Fitzgerald enterprise. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1895-1912, 1908-08-11
The Political Outlook In New York.
BY j. D. JONES.


The political outlook in New York at the pres
ent time is as unders tandable as the jargon of
half dozen men of different nationalities all speak
ing at once.
The Republicans are confident of victory but
to all outlookes their confidence seems triffle
dangerous to their cause Like as over confidence
in baseball team or billiard player oftimes loses
their game so is the attitude of the eastern party
leaders who consider Bryan dead Que and Hearst
Joke, liable to cost the party many seepless
nights after November 3rd. At present the party
organs are endeavoring to educate the people that
Taft's exclamation that he would faithfully carry
out Roosevelts policies simply means that he in
tends to clinch Gin a mild way) the work Mr..
Roosevelt has naugurated but that he will do it
minus the 'big stick" route and that he, Taft is
a SOBER easy going, thotful fellow who wouldn't
antagonize an individual or corporation for any
thing in the world, meaning, perhaps, that the
publican panic of 1907 OS would not be repeated
under his careful? conservative control?
This argument smacks much of the misleading
as does some Of the planks in the republican plat
form.
AS for Hearst and his ticket, which by the
way is never referred to here as anything but
"Hearst's" ticket except by the party leaders
themselves who are straining every effort to have
the movement, called, the Independence Leagues
movement, the democrats. Whether Murphy can
be trusted to throw his power and the Tammany
vote Bryan ward or not remains to be seem but one
thing is certain Tammany will fight Hearst to the
last ditch and the old line democrats up state will
not turn to the movement and support what
they term the traitor's cause' 1t is clearly to be
seen that Hearst's strength in the Empire state is
is not what it was and that while he was able to
get good many votes when he was the regular
democratic nominee, his party in this campaign
will not receive the attention in the state it did
when he ran for governor. Hearst in the north is
looked upon much the same as Watson is in the
south. Ofcourse the League will poll more votes
than the popust candidate but it will draw large
ly from the republican ranks. 1t will receive it's
support from the out-ofwo Iaborers and their
friends who supported Mckinley and Roosevelt on
the promise of full dinner pail but who have
learned during the past year that that hoax is not
to be relied upon.
As far as Watson is concerned he is scarce
ever mentioned by the press of any party and it is
doubtful if one in hundred voters ever heard of
him or if they have they as quickly forgot him and
his teachings.
So much for the enemies of Bryan.
From every indications, the old line demo
Gratis of the eIst and north going to support
Bryan and vast many of the Unemployed will cast
their vote for the democratic electors. They will
do this because they have lost faith in republican
management of national affairs and because they
believe that the only remedy lies in changing the
order of things proposed in the democratic plat
form, and, while some of them might favor Hearst's
ideas they do not wish to lose their votes and they
know the would if they voted the Hearst ticket
One thing is certain of New York state and
that is that if TammanY proves faithful to demo
cracy, and there is every to believe that it
WILL Bryan will carry the state.