The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1902-10-22
OUTLOOK ON ELECTION
POLITICAL CONDITIONS IN
MANY STATES THAT WILL
VOTE IN NOVEMBER.
Uncertainty in New York-strike
Makes Pennsylvania Fight In
teresting-Tarif a Factor
in the West.

New York Special to Chicago Record
Herald.
This is an off year in politics. and the
coming election is involved in much I'M
certainty To the usual influences OF an
off year have been added the effects OF
the miners strike and of growing reel
ing against the Dingley tariff reports
from the several States show that the
Republicans are on the defensive In many
of them, and both parties are claiming
the next House of Representatives.
The work of campaigning, which once
occupied two full months in New forR
and the other States of the East, Will
be crowded into two weeks and sky rock
cts, special trains and slap dash, low tax
rate ull-dinner-pail and never-mind- the
trusts oratory. The Republican Party
has been on the defensive for weeks and
has been waiting, waiting LOT the Goa
strike to be settled.
Campaign 10 Retarded.
Never before has a campaign been sc
retarded But for the President II
seems doubtful If the Republicans would
have had any heart to begin their canvas
But the President acted. and if his efforts
barre tomorrow the campaigners OF the
administration will at least have a chance
Quay may turn his mind to something
else than shadowing Mr.. Baer OF me
by divine right Platt, Dunn, Barnes
and Woodruff in New York may begin
to ridicule Hills coal plank All New
England may begin to roar with long
restrained Republican enthusiasm, and
there will be a campaign after all.
Reports from counties in the interior OF
New York already show the ef1ects OIL
the Presidents action. One OF the pest
known leaders up the State says that pc
fore the strike was in progress OF settle
ment laboring men. mechanics ana artl-
sans of all classes in all the cities We're
sullen, angry and disposed to work and
vote against the Republicans
Hope in Strike End.
Since the President appointed his arbi-
tration board the situation has vastly i'm
proved and, this observer believes, the
Republicans are really going to find in
the coal strike disguised blessing, be-
cause it has shown the country that
labor as well as capital has friend in the
White House and in the executive man
sion in Albany.
This statement has been verified by re-
ports from various points and the same
thing is true of New Jersey. Maryla Id,
Pennsylvania and all New England.
1t is admitted by many of these frank
Republicans, however, that if the Presi-
dent had not acted the party would have
met a disaster like that which over
whelmed 1t in the Congressional elections
of 1890. Whether disaster can be averted
must depend on developments during the
next two weeks
The Republicans enter the campaign
handicapped with apathy anu many IOCdl
squabbles. The Democrats are in much
the same position as they were in 1893.
Ooler, the candidate of one faction, is run
ming now, threatened with the secret hos
tility of the other faction. Van Wyck in
1898, the candidate of the faction that is
now thrust out of control. was damaged
by the hostility of the faction in power.
Again it is city against the State-the
farmer against Fifth Avenue and the
Bowery. Van Wyck received 69,0OO plu-
rality in Greater New York. He was
swamped by the $1,000 that Roosevelt got
north of the Bronx.
State Against 1t.
Again the Democrats are depending on
the city vote. They say they will give
such a majority for Coler that the rural
vote for Odell will be lost in Manhattan
alone. Some of these sanguine Demo-
cratic leaders are counting on 10000 or 70,
900 in Manhattan and the Bronx, and
some of them put the greater city plurali-
ty of Coler at $1,000 and 100000. What
ever it is, the Republicans must beat 1t
up the State. They say they can beaS
90. 900 in the city and elect Odell with 3d.
900 to spare.
In this day of large figures one claim
is as good as another. The Democrats
are in good condition in the big city,
and the Republicans are well organized
in most of the rural counties.