Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1908-10-31

| perceive what Organism would mean,
In Its destructive, obstructive and re-
dictionary effects, to the commerce.,
the agriculture and the manufacture
ing Industries OF that thriving COM
monwealth. Among leading Mary
land Democrats who have decided to
support Taft and Sherman against
the Bryan-Gompers combine are
Leigh Bonsal, who has declined to
make speeches for Bryan; John r..
Semmes, president OF the Board OF
Trade OF Baltimore; Waldo New
conner, president Of the National En-
change Bank. w. A. Garrett, chief
executive Of the receivers OF the Sea-
board Air Line Railway; George r.
Willis, formerly president OF the Po-
lice Board and William Weems, .
well known lawyer and lifelong Dem
ocrat, OF Frederick. Maryland. The
Taft Democratic Club of Baltimore
includes q number OF prominent
Democrats OF large influence in the
party, and the effect OF It's work Is
evident everywhere In Baltimore and
beyond the bounds OF that great
commercial and industrial centre.
Maryland, from present indications,
will give Taft a handsome majority
largely composed OF Democrats who
cannot stand for Organism and the
four lean and wretched years that a
Bryan victory would entail.
Delaware, where Victor du Pont
and Fl. M. B~arksdale, both OF Will
mington, r conspicuous among the
Democrats who are for Taft and ma
tional sanity, il assured to the Re-
publican column, and as election day
approaches the number OF Taft
Democrats" more rapidly increases.
In New Jersey also the Republican
majority will be swelled by Demo-
cratic accessions.
1t is not surprising that the South
ern States, although In all estimates
their votes are counted for Bryan.
should include a large proportion OF
influential Democrats who have de-
clared themselves for Taft; for the
South, with It's comparatively new
and fi~ourishing Industries. would be
hard hit by the tariff for revenue
only" of which Bryan Is sponsor.
Among prominent Democrats of At
lanta, Georgia, who have come out
for Taft, are w. M. Crumley, of At
lanta. head Of the Confederate Vet
Grams OF the South, ex-ppesident OF
the Jobbers' Association of the South,
and vice-president of the Beck &
Gregg Hardware Company; Frank 8.
Ellis. head of Keely Company. a
large dry goods house; Thomas Egg
lesion and w. e. Chaplin, leading in
surance men: F.. j. Paxon, of a lead
ing dry goods house, and Alexander
A. Smith and Victor Smith, prom
inent attorneys. members of Smith,
Hammond & Smith. Wilkinson Call,
of Florida. former Democratic United
States Senator from that State, and
George w. Garland, of Salisbury,
North Carolina. r accessions to the
Taft ranks that have attracted at
tention, and have led many others
to shake off blind adherence to the
Denver nominations, and to study
without prejudice the Republican
candidates and platform. These
changes by men of prominence and
influence are encouraging as to the
Use for the future.
Colonel John McAnerney, of New
York. a Democrat who was president
of the New Jersey electoral college in
1888 and who was an ardent supporter
OF Alton b. Parker four years ago,
has come out for Taft. II am a DEM
ocrat," he declares, 'but not of the
Bryan variety. There are many aha
Democrats throughout the country,
but they have no influence while
these agitators and demagogues are
In control. The laborer, the mechan-
ic, the manufacturer and the mer-
chant want a restoration of conf
dence, which would be wholly impos-
sible with Bryan and a bunch of his
Oklahoma advisers In control of the
government and the court appoint
ments."