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I, ' - i' -.5'. - "- ! ' It! 20 Pages Today TWO SECTIONS nil V-i .1! 11, s"' IT 1! ft 1 WEATHER.. ; Fair Sun. gg1 warmer in 'in- V : f " " '-f" VOL. XCIX-KO. 37. N. Y. HERALD'S POLL WILSON STILL M HUGHES If Tide Continues to Run' in President's Direction at Same Speed Maintained for Three Weeks, He Will be in Fair Way to Sweep Away Big Normal Pluralities Upon Which the Re publicans Have Been Relying. ALREADY HAS MAJORITY: OF FIGURING CALIFORNIA "It Would Seem a Reasonably. Safe Must Rally" All THeir Old Time of the Labor Vote to Insure Says Great Anti-Wilson Newspaper. (Copyright 1916 by New York Herald Company; All Rights Reserved.) New York, N. Y., Oct. 29. The New York Herald 'political can vass, published today, shows a neck and neck race as the poll is noared in the Presidential race. The Herald's summary of the results of its work follows : Entered upon its final lap, the race for the Presidency is still a ueck and neck contest. The President has been' making gains in the Herald National straw vote, but the. Republicans assert that the Wil son tide reached ite highest point several days ago and now is falling off. - v r ' " In the total vote published today President Wilson shows a gain of one per cent, and Mr. Hughes shows a loss of one and one-tenth per cent. During the week the President made gains, large and small, in 18 states. Mr. Hughes made gains in eight. There were no impor tant changes in the totals from nine states. In New York city the President gained. Up-state Mr. Hughes made advances.- DRIFT UNQUESTIONABLY TOWARD WILSON. v The drift dnrlnf tke week tra lyiqneatlonablr In the' President' direc tion. In the opinion of both Republican and Democrats, the campaign king on a dead center severa,. day a age. J The Republican declare that since fttt time the swing; has been In their direction. The Democrat do not con- ttii that there ha been a oatlnna ton "of the , mar ted drift of two wetks H, nt feel confident that the strona; cmrrent ;4rfB In their direction tip to tie time there came- a loll was sufficient to overcome any baehdrfft which: ay b started by. the Republicans. . - ' t: .J ; Whatever change In' the : situation may have followed the turning point in the campaign and all the leader agree "that the battle reached Its climax . a few days ago might not e apparent in the. straw -rote tabulation of , this date. It will, however, be caught In the canvass that Is being made at this time and which' will be continued until the spectacular contest draws to a close. ' . IF THE PRESENT TIDE CONTINUES If the tide continues to run in the President's direction at the same speed i that has marked it during the last three weeks, Mr. Wilson will be in a fair T to sweep away the big normal pluralities upon which the Republican save relied. By the Sunday before election the Herald will have taken upward -of a -quarter of a million straw votes and it is expected that they will represent accurately as test ballots can do so the actual sentiment prevailing in the Nation at that ime. '" The Herald's straw, vote campaign first drew the attention of the coun try to the fact that the struggle for. the Presidency was of the 1888 variety, r ponnibly more uncertain, and the development from week to week have home oat what the straw vote first Indicated that it's anyone' battle with , tae Democrats having the 'advantage of a strong popular sentiment which ' loudly voiced its preference and the Republican being fortified by the pon derous strength of their party and safeguarded by the so-called "silent" vote, which is the deciding factor in many political contests. WILSON'S MAJORITY GROWS In the total of 204,599 test votes tabulated in today' issue. Mr. Hughes leads l.y 722. Last week he led by 3,727. If bat one-third of the top-heavy California, vote of 21,414 Is used for the computation and it is hardly a fair basis to use the whole vote from that trongly Republican state the President ha a majority of 6,793. Last week, fisiirlns; California on the required bast, the President had a lead of 365. !n the shift from party to party and in the division of the Roosevelt te of 1912, Mr. Hughe ha suffered losses which appear possibly more formidable in the aggregate than they do when considered individually. In ,he straw votes cast during the current week, Mr. Hughes received 74.4 JJ' cent of the Roosevelt vote and Mr. Wilson received 34.8 per cent. In the fil-st straw vote tabulation, Mr. Hughe received nearly 81 per cent and the President only IT per cent of the Roosevelt vote. . HUGHES lOSING IN SHIFT ALSO. i ! the shifts from Taft (1912) to Wilson, and from Wilson (1912) to Mr. Hughes the Republicans, have been losing also. For instance, in this week's ,0,als np to date Mr. Hughes gains in this way slightly more than 2 to 1 0v the President, while on September 24 he. gained about 3 1-2 to 1. Should ,he Percentage of shifts that now runs through all the straw vote eon tin - right up to the casting of the ballots, the result will hang by a thread ,n "eTeral important states and the election is likely to be won or lost by m- "ni-gin of a very few electoral votes... By hnth t -! - 1 - iliAM nXhA fin-tr n ft Iwf 4r si r way it is recognised that everything depends on which way the pendn- Inn, "ivlngs in the final ten days of the Eo secret of the fact that' a week ago they were in; a mos't pessimistic frame of mind. They fnlly realized then that the eight-hour campaign ery, conp with the slogan, "He kept, the Nation t peace." had made dangerous ,nratU in their strongholds. . . , ' , : There i no doubt that daring the. last live or six. days there has come, a "anKewlrether. psychological or real will be shown "by the straw votes now. e,8 leathered. The Republicans sincerely believe they have broken the la 0r "wins. They say the great army of workers thronghot the country are w tumins toward the Republicans on the issue of permanent prosperity. e Democrats are not quite so confident as they were, but declare that the "5taiiizatlon of the 'iabo .vote In the Middle West has been so complete at there Is no chance of defeating their National ticket. ' . SUPREME EFFORT HUGHES' ONI4Y HOPE. . rani" h traw votes are as unerring aa they have been in some former aat ' wonld seem a reasonably safe assertion that1 the Republicans to j tally aU their ld time strength and gather in some of the labor vote asare victory to their ticket. The situation is filled with uncertainties. Bd the ca" ln the campaign of 1M3, for Theodore Roosevelt, when his wrent atrength before election was greaUy in excess of his real strength . cmn l0n day " 14 "ld T h RepubMcana that the strength of the thuM I" 18 afWted because those who. are for Mr. "Wilson are en fce pRtlcallT for hint, while those who are set town as the rank and file of publlcan party are remaining quiet. , . - . . : . v r i.ere can De BO doubt, however, that the President, aa wa first disclosed SHOWS IS 6793 STRAW VOTES, ON THE "REQUIRED" BASIS Assertion That the Republicans Strength and Gather in Some Victory to Their Ticket," m " J . " " campaign. The Republicans make GAINIM SmiING WILMIGTOlSr, KC, ixicaii SITUATION THREATENED WITH GREATER TENSION Statement Attributed to Luis Cab rera Assails Neutrality of the . United States,. SHARP LANGUAGE IS USED Charges That Immigration Laws Have Not Been Enforced by; the Administration. . Washington, Oct. 2S. New complica tions with the Mexican defacto govern ment threatened today as a result of a statement Issued here through the Mexican Information Bureau and at tributed to Luis Cabrera. It assails in sharp language American neutrality and the administration of immigration laws as regards Mexico. Jir. Cabrera is minister of finance in Carranza's cabinet- and president of the Mexican com mission, now participating in the joint conference over border difficulties at Atlantic City, and there are indications that bis criticisms will not be ignored at the State Department. - While refusing to enter-into any dis cussion of the statement at this time, administration officials characterized it as extraordinary. Secretary Lansing would make no comment. It is known, however, that steps to establish the. au thenticity of the document were taken under consideration immediately. Arredondo Sees . No Callers. Eliseo Arredondo. Mexican ambassa dor designate, denied himself to all: callers. Although the Mexican Infor mation Bureau has been understood to have at least . semi-official relations " with the embassy', its status has never been clearly defined. Embassy officials asserted emphatically that Mr Arre dondo had not ueen. consulted before the statement was isSued and had no knowledge that it was in Gontemnln- tion. The statement, which, bears-the! name of the bureau and the word, "of- j flclal," in addition " to th-1iitrodu"ction ; attributing it to Mr: Cabrera is a3 fol lows: ; v, , The. Statement. -' "A? broad Interpretation, of the Fed eral laws of the United States dealing with neutrality and. regulating immi gration with a strict, consistent and efficient administration of these laws by the executives to whom their ad ministration is delegated, would go a long ways toward correcting the border disturbance and allay much of the un rest which at present pervades that re gion. 'jln the United States are many Mex icans and groups of Mexicans, inimios.l to the Carranza government. Ploi tings and scheming without end are en gaged in, not alone by the extreme con servatives who are striving to bring on intervention- with the hope that xhe constitutionalist government shall be destroyed , with the aid . of American armies, but also there' are groups of extremely radical -malcontents whsse hope is the destruction1 of the Carranr.j, government in order that license, ban ditry and sapine may continue and mul tiply, until human rig-ht and prop-;rty rights all. are destroyed. ? "The conservatives and reactionaries are taking advantage of the situation (Continued on Page Two.) SIMMONS IN CHARLOTTE REITERATESCHALLENGE Declares Government Has Been Restored to the People. Challenged Republicans That They Would Not Carry a State if Hughes Would Declare for Repeal of Wilson Legislation. (Special Star Telegram). Charlotte, N. C, Oct. 28. Senator Simmons, in a Woodrow Wilson Day address here today, 'reiterated his chal lenge to the Republicans that they would not carry a single state in the Union if they would, on the day before' i election .allow Mr. Hughes to say, through the press of., the country that the, Republicans, If returned to power, would repeal the constructive legisla tion ; that the present Democratic ad ministr'atlon had enacted in behalf of the people. iHe reviewed -the . legislative' enact ments of the present administration and predicted that the j country was destined to see under the present reg ime -the -greatest, wave of. prosperity that it has ever seen. The Federal Re serve act,- Rural Credits act, Income Tax law, Shipping bill, .., Good Roads law, and vothers he enumerated ats among the most beneficial results ever passed by an American Congress. "They mean restoration, of govern ment to the people for the people," he said. In reference to the tariff, he said the appointment ;' a non-partisan tariff commission had been demanded by the legitimate buslneas interests ' of the country long before the Democrats came Into -power 'and that it could be depended upon' to take care of aijy emergency that might arise after the European war. . , . SUKDAY MOEKIKGj OCTOBER 29, 1916 RUMANIAN FORGES TURN STUBBORNLY ON THE INVADERS Take OflF.ensive at Several Points, Bucharest Claiming Capture of 1,800 Prisoners. TEUTONS GAIN IN DOBRUDJA Berlin Claims Repulse of Attacks in the Verdun Region and Along the Somme. Austro-German forces, attempting to advance into Rumania along the Tran sylvania frontier, are meeting with stubborn opposition. Rumanian troops, taking -the offensive at several points on the long front, have repulsed the invaders and have taken more than 1, 800 prisoners, Bucharest announces. On the Moldavian section of the fron tier the Rumanians re-captured Piscul, in the Trotus valley, and at Tulghes and Bicaz and in the Uzul valley took 1,100 men. The yttack in the Uzul valley also resulted in the repulse of General von Falkenhayn's men and the capture , of five machine guns and war materials. North of Campulung, Bucharest says, a counter attack-In the region of Grag oslavle netted 300 prisonersv Further west in Wallachia In the Jiul val ley, the Rumanian offensive continues successfully, with the capture of 450 prisoners and -16 machine guns. Ber lin announces the taking of a height south of Kronstadt, and declares that "otherwise the situation is not essen tially chrnged." The retreat of the Russo-Rumanian forces in Dobrudja continues and Ber lin records that .. Field Marshal yon Mackensen is meeting with little oppo sition. Five hundred more prisoners have -been taken by the Teutonic al lies, as well . as several munition col umns and baggage trains. In the region otDorna Watra, where Bukowina, Transylvania and Rumania conre. toglter;" have, been occupied bx Austrian- troops. Pet-" rograd Bays the Russo-Rurrtanian troops, were forced to fall back in that region, abandoning two heights. French trops have captured a quarry northeast of FortDouaumont in the Verdun region. The repulse of Freneh attacks there as well as Franco-British attacks ;on, the Somme front is an nounced by Berlin. In Volhynla, west of Lutsk, the Aus-tro-Germans repulsed a Russian attack with heavy losses to the attackers. Otherwise there has been little activity on the Russian front. In Macedonia, bad weather is holding up extensive operations. Except for small Italian advances in the Adige walley, in the Trentino, and southeast of Gorizia, on the Isonzo,. there has been no change on the Austro-Italian front. . : , Washington, Oct. 28. Great Britain's reply to the American note of July . 28, regarding the blacklisting of American Arms, was received at the State Depart ment today, but it was not made pub lic and Secretary Lanstng would not discuss It. The note "refutes the Amer ican contention that" the blacklist - is "an arbitrary interference with neu tral trade," but is understood to offer some measure of relief. N. G. DEMOCRATS HAVE CONTRIBUTED $33,000 Hon. A. W. McLean Anxious That Wilson Fund Be Made $40,000 Urges That Amount be in by Thursday. Being Telegraphed to Headquar ters as Fast as Collected Wil son -Victory Indicated. (Special Star Telegram). Raleigh, N. C, Oct. 28. In a special statement tonight, j W. McLean, Dem ocratic National committeeman for North Carolina, said that thus far North Carolina has contributed $33,000 to the National campaign fund and he is anx ious to get.the amount to at least $40, 000 and' hewants as-much as possible of this, fund In. hand by Thursday of next week,' . in., order that it can be used as eTfec'tively as possible in cam paigning, the -doubtful states. - . , He says a indications point to Wil son's re-election,-but that, with all in dications so strongly for Democratic victory, there should be every effort and sacrifice to ; make. , sure of success and to this end he is . telegraphing - cam paign funds! to New, York just as fast ap they are received, for immediate and most effective use in the doubtful states. ' " A ". ' Galveston; Texas, Oct. 28. The casei of John Copeland;; of .- Marshall, . Texas, charged with killing .William Black, an anti-Catholic lecturer, was given to tha . jurymen "i early this - evening and after Vtheyj. had , deliberated , nearly f o ur bours were Allowed to go to bed. ' WILSON mCLMES REPUBLICANS ARE 'SCRUPLING AT NOTHING' IN STATEMENT OF FACT AND POLICY ' v; r I. - v M&W? X 1v mWm1' X- Ir' Wilson D$jessaFr6m The President To His Countrymen Following is the full Jext of the spe cial' message of President Wilson to his countrymen whlch 'was read yesterday and last night "Woodrow Wilson Day" at public meetings held in cities, towns and villages . throughout the; United States, and the reading of which was the feature of the meeting held by the Democrats of New Hanover county at the court house" in Wilmington last night: " .-'-"- TEXT OF THE PRESIDENT'S - "WILSON DAY" ADDRESS The President's address follows: "My Fellow Citizens: - -' ."This is called -'Wilson Day' only be cause for six years,; first -as governor of New Jersey and then as President of the United States, I have been per mitted to lead first a, great state and then a great national party along the ways of progress and of enlarged artd regenerated life which .purw people, had so long sought and so long been held back from by the organized power of selfish interest, and because -the . great honor has fallen to me of being .chosen once more spokesman and representa tive of the men who mean to hold the country to these ways of peace, hu manity and progress, it is' of these forces that .1 shall speak, and not of myself, who am merely their servant. "What are these forces?. Whence do they spring? What have they ac complished, and what is their pro gramme and purpose for the future? It is plain what they are. They are the forced of humane, righteous, and pa triotic purpose which have sprung up in our day in the mines of-those who perceive the shortcomings of. tha law as it has hardened Tn America, and :Who look forward with purpose and con viction to a new age In whlcb. govern ment shall be , Indeed the servant of liberty and not of privilege. These are men who perceive that American law has not kept pace witV American sen timent; that our law has been "holding us rigid and -immovable, . until class has begun; in f refe -America,- to be ar rayed against class; until what was letral has begun to play a more impor tant' part -in our thoughts and deter-i minatibns than what - is - human - ana right; and until America has begun to lag' instead of lead in reconciling what la -with what ought - to be. ."A new age - had dawned .upon, us while those who" w.ere attempting to lead us were stumbling , along with their heads oyer; their- shoulders. In tent -jpon preserving the conditions of a day - that is gone. America had changed and - the whole world had changed. Our commerce and industry had igron ta: .suQhv a, -bulk that the domestic markets of which our former leaders were always-so solicitous were glutted and we :w ere bound, unless we, were' to burst .our jacketto find a free outlet into the markets - of- the -world. TKi'im had come when our commerce needed freedom and would .be throttled by further restraints.-. We had acquir ed foreign possessions, had been drawn into the politics of . the world, had be gun to play, a part which could not be played by provincials, but must be played by citizens of .the great world of nations.. And yet we had not alter ed our ' policy or our point of view. The great -European, war "has served a: least to shew r us t$ls. one thing, that the world itself had changed; that it had become at "once :too . big a world and 'too little -ra,s world, to submit its destinies to the- hostile rivalries and ambitions now of. this and again of that member .of the great family of men; .too compact, too intimate in its contacts, too, universal in its ways of intercourse, to make it any longer pos sible to limit the effects of any na tion's action to a single, separate sphere where the rest "would be un touched. " An inevitable partnership of interests' has been thrust upon the na tions. They" are neighbors and must accommodate .their interests to one an other, or else disturb the lives and embarrass . the.' fortunes, of men every where. No wonder that in. such an age men in America should be cried awake and feel once more, as they felt them inthe days when their great re public was set up, the compulsions of humanity and of Justice!; , "These are .the freshening winds blowing out t of the life of mankind everywhere,- that haye brought on a new day Jn American politics. We have looked once more very critically at our own laws and our own practices and have set about to square them with the actual conditions of Our life and the life of the world. "Four years -ago-there were' two par ties in the field whose programme was conceived under. -.the influence of these great forces of progress and adjust ment, the Democratic party and the Progressive, party. This year; there is but one, the-Democratic party.- In the presidential election of four years ago some ..fifteen million" votes . were cast. Of these, nearly ten and a half mil lions .were . cast for the candidates of the two progressive parties, only three and a half millions "were cast for the candidate of the Republican party, the party which lingered in the old ways and felt none of the hew impulse of a new day. More than two-thirds of the voters of the . United States: favored then, and favor now, a programme whose, object is. to serve the changing needs of humanity and progress. "The Democratic party was entrust ed -with the- task., "These - powerful f drees of the new age were out under its direction." And under that direc tion what have they accomplished? They have' put . both tbe"business and the life" of the country up"bn a new footing.- They have released the finan cial credit, upon which commerce and production alike, depend,, from the con trol of small groups of financiers and "bankers at the - speculative ' centers. '. (Continued From Page One). WHOLE NUMBER 39,748 Questions Patriotism of Men Who Take Advantage of a World Cri sis to Gain Political Power. WANT PEACE AS BRAGGARTS President Declares They Prefer Peace, But Not as Gentlemen Would Obtain It. SPEAKS TO NEW YORKERS Greeted by Largest Crowd Yet Assembled at Shadow Lawn. Long Branch, N. J., October 28. That the opposition to his elec tion is "scrupling at nothing" in statement of fact and policy was the charge made by President Wil son in a speech at Shadow Lawn this afternoon to a throng that asi- .sembled for a joint celebration of New York Day' ' and ' ' Woodrow Wilson Day." "Whdt are we to say," he ask ed, "of the patriotism of men who take advantage of a crisis of the world, when the fortunes of men hang in uncertain balance, when the peace of this great Nation can be maintained only by the most thoughtful and considerate means, to settle a question of power among themselves?" Prefer a "Braggart's" Peace Renewing his discussion of the for- , elgn policies" "of4 the tTnlted States and speaking of the "vocal element" of the Republican party, the President de clared: "They prefer a peace" that is produced by the methods, of those who defy, ofthose who brag, of those wh threaten in orde r to establish their prowess. They have forgotten their manners. They want a peace indeed, but they do not want a peace obtained as gentlemen -ontaTn it, but only as braggarts obtain it." In the course of his address, the President reviewed in detail the record of the Democratic party toward pub lic questions, declared tnat most of the issues of the campaign proposed at the outset by the Republicans have disap peared; upheld the 8-hour day for "ev erybody for whom it is possible," spoke of the "interesting gyrations" of the Republicans toward the tariff, and re plied to assertions of his opponent as to what will happen after the war. Direct reference to the New York campaign was made by Mr. Wilson for the first time. He mentioned Samuel Seabury, candidate for governor, and urged that a Democratic governor and United States Senator should be elect ed. Casts Set Speech Aside. The President did not read a speech prepared by him in advance. Although he used some of the thoughts contain ed in the prepared speech, he departed entirely from the words and injected many new ideas. The prepared speech was to'' be read at meetings arranged in many cities and towns in celebration of "Woodrow Wilson Day." Headed by bands and carrying flags and banners, the largest crowd that has. assembled here for any of Mr. Wil son's speeches came on special trains and marched a mile and a half to Shad ow Lawn. The delegation included one composed of Tammany Democrats led by John R. Voorhis, grand sachem. In an introductory speech Mr. Voorhis spoke of Tammany, and declared he hoped to be able to march in Mr. Wil son's inaugural parade. A Confusing Campaign. "It has been a confusing campaign," said the President in his address, "be cause the publie mind has never been permitted to center upon any single thing that the opposition cared to stand for. "They possess no stamp of definite policy. They suggest no line of defi nite action. On the one hand, the vo cal element says that we have accom plished the purpose that they did have in mind; that they desired peace but they do not-like the way in which peace was accomplished. They prefer a peace that is produced by the meth ods of those who defy, of those who brag, of those who threaten. In order to ' establish 'their prowess they have forgotten their manners. They want peace' indeed, but they do not want a peace obtained as. gentlemen obtain it, but only as braggarts obtain it." 1 Outlines Policy of Democrats. The President outlined what he characterized as the definite policy of the Democrat, by saying: "The only thing that those of us have done who have tried to lead has been to purge our hearts and understand what we heard, because, my friends, a man who tries to serve a free natlea must try to have In his own heart the thoughts of a free nation. "If he believes 'that men ought to work only eight hours he is expected to say so and if..ue :s asked whether he means .everybody, he ought to an swer ,yes, everybody for whom it is possible." There. are some occupations in which you' cannot divide the day ap (Continued on Page Twelve.) I ill" hi? WW i 1.1- 1: 1 m i t-f:'- . :!t;:( t I.. V.P m mm f. ;l B.lfc;'j.-i is y, Mt-' MM i n'vS' iv mm a' "i-f .V . ' mm, i - mi,'.. '.: mm ii..ft i-:. -r .; urn 17 f .1 . 0 'h. Ipll mm mm VMM- mi iu..af. V mm. m imp, I "M.r wit 1 t. 11 : 'r1 J - 0i 4.i i i. ;-.p f if.'. mm tm 1 'iijir'' !'- -. ! '.I --. -
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