The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-08
POLITICAL
 POINTERS
HittIng the Interests. ington Special to Louisville Cour-


 Washington Special to Louisville Cour-
 Reports from New York indicate that the poor mouth" being put up by having the desired enect and that the RepuUlicaua organization Will yet be able to pay it's bills. The favorable change n the situation is attributed to the visit of Elihu Root to New York last week. It is also related that money Is now being greediiy taken from quarters wnicn were regarded early Tn the campaign as being too hostile to the administration to admit of accepting a contribution. It is stat ed that MT. Root and MT. William Mel: son Cromwell have become the official hat-passers of the Republican organi- zation and this has the double adyan tage of relieving Treasurer Sh eldon and his seventeen trust connections rom any embarrassment as MT. Shel- don Is under hot hre.
 No two men In the United States are better qualified for the work than Root and Cromwell; Neither is compelled four years ago and write My Dear Hartman" letters Both are wealthy men and In touch with the financiers of the country. Maryland for Bryan.
 If political conditions throughout the state of Maryland are to be judged by those prevailing in Western Mary. land there are many indications that the State will go Democratic. Through. out the Sixth Congressional District bad plight and the Democratic party l is in more harmonious accord than il has been for years.
 Colonel George A. Pearre. Repuhli' Fitted against him by Democrats is David J. Lewis. formerly practical coal miner, now lawyer, who few years ago was elected to the State Sen. ate from A AllaRhan CnuntX. nvarnnmfna large adverse majority.
 1t Is said that the mining vote of Allegheny and Garrett counties. which is very large, win be cast for Lewis
 Neither Taft nor sherman is well regarded by organized labor in the fore Seen almost solIdly RepuSlicsn but 1t Is believed that the popularity of Lewis, the Democratic Congressional candidate, with the labor plank of the proportion of it to the support oi l Bryan and Kern.
 son-in-Law Longworth i'm Tigh' Rock Island (Ill.) Special to New Yorh
 Congressman Nicholas Lonsworth'. speech made here on October make any statement to the effect that Taft | should serve for the next eight yeari ana EtOOSGVeit TOT the IOllOWlnB elBH1 years has caused widespread discussion among the, leaders of both parties | That he dId make such statement it | sworn to by several who heard hi: l address. but that 1t was said more ir | joke than in earnest. seems to bt l the general opinion.
 E. E. Ryden, a newspaper man whC | covered the meeting for Republican l newspaper. makes sworn affldavit that | Longworth said in substance:
 Your chairman has seen fit tC | launch my candidacy to an office tC which I have not expired-I mean as pired. Gentlemen, I rather think my chances for that offlce have expired Along this line I would like to mak' few suggestions myself. For thu next eight years I would propose MT Taft. Then, in order to keep New York in line, would suggest Theo dore Roosevelt for eight. years. Then to still keep New York in the Repub. | lican column, I would propose oul | friend, Sunny Jim After that-bu modesty prevents me from making an1 | further suggestions"
 R. A. Sears, another newspaper man who took detailed report of thu