The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-07-20
THREE sUCCUMB TO THE
TERRIBLE HEAT IN CHI
CAGO YESTERDAY.
Mercury Runs Up to Ninety. -Four
Score of Persons Frustrated
Not Particle of Breeze Is
Felt-Intense Suffer-
ing Is Caused in
the City.

Detroit, Mich, July 17.-This
was the hottest day of the season in
Detroit, the temperature reaching
So degrees. +.
Washington, July 17.-With the
echoes of the Parker telegram still
ringing in their ears democratic lead
ers are undertaking to demonstrate
the ease with which the ''second
Cleveland" is going to sweep the
country this fall. The bold stand
of their candidate on the money
Iquestion encourages them to believe
that he will carry New York, and
with New York, what are termed
Cleveland states-New Jersey, Con,
necticut, Delaware, Maryland and
West Virginia. Of course they
count on the solid South, and add
to their list at least one of the three
big doubtful states of the Middle
West, Indiana, illinois or Wiscon-
sin.
Maryland and West Virginia
may truly be considered very doubt
full states, and the republican lead
ers are much concerned as to the
outcome in both. 1t Is not Parker,
but his running mate, Davis, who
makes these states extremely doubt
full. The one is his home; the 9TH
er his native state, and in both he
ls widely and well known.
/ If Maryland and West Virginia
fgo demo cratic, it will be due to Da-
Wis, aud not to Parker or the dem-
,tocratia platform. Ihe@ spnbllcans
carried both states in 1900. In
these states local issues are of more
vital importance this year than ma
tional issues, and in both the re-
publican party is anything but
we'll organized.
The West Virginia republicans
| are split on the tax. issue. and are
! so bitterly arrayed, the one faction
against the other, that democratic
success is threatened, and even ad-
mitted by soma repu biicans of that
state. Maryland is one of those
states where the race issue will not
down, and it may work to the ben.
.! eft of the democrats this year
These local issues, combined with
Davis personal inf uence, will force
| the republicans to make the fight
Of their lives for these two common.
wealths.
But when it comes to talk of II.
linois, Indiana and Wisconsin, the
democrats face more serious stu
alton. In Illinois the republicans
are organized; the democrats spill
z into factions. Mckinley carried
: that state four years ago and while
Illinois is never considered a safe
state, tits more than likely to ge
for Roosevelt. There is no local is
sue at this time that would give the
democrats any encouragement.
In Indiana, which went republi
can in the last presidential election
the democrats will raise the Tynel
iesue, and try to overcome the Fair
banks influence. They will max,
a personal onslaught on the presi
dent in the home of the late assist
ant attorney-general for tn,
postofice department, in tn
hope of winning out, but they viii
have to meet Fairbanks among hi
friends, and one reason why Fair
banks was nominated to run will
Roosevelt was to carry his hom
state for the republican ticket
According to men who are intelli
gently advised of the situation il
Wisconsin, that state is not il
doubt. While the republicans ar
divided into La Toilette and anti
La Toilette factions, and ara fight
ing each otherviciously overthe stat
ticket, the followers of La Toilette
!. like the followers of Spooner, are al
Z staunch Roosevelt men, and will al
4 Isupport the national ticket. Wis
D consin went republican in 1906
4 Then there is talk about Parke
Il bagging Colorado on account of tn
strike issue; Nevada on the irriga
ton issue, and Idaho and Montan
because they went democratic i
, 1900. These states may all
> doubtful, but they have small vote