The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-07-18
ID CARRY
 FIGHT INTO OHIO
Con ditionS In That State Favor
 the Democrats
A HARD RAP FOR SHELDON
Dem OCrats Will Need a Big Campaign Fund and They Will Not Refrain
 From Publicity as the Re-
 publicans Are Doing.

Lin coIn, Neb., July 17.-(speclal)-Al~ |; though Mr. Bryan is not prepared to say so at this time, the understanding of his close friends here is that while on one of his eastern trips during the campaign he will enter Ohio and will make at least enc speech there.
 Whet her this invasion of his rivals own state will follow his visit to Indianapolis the Ia ter part of August to attend the notifI cation of John ". Kern of his nomi- nation for Vice President or whether 1t will be later in the year is matter still to be determined.
 Mr- Bryan gave assurances yesterday that he would go to New York. and it may be that on this occasion he will stop over in Ohio either coming going. The date Of his trip is indefinite, the demo- cratic nominee himself having no idea now when he will leave Lincoln for the heart of what has been the enemys country"
 Mem Ders of the Ohio delegation to the nation al convention told MT. Bryan his return home from Denver that conditions in their state were very favorable to dem- ocratiC success next fal and that their party never had a better opportunity to capture the electoral vote than it has in this year. They described the trials and tribula Ci ons of the republicans and pie tured in glowing colors the prospects of the denocratic party to profit by them to such extent to tear the state from her old republican moorings and cast h CT upon the hartless northern sea 1 of dem Ocracy.
 He'll Surely Come. urac fO paak a speech es on the theory that his appear ance there would greatly enhance his chances of taking the state. away from Der fa vorte son. The pro1psition ap- pealed to him so strongly that, as already indica ted, it is believed due announcement will be made of his purpose to accept.
 The democratic candidate is going into Chic for the same reason that prompted him to decide to go to New York and Hi. nois. He realizes that both of the latter states are more or less essential to his election, and since this is expected to be his last effort to attain the presidency he l intends to overlook no opportunity to cap ture tn cir electoral votes.
 l If everything told him by the politi- clans from New York is true that state | ough to be captured in November. DemOcratic leaders have informed him that the republicans will not get | throu Eh fighting each other by that time, W hich is supposed to be an omen of dem Ocratio success. In Illinois the repub Ifcan factions, headed by Gov Deneen and former Gov Yates. are enga ged in terrific controversy, which involves. even in the judgment of re- publica ms, a menace to their continued | control of that state.
 But another reason why Mir. Bryan Is going to New York and Illinois Is | to be found In the opposition to his l election by William R. Hearst, the or ganizer of the Independence league move m ent, and the owner of newspa- pers of large circulation in the me- trop oils of the east and west. Accord ing to present plans the league will put a cand idate for President in the field. and he will be supported by Hearst newspapers in New York city and Chi cago-
 Splits the Democratic Party.
 This support, of course, implies an- tagOnizing the democratic ticket, and that this flank movement is already causing Mr. Bryan some concern Is fanl<1y admitted by those qualified to fra n k1y admitted by those qualified to said to be accounted for In part by the fact tn at MT. Bryan declined to assist him in his candidacy for the presidency in 1904. which the editor regarded base ingratitude, since he had been anon g the most earnest advocates Of Brya ms election in 1896 and 1900 and one of the largest contributors to his camp ign.
 In hIs campaign this year MT. Bryan is cOu nting upon more extensive sup port from organized labor than he ceive ed in his previous campaigns, and this is on account of the labor plank in h is platform. He has been assured of active assistance by Samuel Com perS, president of the American Feder- ation of Labor and John Mitchell, for mer president of the United Mine Work CTS, and other members of the : executive council of the federation How effective the work of these men will prove to be must remain matter of SD e culation for a while, but 1t should alwa SS be borne in mind that both GomPers and Mitchell are democrats and that the labor vote never was a ]" polfti cal entity, but usually split along . part1 san lines. In this connection 1t ? should q also be remembered that the in- fluen ce of Mr Hearst's newspapers has been greatest among the working classes, and while Mitchell and Com perS will be pulling one way he will be pu Hing the other
 It s MT Bryans personal opinion l l that the public will regard the sub script ion list a roll of honor and will be glad to have their names at- . tach ed to it. Although corporations . are under the ban firms as well as indiN duals, will be invited to con- trfb u te.
 An Interesting Sight.
 It will be interesting to see what would be done with s1OO0O contribution from a rich rnalefactor of wealth. who has been pillorfed in certain public prints and l presi d ential messages as having plundered
 the common people by methods which
 have been denounced in the antitrust
 plank of the democratic platform. How