Bisbee daily review., 1908-08-08
REPUBLICANS ON DEFENSE
 IN CAMPAIGN
This Is Especially So From the
 Standpoint of Labor, and
 the Rnti-lnlunction Plank. Incorporated in Platform.


 The Washington Post. one of the great eastern papers editorially sup porting Taft and Sherman, contains in is news columns the following on na- tional politics as it views the situa- tion:
 At this preliminary stage of the campaign the democrats sems to have the republicans on the defense, with respect to organized labor, as a result of their adoption at Denver of ar arti- injunction plank which pleased many of the prominent labor leaders much more than the plank adopted at Chi cago. Moreover, the democrats believe they have MT. Taft handicapped by reason of the injunction orders which he issued during the American Rail way Union strike early in the sos, and the appellation father of the in junction" already applied to him, will be sounded on the hustings during the fall. in order to break at least even with their opponents, the republicans will review their long record of legis- lation in the interest of labor, ana t must be admitted it is a good one, m cluding as it does the benefit in the form of higher wages which are paid n tectiye tariff.
 Weight Of Roosevelt Influence.
 These are the chief points of ad- vantage in the view of the democratic leaders, with which their party is en- tering upon the campaign. Perhaps the chief disadvantage under which democrats will labor is to be found in the personal strength of President zrraf nsa with ali the necessary spectacular effece to the republican nominee. The Roose- welt policies are popular with the masses of the people, and since MT. Taft has subscribed to them, it is an ticipated he will benefit largely there by, especially in the west. In the east, on the other hand. the secretary's nat ural conservatism is expected to prove an asset, whereas Mir. Bryan's alleged radicalism was liability in his form CT campaigns
 The independence party movement is also regarded as serious handicap to democracy, and that this view is not without reason is indicated by me fact that Mr. Bryan already has ls-, sued an exhortation to democrats not to be led away from the fold by the party founded by William R. Hearst, the New York editor Hearst has newspapers of large circulation in states whose electoral votes are essen tial to the election of Mir. Bryan Re publicans believe that if there were any doubt which way New York would go, it has been removed by the cand1-i dacy of Tom Hisgen, for it is in thel Empire state that Hearst heretofore has had his greatest following.
 Hearst Papers Menace Bryan.
 But he also has two strong newspa- pers in California, a state to which the democratic national convention of fered a tempting bait in the form of an Asiatic exclusion plank CalifoT-, nians, it will be remembered, have been considerably wrought up in thel last few years over the inlrux or Jap anese, and it was only because of the earnest insistence of the president that members of the California deeega- ton in congress did not press theI passage of an exclusion bill at thei last session. The Hearst newspaper in Chicago will work yaliantly toI alienate democratic labor votes from MT. Bryan, and thereby counteract in a measure the effort of the democratic nominee to carry that state, with the possible assistance of John Mitchell, former head of the United Mine Work CTS of America, who has a large per sonal following among the miners there.
 Although the campaign promises toI be unusually free from personal at Jacks by one candidate upon the oth CT, the republicans intend to lay great stress upon the contention that Mir Bryan is a man whose mind is filled with economic vagaries, and for that reason is less qualified for the presi- dency than man of the experience and training of Mr. Taft It is not necessary here to specify the various theories of government and economics to which the republicans will direct attention when the fight waxes hot.
 New York Worries Taft Men.
 When it comes to the situation ID some of the most important northern states which the republicans must carry in order to win the election, it is to be observed that the party now in power is not in the most favorable condition for success. In New York, for example, there is bitter feeling between the republican machine and Governor Hughes, who has embar- rassed the organization men by his announcement that if the people want him he will be candidate for renomi- nation Hughes has been running the stafehouse at Albany along lines pc cnliarly his own, and wholly at var.