Goldsboro weekly argus., 1908-10-15
GROWS STRONGER
EVERY DAY
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Big Stick Cannot Make La
Dor Support Its
Enemy.
National Committeeman JeSephuS
Daniels Talks Ab0nt the Political
Situation In the West.
Raleigh News and Observer:

Mr.. Josephus Daniels, member of
the National Democratic Executive
Committee, who has been at National
Headquarters for two months, reached
Raleigh yesterday, having been called
home by thes illness OF his mother,
whose condition is improved and i'm
proving daily Speaking eff the political
outlook, Mr.. Daniels said last night:
''The Bryan wave, which is bearing
the Nebraskan on to the White House,
grows in volume every day. The Re
pu ublicans are trying to create the i'm
preston that,s while Bryan was ad-
mittedly far ahead in September, they
are now making such gains as will
enable them to elect Taft in Novem-
ber. Stripped of all explanations, the
hope of Republican success begins and
ends with the hope that the money the
trusts will contribute will be able to
buy the election, as it was bought in
1896.
ability of the interests to buy enough
influence and votes in the next three
weeks to deprive Mr.. Bryan of the
victory he ha well won and to give it
to Mr.. Taft by purchase. Can that be
done? OF course, in doubtful State,
where the honest voters are pretty
evenly divided, an enormous amount
of money may change the result, but
there are times when the people are
so aroused that they cannot be inf1u-
enced by money. It is when the issue
is not so clear cut and does not go so
deeply to the heart of the people, as
this year, that men who are active with
money can buy easily. In 1895, when
the Democratic party was torn in fac
tions in Ohio, Illinois, Indiana, New
York and other great States, it was
comparatively easy for Mr.. Hanna,
with his fifteen million dollar corrup-
ton fund, to buy the Presidency.
But no such conditions exist today,
even if the Republicans had AS big a
corruption fund as they had then and
had a master leader like Hanna to
spend 1T. In that campaign the Re
publican candidate was q man who
had often been elected to Congress and
had q winning personality with the
masses of the voters. and vet with all
that, and money galore, the RepubH-
can majority in Ohio was only forty
eight thousand. Mr.. Bryan carried
the State of Ohio, exclusive of the cities
| Cd
/ Columbus, These cities gave enough
majority to make Ohio Republican in
1896. This year the Democrats in Ohio
have a strong candidate for Governor
in the person of Attorney Aarman
of Cleveland's cabinet, and the Demo
Gratis are so well organized in the big
cities that they are confident of carry.
ing every one of them. This will m ca II
that Bryan will win in Ohio by a large
majyrity and this ejaculation takes nc
account OF any slump that may come
to Mr.. Taft's vote through the row ir
the Repu blican party between the For
aker and the Taft factions. Democra
tic success in Ohio this year is not de-
pendent upon that. Every indication
is that Mr.. Taft will lose his own city
his own county, and his own State.
Richmond, Oct. 14-Miss Helen Mil
Ier aud n party of friends are here t.
attend the marriage at noon today o
Miss Leila Blair to William Northrup
They made the trip from New York il
an automiIe. Edwin and Flank Goult
are also here to attend this marriage.
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