Arizona silver belt., 1904-09-15
Arranging the Preliminaries to the Coming Great Battle of
 the Ballots
THE POLITICAL HOROSCOPE
New York the Crux of the Situation. Both Parties Organizing For the Great Contest. Neither Cock Sure of the Result.

yesterday at Saratoga, N. I., to cele- brate. There are not many of them left and perhaps it Is not strange that only one reporter of those campaigns has shown up. This is Murat Hal stead. He is the survivor of score of political writers of politics in the Fremont campaign.
 Charles J. Bell, the republican nom inee for governor of Vermont, receiv ed a majority of about 32,0OO. MT. Bell, who is farmer, appears to have gotten the farmer vote, including many who were democrats. Hundreds of farmers rode many miles over rough and muddy country roads to vote for Bell. Three fourthS of the gold democrats voted for Porter, the democratic nominee.
 Holland, the New York press cor respondent, has great admiration for Governor Odell as a political leader, claiming that as an organizer he has few equals, and that by the middle of October he will be able to forecast the result of the election in New York within 5000, or at most, 10000, of the actual figures. Holland says that as a result of first canvass, Governor Odell feels. that he may safely say that it shows a republican plurality of a l,ttIa h, av.acp nf on nnA
 Walter Wellman views the large farmer vote for the republican ticket in Vermont as an indication that that the people in the agricultural districts throughout the country are satisfied with present conditions, and that the democrats must look to the cities and the wage-working classes for their gains. He concludes: Ut looks very much as if the one hope for the demo- crats lies in startling changes in New York and Chicago, which may carry New York and Illinois for Parker. As to whether or not such changes are in the cards, 1 offer no opinion"
 The New York Herald says that ex. Senator Edmunds, of Vermont, long an eminent republican, and in 1881 candidate for the presidency, who re. ceived cordial support from Mir Roose- welt, then chairman of the New York delegation, will probably join the Par ker Constitution club, in New York, and vote the democratic ticket. He was asked few days ago at Bay Head, N. J to disclose his position in this campaign, but refused to do 80. Ex- Senator Edmunds has been lifelong republican, but in recent times has been dissatisfied with the policy of the administration toward the trusts. He has held that the compromise on that issue, reached in this city during the last congress, by which the presidents original program was abandoned, con. stituted retreat. He indicated his disapproval of it in very strong terms. The ex-senator, who many years was chairman of the senate judiciary com. mittee, has also been at variance with the republicans on other questions.
 The Washington Post says that two editions of the democratic campaign book will be issued. One will appear very soon. Since Chairman Cowherd, of the congressional campaign com mittee, went over to New York, the proofs have been revised and corrected and other work rushed so that the book may be in the hands of the spell binders at the earliest possible mo- ment. The book will make about 800 printed pages, and will be in larger type and on better paper than the re- publican textbook. The second ed- tion will contain additional matter, including presumably the letters of acceptance from Judge Parker and ex- Senator Davis, which are belated, be- cause of the delay in the republican letters of acceptance. The democratic book will treat special phases of the tariif question, particularly the com parative rise in wages and prices, and the sale of articles abroad at lower figures than for domestic consump. tion. Space will also be devoted to reciprocity.
 Walter Wellman says: "During na. tional campaigns, the books of the treasurer and manager of the respec- tive national committees are kept in peculiar way. Instead of entering accounts by name. each account is given a number and is thus carried throughout the campaign. The key to this legendary system is known only to two or three trusted men, and the accountants who keep the books have not the slightest kno wledge of what state committee or other organization