Hammond Times, Volume 3, Number 111, Hammond, Lake County, 27 October 1908 — Page 4
THE TRIES.
Tuesday October 27, 1908.
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members of the legislature which will
be called upon next January to elect a
United States senator from this state.
OLD SINNER FLOORED BRYAN
For President WILLIAM H. TAFT
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He la as stroma 'as be la aentl. HIa repntatlen la aim ply spotless. Id all the agitation of a heated campaign for the greatest office la the world, no one baa ventured to Intimate a doubt of the absolute honesty of this man who baa been before the country for a uuarter of a century. Nor caa aay one successfully dispute the simple proposition that la the whole history of the Unite Stnteo no one waa ever named for the presidency who was so fitted by nature, by tralnlnc aad by experience for the duties, dlsTutttea and responsibilities of that unique office CHARLES HOPKINS. In "The Independent."
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IMPRESSIVE WARNING TO THE GOLD DEMOCRATS. From a Speech by Mr. Bryan at Knoxville, Tenn., Oct. 5, 1896. If there is any one who believes that the gold standard is a good thing or that it must be maintained, I warn him not to cast his vote for me, because I promise him that it will not be maintained in this country longer than I am able to get rid of it. From a Speech by Mr. Bryan in London, Eng., July 12, 1906. I notice that I am now described by some as a conservative. I AM MORE RADICAL THAN I WAS IN 1896 AND HAVE NOTHING TO WITHDRAW ON ECONOMIC QUESTIONS WHICH HAVE BEEN UNDER DISCUSSION.
A FEW DATS AGO in central In
diana, Mr. Bryan declared at the top
of his magnificent voice that inasmuch
as the banker forced the borrowing
farmer to give security, it was only
right in turn that the banker give
security to the depositor.
Then the crowd cheered, but one
old sinner shouted out:
"mere is no law to compel one
farmer to go security for another at
the bank, Mr. Bryan, and It's not right
to pass a law compelling one banker
to go security for another."
And then the crowd laughed.
This was one of the few times on
record when a man in an audience got the platform. As Manlove thinks there unions, is employed by the trusts and
the better of Mr. Bryan, but the point are no other newspapers worthy of corporations and anybody with a thim-
blefull of brains ought to be able to
see that if we destroy the employers
of labor we also ruin their workmen.
The man who set fire to his barn to
get rid of the rats was a statesman
of high degree compared to the fool
politicians who are running over the
country demanding the destruction ofj trusts indiscriminately. Indianapolis
Independent.
For V-Prcsidont JAMES S. SHERMAN
"We certify to all the areat electorate that when their otes la November shall have chosen James S. Sherman to bo vice president of the United States, the aenate will be aure of a presiding officer la character and competency worthy of the best traditions of that ST est deliberate body, and that which God forbidthe sad coatlaiency were to eaaae which' should for a fourth time call a vie president from Now York to the executive office, the Interests of the whole country would be aafe la Brood hands, and the grreat office of the presidency would suffer no decadence from the blah standard of dlsnlty and honor aad competency of which we are ao lastly prud.wEUHU ROOT, at Sherman Notification Ceremonies.
Republicans And Democrats Who Seek Seats In Congress From Ind.
The following are the nominees of the two parties for Congress from the thirteen districts of Iniana:
Democrats
First J. W. Boehne, Evansville.
Second W. A. Cullop, Vincennes. Third W. E. Cox, Jasper.
Fourth Lincoln Dixon. North Vernon
Fifth Ralph Moss, Brazil. Sixth Thomas Kuhn, Richmond. Seventh C. A. M. Adair, Portland.
Eelghth W. E. Harkins, Portland.
Ninth M. A. Morrison, Frankfort. Tenth William Darroch, Kentland.
Eleventh G. W. Rauch, Marion.
Twelfth Cyrus Cline, Angola.
Thirteenth H. Barnhart, Rochestet.
PRESIDENTIAL
Republicans First J. H. Foster, Evansville. Second J. C. Chaney, Sullivan. Third J. W. Salem. Fourth J. A. Cox, North Vernon. Fifth Howard Maxwell, Rockville. -Sixth W. O. Barnard, Newcastle. Seventh J. Overstreet, Indianapolis. Eighth N. B. Hawkins, Portland. Ninth C. B. Landia, Delphi. Tenth E. D. Crumpacker, Valparaiso. Eleventh C. H. Good, Huntington. Twelfth C. C. Gilhams, LaGrange. Thirteenth C. W. Miller, Goshen.
ELECTORS.
Democratic and Republican presidential electors from Indiana are as follows: Electors-at-Large. Democratic " Republican
Adam Helmberger, New Albany. W. T. Durbin, Anderson. John W. Spencer, Evansville. Fred C. Gardner, Indianapolis.
Electors by Districts.
he scored was sound and Mr. Bryan recognition, why should he be courte-
had no answer. He was trying to 0us to anyone else? make them believe that a compulsory d 4 law was not only right, but was valid. THE DISPATCHES TELL us that
It would be as unjust to make one Mr. Bryan enters upon the last week
banker stand surety for another, cf campaign by providing himself
against his will, as it would be to force with a fashionable black alpine hat to one farmer by law to go on the note take the place of his somewhat worn of his neighbor. There is a glamour and battered gray one. Thank goodabout some of Mr. Bryan's ideas, that neg3 Mr. Bryan isn't so stylish that he
superficially appeal to some people would wear a green one.
who do not know how tricky he Is, but
when you study Mr. Bryan, your senses a WEEK FROM TOMORROW some
come back to you. of us will be wearing hats we don't
John Sharp Williams, leader of the iike, smoking cigars we loathe, say-
southern democracy, denounced Mr. ing things our wives would hate to Bryan's bank deposit guaranty plan as hear, feeling in our pockets for money,
a demogogic proposal to pass an un-no longer there, and doing other fool
constitutional law. nost-election stunts.
Study Mr. Bryan's plan for yourself, I
Mr. Voter, and don't be deceived. no LESS A PERSON now than that
MR. BRYAN HAS REACHED THE wail stage. "I charge," he says, "that
the republican party is preparing now to purchase this election.
We have always said that Mr. Bryan has a mightly poor estimate of Don't take the word of any orator on esteemed political pill juggler, Walter
the people of the United States. If there is a single feature of the cam- eltner side, btuoy it lor yoursen care- Wellmam Intimates that the republicpaign that makes men of sense disgusted, it is this puerile charge of Bryan's fully! Go lnt. 11 deeply and figure ns will carry Indiana. After next
it uul. iear it iu pimea xa juu uju Tuesaay tMs eminent aope artist, win
Mr. Bryan's free silver scheme and if come out and sav that he knew there
wnat jur. uryan always says just oeiore an eiecuon, wnose there is anything left of the pieces wag no hope for democratic success.
why, vote for Mr. Bryan. d d
that the republicans are preparing to "buy the election
This is
result he foresees. In 1896 he said it just antecedent to his defeat by a plurality of 600,000; in 1900 he said it just antecedent to his defeat by a plurality of 1,000,000; in 1904 he said it just antecedent to Judge
Parker's defeat by a plurality of 2,500,000. Mr. Bryan can never see but one explanation of why the voters reject him and that Is that they are bought. So when he sniffs disaster, he of course knows that corruptionists
are at work. The reasoning is most simple and Bryanitic
Among some republicans there has been an undercurrent of doubt aa to the result of the election. The shouting again of the usual reckless Bryan
accusation revives their confidence,
We are safe in leaving it to you. NO THE BREWERY TRUST is not We know you will go slow before doing anything for the democrats in
you jeopardize tne security oi tne campaign! The republicans are, of
banking business. course, navine for those lvine eieht
. sheets plastered over Lake county
SOME DEMUR WITH HEAT, about prohibition, which Governor
Hoch, of Kansas, denounced as lies.
MEMBERS OF THE Labor and
They are aware that no conspiracy is Trades council, of Hammond, deny
afoot that the reliance of the republican party is not on vote buying, and, tv at the circular which is being wide-
discovering Mr. Bryan alarmed, they not unnaturally assume that he realizes ly distributed, relative to the endorsethings are not going well with his campaign that he recognizes in advance ment of the democratic candidate for
what is likely to happen to him. The customary yelp from Mr. Bryan a judge of the superior court, was ever yelp that is a confession of weakness will doubtless strengthen the already voted upon by that body. That is,
heavy odds in Mr. Taf t's favor. J however, a question for the members
Why does Bryan insult the members of the democratic party by say-1 of that organization to settle among
ing that they are getting ready to sell out? Why does he always wind up J themselves. It is an established fact,
by whimpering as if he was already whipped, and saying that the election is however, that the republican candi-
going to be bought? date, Judge Reiter has very many
Who is going to buy it? We have heard for the past twelve years this warm friends in the Trades' and La-
old chestnutty cry and we would like to know where it is going to be bought, bor council, who resent the action of
It is notorious today that the republican national, state and county com-1 any public endorsement. No one
mittees have not had half the funds for legitimate expenses. The state com- wishes to deny that Judge McMahon
mittee is heavily in debt and so is the county committee
In ridiculing the pitiful cry of Mr. Bryan that the democrats are pre- certainly would be a foolish man who
SO FAR THESE are the four best
bets: Taft, Fearless Leader. Bryan, Peerless Leader. Chafin Beerles3 Leader. ; Debs, Keerless Leader.
Republican First David Ingle, Oakland City. Second David E. Beem, Spencer. Third J. V. Stimson, Huntingburg. Fourth T. C. Crethe, Versailles. Fifth B. F. Corwln, Greencastle. Sixth E. P. Thayer, Greenfield. Seventh C. S. Denny, Indianapolis. Eighth J. M. Frisinger, Decatur. Ninth Daniel Fraser, Fowler. Eleventh Milton Kraus, Peru. Twelfth F. D. Merrltt, LaGrange. Thirteenth E. V. Smith, Warsaw
HAPPY IS THE GIRL WHO HAS A
MOTHER AVHO WILL GIGGLE WITH HER IN HER LITTLE GIRLISH SE
CRETS.
A Dig at the Bronx.
Put down eixty-two fine strawberry
plants the other day, thanks to Subscriber Duke Hober. Bronx Republi
can.
A humble Lover often makes A very domineering; husband.
The democratic brethren can't get over the fact that Mr. Taft's speeches in Indiana were not cancelled after all
and 200,000 people heard him.
LIFE WONT BE VERY MUCH FOR SOME SOCIETY WOMEN UNLESS
THEY CAN SING INTO A PHONO
GRAPH RECORD, WHICH CAN BE
TURNED ON WHEN THEY GET
READY TO GO TO A PARTY AND
BABY CRIES.
Districts. First Eugene F. Ely, Petersburg. Second Frank Wampler, Gosport. Third Elijah A. Gladden, Scottsburg. Fourth R. A. Creigmlle, Osgood.. Fifth E. Henderson, Martinsville. Sixth David W. Andre, Connersville. Seventh T. I Sullivan, Jndianapolis. Eighth W. E. Harkins, Portland.
T enth J Kopelke. Crown Point.
Eleventh W. J. Houck, Marion. Twelfth Dan. M. Link, Auburn. Thirteenth D. McDonald, Plymouth.
HOLD-OVER SENATORS. Democratic Allen W. F. Ranks. Fort Wayne. Blackford, Grant and Wells B. W. Shafer, Jonesboro. Cass and Pulaski Frank W, Kistler. Logansport. Crawford, Dubois and Perry John Benz, Jr., Leavenworth. Dearborn, Franklin and Ohio E. L. Patterson. Brockville. Floyd and Harrison Evan B. Stotsenburg, New Albany. Knox and Sullivan M. M. McDowell, Vincennes. St. Joseph E. Volney Bingham, Mishawaka. Republican. Bartholomew and Decatur W. E. Springer, Columbus. Daviess and Pike Esra Mattingly, Washington. Gibson and Posey William Gonnermann, Mount Vernon Grant John T. Strange, Marion. Greene, Monroe and Owen Oscar E. Bland, Linton. Henry and Madison George D. Forkner, Newcastle. Howard and Miami E. P. Kling, Peru. Huntington and Whitley John W. Orndorf, Churubusco. Jay and Randolph Nathan B. Hawkins, Portland. Jefferson, Ripley and Switzerland Donald McCallum, Batesville. Lake and Porter Arthur J. Bowser, Chesterton. Lawrence, Martin and Orange Henry B. Pearson, "Bedford. Marlon Linton A. Cox, Indianapolis. Montgomery and Parke George E. Hanna, Wavelawd. Spencer, Vanderburg and Warrick Clamor Pelzer, Boonville. Union and Wayne Roscoe E. Kirkman, Richmond.
retary of the interior in the event that Mr. Taft is elected to the presidency.
A Hammond man has a boy at college whom he is rather proud of. The other day he got a letter front the lad saying that be would have made the
scrub 'team If he hadn't been, deficient in his studies.
paring to sell out, the Fort Wayne News says very pointedly: "It is possible, aye more than probable, that money will be used here on election day for base and sordid purposes, but it will not be republican money. It has been observed that the liquor trust of Indiana has as yet made no public contribution to the democratic cause and it is a matter of common report that it intends to reserve its money for 'the time when it will do the most good.' No one doubts that this special interest, which feels that it has so much at stake, has raised an immense fund with which to back the democratic ticket and everyone has a tolerably good idea that this fund will be employed on election day; employed to prostitute and debase the franchise of this state in a manner which will live in monumental shame for generations. "This is no idle talk.. It is the common gossip where men meet. The practiced politicians of the parties discuss it coolly when they come together and its probable success or failure as a means of carry the state is argued out. It is notorious the country over that the work this fund is to do is the element that makes the Issue in Indiana doubtful in the minds of many. There is nothing vague or indefinite concerning the liquor fund. It is already being doled out to the vicious and ignorant, and we have eminent authority for the statement that 'on election day the people of Fort Wayne will see things they never even dreamed of before.'"
"Buying the election, indeed!" Good people of Lake county, by whom do suppose the purchasing of the election will be done in Hammond, Whiting,, East Chicago, Gary and Crown Point, where the brewery interests are in this county? SENATOR HEMENWAY APPROVED FOR RE-ELECTION. FOLLOWING IS THE PLANK IN THE republican state platform concerning the United States senators from Indiana: "We have pride in the fact that no state in the Union Is more ably represented in the senate of the United States than Indiana. We compliment the people upon the return of Albert J. Beveridge to the United States senate through the act of the republican legislature of 1905, following the election of 1904; also upon the election of James A. Hemenway to fill out the term in the senate of Charles W. Fairbanks, who resigned to become the vice president of the United States. The long and faithful service of Mr. Beveridge and Mr. Hemenway in the congress has fully justified the high confidence which has been placed in them by the state.
We approve, unqualifiedly, the course of each of these eminent citizens of Indiana. We earnestly advocate the continuation of them in the public service in which they are now engaged. And, inasmuch as the legislature which will choose a successor to Senator Hemenway will- be elected this year, we commend him to the general assembly of 1909 as the choice of the republicans of Indiana, and we hereby heartily endorse him for reelection." When the people of Indiana go to the polls this fall and vote for members of the legislature, they will know that if they cast their ballots for the republican candidates, they are voting for the return of James A. Hemenway to the United States senate. He has been endorsed for re-election by the republican party of Indiana, the endorsement being the congre- , gate expression of individual republicans speaking through their representative conventions. Does any one know who will be the senator if the democrats succeed in carrying the legislature? When a man votes the democratic legislative ticket he is voting in the dark. The absurdity of the democratic cry in Indiana for the election of senators by popular vote must appeal to every thoughtful man. The democratic party of Indiana has had plenty of opportunity to indicate a preference for United States senator.
THIS DATE IN HISTORY. October 27. 1492 Columbus discovered Cuba and made a landing on the following day. 1682 The "Welcome" with William Penn and 100 other colonists on board reached New Castle. 1775 The British cannonaded Hampton, Va., but were repulsed.
has been a kind friend of labor, but he 1S22 William Lowndes, a distinguished
statesman of South Carolina, died. 1853 Mrs. James Russell Lowell died. 1858 President Theodore Roosevelt born in New York City. 1S64 Battle of Fair Oaks continued.
1S74 Episcopal conference in session In New York adopted a resolution opposing ritualism in the church
service.
1897 Death of Princess Mary of Cam
bridge, duchess of Teck.
1901 The ship "Perseverance," with
fourteen men, lost in the Arctic
region.
would say that in Judge Reiter labor had not just as kind a friend. He certainly would be just as foolish a man who would say that Judge Reiter will not get the votes of many union men. In fact, the number of them who have openly espoused his cause and are working hard for his election, are proof positive of that fact.
Endorsement or no endorsement, Judge Reiter will be found to have many enthusiastic laboring men working for his election next Tuesday. DON'T BE MISLEAD!
THIS IS Ml' 74TH BIRTHDAY. Thomas Dolan.
Thomas Dolan of Philadelphia, who ranks with the great men at the head of the industrial enterprises in the
United States, was born In Montgom
erv conntv Pennsylvania. October 27.
BE SURE, MR. WORKINGMAN,
that you understand the injunction is- schools. As a young man he cast his
sure before you condemn those who I fortunes, in a humble way, with a com
. .. ,T- i , mission house in Philadelphia, the
J 1 I principal trade of which had to do with
open to cnanenge irom ivir. uompers fancy knit goods. In 1861 Mr. Dolan
and his friends, if he did not say in 1 embarked in the manufacture of this
an issue of the American Federationist,
the official organ of the American Federation of Labor: "The writ of injunction is in itself a beneficent writ for the protection of property rights." It is a guaranty of rights that stands
Kind on his own account ana started a
modest little factory on the site where
now stands one of the largest knitting mills in the world and of which he is the president and owner. He introduced the latest machinery and was the pioneer in the development of American
supremacy in textile manufactures and
for all citizens, the employer and the in . replacing imported goods with
employee. Be sure you are right, Mr. Workingman and then go ahead. COOLER WEATHER WELCOME.
THE PROMISE OF cooler weather is welcome and refreshing. Even the charms attached to Indian summer becoming somewhat enervating and unseasonable when the thermometer approaches the eighties at this season of
the year. With the fall in temperature.
it is to be hoped that there will come abundant rains, which are very much needed to lay the dust and clear the atmosphere. The glories that ordinarily belong to autumn are rapidly vanishing by reason of the persistent
drought. The farmer is tiring of politics and dust. Let us hope he gets his rain, he will soon be relieved from the other. THE GARY DAILY NEWS last night scores George Manlove, president of the Gary Republican club, for his incompetency and discourtesy to the out-of-town press. We believe the esteemed News is just a little bit hard-on Manlove. Homer J. Carr was made a vice president and entitled to sit on
American products. In addition to the great textile firm of which he is the head Mr. Dolan is heavily interested in shipbuilding companies, street railways and many other large commercial and
manufacturing concerns. He Is one of
the leading spirits In the American
Manufacturers' association and for
number of years served as president of
the National Board of Trade.
One of the most remarkable features
of the present campaign in New York has been the re-entry of the Hon. John BIgelow into active politics In behall of the Bryan and Kern ticket. Mr.
Bigelow, who was a noted lawyer and author in his day and for some years was United States minister to France, is now in his ninety-first year.
Some girls kiss each other as If they fondly hoped the other would get microbes from her lips.
The night riders are evidently try
ing to carry Tennessee.,
Nationality Is a prominent factor in
the present gubernatorial contest In Minnesota. For the first time there is
a straight contest between representatives of the two great Scandinavian nationalities. Governor John A. Johnson
Is of Swedish parentage, while J. F. i Jacobson, his republican opponent, is I a native of Norway.
The deeper a woman's heart the easier It Is for a man to understand It; the shallower t he more Inexplicable.
Crawfordsvllle William M. White,
chairman of the republican county central committee, and J. Harvey Canine, chairman of the democratic county cen
tral committee, have signed a pure
Only one of the ten octopl imported election agreement which makes it cer-
for the New York acquarium has sur
vived. They ought to call it Standard
Oil.
These are the days that put crowsfeet la the weary faces ot the wires of political candidates.
tain that Crawfordsvllle and Mont
gomery county will have a clean elec
rtion November 3, if the members of
the parties live up to the agreement of their chairmen. The candidates, precinct committeemen and fifteen leading republicans and democrats have all signed up the agreement.
city, and both were astir early today
to begin a week of work which will tax their endurance to the utmost. Mr. Bryan's schedule for the day provided for speeches in half a dozen towns, and a long formal address at the big mass
meeting in Madison Square Garden this evening.
It is expected that the scratching of ballots will result in the disfranchisement of hundreds of voters in Lake county this year. Even a fairly educated person has a hard time trying to spilt his ticket. An East Chicago foreigner, who lives in Oklahoma, said that at the last election there, in which se served as an official, there were thirty-five out of every hundred votes spoiled by attempts to scratch. This percent is smaller in other precincts.
Mere Man on His Holiday.
They talk about the mean men, but
a man wno accompanied nis wire on a shopping tour, and took care of their three children, put the baby down only long enough all day to have a tooth
pulled. Atchison Globe.
IN POLITICS
Chicago, Oct. 26. National Chairman
Frank Hitchcock, who came out to the Chicago republican national headquarters Saturday, put the finishing
personal contact touches, so far as he is concerned, on the Indiana situation, and has gone' back to New York. Before going he claimed 314 out of the
48S votes of the electoral college for
Taft, declaring every state outside of the solid south was for Taft. and plac
ing Kentucky, Missouri, Oklahoma and Nevada in the doubtful column.
A number of Lake county republicans have remarked of late, that if the breweries and the brewery saloons become too bold on election day and if the result of the brewery saloonkeeper's attempt to control votes is carried too far, they will take advantage of the local option measure which the democrats themselves are advocating and work night and day with the
drys to put the brewery saloons out of business. They say the saloons in Lake county have not been ill treated at the hands of the republican party.
but if they are going to work as a unit against the party there are enough
good republicans to make things interesting for them.
County Chairman Schaaf, who is busy
putting on the finishing touches for
the campaign, says that Lake county
is to have several more speeches before the campaign is ended and will an
nounce them today.
RANDOM THINGS AND FLINGS
Mr. Bryan has a pretty cheap opinion of his countrymen. He's singing his swan song accusing his constituents of being bought.
Why Is It that the boys of the present generation don't know
what It Is to have i fashioned mother f
old-
There is a lot of rot talked on both sides about "destroying the trusts."
The News, for Instance, is suffering much in its little bowels, because President Roosevelt has not wiped the steel trust from the face of the earth. Practically all of organized labor and
The republicans in East Chicago had
a meeting in the Polish district In
Kroupa's hall, last evening, which was a great success. There were about 400 Slavish people there and they were ad
dressed by M. Berger. the president of the National Slavish Union. It was a noticeable fact that all of the Poles
present cheered the speaker to the echo
and they all went away wearing Taft
buttons.
The report has reached the republi
can ranks that every saloonkeeper in
Lake county is pledged to bring out ten votes. While the saloons are to be
closed, according to the law, it is un
derstood that each saloonkeeper is to be provided with a buggy and a load
of wet goods and will start out on his
ten men. It is believed that there will be more beer and whisky given away
on next election day than was ever dis
pensed in half a dozen other elections.
Cincinnati, Oct. 26. The Enquirer
yesterday published a forecast of the presidential election result. The pa
per says:
"Without making any positive predic
tion and basing these conclusions on
the reports of correspondents connected with them and two great western papers with which they have collaborated,
the New York Herald and the En
quirer, -show that William H. Taft is
reasonably sure of 280 votes in the
electoral college, thirty-eight more than
he needs for election. The reports of
trusted correspondents, on which this
estimate is based, have been carefully
checked by other reports from inde
pendent sources.
"William J. Bryan is quite certain to receive 156 electoral votes, 21 votes are
doubtful, with a democratic tendency,
while 26 are doubtful and more than
likely to go to the republicans. If Mr.
Bryan sKould succeed in carrying all the doubtful states he would have 203 electoral votes 77 less than his repub
lican competitor."
John R. Elgin, the republican candidate for congress in the Seventeenth Texas district, has withdrawn from the race, leaving Congressman James L. Slayden, democrat, unopposed.
The brewery posters which have been stuck up around Lake county have not made the hit expected of them.
Voters in general seem to know whence they came and who they are supposed to help, and many of them will draw
their own inferences.
It is expected that an unusually large number of government employes in Washington will return to their homes to vote next week, as the reduced rates are the best that have been given by the railroads In several years.
It Is reported that Senator Chester L Long of Kansas, who has been de-
much labor that does not belong ta ' feated for re-election, may become sec-
New York, Oct. 26. With election day little more than a week away, the leaders of all the political parties today started out in the. final effort of what is expected to be a sensational finish of the national political campaign. New York is the real battle ground, in the opinion of the campaign managers, and here today were gathered practically all the heavy artillery of all the parties. William H. Taft and William J. Bryan, who came in from stumping tours yesterday, spent the night in this
Edward Hood, who is known by cigar
dealers the length and breadth of the states of Ohio and Indiana and who
represents the house which makes the El Verso and San Felice cigars, was in
Hammond yesterday.
He has just made a tour of prac
tically the entire state of Indiana and has visited scores of saloonkeepers and
cigar men In the course of his travels, consequently his opinion is of consid
erable weight. "Six weeks ago," said Mr. Hood, "if
you had asked me who would be the
next governor of Indiana I would have told you Tom Marshall. Everybody was shouting for Marshall and it looked blue for Jim Watson. "When Watson started on his speechmaking trip everywhere he went he spoke to enormous crowds. Wherever he spoke he made scores of conversions. To hear Jim Watson is to believe in him and the republican candidate has. by the force of his own personality, changed the political views of thousands of people. "On the contrary, wherever Mr. Marshall has gone he has been a disappointment. He has been coldly received by the more conservative democrats, who could not tolerate, even from a democrat, the anarchistic suggestions and the socialtislic doctrines that were advanced by Mr. Marshall. "As to the republicans who may have had a leaning towards Mr. Marshall, they will have none of him. They were disgusted. As a result, the election in the state, with the exception of the brewery activity, is to finally be along the old party lines and I am certain as I could be of anything that James E. Watson will be the next governor." Mr. Hood said that he--explained some of the drummers' pro-Marshall talk by
the fact that Tom Taggart had sent out a score or more pseudo-traveling men, who were hired to state that they had been up and down the state and that everything looked like Marshall. As to William H. Taft, Mr. Hood said that he was as good as elected and he will get the vote in both Indiana and Ohio.
William McAdoo, former poiice commissioner in New York City, is the democratic nominee for congress in th seventeenth district of New York.