The Hartford Herald

FINE PROSPECTS.
FOR DEMOCRATS

In the Coming
November
Election.

THE NAME OF J. N. CAMDEN
Adds Strength To Ticket-
Vote, Though Light, Fig-
ures Out Good.

ORGANIZATION WELL IN HAND

(By Thomas B. Cromwell.)

Lexington, Ky., Aug. 22.-The total
vote cast by Democrats, Republicans
and Progressives at the August
primary election, as shown by the
official count canvassed and published
by the State Board of Election
Commissioners at Frankfort last Saturday,
was 225,908, which was 211,954
less than the total vote cast by the
three parties at the Presidential
election in 1912, and 196,299 less
than the combined vote of the Democrats
and Republicans at the gubernatorial
election in 1911, when Governor
James B. McCreary defeated Judge
Edward C. O'Rear, Republican nominee,
by 31,335.

At the August primary the vote was
divided 168,805 Democratic, 53,135
Republican and 3,968 Progressive.
The stay-at-homes, taking the Presidential
election of 1912 as the basis for
calculation, were 40,779 Democrats,
62,377 Republicans and 98,798 Progressives.
Thus it is shown that 96 per cent
of the Progressives of 1912 failed to
go to the polls; that nearly 56 per cent
of the Republicans did not vote and
that only 19 per cent of the Democrats
failed to participate in the primary.

This augurs well for Democratic
success in November and it seems to
sustain in a quite forcible manner the
general claim of the Democratic leaders
that former Governor J. C. W. Beckham
is in no danger of defeat for United
States Senator at the hands of either
former Governor Augustus Everett
Willson or Burton Vance.

There will be some Democrats who
went into the primary and voted for
Governor McCreary or Congressman
A. O. Stanley who will not vote for
Beckham, but these are comparatively
few and probably will be fully equalized
by Republicans who voted for Colonel
Richard P. Ernst and will not support
Willson.

In 1912 the Democratic vote for President
was 219,584, while the combined
Republican and Progressive vote was
218,278. It was shown quite clearly
that 15 per cent of the 102,766 Progressive
votes had previously been allied
with the Democratic party; so, if the
Progressive party in Kentucky is disintegrating
and a very appreciable percentage
of it will vote for a candidate for the
United States Senate other than Mr.
Vance, it is logical that the Democratic
party will get back the same ratio of
the drifting Moose men. It is also logical
to suppose that Willson will get no
more of the Socialist, Prohibition and
Social-Labor party vote than will Beckham.

The Democratic ticket is materially
strengthened by the presence thereon
of the name of Senator Johnson N.
Camden, who for the short term senatorial
nomination received 73,856 votes,
the highest number cast for any candidate
at the August primary. It is further
strengthened by the personal organizations
which have been created by the
Democratic nominees for Representative
in the first nine congressional districts
and by the organization that is to be
made by and for Nat B. Sewell, the
Democratic nominee in the Eleventh
Congressional District.