The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-06

delegates. The reason for this is given as the general apathy existing in Re- publican ranks throughout the entire country"
 National Chairman Taggart, in a statement made through his own per- sonal organ. The Indianapolis Sentinel of which paper he Is the owner and publisher-pays his respects to corre- spondents who have for weeks been sending from New York tales of the in- harmonious conditions existing in the National Committee. Mir. Taggart states that these reports are sent out by agents of the Republican Party and are paid for out of the Republican Campaign Committees corruption fund He says the reports are known to be false, both by those who cause them to be sent out and by the owners of the papers that publish them. and he unequivocally denounces both the send CTS and the publishers as "willful crim- inals."
 Every member of the Democratic National Committee. he says, Is work ing. heart and soul, for the success of the national ticket. and any stories from whatever source they come, to the effect that there Is friction of any sort within the Committee, are deliberate perjuries and hired lies. MT. Taggarts statement is concurred in by Messrs. Belmont, Sheehan and others of the Ma tional Committee. and its publication in The Sentinel has created consternation in the councils of the State Republican organization.
 The New York correspondent for The Indianapolis News. Independent Repub- lican. sends the following to his paper under a recent date line: The stand pat leaders of the Republican Party are not pleased with the news from Boston that Eugene N. Foss. the leader of the reciprocity movement in Mas sachusetts, was nominated for Congress in Boston. The nomination was by di- rect primaries, and the regular Repub- lican machine left nothing undone to defeat Foss. Reciprocity with Canada was the issue. Foss Is the Republican who was responsible for the petition for reciprocity bearing the names of 65.000 Massachusetts business men. He has set out to come to Congress to fight for reciprocity. It can not be said that the Republican Con- gressional Campaign Committee. of which Congressman Babcock Is chair man, Is very cheerful over the outlook for the House of Representatives. The committee seems to have a lot of knotty problems to deal with. An un- uSudl numDeT or outer IdCtlOnal quar- rels have come before it, and many of them are still unsettled"
 Republicans connected with the In diana organization of that party are alarmed over the move of the Demo- cratic National Committee in sending to this State miners from Colorado. These miners are doing a great deal of quietly effective work, both in the min ing districts and in other parts of the State. The men are going about the work In a rather novel manner. Talk ing seats in smoking cars. they enter into conversation with their seatmates and others. and relate details of the mining troubles in Colorado. telling of the beating, Imprisonment and deport- alton of miners and others connected with the strikes.
 The men also visit mines, shops and factories, secure admittance to meet ings of labor unions and address public meetings, where the stories of the hor- rible atrocities perpetrated at the in- stigation of Adjutant General sherman Bell. called by President Roosevelt the