The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-10-18
VAND|VER SAYS
 BRYAN IS GAINING
Alabama Man Diagnoses East
 ern Politics
NEGROES OPPOSE TAFT
Lengthy Resolutions In Opposition to Republican Candidate Adopted By coIored Voters of Camden.
 p. Morton Sees President

[ Washington, October -0special.)-w F. yandiver, leading wholesale mer- chant of Montgomery, Ala, is here. After spending some weeks at western summer resorts, he came east and spent five weeks. He has just returned from a prolonged stay in New York city. q have been in uchigan and much ! of the west since I left home, in July said MT. Vandiver, "and lately I have been in the east. My first impressions | were unfavorable to Bryan, but l soon saw he was steadily gaining ground. J When went east I thought the odds developments from week to week have
 steadily added to his chances. His last speeches in the east, whatever partisan
 bias may represent to the contrary, have greatly enhanced his prestige as a sincere and high-minded statesman, and there is not the slightest doubt that he has gained 1 immensely in popular favor in New York and elsewhere in the east.
 He has grown and broadened in char | acter and attainments His consistent | sincerity and his unblemished integrity,
 with his captivating manner, have won
 him admiration and supporters among ] thousands of people who were at first l inclined to regard him either with in-
 difference or positive disapproval These
 new friends are among his most ardent | advocates.
 The Labor Vote. 1 "If Tammany will give the democratic
 national ticket a loyal support at the 1 polls, William J. Bryan will get the cleo
 toral vote of New York. Of Acourse,
 much depends upon the labor vote in the
 east, but big part of the labor vote ia New York city is part of Tammany. I
 have heard good deal of talk Of trading 1 to get Chanler votes, but I have also ] heard this denied by reputable Tammany
 men. Chanler already has far better of 1 the race over Hughes and it seems to stand to reason that there will be no
 need to resort to such a practice to de- | feat Hughes. The antipathy to Hughes among many republicans is much more | important than their devotion to Taft. | At any rate, there is no doubt in my
 mind that Bryan has gained immensely
 in the east in the last few weeks. and he ] is continuing to gain.
 l MT Vandiver is here as chairman of the Montgomery freight bureau, which has an | important case before the interstate com
 merce commission.
 Negroes Oppose Taft. | special from Camden, N. J., says: ''Colored voters of Camden, who crowd
 ed Scott A. M E. church, to hear the s- sues of the campaign discussed by lead CTS of their own race, adopted lengthy
 resolutions pledging their opposition to Judge Taft.
 '"The resolutions were presented by Will | liam F. Powell, minister to Hayti under i President Mckinley. They arraigned the | republican nominee for saying it was a
 mistake to give the colored race the right
 to vote, charged that he did not represent | the true sentiment of the republicans as ! expressed by Lincoln, Grant and McKin-
 ley and criticized him for failing to prom
 ise, if elected, to restore to the army the
 colored soldiers discharged for the
 Brownsville affair.
 | Bishop Alexander Walters of New l York made the principal address, praising
 William J. Bryan for his fairness to white man and black alike and charging that
 the republican party has drifted far from {, it's position in the days of the civil war and the years immediately following it. i The Rev. J. Milton Waldron of Washing 1 ton. D. C., president of the National Pro | tective League of Colored Republicans, | also spoke"
 Paul Morton Calls. | Paul Morton, president of the Equitable | Life Insurance company, and formerly
 Secretary of the Navy, called at the
 White House today by appointment. There , was a conference on the political situation
 in New York, and while no official state | ment was made, it is evident that MT.
 Morton informed the President how Chair ] man Hitchcock could be supported with 1 some valuable ammunition, with which he
 could make the closing days of the cam- i paign effective.
 1 Questioned as to whether he volunteered | to raise money for the campaign, MT.
 Morton smilingly replied: Insurance
 companies are barred from contributing
 to campaign funds now"