Warren sheaf., 1908-10-29
Leaders In the Party All Over the
Country Quit the Nebraskan
Ohice-Seeker and Come
Out for Taft.
'0loveland Democrats" Refuse to Be
Whipped Into Line and Organize
20 Fight tho Man Who Disrupted
the Party3Solid South Shows
Signs Of Breaking Up.

country In November is found in the
continued numerous defections Of here
to6ore prominent Democrats from that
party. Practically all of them give as
q reason that they cannot support the
1frice offered candidate and his change
able and unstable theories Of govern
nent. They simply cannot bring them
selves to be identified with Bryan.
Perhaps the most notifying Incl
rfenced in the present campaign were
In Massa chusetts, where two big men
named as Democratic presidential cleo
tors declined to serve on the ground
that they were unable to support Mr..
Bryan and greatly preferred Mr.. Taft.
These men were Ferdinand Strauss and
G. H. P. Gould, Of Lyons Falls, both
business men Of the first rank. Mr..
Strauss. especially, has been prominent
In the Massachusetts Democracy for
long time. Their declination to serve
n Bryan electors caused a sensation in
the old Bay State and throughout the
country.
Democratic Congressman for Taft
Eugene Walter Leake, Democratic
Representative in Congress from New
Jersey, called at Republican National
Committee headquarters early this
month to offer his services on the stump
for William H. Taft. Though he hes
been a stanch Democrat all his life he
ia bitterly nnDOco1 to William Tonpinps
Bryan and because he believes that the
election of Bryan to the Presidency
would mean the greatest calamity to
the country since the civil war, he is
ready to exert himself to the utmost to
aid the election of Judge Taft He is
speaking at Republican rallies through
out the Eastern States.
Democrats Organize to Fight Bryan.
That the sentiments felt by these men
are shared by many in New York is
shown in the organization Of the "Cleve-
land emocracy," an association whose
princib}es are anti i-Prvan. and which
has been formed, according to the arti-
c1es Of incorporation, "tO revive the true
spirit Of Democracy among the voters
of Harlem and of the whole city"
Headquarters have been opened and the
club is doing active work, not, it is al
most unnecessary to say, in the inter-
ests Of the continuous Nebraska office
seeker.
John r. Dos Passos, leading New
York lawyer and author, who has al
M ro hnnn non,npraf hoc
IN long statement announcing his al
lsgiance to Taft and denouncing Bryan
ism and the remnants Of the party which
Bryan controls II am Democrat" he
says, II expect to cast my vote for Mr.
Taft" William B. Davenport, we'll
years Public Administrator of Kings
County, has denounced the Democratic
platform and is now vice president Of
the Taft-sherman Lawyers Club.
Anti-Bryan Sentiment Widespread.
Former Special City Judge Irving
K. Baxter, of Utica, N. Y, who has
always been a Democrat, and was
elected Oh that ticket, not only has re-
pudiated Bryan, but will take the
stump and advocate the election of !
Taft and Sherman. Even up in Maine, |
where the members Of the Democratic |
are supposed to be hopeessly
bidebound, there is detection. w. H.
Of Scarboro. for instance,
announces that he has become so dis
gusted with Bryan in the Haskell con-
troversy that he has swung over to
the Republican party.
After hearing Judge Taft speak at
st. Louis, j. D. Houseman, of Denver,
Colo, well-known railroad builder,
announced his conversion to the Re-
publican party and it's candidates. Mr..
Houseman had been a loyal Democrat
course. is direct tribute to Judge
raft's powers as campaigner, of
which many evidences were produced
on his now famous western trip.
"Conversions" in the West.
At St. Joseph, Mo-, one Of the feat
ures was the Conversion of W. F.
Davis, a prominent Democrat, who
went to a meeting at tie stock yards
10 see Mr.. Taft. After sizing up the
after Mr.. Davis declared: II
thought I would vote for Mr.. Bryan,
out this man surely looks good to me-"
Another Missouri Democrat, E. B.
Haywood, a Burlington Railroad con-
luctor of St. Louis, evidently was
impressed; at any rate, he
las announced that Taft will get his
'ote. Noticeable among the vice presi-
lents at the Taft reception at St.
Lonis were James r. Smith, head Of
he st. Louis Business Mems League,
md Frederick N. Judson, well-known
awyer. both Democrats who have de-
Jared their intention of supporting
taft. ....t<
Some readers will remember that in
900 Webster DavA, former mayor Of