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•ff?Vr?TVTTTTTTTTTTTvT | 16 Pages | ; SECTION ONE J l Pages 1-8. 1 Volume LVI. No. 27. Leads all North Carolina Bailies in Mews and Circulation FORTY YEARS IN THE WILDERNESS Controlled by the Golden Calf's Priests. PLIGHT OF DEMOCRACY One Tenth the People Hold the Money and Power &nd Rule and Rob the Great Remainder by Meth ods Their Creatures Legalize. By COL. S. A. JONES. To the Editor:—Permit me to sub mit u few thoughts I believe will be applicable to the political situation in the .coming national election. Thoughts which the conservative people of this country should seri ously think on and investigate before casting their votes to maintain the Republican party in power. It claims to be a party of protection, but has fallen far short of the most essential protection necessary for the main tenance of ihe purposes of this gov ernment. First of all we need pro tection to our children and the great toiling masses of this country, in restriction of emigration. Allow no further entries by people in this country 4 who exnect to enter other than as visitors, without a pledge of permanent citizenship, and a clean record behind them, and sufficient of tiiis world’s goods to begin life on. even though in a small and humble way. Emigrants are coming here at the rate of more than half a mil lion a year, that constitutes the offal and slums of the earth and who will work for lower wages than Ameri cans can possibly live on, and who will live on what an ordinary well raised American pig wouid refuse to eat. It is these characters that come here to hoard wages to carry them back to the countries from which they come; have do interest whatever in the success or failure or our coun try as a nation. This is' the most destructive element to honest Ameri can labor, with which we have to con tend. The public lands are all about absurbed. There are few more res ervations of wh’ich the Indians are to be robbed, which will end the free homestead entry. The benefit of cheap homes should be for permanent American citizen ship, and not for those who want to utilize them temporarily to get an accumulation and return to their na tive lands. And the next most cer tain protection that will insure peace between labor and capital in mv humble opinion is to tax the full capital stock, both common and pre ferred, and all the bonds issued of every corporation in existence in this country, and every foreign corpora tion with a privilege tax that is doing business in this country. Then labor will get its just reward. Labor on some of the most important railroad lines in this country to-day, is re quired to earn dividends on common and preferred stock and on heavy bond issues, on lines that have re ceived large land grants from the government and have sold these lands in some instances for nearly double the cost of the construction of the road. Done under a system of legis lation that Republicanism calls eco nomical ami industrial development, when these roads could and should have been built by issuing short time government bonds and put in opera tion under government supervision and the lands sold, and the bonds cancelled, -"d the government owned the roads for the benefit of the nation. And until this nation does own the great artery lines of railroads,, labor will have to continue to earn profits or dividends on three lines of securi ties, that represent them, sufficient to satisfy those who gamble on the stocks and bonds. A tariff that cre ates no income at the custom house .ml prevents competition by small operators is both vicious, undemo < ratio and destructive to general in dustrial development. The discriminating railroad rates on coal and oil and pig iron and iron ore and manufacturing steel, have brought about the conditions with a tariff that yields no income at the custom house, that has enabled our great home monopolies and manufac turers to collect $24.00 per ton on railroad iron at home, and in that proportion on all machinery and im plements whose principal construction is iron and steel, and sell the same Iron and these products abroad at SIB.OO per ton, which is undemocratic and seriously detrimental to general industrial development; and especially detrimental to the great agricultural interests that use more implements constructed from iron and steel, than all the rest of the wmrld. It is con tended and pretty generally conceded that the large monopolistic manufac turing companies, the transportation companies, the coal and iron mining companies and the standard oil com pa”** and the national banks, repre sent in their capitalization about 7-10 of what is reckoned the aggregate wealth of the entire United States. Yet this aggregate wealth does not yield over 1-10 of the taxes for the support of the general government, both state and national. The other 3-10 that represent the land, the mer cantile. the agricultural, the general mining interest and homes of the peo ple is owned by 9-10 of the citizen ship of America, while the great monopoly manufacturing and trans portation, mining and banking inter ests are owned by less than 1-10 of the citizenship of America, and so managed and manipulated that they pay only about 1-10 of the taxes for the support of the gerferal govern ment. both state and national, and under Republican rule are dictating The News and Observer. national legislation, and are reaching out seeking to control State legisla tion, and are growing bolder every year. In the great coal strike. .Mr. Roosevelt claims to have settled, those on the inside know’ that the 1-10 came near getting into war among them selves, as the same character of capi tal owned certain proportions of the m nes and roads that were involved, and when they settled the question of competition over which the contention arose among themselves, the strike cosed. The Standard Oil Company was never able to control the price of oil so it could freeze out the small competitors, until it was able to con trol the transportation lines. So there is but one way to check these growing evils 'that are under a Re publican administration creating these powerful combines and trusts. The Northern Securities case only put them on guard to use a different plan to acomplish the same thing, and they are already boasting that they have done it. A battle lost in a great war. is often the guideboard to a greater and linal victory. So unless the great toiling agricultural masses rise up and say that these industries that create fortunes for single individuals, because of special and favored legisla tion in less than forty years, greater than the entire available cash in this entire nation forty years ago. shall he taxed on their bonds and stocks, and their entire property holdings, just in proportion to their value, as every acre of land and every house and every piece of furniture: all jewelry and vehicles, and every interest draw ing note and all cash in bank, held by the individual in this country out side of the cities. soon the great masses of tillers of the soil will find themselves held, though they repre sent 9-10 of the population of this na tion. by this 1-10. that has principally congregated in the cities —just where England has held Ireland all these years. Far cheaper and safer would it be for the future of this country for the 80 out of the 90 million peo ple to begin now to tax themselves to get control of the great railroad arteries, than wait even 10 years longer, under Republican rule and Republican notions, that a tariff that yields no revenue at the custom house and that has put a flowing wealth in forty years in the hands of less than 1-10 of the population of this nation, equal in value as they interpret it. to 7-10 of the entire staple, unmov able values of this country, (on which the resources‘of the 9-10 is taxed to yield dividends to make richer the 3-10 of the population), and the 1-10 claims for this reason the right, be cause 'this wealth has been put in their hands by radical legislation, that they should absolutely rule, while paying, if national statistics are true (and | they have been supplied for about 4<» years by the Republican party) less than 1-10 for the support of this na tion. and yet claiming to own 7-10 of its value. This is the great evil that is so widespread, and so enormous in its volume and magnitude that it is hard for an ordinary business mind to solve. The Grangers have tried to solve it, the Farmers’ Alliance tried to solve it, the Populists have trieci to solve it. and all have failed, and it is to Democracy alone that the nation will have to look to solve it. Not more than one man in 500 stops to j consider whither it leads, much less j to believe it: yet it was deliberately i planned and fixed in the first eight I years after the war by every act of a , Radical Congress, carrying out the old i Know-Nothing party’s oaths and ’ pledges in the name of the Republi can party, to control the future gov ernment of this country with money and keep all offices in the party, which they have practically done for forty years. Bryan truly said. “Destroy the city and the country will rebuild it. De stroy the country and the people both in the city and the country will perish.’’ Lincoln said. “Before capital was labor, and without labor there could be no capital.” and he feared to see capital placed above labor In the structure of the government, for when it was done the liberty of the was gone. The reason for the birth of Democracy, and the estab lishment of Republican Institutions is found in these two utterances, for they are the cardinal principles and very foundation stone and the two eternal truths from which Democracy has been forming laws to prevent dis criminating legislation favoring the few above the many. So when the city forgets that every drop of blood that permeates its body. from the smallest little vein to the greatest artery, comes as absolutely from the country as daylight comes from the sun. then begins a war of contention and injustice: when capitalists forget that not one penny can be had hon estly, except it be the result of the sweat of the brow of labor: then con-, tentions arise and a reign of injustice begins. The very first act of the Know-Nothing, or Republican party, when it got in power at the close of the war, was to legislate the control of the money capital into the hands of the few, and debar land as a se curity to a national bank to secure their loans. So capitalists with their money have gathered in the cities j and demanding that the tillers of the j soil who are the salt of the earth, yield up their savor for a smaller consideration than is just. Forty j years of Republican law-making has reversed the spirit of Democracy and Republican institutions, and thought: has discarded the Declaration of In dependence and trampled the Ameri can Constitution under foot. Its sys tem of legislation has destroyed the security of the farmer and the tiller j of the soil, (which prior to Radical ascendency was the soundest security ' known to the world) and made the j tiller of the soil dependent on his j citv endorser, whose wealth consists in I stocks and bonds, to get money from , the national banks, and placed the great agricultural element, which had been throughout the history of the world the most independent of all i people, in an attitude (though his , farm Was worth millions) to be com- l nelled to get an endorser to secure a j little loan from the immaculate na- ! tional bank: and thus radical legisla tion placed the city above the eoun- 1 trv and it has placed capital above labor in the structure of the govern ment. Yet we mav wine out every city in America, wipe off every rail road, shut down every coal mine and iron mine, close every oil well and every national bank and every trust , controlled factory, and still America would b° the richest and most powor- I (Continued on Page Two.) RALEIGH, NORTH CAROLINA, SUNDAY MORNING, OCTOBER 9, 1904. THE YOUNG VOTER AND DEMOCRACY Cleveland on the Choice of Parties. HIS OWN EXPERIENCE The Democratic Party Not One of Dis play But Calm, Serious. Conserva tive, Composed of Thoughtful People and Jealous of the Right of All. By GROVER CLEVELAND. The current issue of ihe Saturday Evening Post contains the following article by Grover Cleveland, entitled THE PRESIDENT’S OPINION OF LABORING’MEN. - - y-F*., ( BII.I ) TpOSE;FELLOWSTMAKE'JrtEiItA Living by hakd work-How" \ with US.-Dear Boy, I Know You Play \ Cards,Get drunk and terrify women andChil-I D^EN,AND HAVE KILLED THREE MEN, BUT YOU / -■5 ARE A BETTER FELLOW AND PLEASANTER / B ICompanion Than those poor hard-work-J^ The above cartoon speaks tiie truth. It represents President Roosevelt and his friend Bronco Bill, the co\vlK>y. President Roosevelt wrote a book, entitled Ranch Life and Hunting Trail. On pages 9 and 10 in this book lie describes the cowboy of the west. lie declares that the eowlxiy is fond of villainous whiskey, that when drunk lie cuts mad unties, that lie shoots upon a slight provocation, that lie desecrates the Sabbath day. that he is a born "ambler. that he frequently rides his broncho iulo a neighboring town dashing up and down the streets tiring off his pistol to the terror of women and children. And yet. after describing in his book this lawless and abandoned character, he uses these words concerning his friend the drunken cowboy: “They (meaning the cowl) :y) are much better fellows and pleasanter companions than small farmers or agricultural laborers: nor are the mechanics and workmen of a great city to be mentioned in the same breath.” Tills expressed preference of Mr. Roosevelt is an index of his real character. Born amidst great riches he is absolutely without sympathy for the man who toils. —This -ivat republic rests upon the shoulders of the small farmer and agricultural laborer, mechanics and workmen. These are the men who produce wealth. As a rule, they arc honest, law-abiding and patriotic. When ihe national honor is assailed they are among the first to vol unteer in its defense. They compose the majority of the p pulation of tins country. But for them Mr. Roose velt entertains supreme contempt. Yes, the drunken rough rider, the gambler and assassin of our western plains are far better fellow s and pleasanter companions; that is to say Mr. Roosevelt thinks him a far “better fellow and pleasanter companion.” Ihe drunken cowboy of the west knows but little of honest toil. For them. President Roosevelt feels nothing hut contempt. Reader, is this statement true or false? Did President Roosevelt declare that the drunken cowboy of the west was a “lietter fellow and pleasanter com nan ion than the small farmer or agricultural laborer?” This statement is denied by unscrupulous Republican politicians. If you do not believe it buy Mr. Roosevelt's book entitled “Ranch l ife and Hunting Trail”; and if you do not find in that book, probably on pages 9 and 10. the words above quoted, then brand the editor »>f this paper as a slanderer. Aye. more. If you do not believe it. telegraph to Hon. William Loch, secretar ‘o President Roosevelt, and see if lie will deny that the words above quoted are contained in the book written by the President, or call at our office in Smithficld and examine our copy for yourself. Note—The undersigned. Editor of The Smithfiekl Herald, has in his possession President Roosevelt’s book entitled “Ranch Life and the Hunting Trail,” and has read 011 page 19 his statement in which he declares that cowboys are “much better fellows and "leasanter '“'tominions than small farmers or agricultural laborers; nor are merchants and workmen of a great city ,n be mentioned in the same breath.” October 6. T. J. LASSITER. Editor The Smithfiekl Herald “Why a Young Man Should Vote the Democratic Ticket.” We often hear it said that our gov ernment is a government by party. This is absolutely true when construed to mean that parties are the agencies through which the popular will is ef fectively made known. It is also true ’n a genera! way when it signifies that through the instrumentalities of par ties certain governmental measures are inaugurated and certain principles made the guides of governmental ac tion. Thus considered, party mem bership and the existence of party or ganizations are not only leg’timate, but seem to be actually necessary to the operation of the machinery of our government. With this view of par tisanship in mind it has always ap peared to me that a young man is engaged in serious business when in the first stages of mature citizenship in is considering his future political affliliation and making choice of the party to which he will attach himself. T cannot escape the feeling that the final determination of these matters by a new voter makes a sort of modi fied relinquishment of his freedom of judgment, and his subsequent sub.iu gat’on to influences which dilute inde pendent aetion. The assumption of party relationship will necessarily color his view of political subjects and give to his consideration of public af fairs a leading which ; t will be hard entirely to shake off. These conditions are due in part to the nnescapable in fluence of party comradeship, and per haps more to the blinding' zeal that grows out of party effort and contest. To these must be added the pride, so much a part of human nature that it must be reckoned with, and so nearly related to high manliness that it can hardly be condemned, which, except in the severest stress of conscience, re fuses to appear disloyal to party en listment. First Step Important. It is, therefore, on every account, of the utmost importance that the young voter should not make a false start, arid that in settling upon his party membership lie should not only avail himself of aU the freedom of thought and unbiased judgment still at his command, but should also bring to his aid an intelligent apprehension of na tional conditions and a studious ex amination of the principles and ten dencies of the parties open to his en trance. and all this should be supple mented by the guidance of a pure con science and an untarished partiotism. [f thereupon he realizes that it was the intent of our scheme of govern ment, when it was delivered into the keeping of the nation’s voting citizen ship, that every individual voter should thoughtfully and patriotically regard his suffrage as demanding of him a service to his country as serious and as vital as that rendered in war for its defense, his earnest investiga tion and the influence of elevating sen timent will make him a dutiful and useful party man. It. would be a happy thing for the 1 nation if our political parties were al . together thus constituted, and if every voter constanly had in mind a lively sense of personal responsibility for the proper exercise of his suffrage. We all know, however, that in point of f ict political organiza tions are very largely composed of those who have drifted into their membership without the least independent consideration of party principles, as related to the gen eral welfare of the country and the people’s needs. Many of these have no better reason for belonging to one party instead of another than the fact that their fathers belonged there be- I fore them; many are led into party 1 relationship by the influence of social intimacies or by mere whim and ca price, and sometimes by the frivolous and childish expectation of belonging to the winning side, and many others meaner and more dangerous than all the rest, acquire party membership with the deliberate intention of se | curinSg unearned individual rewards i and business advantages. To the extent that such elements | are found within the lines of any I party, it fails to express the desires and j aspirations of patriotic citizenship, and I becomes a menace to the underlying ! principle of our popular rule. * * * Why 1 (’hose The Democratic Party. I suppose a slight resemblance he l tween some of the incidents of the ' pending presidential campaign and | those of 185 0 causes me to recall the choice T then made jof my party affliliation. .Though (Continued on Page Two.) ROW JAPAN CARES FOR ITS SOLDIERS Who Are Wounded ii< Bat tle Fighting Russians. SPLENDID RESTRAINT Some Idea Conveyed oi the Dreadful Casualties of Their Terrible War -Wounded Soldiers Never Take an Anesthetic. But Bear Pain Without a Murmur. (By Bishop Cliarlcs B. Galloway of the M. E. Church, South.) Hiroshima, Japan, August 26. — (Special Correspondence of Atlanta Constitution.) —One object I have in visiting the stirring city of Hiroshima was to see the large military hospit als located here, and study their man agement. Possibly next to Tokio. where the military and naval staffs' are directing operations on land and sea. just now the most important city <n the empire is Hiroshima. Here the battalions all rendezvous and take ship for Korea and Manchuria. At one time during the first days of the wav as mar>~ as ninety thousand troops were here at one time. Even now the\ r are coming in whole reei ments every day. while the return ing transports are bringing the sick and wounded from the front. Hiroshima is a militai’y camp. Bps the soldier hoys move so quietly and when off duty conduct themselves so gentleman'” that you never see or hear rowdvism or oven boisterous ress. Sitting in a foreign house, or walking the streels of this ouaint town, T would never Imagine thaf a rr *'ent war vq s jn progress. ■ t|io ohp fPenne of *hesp neon!» to rigid dis cipline, and their splendid s®lf-re» s+rqint in success hnv n constantly e>- citad my "urnrise n rd admiration. V number of (fl-rips T ha\ T e been onm noiU'ri t 0 surmjeo o’” - American soldiers would do under like circum stances. Immense warehouses have been built here for military stores. The harbor is astir night and day with transports loading and unloading— with soldiers, horses and sud-i plies, and unloading the sick and wounded from the army now beseig ing Port Arthur, and other points where the army has been in conflict with the forces of Russia. I counted fifteen vessels in port one afternoon, and the next day there twelve, among the number being several hospital ships. Five large hospitals have been built here, and one or two others are near ing completion. They are all under Red Cross regulations, the Red Cross flag floating over them, and every patient has the Red Cross on the white sleeve of his invalid robe. Skin ful surgeons—and among them are some of the best in the world—are in charge, and trained nurses, Jap anese women, in their dainty white regulation dress, ard in faithful attend ance. The wounded soldiers are brought here in hospital ships imme diately from the tront. Most of the difficult surgery is performed here. Only" the cases that demand prompt attention on the field to save life are treated there. With all possible dis patch they are then sent to Hiroshima. Hundreds arrive by a single ship, and are placed in the wards of these hos pitals which have acommodations for Y. 500. When I tell you that the con valescents have to be hurried away by train loads to other points in order to make room for those coming from the front with fresh wounds or deadly disease, you may have some idea of the dreadful casualties of this terrible war. With exceeding courtesy I was given ey r ery facility to observe the manage ment of these great hospitals. A Japanese surgeon accompanied me, as did also Dr. Anite McGee, from Wash ington, D. C., who came here in April with nine young lady nurses from America to assist in this noble relief work. I was shown hoyv skillfully the surgeons use the X-ray in tracing the course of wounds and locating bullets. They have almost abandoned the old-fashioned probing process. To the eye of a layman some of these operations yvere really wonderful, i 1 was toid by the chief surgeon that j there are very few amputations. The rifle balls of to-day do not tear the flesh and shatter bones as formerly, and skilled .surgery is far better pre pared to treat successfully .all gun shot wounds. In one hospital con taining 300 or 400 patients there has been but three amputations performed since the beginning of the war. Another fact I observed while watching the work of these Japanese surgeons is that the soldiers never take an anesthetic. With a stoical face and never a murmur of pain they submit to the surgeon’s knife with scarcely a flinch. To complain under such circumstances is regarded as J unmanly. The Japanese children are j taught in their earliest years to en ; dure pain without complaint. This ! doubtless is one of the results of Bud j hism, which for so many centuries I dominated this beautiful land. But j while this stoicism is applauded. I I doubt if it is much to be admired, {after all. The higher the civilization of a people, and the more delicate and complex their nervous organiza tion, the more sensitive they are to pain. In the wards of the wounded offi cers I saw" many interesting cases, and had seweral notable conversations. One splendid fellow, a colonel, with a strong, rugged face, gave me an account of the battle in which he was wounded, and with genuine pride showed me his sword, the metal scabbard of which had been pierced by a Russian bullet. The ball first passed entirely through his body, and then through the scabbard, grazing the blade of his sword. It was a picture that impressed me deeply—- the expression of that brave man’s face as he looked upon the mute evi dence of his own heroism in the wound of his trusty sw r oi - d. Through all the years that scarred scabbard will be his dearest possession, and to bis children it will be bequeathed with a patrotic blessing. Another soldier showed me his can teen, flattened out of shape by a Rus sian rifle ball, but which had saved his life. He said that by some strange good fortune he had hurriedly thrust the canteen in the left pocket of his jacket. Its presence there prevented the ball from piercing his heart. With a genuine and reverent touch he handled the battered canteen as the friend that preserved him from death. Another brave young fellow. a Christian officer, and exceptionally well educated, had lost a leg. The surgeons worked heroically to save the limb, but at last had to remove it in order to save his life. He spoke English fluently, and, seemed almost overjoyed at the visit of Christian friends. The story of another young man was told me who had received twenty Russian bayonet thrusts in his body. One or two penetrated his lungs. After a varying battle for life he was convalescent. And scores of other stories might be related, all ac centuating and confirming the Japan ese world-wide reputation for fearless heroism and undaunted devotion to country. It was a great pleasure to meet Dr. Anita McGee, of Washington, and the noble young Red Cross women who accompanied hed to this country at ( the outbreak of the war. Their com ; ing has been generously and univer | sally appreciated by the Japanese. They regard it as signal assurance of America's sympathy. I saw three young women in the wards at work among their patients, and it made mv American heart beat with pride to see one bending over a fine looking young Japanese soldier dressing his wound, and another bathing the fevered body of a heroic sufferer. Their laborious and unstinted service have made a great impression on the whole Japan ese nation. lam sorry that in a few weeks they will be compelled to re turn to America. It is difficult to see how these emergency hospitals could be much improved. As proof of their effi ciency, a very small per cent, of the wounded brought here fail to recover. These little brown fellows are cer tainly a happy lot. in spite of their wounds. I never saw’ a scowl upon a single face or heard a complaining word. They are proud of the wounds they bear, and are impatient to get back to the front. Closing an account of a debate be tween Webb and Newell the Madison County Record says: “Webb carried the district by 5,300 majority two years ago and will in crease this to about 8,000 this year.” *+4*4 4444444444444444^ I 16 Pages 1 SECTION ONE t t Pages 1-8. | - -- * Price Five Cents. DEMOCRATS IN NEED OF MONEY • Democrats Have Many High Hills to Climb. WILL WIN THE HOUSE Indiana Outlook is Better and Demo crats Are Confident of Carrying Four Far Western States— New York is Safely Democratic. By CICERO \V. HARRIS. Washington. Oct. B.—While I know the fact that the Democratic managers both here and in New York are working harder for success than they have worked since 1892. and with more real confidence, they are confronted with conditions more difii cult than have confronted any parlk' in decades except in the phenomenal 1 years 1896 and 1900. These diffi culties, in the view of conservative men, are being steadily removed from the pathway of the party. One of them, and it is the great stumbling block in the wav, is the discontent in pivotal states of a portion of the old regular element, always true and only now dissatislied oecause some things were not included in the na tional platform. It is not thought by any sensible Democrat that this ele ment includes many who will either vote for Tom Watson or for President Roosevelt, or that more than a hand ful will abstain from voting. But the purpose of ail is to do all possible to get out this vote. If they vote they will vote right, and the .belief is that they will be men to go to the polls. A great deal is expected of the cordial action of ex-Senaior James K. Jones and the speeches soon to be made in Indiana by Mr. Bryan. It may be said summarily that Judge Parker’s election depends upon what the Bryan men do in Indiana, New Jersey and New York. He knows it. The decision of the Democratic candidate not to so on any sort of a stumping tour, but to make a very few speeches at Rosemount, pleases all here who really understand the situation and reflect calmly upon the proprieties of the occasion. Judge Parker is. besides, not a popular ora tor. He expresses himself well before a small audience and is a man of dignity, ability and calmness. It is not given to ail public men to be spell binders. Not a “Barrel*’ Party. The popular impression that the Democratic managers nave plenty of money for all pujjjoses is a very mis taken one. They have sufficient for current expenditure, but exigencies are arising and funds are required for extraordinary outlays, connected with a critical campaign of such im portance as this one. It therefore be hooves all well-fixed Democrats every where to send to the national and con gressional committees contributions of ready cash for immediate or speedy use in the campaign. If North Carolina Democrats will take this advice, they will find their reward hereafter in one of the greatest successes ever won by a political party. I tell them seri ously that Parker’s election hangs trembling in the balance, with possibly the perpetuation of American liberty connected with it. Heretofore the fnain dependence has been on rich Northern Democrats for financial aid in presidential campaigns. Now the time has come, since the South is more prosperous financially, to aid importantly in the great crisis of the national party. Let a big contribu tion go at once from all the commer cial cities of that section which has such vital interest in good government and Democratic policies. The large financial element in the North is do ing all it can, possibly, ror Roosevelt, because he represents the party of trusts, corporate interests, extreme protective tariffs, and multi-million aires. It behooves the men of more moderate wealth and the men of well-to-do circumstances in all parts of the country who believe in consti tutional government and a return to the sound policies of the fathers of the republic, to give of their substance and to devote all of their personal energies to the service of the Democ racy for the next few weeks. At the congressional headquarters I found secretary Edwards and Rep resentative Underwood, of Alabama, one of the Democratic leaders of the House of Representatives. The lat ter had just returned here from New York. He said the spirit of the man agers of Judge Pe_rker’s campaign was high and the intelligence they received from various quarters very favorable. From what he had heard he should judge that the states of New York. Maryland and West Virginia were pretty sure now and the chances im proving for the other doubtful states. Things were thought to be much better in Indiana. Altogether he himself, as he found the managers, was greatly encouraged. Look For Democratic Hou.se. Secretary Edwards regards the prospects for the control of the House by the Democrats to be exceedingly bright. For the first time he seemed disposed to go into particulars. The news received from many states, from I Rhode Island to Nevada and Mon tana, was all as good as could be reasonably hoped for * any campaign. In the former state Congressman Granger claimed not only the elec toral vote for Parker and Davis but also the state ticket and both Con gressmen. At present the Governor and one Congressman. Mr. G. him * (Continued on Page Two.) '' ■>
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