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Its Close Sees Demooratlo Hopes
In th Ascendant
GOOD REPORTS EVERYWHERE
Factional Fight Among Republicans
In Ohio, Indiana, Wiaocnaln and
Other States Point to Bryan's Elec
tion G. O. P. Up to Its Old Tricks.
By WILLIS J. ABBOT.
This has been a curious campnlptn In
many ways. The managers of both
jmrties hare watehed each other wari
ly and haye day by day wondered
what unsuspected attack might be
made nest day or next week. Now we
ton'ront the close of the campaign. I
hare to concede to the versatile
and active Mr. Hearst the credit of
having done a few things that made
both parties sit up and take notice.
Hut the Hearst endearors were finnoy
Ing equally to each of the old parties.
If he attacked Governor Haskell, who
baa since sned for $000,000 damaces.
he attacked Reuator Foroktf, who
thereupon retired from polities, and
Mr. tin Pont of the powder trust, who
promptly withdrew, from the finance
committee of the Republican national
committee. But thus far only Hearst
has infused that particular sort of
"Kinjrer" Into th campaign- True,
rresldnnt Roosevelt came to bis aid.
and a spectacle was presented of
Itoosevelt and Hearst as the chief mud
sllngers of the campaign.
But today that campaign Is practi
cally ended. From the Democratic na
tional headquarters at Chicago most of
the chiefs have gone to their homes to
close the Inst week of agitation by
their own personal effort In the locali
ties wbara they are best known.
Outlook In 8ome States.
From the raeinY coast I have receiv
ed repeated reports from George Fred
Williams, who has traveled through
California, Oregon and Washington.
He Insists that the outlook for Demo
cratic success in those states Is most
encouraging. He refers to a poll taken
of one precinct tn -Spokane, Wash.,
which he reports tn this fashion: "In
this precinct 211 rotes were cost tn
1004. In that year Parker got twelv.
In 1000 Bryan got twenty-thro votes.
The poll taken this year shows eighty
one for Bryan." This Is, of coarse,
only a straw. But when added to the
report which comes from the Bants
Fc car shops tn Topeka, Kan., that
where there used to be 2,000 votes
among the workers for the Republican
party and 800 for the Democratic the
figures are this year reversed, It sug'
gesta a certain change In sentiment
When to such instances as these we
add the fact that from Colorado comes
the report that the great mining center
of Cripple Croek, which in 1904 went
strongly against the Democratic ticket.
is this year going to give a heavy phi'
rnlity for Bryan and Kern we begin to
see that the trend of sentiment among
the working people Is toward the De
mocracy. And, continuing, when from
Indiana comes the news that the work
ing people of that state are almost a
unit to behalf of the Democrstle can
didates and so capable and nonpartisan
a newspaper correspondent as 'Walter
Wellman declares in the Republican
paper which employs htm that Indiana
and Ohio are absolutely lost to the Re
publican party we of the Democracy
believe that the hour ef our victory is
close at hand.
TT:'- are the states In which the
flcbt Is brhig wcd and in whieh the
wee must be recorded as doubtful,
tUuugh personally I believe that Id sev.
enl ef Uieia Democratic success Is
aaeured: New Tork. New Jersey, Con
necticut Ofcln, Indiana. Illinois. Ne
braska and Kansas are this year as
afe for the Democratic ticket as
Texas. They ere safe because tbelr
people have come to know Mr. Bryan
better and believe above all things tn
bis demand for the guaranty of bank
deposits. But Ohio must be fotzght
fur and U being fought for. The De
mocracy bits thorn a coherent and a
luinuoulouM organization. The Cincin
nati Enquirer, which It bad been fear
ed would b hostile to the Democratic
rause, has been doing admirable work
Sn liehslf ef the national ticket. The
Republicans lu the state are torn with
the (lUmiiiitons between Taft and For
aker and the famous boss, George B.
Cox. There never has been a more
bitter factional fight than Is now In
progress tn that pivotal slate. And
the Democrats, having a divided ene
my, wilt reap the fruits of victory, ta
Indiana the strongest politician of the
state, Vtoe President Fairbanks, was
treated la the campaign for nomina
tion with the ffceeeat discourtesy. I
am a mere observer of political events,
not tn any sense a politician, but I
would ask any realor of this article
whether he hits seen In the newspaper
reports of this campaign any Indica
tion of Vice President Fairbanks' ac
tivity tn behalf of the heir apparent?
If Fairbanks has been on the stump
the nWwspapers have not mentioned
the fact And if Foraker has been on
the stump since the treacherous letter
ef Taft concerning him was published
nobody knows of that fact. With Fair
banks In Indiana and Foraker In Ohio
and I. a Follette in Wisconsin quietly
lu opposition to the ticket of their own
party, what ehanee has that party
ticket to win?
Cases of Coerolon.
Toward fie close of the campaign
the Keru,,;i"ns are playing the old
fame of coercion. At the Democratic
national headquarters there are letters
and affidavits on die showing the des
perate 'expedients to which the opposi
tion to resorting in the hope of forcing
roters to flo its will. We have, for ex
ample, an affidavit from a traveling
man who knows of what be is speak
ing and who testifies that be was In
structed to send orders to his bonse
which were to be filled if Taft was
elected anl a duplicate order in which
the peaces were to be reduced If Bryan
wim elected. The understanding was
that the duplicate order was to be
used to affect public sentiment and
not to be considered by the house. We
are In possession of information which
shows that a certain great bank In
Chicago after bringing a man clear
from Idaho to consider a proposition
for placing a certain number of bonds
informed him that because of fear of
Bryan's election they would not even
discuss the matter. The bonds were to
be based upon a water power and elec
tric power proposition. What In the
world the election of Brynn could have
to do with the success of such a busi
ness enterprise in a town of the far
northwest is hard to determine. Tet It
appears that the Itepubllcnns protend
to think that there Is some sort of
sinister Influence that the president
might exert over a municipal monop
oly. Whether they have as yet ap
pealed to telephone companies and
street car companies for funds I io
not know. But there has come to the
national committee headquarters a let
ter which to a great extent Justified
the complaint of the man from Idaho
that be was prevented from placing
his bonds of an electric llpht and pow
er company because of apprehension
that Bryan might be elected. This let
ter came from Tennessee. It was ad
dressed to the head of nu electric pow
er company, pleading for a contribu
tlon to the Republican campaign fund
on the grotind that everybody who
was Interested In furnishing power
from a central station or furnishing
Htfht or heat should contribute toward
the election of Taft and Sherman be
cause their election was vital to the
success of that business. The letter,
which I have In my possession. Is writ
ten on the letter head of the Republican
national committee and signed by ft
eubofflcer of that committee. It is
clearly official. The point which might
be raised about it is this:
What has the president of the United
States or the vice president to do with
the electric lighting, traction or power
companies of any cltyt Why should
those companies be asked to contribute
to a campaign fund on the plea that
their interests are vitally Involved?
In Chicago there has been a long fight
for the municipal control of electric
traction and power companies. Why
should the right of a city to control
these companies be complicated by
any sort of federal Interference? And
If there is to be no federal lnterfer
enee why should the Republican na
tlonal committee In an official docu
ment soliciting funds declare that theJ
Interests of electric companies operat
trg from a central station are vltaJUyi
bound up In the election of Taft and!
Sherman? Of course Taff s brother is
at the head of most of the public serv
ice corporations of Chicago, and Sher
man is largely Interested in those of
nis home town of TJtica, N. T., but!
these mere facts do not seem to justi
fy the collection by the Republican
national committee from all other pub
tic service corporations tn cities, towns
end villages of a fond to be used lnl
debauching the ballot and carrying the
election by the methods of the votcJ
buyer.
How Big Bankers Bank.
There has been an illuminating illus
tratlon of the way in which those peo
pie who describe themselves as the big
bankers conserve the money of theirl
depositors. The National Bank of
North America, conducted tn the city
of Kew York, passed through the pur
cbAse of a large block of its stock lutid
vuc nauan ot one v-naries v . aiorse.i
Mr. Monte had iu his head the aspira
tions of a Harrlmnii without the brains
of that eminently practical man. He
tried to control and was for a tlmo
successful In controlling the supply of
Ice for the great city of New York and'
did not worry when the people of the;
swelter-lug tenement house districts:
suffered In the sultry summer days!
because they could not pay the mouop-
oly prices the Ice trust exacted. Then:
he tried to inako the Atlantic ocean"
hlu owu, ond fur a time it appeared'
that every coastwise line of steamships
would pass Into his control. The lot-,
tor operation proved too much for his
financial abilities. In attempting to
carry It out he lind tried to gain con
trol of several banks and did control
four. What Is his future Is Imma
terial. But we find that the official
report of the Investigation Into the nf-;
Salrs of the National Bank of North
America shows that the responsible of
ficers of that bank lent to an office
xy nineteen years old $310,000 on
collateral furnished by Morse which Is
today practically without value.
Now, what the bankers who oppose
the guaranty of deposits say they
want Is careful regulation. Well, they
have had It. They had It In the case
of the National Bank of North Ameri
ca, which was Investigated at regular
Intervals by national bank examiners.
But notwithstanding these livestlpa
tlons this loan was made and others
of the same sort, and the bank went
down In chaos and collapse.
Mr. Morse was no doubt a "great
banker." Probably be would describe
himself as one of the greatest of all.
He would no doobt he highly Indig
nant at the suggestion that any or
ganisation, whether national or co-operative,
should guarantee the rights
of the depositors In his bank. At the
same time it would appear that as the
government was not able to avert the
Jeopardizing of these deposits by the
loans which be forced an the avails
which he used It might have been
well to have had a guaranty fund that
would have protected the people whose
money ho used.