The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-10-25
WHY REPUBLICAN CLAIMS ARE WRONG Facts About Vote in New York
 and Indiana
LABOR VOTE FOR PARKER
Senator scott's Claims Are Being RIdi- culed By Conservative Men Because They Have Such a Fla
 grantIy Party Tinee.

as doubtful and little Nevada, with it's three electoral votes, Is evidently beneath | his notice, for it is not classified at all. | The republican tune is all pitched in one key, that of brag and Dluster. Here are few samples of the West Virginian's balderdash:
 New York will give Roosevelt 75.0oo plu- ra1ity.
 Judge Parker wil be beaten as badly as Greeley was in 1872.
 Roosevelts popular majority will ex- oeed MoKinley's in 1896 or 1900.
 Indiana will give Roosevelt 2o0OO ma iority.
 The democratic majority in New York city will not be more than 9000o, while Roosevelt will have 1o0,0OO
 The apparent discrepancy between the first and last of these statements would be worth taking notice of but for the fact that all of 1t is the merest rot intended to deceive and put out by Sena- tor Scott with that ena in view The Wall street betting odds in Roosevelt's favor are reidiculous, and are based on just such misleading "claims' as Scott and Cortelyou have been givin&>put for publication right along. Next they will be claiming Missouri, and then it will be easy to see a republican rainbow over Kentucky, or maybe, Texas.
 New York State and City.
 William Mckinley got more than 15O,- GOO plurality in New York state above the Harlem river, both in 1896 and 1900; no other Presidential candidate ever came within 50,000 votes of it. and none is likely to until the paramount issue is one which holds one of the great parties sol- idly together and splits the other some where near the middle. MT. Roosevelt will not carry New York by any major ity or plurality whatever unless there are great changes in his favor between now and election which are unlocked for and not at all likely to be brought about So far as the Empire state Is concerned MT. Roosevelt is out of the race, at this writing Although the republicans have the biggest corruption fund they have ever raised and although the governor chairman in the use of patronage and the promise of fiat jobs'' will stop at noth- ing that may bring him votes, and al- though the scoundrels who do his dirty work at the polls will endeavor to outdo their past records In crime, New York state will stand by it's distinguished son and jurist, Alton B. Parker, and also elect an honest judge to the governorship to succeed Odell. At democratic head quarters there Is a disposition to let the republicans blow to their hearts con tent, They are beaten in New York and they know 1t. New York city was never so we'll prepared to deliver a knockout blow at corrupt and piratical crew as it Is thls year. Roosevelt and Higgins will both have the chance to realize just how a solar plexus blow feels. New York city will give Judge Parker a plurality larger by several thousands than 1t gave to Grover Cleveland in 1s92-Senator Scott knows no more about New York city politics than Tom Carter, chairman of the republican national committee in 1892. knew when on the eve of election he issued a statement claiming New York state for Harrison, and solemnly assert ing that Cloveland's lead below the liar lem river would be kept down to 55,0O0. As everybody remembers, Cleveland got 109 900 plurality below Harlem and car ried the state by about 47,o0o
 ]. Indiana Close and Favorlng Parker.
 Scott's jaunty claim of 20,000 majority for Roosevelt In Indiana Is no more wor- thy of consideration than his aslnine statement as to New York. Scott runs counter to every indication in the Hoosler state today. The republican state com mittee and the republican national com mlttee are very much worried over the outlook In Indiana The state has been steadily slipping from their grasp for several weeks and while 1t may not be absolutely assured to Parker the chances are that he will carry 1t by a good sized plurality. The tide in that state is now running his way and the democrats are prepared to make a strong fight to the end. It is an honest statement based on ex- cellent information, that Indiana is now democratic and that the managers of Judge Parker's canvass believe they will strengthen their grip on the state and get it's electoral votes. MT. Bryan's tour of the state has been a great vote win ner He has said and done those things which all good democrats hoped and be- lieved he would say and do, and has left unsaid and undone the things which the republican managers hoped and prayed CD he would say and do.
 Not a word has been heard on the stump thus far about the full dinner pail" Democrats are not disposed to emit any calamity howls," but they are pointing to the fact that labor conditions are as bad for the laborer at many points as they were in 1892. and worse at some MT. Bryan has pointed out in his tour of Indiana industrial centers that at several places it is the full coffee pot" that re- publcans orators talk about. and he has added in his own semi-humorous way that before another campaign rolls around they will be talking about the full water pitcher"
 Careful investigation by an expert in Cleveland, Cincinnati Pittsburg. Toledo, Youngstown, St Louis and Kansas City reveals the fact that there are many empty dinner pails, thanks to the high tariff and the trusts, and that there is by no means enough prosperity" to go around. In Kansas City the beef trust Is robbing the cattle raiser and the con sumer of beef at the same time
 A Few Facts and Straws.
 Prof w. c. Fisher of the Wesleyan university at Middletown. Conn, has an- nounced his intention of supporting Par ker and Davis. Professor Fisher has been one of the leading republicans of Middletown and last year was elected as a republican to the city government by the largest majority given any andidate on the ticket. He has made a study of la Dor problems and has arrived at the con clusion that the republican party being bound hand and foot to the trusts can be of no service to the masses of the people. who demand to be freed from unjust and oppressive conditions, which are steadily becoming worse
 Col. Ethan Allen of New York, a des- cendant of the revolutionary hero of that name--who was chairman of the liberal republican national committee in 1872 was close friend and champion of James G. Blaine in 1884, and is now and has been for years. an influential member of the Union League club, of New York