Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-23
CASH AND GOOD NEWS
No Wonder They're Jolly at
Republican Headquarters.
CLAIM EVERYTHING NOW
That Is, Everything if You Don't
Count Ohio.
ROOSEVELT IS GIVEN CREDIT
Even Critics Admit He Is Cause Of
Sudden Activity Among
Party Hosts.
CLAIM EVERYTHING NOW
IS GIVEN CREDIT
Special From a Staff Correspondent.

Special From a Staff Correspondent.
NEW YORK, October 23.-"Where did
they get it?" That is the question the
democrats at national headquarters are
asking about their friends the enemy,
just across the way. having reference to
the prosperity of the republican campaign
fund. The democratic managers look out
of their windows in the Hoffman House
across Madison Square at the great white
marble building which shelters Chairman
Hitchcock and his busy staff of workers.
sadly shake their heads and repeat
Where did they get it?''
Search me; 1 don't know. But they
seem to have 1t and are using it to good
advantage, apparently. 1t is simply amaz-
ing the extent to which the republicans
are receiving good news from every part
of the country except Ohio Taft is
booming and stronger every day. Hughes
stock is looking up. and what was consid-
cred a desperate situation two weeks ago
is now tinged with the aurora Of hope.
The House of Representatives Is safe
for the republicans. undoubtedly. and the
majority will be greater than the man
ayers now admit. Information from
Washington headquarters of the repub-
lcan congressional committee received to-
day brought very cheering news of re-
west. The republican majority in the
House may run as high as forty-f1ve or
fifty.
John Sharp Is Suspicious.
At democratic headquarters they are
making desperate efforts to conceal the
despair Of the managers. They are
putting on q bold front and are trying to
keep stin upper lip. but there is little
tremulousness every now and then.
John Sharp William meandered through
the Hoffman House and encountered some
of his Washington friends. Asked how he
viewed the situation, the Mississippian, in
his drawing way. said: We'll. from all I
can see and from all I hear there is going
seen 80 many Of these democratic tidal
waves sweep the republican party in that
j am getting suspicious Of them.'
One reason assigned for the astounding
past two weeks is that the country has
been aroused by the persistent and des-
perate cry of wolf by the republican
managers. For a while the country did
not seem to realize that it might be pos
sible for Bryan to be elected, and great
many of the interests which have hereto
fore been relied upon by the republicans
showed signs of not caring very much If
he were elected.
Then came the news of Bryan's amazing
gains In the west Indiana and Ohio
showed signs of going by the board. The
House Of Representatives was declared to
be in danger. The business interests were
aroused from their state of apathy by the
persistent hammering of prominent repub-
Ncans. who declared that depression and
possibly panic would follow Bryan's cleo
ton.
A golden stream began to pour into the
republican campaign Golfers. 1t was
Niagara in comparison to the little drib-
BILE which had been trickling along up to
III vn1
thereby to do many legitimate campaign
stunts which were necessary. They got
out their literature. put their speakers on
the stump and did many things to boost
their game.
Roosevelt Given the Credit.
To President Roosevelt belongs the
credit OF doing a great deal to arouse
the slumbering republican hosts to action.
In New York there are some people who
do not like him, but even his unfriends
give him credit for being a consummate
politician and exerting a power in poll
tics far-reaching and astounding.
The republican managers expect Mr..
Taft TO have a smashing big vote in the
electoral college. although the popular
vote may be not SO far above Mr.. Bryan's.
One republican in position to be In
touch with conditions told me he would
not be surprised II Mr. Taft would run
behind Mr.. Bryan on the popular vote.
The republican managers claim that
the democrats are in utter rout and point
to Mr.. Bryan's fretful utterances as In
dicative of 1t. They say that his charges
OF corruption and coercion show that the
democrats feel that their case is desper-
ate Henry A. Williams chairman of the
Ohio republican state committee. was
at national headquarters today and gave
out an interview.
Mr.. Williams Statement
THE only doubt that 1 hear about the
republicans carrying Ohio comes from
outside the state" said Mr.. Williams.
He and State Auditor Walter S. Guilbert
are in the city to confer with Chairman
Hitchcock about the progress of the cam
paign in the Buckeye state.
There have been some disturbing condi-
tions among the laboring men in the
commercial centers of the state" admitted
Chairman Williams. But the approach
of the election has led them to appre-
ciate that only the republican party Is
10 be relied upon for a speedy return
to the prosperous times, and that Taft
can do immeasurably more for them
than Bryan. The tour of the republican
candidate through the state was an eye
opener. Never having campaigned in the
state. he had met only comparatively
few people. They had not come In con-
tact with his personality. Everywhere
he went he was greeted by immense
crowds, and l believe that at every meet
ticket. ~
The negroes of the state will vote the
republican ticket. While there are some
will not interfere with the national or
state ticket and that both will be elected
by large majorties.' n. o. M.