, 1908-10-08

nonce, convincing political casuist
than Mr.. Bryan ever attained to prime
Importance in national politics. He
possesses the gift above all men now
in public life Of inspiring temporary
enthusiasm and saying things that
sound we'll and look equally well in
print. From a news standpoint alone,
Mr.. Bryan cannot be ignored, even by
the opposition press. When a republic
can, no matter how confident he may
be Of his candidates election, picks up
his paper day after day and reads of
the cavortings of Mr.. Bryan, how he
speaks powerfully and t~irelessly fifteen
or twenty times between dawn and
dusk, covering hundreds of miles, be-
ing listened to by big audiences. he is
bound to feel doubts rise within him.
Republicans Working.
1t is an old political truism that if
you can get republicans thoroughly
scared they'll take off their coats
and work like sixty. That is what is
happening now. The republicans, the
rank and file of the party, had up to
within ten days even worse attacks
of Bryanitis than when Bryan was, in
prospect, sweeping state after state
into his train, in the late summer eight
and twelve years ago. Now, as a re-
publican senator from the Middle West
who called at headquarters today, ex-
pressed it, they're up and busting
like a jack rabbit with a hound dog
three jumps behind"
The Scare is Over.
The scare is over now. Mr.. Taft
began to turn the tide before he had
been twenty-four hours out On his
campaign tour. The people like to be
shown" They want to see the man
for whom they are going to vote, to
study him at close range, to size him
UP face to face and figure if he meas
ures up to their personal standard OF
what a presidential candidate ought
to be. And If they like him, as every
one does who sees and hears Mr.. Taft
and if he has the ability to deal GU,
to them plain, simple, sensible, copper
riveted republican doctrine, as Mt
Taft does, without specious tricks OF
oratory or spread-eagle demonstra
tons, they go back home with theiI
faith renewed and determined to win
over % their side every man they car
get hold of.
Taft Has Made Good.
Daily reports are coming to head
quarters of the deep and favorable
Impressions created by Mr.. Taft
wherever he has spoken in Ohio, Min
nesota, Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakot9
and the other states where he has
travelled. The effect of his presence
and the recession of the Bryan wave
S shown by the change in the tenoi
/ Of the statements given out from the
democratic national headquarters AMI
by the gossip which drifts into the
corridors of the Hoffman House from
Chairman Mack's office. They are fiji
ty per cent less optimistic since Mr.
Taft leaped into the saddle. Ever
their claims of a Bryan victory in New
York are less assured in tone. They
also rea ize that. no matter how ener
getically they may toll to carry the
| Empire state, all that they do Is
! sure to be undone when Mr.. Taft
comes down through the cities and
counties lying between Buffalo and
New York in the final week Of the cam
paign.
Overwhelming Defeat for Bryan.
II the republican scare hadn't devel-
oped there would be a worried lot OF
men at No. 1 Madison avenue. In
stead of citing Mfr. Bryan remove the
incubus of apathy they would have to