The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-07
POLITICAL POINTERS
Machlne No. Working.

Maehine Not Working.
 Special to New fork Eve
 ming Post.
 The Republican machine in this State has been highly commended as a meaei of it's kind, but the weight Of testi- mony is that it is not functiontnS tnls year. Vice President Fairbanks, TOT example, is apparently as far remoVso from any active participation Tn me Republican campaign as is Leslie M. shaw in Iowa In former years M1 ah: sar6snks s1 Dotca has neetinEss SsGiass n
 When Speaker Cannon opened the campaign here the other day the wee President did not preside teT,as9 nor, % i5 i5e meeting He was an absentee from tn Q great meeting which Governor Hughes addressed yesterday. ~ the Republican National Committee after Mir. Cortelyou resigned, ana pe- fore Frank Hitchcock was selected, IS tsles s regor.sd ne ps6' so be e ne in eanaaa shns and rusticating. The lndianapoils News is commonly called the most powerful and infineaLfaa itseIf as pdad pdhdependent but in previous elections has generally championed the Republican candidates. This year in its editoriai, colHmhs or npth ar |. Bryan or Taft, but its news columns and It's political correspondenes are distinctly favorable to Bryan: M .is IFS state ticket, with one or two excep-
 1t Is easier to find expressions of sef okst n tbah the tSas ef t4e e
 It Is easrier to find Republicans wno will vote for Bryan and Marshall than to find Democrats who will vote TOT
 1t is easier to find men who voted for Mckinley and Roosevelt m lsmV0 m and 1904, and who intend to vote Tor who voted for Bryan and Parker eight and four years ago, and who intend to vote for Taft this year. l.
 The present situation in Indiana IS susceptible of decided change in the remaining weeks of the campaign
 Chicago Correspondence of New York
 But the main trouble in evidence here in Chicago is Republican disgust with President Roosevelt. It IS the sncS tsrfe exesat S NsW Sork City The business men, who have always heretofore been the mainstay of the party in campaisn tines mes ana onsH wno naSs snS work to it's success, are in large meas ure either flatly refusing % do tning or openly working for the defeat or 'nS They hPsT'kk have got to the point of sore ness where they frankly say that they don't care whether Bryan is elected or not, Tn IaCL, they are lhSiluS " SHtENe 1t would be a good thing for the coun- try to have Bryan win. They hate Roosevelt, whom hey hold entirely re- sponsible for the business dlstreSs oL the last year, and they are willing to subject themselves to anything tha at Bryan can do In order to hurt the Pres- ident. 1. the Republican party, but is anxious for the election of Taft merely in order to see the perpetuation of my poll. cies," and that in the defeat of Taft the bitterest blow that coull be struck at Rooseveltism would be de- livered.
 The old Republican Lenders Crouch Chicago Special to Washington Herald.
 Throughout the West the younger Republicans are in the saddle. It IS a Roosevelt campaign. The old wheel horses of the party-men who served with Hanna in the Mckinley cam paigns and received recognition from Eortelyou four years ago-are today inactive, and, in many case, conhrmeo Out of touch and out of sympathy with the present campaign manage ment, they give vent In private con versation to the most lugubrious fore