The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1908-08-02
AS The REPUBLICANS SEE IT.

| Inc uehoSIdtS' Especially IN Jne
south have fallen into the habit CT
invariably predicting defeat for their
party nominees in presidential cleo.
tons. They have done so so very of
ten that it has grown to be very nat
ural for them 10 do.
AS matter 70 fact, the CHANGES of
,.Bryan's election this year are good,
very good, and no ione knows that any
better than the managers of the repub-
lican campaign.
For instaEcet recently there was a
conference of republican leaders at
Colorado Springs, and Charles F.
Hornaday, special correspondent of
the indianapolis News republican,,
who reported the proceedings for that
paper, says that Chairman Hitchcock
was called upon to hear some rather
unfavorable reports concerning polit-
ical conditions in the states of the
west and the Pacific coast. Mr.. Hitch
cock is quoted as having made the
following admissions:
I am frank. to confess that in the
East also conditions are not salts
factory. There is much apathy and
Indifference and such work will be
necessary to overcome these things
which require the earliest possible at
tention."
There seems to he considerable
Foundation, in fact for Mr.. Hitchcocx's
statement Of The unsatisfactory con
Editions which have appeared in the
East For example Mr.. 0. b. Black
burn, a large knit underwear" manu-
facturer Of New York and Providence,
and a Roosevelt man in 1904, was in
Washington few dhygago and in an
interview with representative Of
the Herald sad: There is going to be
some surprises in New York and the
New England states when the Novem-
Der elections come round think
when the votes are counted you will
find that Mr.. Bryan will be the man
to occupy the White. House and not
Mr.. Taft. There is a change Of senti-
ment in the East that will not down,
and it is all for Bryan. A great many
republican business men-two of my
partners for instance, are going to
vote for Bryan because they want re-
visions in the tariff which they will
get if he is elected and FOR the reason
that progressive policies, like those
Roosevelt stand for, will be carried
out, which will not be. the case if
Taft is elected. In the central part OF
New York an undercurrent is moving
that does i'll for Che candidates who
ldoes not work for the interests of the
farmers and small manufacturers. In
this section | found that Bryan and
his platform are appealing strongly tc
the favor of the farmers, the small
bankers and the business men, They
do not dislike Taft personally but they
do not like the idea Of his standing
as substitute for Roosevelt"
The New York Press, a stalwart re
publican paper, has been making a
survey of the situation not only in its
own section but the country generally
and it says: The truth about Bry-
ans chances is that the most trust
worthy political opinion confesses that
they are better than they were in
1896 ana 1900"
REGARDING the country beyond the
Mississippi river it says everybody
knows that the far West is radical to
n degree that may be called rabid.
and ii adds: "Nir Bryan represents
and will represent, in the minds of the
voters of that territory the next best
Exponent of the radicalism up to
which President Roosevelt has educa-
ted them. These voters believe thor
lo0ghly in everything Mr. Roosevelt
has done, and they wanted him for a
third term, because they believed he
would do more along radical lines.
They will naturally incline to the can
d'date who they feel is the surest to
follow those lines ana that candidate
is Bryan"