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Newspaper
Washington Post
Location
Washington, Washington Dc, United States of America
Date
Oct 31, 1904
Page
1
Republican confidence remains cautious as polls from Greater New York show strong Parker support while national trends indicate a mixed outlook. Democrats face a difficult race for the presidency as party leaders and strategists project state-by-state chances amid heavy campaigning and shifting voter sentiment.
The article analyzes how many electoral votes Democrats must secure to win the presidency, stressing New York and Indiana as pivotal. It notes New Jersey and Connecticut as risky, while Idaho and Wyoming are treated as likely Republican. It concludes the odds favor Republican defeat of Democrats under most scenarios.
Elihu Root of New York told President Roosevelt at the White House that New York would back the President with a significant plurality, aiding the Republican ticket. He noted past campaign restraint and said the party’s spending this cycle was modest, with no major disturbances, and he planned to attend a Carnegie Institute executive meeting after a Supreme Court matter.
Senator Fairbanks, a Republican presidential candidate, planned a eight day tour across Indiana from Westfield to Huntington with meetings in Sheridan Frankfort Tipton Elwood and Fort Wayne. Col W W Richardson will run the special train. He stated no post election plans were arranged.
Judge Alton B Parker will depart for New York at noon to begin a busy speaking campaign this week. He spent Sunday at Kingston church with George F Parker of the Literary Bureau. Morse of Hartford, pursuing congressional support, met Parker to arrange Thursday night meetings. Cortelyou, Republican National Committee chairman, arrived in Chicago to coordinate campaign wind up with western committee members.
Five Italians boarded a Latrobe street car near Bagley and stabbed conductor Floyd Anthony during a struggle over a closing window. Anthony died on the car floor as attackers fled after pulling the bell rope.
Steve Borok of the Bessemer Coke Slant reported seeing a man thrown into a coke oven and cremated late last night. He says three men scuffed on the oven, two leaped down, and flames erupted as fuel seemed tossed in. Coroner Hagan ordered the oven drowned after blackened bones and teeth were found.
British inquiry at Hull will open at once into the North Sea incident. Reports say Vice Admiral Rojestvensky asked to be relieved, but the admiral maintains his account. Battleships and cruisers remain at Vigo, with Russian and British naval officers exchanging visits amid heightened vigilance along the Baltic route.
Descriptions from Manchurian Army HQ report night attacks on Waitao Mountain and nearby outposts near Womingtsun with Japanese repulses and occasional Russian counter moves. Buddhist Temple Hill sees heavy fighting on October 27 28 29 with intense shelling bayonet action and temporary Japanese gains.
A Buffalo elevator named Ontario sank into the Evans Creek waters, carrying about 31 000 bushels of barley. The accident injured the superintendent, Charles Bartholomy, age 22, who was rescued unconscious. Investigators cite weak dock foundations on quicksand as a probable cause, with possible effects from a deepened slip and unconfirmed explosion reports.
Coroner reports forty nine miners entombed by a Friday explosion at a Trinidad mine. Rescue efforts halted by rock slides and bowlders, with a possible day to two weeks before exploration resumes. Three bodies recovered. remaining workers trapped as relief blasts continue to tame further slides.
Dispatches from Canada indicate widespread discontent in Colombia and Panama. President Reyes faces opposition in both chambers, limiting control as paper currency prints in unlimited amounts.
Three killed and twelve injured in a two section World’s Fair train collision near Tipton Missouri. Section two struck section one in foggy yard conditions as both trains carried passengers to St Louis and Kansas City. Blame placed on flagman and engineer for failing to flag and control their sections.
In Masontown Pennsylvania on October 20 a political quarrel led to a fatal shooting as Chifard Hawley killed Simeon Donahoe and wounded William Mordow. Mordow interfered to stop the clash before Hawley drew a pistol and fired twice. Hawley fled toward Adamsville.
A compact index of today’s issue lists items from last week's campaign and international events. It includes notes on Russia, Manchuria, the Hague conference, U S politics, and local city briefs with terse updates and reader interest items.
Japanese Minister Sogoro Takahira underwent an appendectomy at a New York hotel after developing severe abdominal pain. Attaches of the Japanese Legation and staff in Washington were summoned as doctors reported the operation and condition as potentially serious but improving, with further bulletins promised every three hours.
The note from Secretary Hay urges resuming The Hague conference to consider unsettled questions and endorses a general system of arbitration treaties and a permanent peace congress meeting periodically. It marks a push toward international arbitration and periodic deliberation on peace. The report also notes Japanese and Interparliamentary Union discussions and medical updates on a Tokyo legation incident.
The pulseline reported by physicians in a Bucknell era medical bulletin shows Archbishop Elder at 102 temperature and low respiration after grip illness. He has rallied briefly since Friday but has grown weaker since ten o clock, and around midnight was reported alone. Doctors remain pessimistic about recovery.
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