The Seattle Republican. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1???-1915, 1908-10-30
TAFT THE MAN OF THE HOUR

If Bryan had not have gone through two presiden-
tia campaigns and at about the close of each OF them
made the statement about his certain success at
the polls as he doing those reading his state
m ens in t1e present oagn who faTor Taft TOR pres
idsnt might have soma msgvings that there is some
real dan ger Of Bryan being elected but in the gnt OF
the past believes there any grounds for elth f
the sweeping claims of Mr. Bryan or the Democrats
all over the country to the outcome OF the eecton
Of course Mr. Bryan may be elected next Tuesday just
as stran things that have happened in the political
aft airs o. this country before but they do not often
happen and it is not therefore believed that anything
strange will happen next Tuesday Nav York state is
always claimed by the Democrats because they have
always been able to carry the city OF New YORK. out
for the state to GO is the exception an by
no means the rule 1t has not given its electoral vote
for emocratc president for many years, and there
is no party dssenton among the Republicans in the
present campaign to warrant any claims the part of
the Democrats that they will carry the state Indiana
may also go Democratic next Tuesday. 1t has gone
Democratic in the past but it has been long time ago.
Indianapolis the chief city of the state is always Dem
ocratic but the balance of the state never follows IN
its wake Kern has twice tried to be governor of the
state and each time has been turned down with dull
sickning thud There is plausible reason to believe
that the people have changed their minds toward MN
even though he is running for vice president The e-
publican machinery is in fine running order In Indiana
and it here predicted that Old Indiana will not forget
over enthusiastic Democratic prognostcator been
placed in the doubtful column and really there some
grounds for the allegaten judging from the political
mx-ups that has transpired in that state within the
past ten months Senator Foraker thought to be the
entering wedge for the Democratic party but how fool
ish is such claim Foraker desires to return to the
United States and expects the legislature which
is elected next Tuesday to return him. That could not
happen if the state went Democratic, Foraker there
FORE is going to help the Democrats the state
Then again. Foraker in the late state primaries of Ohio
failed to get enough votes throughout the entire state
to make appear to the general public outside OF the
state that he also for the state delegation OF Ohio
If Foraker should bolt he would not judging from tie
results of the primary contest in the state last spring.
be able to take enough votes to the Democratic party
to warrant any in CHASING Ohio doubtful state
in the presidential contest that will be pulled off next
Tuesday Other states of the North have been cassed
as doubtful by the Democrats but that has been dore
in every presidential contest and yet those states
on and on rolling up great Republican majorities year
in and year out and never showing any Democratic
leaning however popular the candidates on the ticket
may seem to be- Bryan may carry some OF the West
ern states Mark you, he may do 1t, but 1t is very
doubtful Whether however he does does not carry
single Western state the general results will amount
to one and the same. The Democrats are spreading
the report that the Republicans uneasy about the
above named states because they rushed speakers OF
national reputation therein during the past week. Not
at ALL they have simply worked the theory that dis
cretion was the better part of vaor They worked on
the cow boys theory watch tame and the wild
one will never hurt you" and likewise the princi-
ps an ounce Of prevention is worth ton of cure.
On the other hand the Republicans have gone into the
heart of the Solid South and have made some headway
thing that has been done before. 1t is not gen
orally believed that the Republicans will any of
of the Southern states and yet it must be admitted
there is as much probability of Taft carrying Kentucky
Maryland Tennessee and Delaware there is of Bry-
an carrying New York, Indiana, Ohio and Wisconsin
The most of us that have watched public sentiment
know that whenever it is going to make any radical
changes you can always feel 1t in the air. In other
words men talk they vote. They have reason for
talking one way and voting another and they do not
do it. Men all this country not talking Bryan
and while they may not be talking Taft as enthusias-