The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1908-09-24
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campment at Toledo comes to us ST.
muitaneously with the announcement
by Chairman Hitchcock of the Nation
al Committee. that all OF Mr. Taft's
rivals for the presidential candidacy
are about TO take the stump for him.
Gov. Hughes will be the star speaker
at the demonstration in Youngstown
tomorrow. which will formally open
the campaign in Ohio. About TIE mid
die of the north Vice President Fair
banks is To start on Il speaking tour,
beginning in Indiana, which the Re
publican leaders are tentatively placing
in the doubtful list. Senator Foraker
has placed himself at the service of the
National Committee, and ii is under
stood that he is to open the campaign
in Kansas. Several weeks ago ii was
announced that Speaker Cannon was
to talk in every one of the close con-
gressiOnal districts, i'm aid of the Re
publican candidates for Congress. He
is also to talk for the national Ticket
in all those places Although the Ma
cially anxious to get Senator La Fol-
lette to talk, he is booked 20 make
many speeches for the presidential
ticket. So is Senator Knox, whose
name has seldom got into the papers
since the Chicago convention.
This rallying of all the Republican
leaders to the support of the national
ticket is significant. The only danger
that is ahead of the Republicans is
oyerconlidence, and measures are he
ing taken by the National Committee
TO avert that. The big Republican ma
Jority In Vermont shows that The
apathy In that quarter was not SO great
as had been feared. The vote was ND
to the average. and the Republican
margin was far enough above The 2.j.-
600 mark to show that the party was
holding it's own. At this stage of the
canvas all the indications point to n
brilliant Republican victory. 1t is al
together safe to predict that the situa-
ton will steadily improve to the end
Usually, the Republicans do the hard
est part of their work within a few
weeks OF the voting day. If the cleo
ton had taken place within month
cepted the Liberal Republican ticket
and platform in 1872 Greeley and not
Grant would probably have been elect
ed. The effervesccnce in the Demo-
cratic canvass had all evaporated.
however long before November came.
and nearly everybody saw that the Re
| publicans would sweep the country.
Garfield and Arthur were beaten in the
| indications in September when Yer
mont's small Republican majority and
dishearten the Republican national
leaders. The Republicans. though. I'M
pressed all the sulkers into the service
after the Maine disaster, the tide was
turned and Garfield carried the coun-
try. Probably Bryan would have been
elected In 1896 if the voting had taken
| place in August or September, Instead
of in November, but his boom went TO
| pieces when the people got chance
/ to inquire what he stood for. Parker
created sensation in 1904 by his gold
telegram to the st. Louis Convention,
and for a week or two he seemed TO be
strong with the country. In 1908 Bry-
ans greatest strength was Immediately
after Denver put him in the field. Prob
ably even Bryan himself now sees that
the tide is against him.
1t will do no harm for the Repubi-
cans to place Indiana, New York, New
Jersey, Connecticut and West Virginia
i'm the list of doubtful states. This will
feeling of apathy which it may fall
into. The Republicans have large
majority of the people on full vote.
The duty of the campaign managers
| will be to get that vote out. Conf
dence is an excellent thing for the
| party 90 have, but if it should lead any
considerable number of voters I'm each
precinct to stay away from the polls
it might easily prove disastrous. Even
with 100000 plurality. like that Of
| hoOStNtit III lsVf- tiit std. tffs al HOfuc
of few Republicans IN each voting
precinct In the Northern and Western
states would have reduced the Repub-
lican lead sufficiently TO have made
the result very close. 1t would be I'M
safe to count on a repetition in 1908 Of
the tidal wave OF. 1904. Bryan will IN
doubtedly poll a larger vote than Par
ker. He has a far larger following in
the West than Parker had while he is
not likely to be any weaker i'm the
East than Parker was. Carelessness
among Republican voters this year is a
peril which should be guarded against.
The size of the Republican majority is
detail which deserves attention. The
country needs n majority for Taft and
House belonging to his party. which
will be sure to mean complete Repub-
lican ascendency for at least four
years more. and thus bring Republican
prosperity to us again in its old-time
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