The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-10-11
HOPES TO SEE
BRYAN ELECTED
J. Ross Clark Says NebraSkan
Is Making Big and
Steady Gains.
HEARST CUTS NO FIGURE
PROSPERITY TIDE is RISING
SLOWLY, BUT SURELY.

William Jennings Bryan has been
and is making big, steady gains in his
clean-cut. forcefuI campaign for the
presidential chair. 1 believe that there
is a remarkable change of sentiment
going OF among the voters, the mass
of the people, and the trend apparently
is toward Bryan"
j. Ross Clark, second vice president
of the Salt Lake Route, with h~eadquar-
te-s in Los Angeles. thus expressed his
opinion of the presidential race up to
date To a Herald reporter last evening.
He believes that the outlook for Dem
ocratic success is very bright indeed.
Accompanied by r. E. Wells, general
manager of the Salt Lake Route. Mr..
Clark arrived here early yesterday
morning from Los Angeles in his pri-
Vate car No 101, which is now side
tracked near the oregon Short Line
depot. He came on a bushes trip.
and had conferences with Vice Presi-
dent w II. Bancroft and other railroad
officials yesterday
Mr.. Clark, who is at the Knutsford
hotel. will leave Salt Lake at 1850 to-
night for his home in Los Angeles,
stopping for a few days en- route at
Fillmore for inspection and other rail-
o a business.
Politics, railroad matters and the re-
turn of prosperity were discussed by
Vice President Clark in an interview.
Il would not venture to express an
opinion as to who will be our next
president" stated Mr.. Clark, though I
hope that Bryan will be the man. 1t
is extremely difficult to forecast the
result Of a presidential election with
any degree of accuracy. so l would not
care to express an opinion.
I think that Bryan is making the
right kind of campaign, and hat his
speeches are telling in their results. If
he continues to gain votes, and I be-
lieve that the gains he has made in
the past few weeks are nothing short
of remarkable, the hope that the White
House will be occupied by a Democrat
ic president during the next four years
viii be realized.
Hearst is a Fiea-bite.
How will Hearst's party affect the
general result? Well, I doubt whether
IT will affect the situation seriously at
all. If he draws votes from any party.
1t ought to be from the Socialists; they
come nearer agreeing with his notions
than anybody else.
Il don't see where Hearst's party win
in1ure Bryan or take any Democratic
votes away. and neither do | believe
that he will harm the Republican par
~ Men are going to vote with either
of the two parties. for they realize
that to vote otherwise would be equal
TO wasting their ballots.
Even in California, where Hearst
has his papers in Los Angeles and San
Francisco, 1 don't think tina he will
draw many men to his standard. New
York City, apparently, is the only place
where he has any little influence. and
press reports state that he is losing
his grip there.
The Hearst exposes wherein Foraker
and others were shown up did much
good. 1t was a good thing to expose
men who were supposed to be repre-
sentlng the people. but were hitched I'D
with the Standard Oil His
charges against Mr.. Haskell were not
fully proved, to my mind. and Haskell,
who is full of fight, says that they can
not be proved.
IN regard to prosperity, it is obvi-
Gus TO every business man that if is re-
turning slowly but surely. Reports
from all over the country show that
business is picking VI and all railroad
men anticipate a nice fall business.
The financial panic did not affect
the west as it did the east, so the re-
covery is naturally quicker here in the
Rocky mountain and Pacific coast re-
gions. Crops are good, they are begin
ming to be-moved, and money is being
put into circulation in greater quanti-
ties all the time.
The Salt Lake Route has enioved
splendid business. in spite of the money
depression. Our business has not been
quite as good as that Of the correspond
ing period of last year, but it has been
better than that Of 1906. 1t was abnor-
NAL last year and it is nearly normal
now
THE Phoebe branch of our road has
been doing pretty well. and it's business
is ~increaing. 1t will 10 a big business
IN the future, when a vast amount of
ore will be taken out of the section it
serves"