The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1904-10-28
TRUSTS AND TARIFF
ARE BEST ISSUES
New York Democrats Pleased
With Parker's Stand
FOOD FOR SUPERSTITlOUS
Big Bronze Eagle on White House Flag
Staff Falls off-Defict In Treas
ury Is Still lncreas-
ing.
FOOD FOR SUPERSTITlOUS
Ing.

Washington, October 27.-(Special)-
Representative Bowers of Mississippi was
in the city today having come here from
New York, where he has been spending
some time. Mr.. Bowers has been watch
ing the course of events in New York
City and state.
THE democratic leaders In New York"
he said today, ARE genuinely confident
of carrying New York state on both the
presidential and the state tickets. The
democratic party of the state is splendid
ly organized and never worked in better
form than 1t Is working now
1.-THE issue which is being put forward
and in my judgement should be talked
constantly until election day, is the trusts
and the tariff combined and treated as one
subject. l find that that interests the peo-
pie and is the most important issue of
this campaign. 1t IS well enough to say
something about the Philippines, but that
issue is not, in my judgement, equal to
the tariff and the trusts. Democrats l
have talked with are well pleased with
the manner in which Judge Parker is
talking, and the only comment l hear on
his course is that he has not done more
out in the campaign. Judge Parker cer
tainly has a pleasing personality. His
judicial manner strikes one at once. The
more people come in contact with him the
stronger he will be-
Mr.. Bowers will probably make several
speeches in Maryland and West Vr-
ginia.
Bronze Eagle Falls.
Those republicans who are superstitous-
ly inclined are getting plenty to jar their
nerves these days. The large bronze eagle
perched on the top of the White House
flagstaff fell off this morning and the
white House force is now trying to fig
ure out what Ii means.
Several days ago a Roosevelt and Fair
banks banner was suspended across G
street within a couple of blocks of the
White House. 1t has fallen twice, the
second time after a serenade given by a
band of several hundred negroes who
celebrated its raising
Anthony Smith of Harrisonville, former
ly president of the state senate and ex-
officio lieutenant governor now president
of a national bank at Harrisonville and
a prominent lawyer and republican has
taken the stump against the new tax
| laws of the stat and is advocating the
election of the democratic ticket in
West Virginia
Deficit Still Increasing.
With nearly or third of the fiscal
\ year gone the def,clt in the United states
| treasury is s22 410,562 For the twenty
seven days of this month the def III
! amounts to $4553,947 The total expendi-
tLres for the present fiscal year to date
| are twenty one millions more than incy
| were for the same period last year. which
| indicates an increase in expenditures fol
| this fiscal year of about sxty-five MI
! lion
| The same rate of deficits for the rest
| of the year would leave deficit in the
| treasury of nearly seventy million dollars
| The immense growth of expenditures Gre
ates the belief that deficit, which may
| be turned over to a democratic secretary
| of the treasury, will amount to at least
| forty million dollars. The total receipts
/ for the fiscal year to date have been
nearly one hundred and eighty million
| and the expenditures nearly two hundred
and four million. The figures for ex-
| actly the same period Of the last fiscal