: I U- jjjll ' As for tho RcnubIicans, they concede the so-called "solid South" from the suirt, and claim tho rost of the country as good fighting ground. It te to be borne in mind that in all Presidential Presi-dential elections both sides claim to the very last that they will carry New York. Ohio and Indiana. In-diana. Both sides also usually claim Illinois. It is a surprise i to us that Illinois is put in the doubtful doubt-ful list by our Informants at Democratic headquarters. Their chances in that state seem to m-rfsldern m-rfsldern of the Republican camp lobe lo-be better than in some of the other oth-er states (Ohio and Indiana, for instance) positively claimed for Wilson. , . , Mr. Wilson personally has had a four year's career of the most bewildering and incalculable activities. ac-tivities. These will have won for him a variegated support, Immense Im-mense in its aggregate. It will have alienated and antagonized other elements also totaling large. It now seems likely that his sup- . porters on November 7 will bo more numerous than his opponents. oppo-nents. A more logical and better-balancod better-balancod contest would have been assured If the Republicans had nominated Colonel Roosevelt, though the result might have been equally uncertain. |