The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-07-24
BRYAN JOINS LODGES
FOLLOWS ReosEvELT.s STEPS TO
 GET VOTES.
Mr. Bryan Mss Become The Greatest 'IIoiperg In the United States. Repubs To Have Hard
 strugele

Struggle.
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 A Colorado Springs special to The New York Herald. says: s 's. -.
 Following up the inquiries among the Hitchcock confrees. begun, yester-l day by The Herald reporter. some ad- dttional facts of interest bearing on the desperate character of the struggle ahead of the Republicans in many of these Western States were learned.
 In the first place. the Nebraska cleo tion isyregarded as no easy matter. One thing that impressed those present at the conference isthe plan of Mir, Bryan to, gather to his assistance all the, se- cret societies in. the country He has taken a letter sout of Mir Roosevelt's book only in a slightly different way. MT. Roosevelt. before he was nofnin- ated in 1904 had done everything pos sibla to insure the support of various nationalities. He may not have been thinking of votes. only the Fellowship of men" but the effect of 1t was a big vote on election day. s
 Thus, he created the age limit pen- sion bill, and it insured him the. vote of the e. 4 R., he ordered the present. ation of the Kischineff petition Co the Isar. and thet won for him the en- tnusiastic support of the Jews; he broke down sectarian lines, and, he was
 
 terances and official acts; he. joined the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen ana Eot the railroad vote. v- e,
 MT, Bryan has become the greatest Joiner" in the United States. Mir Hayward. the chairman of the Nebras- ka state Committee. today said that he did not think thereewas secret socie- joined. - z " .7 'F ' '
 He is great Young. Mems Chris tian Association man, and has been speaking at church fairs and entertain. ments., and fully expects to get the protestant vote to offset the support of the Catholic Church. which is largely counted on for Judge Taft because of his settlement of the friars land ques- ton, in the Philippines after Journey to. the Vatican But Mir. Bryan Is not confining his efforts to the Young Mems Christian Association. He es also a member of the Eagles. to the presl- dency of which Theodore A.. Bell of California. temporary chairman of the Denver Convention, was chosen with the aid of Timothy D. Sullivan, not long ago. He ts fin the 'Elks and the Odd Fellows, and the Masons. and ey- cry other sort of secret society and pri- vate Insurance and mutual -benefit or Eanization. The wonder to some Is that Mir. Bryan, with this secret society scheme in full swing. finds time to at- tend to the manifold duties of his can- didacy along ordinary lines.
 It is recognized that Mir Bryan ia stronger in many respects than he was in 1900. This is admitted by the lead CTS from Kansas. Nebraska, North Da. kota. South Dakota. California. Me- vada and other States west of, the. Mis- souri. It is not questioned that Bryan has a great support in some. of these secret societies, and it is also feared by, the, leaders in some of the States that he will be able to poll a much than usually goes to the Democratic ticket.
 Nevada is one of the States in which, 1t was learned. when the representa- tive of that State arrived today, the Democratic prospects are better than those of the Republicans. While the Republicans in Montana and. Colorado will pehaps be benefited by the reduct- ion of the organized labor vote In the mines. the Democrats in Nevsda are bound to be estrenEthened by the mi grafton, because most of them have gone to the gold mines in that State. The only hope the Republicans have Of winning Nevada Is based on the facI | that the death of Governor Sparks doe prives the Democrats of their greatest leader. and the opposition party Is much split up because -of jealousiea. |.
 This report would seem to make 1t fair to change the estimate of Nevada The Herald made last night, and put 1t in the Democratic column. In the same way. but for a different. reason. North Dakota and South Dakota must be shifted from the Republican column to the doubtful column. Mir. Bryan is very hopeful of carrying both States and he Is preparing already to invade South Dakota. The factional troubles of the party, in both of these States make them doubtful at the opening of the campaigni and Mir. Hitchcock has for him much the. same sort of task that lay before Sepator Hanna in the | campaign of 1900, when he went af- ter" R. E. Pettlgrew and -"got him. It will thus be seen that at the out Set of the canvass the conference of Chairman Hitchcock has revealed the fact that there is heavy fighting before the Republicans in the States of Ne- braska, North Dakota, South Dakota, Colorado. Nevada, California and Mon tana,and while Kansas. Idaho, Wyom- ing, Utah, Oregon and. Washington are regarded as safe. every effort is con sidered necessary to prevent the Bryan campaign from making headway. Seth Bullock United States Marshal for South Dakota, who came down here | to look over the ground, and prevent his neighbors who were summoned by Mir. Hitchcock from climbing Pikess Peak in the, dark recognizes the EfaV- ity of the situation unless 1t Is han- dled by nasterly hand, and he knows the Western country almost as we'll as does his personal friend, the President.
 "rhe trouble" said Mir. Bullock to. night, Ifs that a great many of our farmers have come to regard the polit- icalisms of Mir Bryan in the light of some new-fangled agricultural machin- cry that costs nothing to try. If they are only made to believe that these