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Ing to be the Progressive candidate against Hughes and trying to turn his Progressive following over to the Republican candidate, but they' do question his judgment, and their doubts have been ambly justified by Hughes' refusal to take over the Roosevelt issues of Americanism, anti-hyphenism and preparedness. Roosevelt early saw this attempt at "pussy-footing" and lost no occa sion to say himself what Candidate Hughes was evidently unwilling to say. Roosevelt's constant repetition of his Belgian, Lusitania and other anti--German speeches have made the Hughes managers wonder whether, after all, Roosevelt is an as set or a liability. No doubt he is the latW. He has offended the German American vote, causing them to dis trustHughes, and he has driven the peace vote nearer to Wilson by his continuous emphasis on the possible consequences of a change of admin istration at the present time. The result of the election will be the. effect of a public sentiment which has been four years in form ing. It will not be the results of the campaign since June. The Demo cratic campaign has been fairly well managed, while the Republican cam paign will stand in political history as an example of stupidity long to 'be remembered. The principal mistakes made by Hughes' managers were: Turning the real management of campaign pver to such conspicuous worthies" of the "old guard" as Prank Hitchcock, Boies Penrose, Joe Kealing, Jim Heminway, Winthrop Murray Crane, Reed Smoot and William Crocker; deliberately insulting progresisve leader in the west, like Hiram John son, Miles Poindexter and Robert M. j t oilette, dropping the Roosevelt issues and taking up insignificant, non-important matters such as the dismissal of Durand from the census office; and, finally, the general un-' progressive "pussy-footing" cam-paiga-made- by Hughes with' the evi--! dent intention to alienate no hyphen ated vote. Add to these, Hughes' criticism of the 8-hour day, with its further alien ation of the labor vote, it would seem as if the Hughes managers had been intent only on mixing their , own po litical poison. o o- GERMANS EVACUATE STRONG FORT NEAR VERDUN Berlin, via Wireless to Sayville. Fort Vaux, on northeast front of Ver dun, has been evacuated by German troops. Petrograd. Field Marshal Mack ensen has halted his advance in Dob rudja, apparently because of short age of men to protect long line along river Danube. Berlin, via Wireless to Sayville. Enemy warships have shelled Ruma nian Black sea port of Constanza, re cently .captured by Germans and. Bul garians, without success. PLENTY COAL,tPRODUCER SAYS BUT LOOK AT PRICES New York, Nov. 2. Charges that some dealers middlemen were squeezing out high coal prices in ad vance of an actual coal famine came today from city retailers. Pres. Truesdale of the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western declared producers had advanced their prices only 25 cents a ton on average and that there is no coal famine. Retail prioes, however, have soared much higher. o o VILLA MAY FORCE CARRAN2A FORCES FROM CHIHUAHUA El Paso, Tex., Nov. 2. By isolat ing Chihuahua City from all food supplies, munitions and troop rein forcements, Villa plans to force an evacuation of the city by Carranzis tas, military men here believe today. Unless tie break in railway lines is repaired within a very short time, it is generally conceded Gen. Trevino will be pushed to the exeremity of leav ing the capital.