The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-08-06
Republicans Will Ty to Make Everybody Believe Prosperity
 Has Arrived
UNLIMITED MEANS ARE
 PROVIDED FOR PURPOSE
Wall Street Will Furnish the Dough To Hitchcock For His Big Scheme and 1t Will Be Scattered
 Throughout the Union.

Washington August 5.-(Special.)- Plans are on foot in republican councils for the creation of a mammoth fake prosperity to extend from California to New York. The furtherance of the plans embrace an outlay of cash almost be- wildering. According to information from republican sources the managers of MT. Taft's campaign will have at their dis posal unlimited means. At present the Taft fortune is furnishing the prelimi- nary expenses but as soon as the New York gubernatorial situation is settled, Wall street will give Hitchcock carte blanche.
 Talk about money in 1S96,' said a re- publican fresh from Hot Springs today, "that campaign won't be a circumstance The prosperity scheme according to re- ports from Hot Springs. will include the opening of mills that have closed down, a relighting of the fires of foundries which have suspended work and starting again the wheels of shops put out of business by the recent republican panic. This "prosperity' will last until cleo ton day. It might also be added here
  circles, the treasury department standing ready to go to every extremity to avert a recurrence of the conditions this spring. This philanthropic purpose of the Taft managers received its inception in St. Louis, where members of the republican party have organized themselves into a Sunshine Club the sunshine" com ing from the fact that the shops and mills are being reopened, laborers are getting apparently steady employment and business is booming. This is what might be called '.face cure for the business and labor disquiet. It will be applied to the trouble with great energy in New England and the middle west generally.
 The movement cannot be said to have originated with those gentlemen who are reopening their shops and factories. nor can it be said to be under the su- pervision and direction of the national committee. It seems that the republi- can party leaders made the suggestion in the various sections of the country that the best way to get the votes was to make things look as if prosperity were everywhere.
 It Is considered Wonderfully wise political move. one which will do more good than any amount of stump speak ing or literature. Another beauty of it that this face cure' may spread and become the general remedy of the trouble
 Never before in the history of either party has this plan been undertaken in such a way. It means that the repub lican party Is determined to make any financial sacrifice possible to insure success. and that its individual mem bers are more than ever willing to run the risk of big financial losses in order to help along the chances for victory at the polls.
 That the move is reality and not . theory Is proved by the information brought today by Festus Wade, presi- dent of the Mercantile Trust company of St. Louis He tells of the shops and factories that have been reopened there by the "sun- sinners" and he also tells of the good this policy already has done the republican cause In that city.
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