The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-23
Incidents and Opinions
 Throwing Light on
 The National Contest

scathing criticisms of President Comp CTS that has been printed. and 1t comes from the labor journal of the vania. For weeks the American Fed eration of Labor, by direction of Pres
 ident Gompers. has made every. effort
 to swing the miners vote solidly into the Democratic column. More atten- ton has been paid to the miners than to any other organization, and hun-
 dreds of special organizers for the mine fields trying to turn the vote of the wage earners toe the mines and. the iron and steel industries
 The National Labor Tribune is open tlsan politics. The Tribunes circula-- tion is confined to the mine field and
 the factories of Pittsburg, where Pres
 ident Gompers Is directing his heavy Government Employees.
 About 15,000 employees of the Gov
 srn%ent ,9Iiises, of, of which S tw1sthlrds ats The railroads will make special rates, but voters must get certificates issued by the Committee of his Party in or- Evidently politicians have been send- ing out that old phrase. now is the
 time for all good men to come t" the
 Even the President is helping to make life for tb voter in the Government departments q gliding dream which will last from October 2s. when he gets paid three days ahead of time, until November {. when he comes back from voting, once more common citizen
 and useful for four years to come Maxea Up in the Tee Pool Scandal.
 The World is in a position to state positively that George Sheldon, Treas
 mittee, was ahsociated with Charles W. Morse in at least one of his ice l pools, and. moreover, got out of 1t
 with large profits, ,4l <. state positively that the documents which show MT. sheldon to have been a member of Morse's Ice pool. ana which also show his profits. are in pos- seSsion of the United States ofneials l who are prosecuting Morse and Curtis. Why Mir. sheldon was not called to tell on the witness stand or ms mem mem 1 bership in one of the Morse Ice pools. characterized by Judge Hough as an | association of adveDturers. ana placed on the same level with John F. car
 ro Issas GuEgessaSsmo seSwao 9gnn has m not been explained z,,,.
 cans lined up with Morse Morse n idantity als ei is being kept hidden as matter Of pott litlcai expediency is not known, but
 1t is said there are others besides MT.
 The Roosevelt administration is | known to be keeping the closest pos's | sible watch oh the prosecution oL alL;
 Morse. the whole thing Deing oirsstsd d | by Attorney General Bonaparte. head of the Department of Justice. It is also no secret that 1t was planned 70 l have the trial completed and conyic-
 because of it's supposed vote-gettinK
 effect.
 Raising Republican Funds.
 Walter Wallman In Chicago Reeorc-
 During the, past week the. .Republi- l can national campaign fund has been
 enriched .y,srd by conari6o15I,ons 6o1Iers and James J. Hill Is the man who raised tLe .he money. Mir. Hill has thus taken the
 place in the Taft campaign & whiGn ay My l welt campaign four years ago. For the 1 first time since the opening ot this years battle the Republican Nationai 1 Committed feels comfortable hnanclai- iy. ana able to push the work with vigor during the last fortnight or the | campaign. President Hoosevelts in.
 fuenes was enough ,,, to sSrSw Ees hSsqTse csrnsl l gie and some one stirred up MT. aiii | If was James J. Hill who came to | the rescue of Mark Hanna during the I fgiht. when it looked as if the West I was going for silver and the nation l in danger of being plunged down to atemaia. Mir. HiIl used his personal 1 Influence among the rich men Of New l York and procured for MT Hanna 2 l considerable part of the $6,000, 900 fund 1 that was used in that campaign. Now | he has come to the rescue Of MT. 1 hitchcock in a similar way. He has | spoken the words fin the right ears in l New York, which have resulted in a l surprising increase of the funds In the | war chest. That this acretion was
 welcome may be imagined from the l fact that the chest was nearly empty, | that various States were appealing to 1 the national chairman for financial aid, | and that poor Mfr. Hitchcock did not l know where the money was coming | from to pay his ordinary running ex- | penses, let alone sending snug sums l to the fighting States