Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1904-09-17
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Interesting Notes From Our Special
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Reports from Virginia are to the
effect that there is great indif-
ference in that state about the presi-
Dental campaign. 1t is said that
the people just keep going about
their business and pay no atten-
ton. to politics. Even Senator Daniel
says he is tired of being everlast-
ingly in the minority" Virginia
takes it for granted that President
Roosevelt will be elected. And so
does most of the rest of the world.
Senator Fairbanks has been tour
ing the west. He comes back re-
freshed and encouraged. He says
he thinks he has seen evidences in
Missouri that the people of that
state have determined to put a
magnificent Republican in the
governors office.
1t is quite wonderful what an
important man William J. Bryan
has become since the ST. Louis
convention. Before that event he
was scoldedup and down by the press
of the country because he did not
keep his mouth shut Now the cry
is: Come over and help u.s." He
is regarded as a vote influencing
element in the campaign which
cannot he dispensed with. The
west and east want to hear what
he has to say. Naturally it can
hardly be expected that Mr.. Bryan,
any more than Mr.. Hearst, is very
enthusiastic over the Hill-Belmont-
Cleveland combine.
Not until the Doth inst. will the
Republican campaign open IN Mary
land, with mass meeting in Balti-
more, the chief speaker at which will
be Senator Fairbanks. AS matter of
course he will advert to the gen
eral prosperity which prevails in
that state, and will congratulate the
citizens of Baltimore upon their
splendid recovery from the effects
of the great fire, which at one time
portended national calamity. The
Maryland campaign is to be short,
sharp and decisive.
A Republican vote, larger than
usual, may be expected in the south,
owing to the fact that there will be
a large cotton crop, with high
prices and prosperity as a result.
The war in the east, and the def
cheney Of wheat in Europe, will
make demands in this country for
those staples. Altogether the
future outlook, from a business
point of view, is cheering, and the
south will behold the vision with
the same satisfaction as the rest of
the nation. 19~'
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One should see how rosy, happy
and stout Senator Beveridge looks
since he emerged from the woods of
Maine. He has collected enough
material about campaigns out
hunting wild animals, as well as
boating, fishing and tramping, to
make very readable magazine
article. The president enjoyed i'm
mensely some of the Senator's
stories about the original inhabit-
ants he found in Maine, and how
some of them refused to believe he
was an Indiana senator. One of
the experiences the senator had
was a canoe trip of 220 miles on a
Maine river. 1t seems hard to
believe that there is river so long
in that state. But the best of all is
the senator's confidence that Indiana
will go Republican by 35, 900 majori-
ty. He thinks Parker is doomed to a
worse defeat than even Mr.. Bryan
has suffered.
Politicians in Indiana are some
what puzzled over an organization
calling itself 1.-THE Railway Employ
ers' Independent Political League of
America" 1t claims that Parker
stands for Cleveland, that Cleve-
land stands for Parker, and both
stand for Olney who is in favor of
any policy perpetuating plutocracy
even by the use of bayonets, bullets
and blanket injunctions. This is
rather strong, and probably Mr..
Olney would deny the soft impeach-
ment. There are those who have
thought that railway employees did
not object to injunctions. 1t is a
sign of the times to find them tax
ing sides with their employers.
Henry Watterson thinks that If