The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
l POLITICAL
 POINTERS
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 Steuhenville Speci,l to Philadelphia
 outwardly Senator Foraksr Is calm quiescent taking neither interest noi part in the desperate fight Republicans are making to insure thOir suscess In the State. P iticaliy he is recluse snd M declines declines 'H to make make nSt sby Statement sd concerning his attitude In the cam paiEn. The onl. evidence of activity is the large force of clerks and ste nographers he employs. What these employees are doing he refuses to di- vulge.
 But politicians in Ohio make the explanation h withhoIds. They say many letters are sent from the For aksr oftlces to all parts of the State haif cf Taft, Ills followers who are still loyal to him are working hard but hey are not working for the na- tional ticket. Some of the time they spend sharpening the edge of their po- result of 1t all. is that while Foraker's influence Is not strong enough to do the national ticsset any appreciable harm, 1t may. re ut in the election of a Democratic Legislature md the send ing of Democratic Senator to take his place in Washington:
 Fight for Ohio Is Ifot ans Getting
 Hotter.
 Walter Wellr.an's Columbus Special 10
 Chicago Record Herald.
 If Ohio were Q vote next Tuesday the probabilities are that Bryan would carry the State This is not my opin- ion alone, but that of we'll informed Republican ie ders with whom have talked What the coming fortnight uf earnest campaign effort may do toward changing the present situation for the better of course remains to be seen. The Republicans believe they can yet their might am afraid 1t Is too late --that the thing Is rset" against them, and that they will not be able to turn 1t over In the short time now remain ing.
 year because so many factors work against Taft and so fsw for him. That Ohio Is q Republican state under nor nal conditions. every one knows The trouble sr is that this iy xssr the sondi said the other day Ohio has never gone Democratic T, Presidential wear and never will,t' the first of his phrases was the premise for the conclusion in the seeend one. All the really wen talked. of both parties. perceive that present conditions. are driving the State hard toward Bryan, but the fact that Ohio has never yet completely de- iSSflSu NlS 1bepuDiHsdH pdFIy III a EreS~ identiaf year stares them all in the face. gives tho almost despairing Re- publican hope. : d deters the Demo crats from feeling that degree. of con f1dence which the conditions actually warrant. five could push out of our minds the, historical recollection that Ohio has always chosen Republican Presidential eieetors; and consider the conditions of today purely upon their merits we should all have to concede that the State Is probably for Bryan, and the best we could conclude Is that by hard work and good luck It. is still just possible for the Republicans to snatch victory from the jaws of de- feat
 RepubIiean Losses as Compared With
 1900,
 From every city in Ohio come re- ports of Republican losses. Mckinley had 1S,000 plurality in Cleveland and Cincinnati. Taking those two cities together Bryan wifi this time have a small plurality If a similar disaster happens to the Republican pluralitles in the remaining etties--and 1t is prob iable--thereEw will; be nothing left but the country eelintie2- to save the State for Faft The stxtY country counties contain an &N6ekaHe Of one town each Of from s,9Op tos ,O0p population. Here ara many swoFktngHlen in shops and Ifactb1qesl ;ilse SraHfoaders. also min CTS All told, nearly one half of the votes in The State are more or less saS ha fsnfI ~zrfaf ara