The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-10
Cummins OF Iowa Certain That 5O,-
900 Is the Figure For His
State This Year.
NEXT HOUSE Is REPUBLICAN

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congressman and local leaders. AM
through the medium of correspond
'ence with vel Informed men. The
positive information Is gained that
the tide has swung away from Bryan.
Senator Dixon. who IS in charge of
the speakers bureau Tor this western
territory. and who keeps in close
touch with the Republican "look-
louis" in the so-called doubtful
states. made this statement:
There is no combination now pos
,s,b,e by which Bryan can be elected
iunless there is tremendous land
slide for him. and there is no indica-
ton of any such trend of sentiment
among the mass OF voters. Idaho.
wyoming aud the Dakotas may be
Iput in the Taft column as surely as
Vermont.
The reports received at headquar-
tiers foreshadow the following maiori-
ties for Taft:
Washington. 10000 to 10000
IOregon, 10000.
California. 10000.
Idaho. 10000 10 $4,000
Colorado, 5000 TO $1,000.
Montana. 1850 to 5000.
Wyoming. 5000 to 10000
What Some Leaders Think.
Gov. A. B. Cummins, of Iowa
There can be no doubt Of the re-
suit in Iowa. give Taft nOt less
than $4,000 majority. While there
are differences among the Iowa Re-
publicans on state matters, they arc
united in the support OF the Taft
ticket"
Fletcher Maddox. former state
chairman OF Montana:
| Montana will 90 Republican By
Is 900 votes. We have a strong labor
man on the ticket for governor and
the mining vote is large. Bryan's
strength Is falling away fast"
J. A. Van Orsdel, associate Justice
of the court OF appeals Of the district
of Columbia, and former state chair
man of Wyoming, who has just re-
turned from vacation trip through
Wyoming, Nebraska and Co orado:
while the Republican majority
lin Wyoming will not be as large as
that Mr.. Roosevelt received, Mr.. Taft
is safe by at least 5000 votes. \
month ago Mr. Bryan might have car
riei Nebraska. The conditions which
made that possible. however. have
changed and are changing rapidly 7
asked an old farmer in a Nebraska
hotel the other day how he was go
ing TO vote. He said thar he had
voted for Bryan twice. but he would
not do 1t again. as Bryan hal led
in predicting disaster In 1896. This
farmer Is one of large class which
has grown prosperous since that time.
Bryan never has been abe to reach
the well-to-do farmer vote. They are
afraid OF him still"
Colorado and Wisconsin.
Franklin L. Brooks. of Colorado
Springs. former representative at
large from Colorado, said:
There Is a great deal of interest
I'm the Taft visit TO my state The
campaign is liyening up out there
and the. organization feels confident
that the national ticket will win. The
Populist and Socialist vote probably
will be swung by the Hearst ticket
There has been a large influx Of Re-
publican farmers into Colorado from
Iowa. Kansas and Nebraska. and this
will show on the Republican side Of
the returns"
= The Wisconsin situation has been
cleared by the visit o. Nj. Taft and
the support of the La Fo.ette branch
of the party.
James n. Davidson. Of Oshkosh.
representative in congress from the
Eighth district of that state. said:
81 am satisfied that With energetic
work and a full poll of cur vote, Mr.
Taft will carry the state by a normal
Republican majority"
A Voice From Oklahoma.
One of the most surprising predic-
tions comes from james II. Harris, a
prominent Republican from Okla
homa, who said:
II look for a majority Of 10000
for Taft IN Oklahoma. The peculiar
conditions in the election last year
in Oklahoma led US 10 the conclusion
that the Democratic victory was
brought about because mere than
100000 Republicans stayed at home.
Also many Republicans voted the
Democratic ticket in the fall on ac-
count of their desire for immediate
Statehood and because the Democratic
platform declared in favor OF prohibi-
ton. There are $4,000 persons OF
Indian descent in the state. We can
count on at least 5000 OF these votes.
The Independent oil interests which
supported the Democratic ticket last
YEAR now are out for Taft and Sher-
man. The business interests have re-
VOTED against the Wild legislation of
the Democratic legislature. The i'm
into the state has been