The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-25
SCOTT AS A HUMORIST
Cr.Arws rvERYTHING pur THE
Tss.r. Tlnnrryeltsa Victory Will Ise as Crnnts over Horace
 Greeley.

mtttee, has given out claiming practically everytning TOT fooseveIt except the "soiid South" Maryland he classes as doubtful and little Nevada. with It's three electoral votes. Is evidently beneath his notice. for 1t is not classified at all. The RepubIican tune is all pitched in one key. that of brag and biuster. Here. are a few samples of the West Vir- einian's balderdash:
 New York will give Roosevelt 1S,ooo plurality.
 l iy as Greeley was Ina 1S7z.
 Rooseyelt's popular majority will ex- ceed McKinley's In 1886 or in 1900.
 Indiana will give Roosevelt 10000 majority.
 Tine Democratic majority in New York city will not be more than so.- 900. while Roosevelt will have 15o.ooo. The apparent discrepancy between | the first and last of these statements wouid be worth taking notice of but for the fact that all of 1t is the merest | arot" intended to deceive and put out l bv Senator Scott with that end in view. The Wall Street betting odds | in1 Rooseveit's favor are ridiculous. and are based on just such misleading ! s'claims" as Scott and Corteiyou have | been giving out for publication right | | Missouri. and then 1t will be easy to see a Republican rainbow over Ken | lucky, or maybe, Texas.
 New York state and City.
 William Mckinley got more than 1so.o0o plurality in New York State above the Harlem river. both in 1898 and 1900; no other Presidential candi- date over came within 50,oo0 votes of it and none Is likely to until the par | -.- fa ,sta yxy of the great parties solidiy together | and splits the other somewhere near the middle. Mir. Roosevelt will not carry New York by any majority or plurality whatever unless there are great changes in his favor between | now and election which are unlookec | for and not at all likely to be brought
 about. So far as the Empire state IS concerned. Mir. Roosevelt is out of the l race. at this writing. Although the 1 IaepubIicans have the biggest corrup- tion fund they have ever raised and although the Governor-C Chairman In the use of patronage and the promise | of fiat jobs" will stop at nothing that | may bring him votes, and although the | scoundrels who do his dirty work at | the polls will endeavor to outdo tneir past records in crime. New York State l will stand by its distin guished son ano I iurist. Alton B. Parker. and also elect an honest judge to the Governorship | fo succeed Odell. At Democratic headquarters there Is a disposition to let the Republicans blow" to their hearts content. They are beaten in
 New York and they know It. New
 York city was never so well prepared | to deliver a knockout blow at a cor
 runt and piratical crew as 1t is this
 vear. Roosevelt and Higgins VIII
 both have the chance to realize just
 how a solar piexus blow feels. New
 York city will give Judge Parker a
 plurality larger by several thousands
 thans it gave to Grover Cleveland4 m
 isea--senator Scott knows no more about New York city politics than Tom
 Cartsr Chairman of the Republican
 National Committee in 1892, knew
 when on the eve of election he issued statement claiming New York state for Harrison, and solemnly asserline that Cleyeiand's lead below the liar fem river would be kept down to os,oVV. ,E As everybody remembers. Cieveiahu got ios, ,0O0 plurality below the Harlem
 and carried the State by aoous s..oVV' N, scott.s iaunty claim of 10000 major | uy far Roosevelt in Indiana is no more
 worthy of consideration than his asin- . inc statement as to New York. Scott runs counter to every indication tn the
 HoosIer State today. The Republican state Committee and the Repuphcan . National Committee are very much wvi v.u | rted over the outlook in Indiana. Ine state has been steadily slipping from their grasp for several weeks and while | if may not be absolutely assured to { Pa rker the chances are that he VIII { carry it by a good sized plurality. The tide in that State Is now running ms
 way and the Democrats are prepared 70 G.~I.e an honest statement. based on excel lent information. thah Indiana Is now Democratic, and that the managers or
 Judge Parkers canvass believe they
 will strengthen their grip on the rtate
 and get its electoral votes. MT. Bry-
 ans tour of the State has been great vote winner. He has said and done those things which all good Democrats hoped and believed he would say and do, and he has left unsaid and undone
 the things which the Republican man. agers hoped and prayed t?) he would
 say and do.
 Labor Conditions Favor Parier. 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 con
 ditIons are as bad for the laborer at many points as they were in 1892 and
 worse at some Mir. Bryan has pointed
 out in his tour of Indiana Industrial
 centres that at several places 1t is the
 full coffee pot" the Republican ora
 tors talk about, and he had 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 Tn Cleveland, Cincinnati, Pittsburg. To-
 iedo, Youngstown, St. Louis and Kan
 sas City reveals the fact that there are
 many empty dinner pails, thanks to the
 high tafiff and the trusts, and that
 there Is by no means enough pros
 perity" to go around. Tn Kansas City
 the beef trust is robbing the cattle
 raiser and the consumer of beef at the
 same time.
 l A Few Facts and "straws.r
 l Prof W. C. Fisher of the Faculty of Wesleyan University at Midd1etown, Conn. has announced his intention of supporting Parker and Davis. Profes- sor Fisher has been one of the leading l Republicans in Middletown and last ] year was elected as a Republican to the | city government by the largest major | fly given any candidate on the ticket. He has made study of labor problems | and has arrived at the conclusion that | the Republican party, being bound 1 hand and foot to the trusts, can be of 1 no service to the masses of the people. | who demand to be freed from unjust | and oppressive conditions, which are