The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-07-27
DOUBTFUL STATES
AND ESTIMATES AND PRE-
DICTIONS CONCERNING
THEM.

1 Illinois, Wisconsin ana In
4 diana-Each Is in the
Doubtful List-Other
News.
Esopus, July 23.-The wonder
here is how harmony came so sud-
denly and SO completely, out of
chaos and division. Three weeks
ago, the outward appearances were
that the democratic party was split
asunder. A wide chasm yawned
between two uncompromising fac.
tions with neither hope or expecta.
tion that it would or could be
bridged. Bo b at the st. Louis
convention, internecine strife and
relentless war in the democratic
ranks seemed to be in store.
But by magic, by fate, by an in
spiration ofsdemocratic leaders, or
else by some unseen, unknown and
unguessable influence, the scene has
suddenly shifted, and a complete
tidal wave of harmony in the party
of Jefferson has set in. Whether it
was the matchless announcement
by Judge Parker in a telegram
which was read round the world, q
telegram that Mr.. Bryan heralded
"manly in the man." or whether it
was the forbearance and generous
! yielding by that other matchless
leader, W. J. Bryan, that has sent
the current of democracy moving,
all in one direction and with a re-
sistless sweep, is all uncertain and
unexplainable; but the fact re-
mains that never before in the his
tory of the party, not even in the
tidal wave of 1892, were there so
many signs of party cohesion, and
SO complete absence OF, party fric-
] tiep. Over against this. is bitter
factional trouble locally among the
republicans of the doubtful states,
I New York. Indiana, Illinois and
I Wisconsin, for these states are all
i doubtful, save New York, which is
I reasonably certain to be carried by
( the democrats by a large majority.
In New York the republican par.
ty is split in twain. The old Platt
leaders, the wheel horses for the
party for many years, have been
I cast aside to put in new men of Gov.
Odell selection. The veteran SEN
ior senator has been put on the
shelf, and his friends, whose polit.
( ical features are tied up with his,
\ foresee their fate when Governor
{ Odell names the candidate for gov
\ ernor, as he intends to do. Gov
I Odell's plan is ts become the junior
y United States senator, and with a
! governor of his own choice to elm.
mate completely the old Plat. or.
4 ganizatiop, and the practical politi'
. clans who will be displaced by this
process are thoroughly conscious O
II IL.
! In Illinois the republican party
is divided into two factions. Ths
Roosevelt faction favored the nomi
nation for governor of Frank O.
Lowden and opposed the renomina
tion of Governor Yates. Governor
Yates was not strong enough to Sc.
cure his own denomination but he
was strong enough to defeat Mr.
Lowden and to nominate a FRIEND
of his own.
Governor Yates and his friend
blame Mr.. Roosevelt for his failur
to be renominated. The Fedora
patronage was fagrantly used in al
directions to accomplish this objec
and it succeeded. Such things ar
not soon forgotten.
In Wisconsin; the breach is wide
Governor La Toilette who has op
j posed the corporations and trusts
controlled the republican stat
convention and renominated him
self. The two United States sena
tors, Spooner and Quarles, and Con
, gressman Babcock and the othe
!, representatives of Mr.. Roosevelt i
, Wisconsin, bolted the conventio
:. and nominated candidate of thei
Town for governor.
2 The Chicago convention, whicl
= was thoroughly controlled by MI
4 Roosevelt as his own domestic affair
Y unanimously sustained the boilers
In order to try to save the state fo
Mr.. Roosevelt, the boilers conven
ton ratified the electoral ticket pu
in nomination by the La Follett
> convention. La Toilette elector
g replied by refusing to allow thei
,e @ names to go on the boilers ticke
e. Under the Wisconsin law whic
provided, for the blanket ballot, bs
ling in this respect much like th