The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-04
NEAR AT HAND
WILL IT BE 4 LANDsLIDE--MUoh
 uTTTENCE, BUT NO APATHY.
Tu,mese RegistratiOn Everywhere-- Democratic Managers Hopeful of Vtctory-GoOd Work by
 southern Speakers.

~.. vorv Nov. s.--(Speciai. .)--Tns 2s.So,,tial campaign of 1904 Will soon ta,.o ,assed into history. The natiohh N.s.,stteas have practically nnisneu .,'aIs syoyk The last itinerary ho' sn,,ai,hinders" has been mapped out rhs bir men at headquarters, nave Ssvv heads of departments, are sca.se. ad most of them at homo iooklne ~s- ... their avn political fences or putuhs - inc final "licks' needed to get ouC sno ps;h,s pa.sy Each recurring Presidential pnoigr has its peculiar character ts.Ics and the one now nearing It's eho ;s ,,o execution to the rule. For two .oorths or more the campaign was go nair, that the managers almost oespeiI- "a .s thatr ability to inject any lfe into <" Tt Sraa the universal opinion that ,t ,.,a. inc most apathetic campaign on .a~rS Political rallies were siimly attsndad and lacking in enthusiasm' herner raisings were few and Tar pe- ,uyeen: torchlight parades were un known: people apparently were Iess in tarasted in American politics than they were in the war in the orient. politicians began to fear tna. ueeauso pS .hIs lack of interest light vote would be east sz
 Mol until the beginning of October was any marked change in the general s,tuatIou observable. Then 1t was no- tIced that the campaign Of education wbich had been carried on by potn the ,Ha..oc.ratic and Republican party man aSars was bearing fruit. Speakers re- nortea increasing interest and attend snce at their meetings. the demand TOT roliticai literature became steaoliy greater. everywhere there were indica- lions that the voters had been stuoylhs inc problems which they were expected to snIve. and that when the time came to vote they would be found ready and cra1ified. The first unmistakable in- Stcstion that the political doctors had made wrong diagnosis was revealed in tbe great registration in all localities S,hare personaI registration is prere- ouisite to voting.
 Tn New York, New England, and the larger cities and towns of the Middle west and South the same story was told of A record breaking registration. Al the same time in certain other states where usually political feeling runs high, but where personal regtstra- tion Is not required prior to. the cleo tIon. notably in Indiana and West Vir- qinia. the same growing interest in fha campaign WdS OOoSAN AAt NahS large and attentive audiences that gathered to hear the issues, discussed. Today no well-informed person doubts that the vote that will go into the hal lot boxes on the sth of November will he the largest in the history of Presi- dential elections. It has been pre- eminently a reading campaign for many years.
 The one peculiar condition which ex- isted at the beginning of the contest and which exists today Is the extreme reticence on the part of the voters. In populous centres, such as New York, Boston, Chicago. Baltimore, the people are not talking politics, and unless one attends a political rally one may hard ly hear politics mentioned. Men meet. pass the time of day. talk of the weath- CT, the crops. the stock market, the In ternatIonal disturbances and common place matters, but they rarely discuss the merits of the Presidential eandi- dates or of the platforms upon which they stand. This Is certainly extraor- dinary. Particularly Is 1t so in New York. when you stop to think that each of the two great parties has taken It's Presidential candidate from that state.