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Show u. . , , Republican Panic So marked la the Impetus taken on by Governor Smith's campaign as election elec-tion day draws near, that Republican leaders everywhere manifest signs of genuine panic. The G. O. P. high command sees th "writing on the wall" In the East Their campaign managers in the Northwest, where the LaFollette Progressive Pro-gressive vote is lined up behind the Democratic candidate, are distracted by sense ot impending disaster. Their hope of breaking the Democratic dominance of the South is vanishing. And now a threat of utter rout comes with the tremendous reaction to Governor Gov-ernor Smith's speeches in the border States.' " Not without significance lb Us bo-trayal bo-trayal ot the extreme anxiety ot the Hoover politicians, Is their Insistent call upon Preaident Coolidge for advice, ad-vice, for help, for rearaurance. The 'President did not choose to give Mr. Hoover the active aid In the campaign which G. 0. P. leaders bad deemed so desirable.' What he did otter was aloof encouragement. The Republican candidate, he told the anxious anx-ious politicians, was sura to win. Ha advised Mr. Hoover to keep cool, not to be stampeded into any rash act, not to say too much. And Mr. Hoover, it is apparent, has been influenced by that advice in his speaking campaign. The publication In New York newspapers news-papers ot President Coolidge's optimistic opti-mistic statements was followed Immediately Imme-diately by a trip to Washington by Charles D. Hilles, New York Natfflnal Committeeman, and H. Edmund Mac-hold, Mac-hold, who recently resigned his water power associations to become the Republican Re-publican State Chairman in New Vnrlr They, too, tried desperately to dispel dis-pel the defeatest atmosphere which has fallen over Republican campaign workers from Massachusetts to Montana. Mon-tana. "The situation In New York looks very good," they assured Mr. Hoover. They backed the assertion with figures which were far in excess of the most partisan estimate given out by anyone in close touch with conditions in that State. At the same time M. William Bray, chairman ot the Democratic State Committee, was completing his annual canvas ot county chairmen. According Accord-ing to the official reports ot these chairmen, Governor Smith's vote In the counties outside of New York City, will be 30 per cent greater than in 1924 when the Governor was elected elect-ed on the Democratic ticket although 'the State was carried by Coolidge. In 1924 Governor Smith's vote In tha up-State districts was 690,000; reports ot the county chairmen show that this year it will approximate 1,000,000. As in the past, the Governor is. sure of an overwhelming majority In New York City. Even Mr. Hoover must realize that his followers are painting a political mirage when they base their assurances assur-ances of victory on the claim that Governor Smith will lose the State which tour times elected him to its highest office. |