The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-05
"MONEY" IS CRY
 OF THE COP. Repub Funds Are Run
 hing Low A coRTELYoU IS NEEDED Altitude of Labor and Negroes
 Gives Alarm Blacks of Ohio and Other States Threaten to Knife Taft--Business Men Dissusted With
 Roosevelt.
BY ALFRED J. sTOFER.

'
 Washington. Oct. 4.-(Special)-
 Money. money. money" That seems l to be the constant cry Of the hepuol- | can campaign managers.
 l From all reliable accounts they are
 short in this respect: that is the sums
 in the cash boxes at the Eastern ana | Western headquarters are so small Tn
 comparison with what Hanna, Cortel- 1 you and other chairmen in previous 1 campaigns had that the outlook seems | indeed blue for the fellows who are | doing the rounding up of voters for the grand old party" this year. 1 But really they are not as short as
 they claim to be. Ihe emS1rrasslh6 thing about the situation is that money 1 is needed worse this time than 1t ever | was before.
 1 Not only are the Democrats practi- | cally united all over the country, but 1 the dissatisfaction in labor circles and | the attitude of the negroes in this con-
 test have created condition that ts l the Taft interests. The negroes were 1 giving trouble a-plenty before the | President made his ferocious7 attack l upon Senator. Foraker in which ne 1 tried to drive him completely out of the Repu blican, party, and Tor which | the administration, will have to settle | for before this battle Is over. No mis. | take about that.
 only this week several prominent
 Republicans of Ohio have stated in | Washington that the insults to For | aker are going to be rereSented In | their State next month in way that ! win cause genuine anguish in the | breasts of those who have been trying l to discredit and humiliate him. In plain words. the knives are out, and there is every prospect that terrific I cutting and slashing will be done in l Candidate Tafts own State.
 .. - Negroes fin 0hfos
 The negro vote. sa large ins Ohio. | Tn the mayoralty4 election at Cleve- 1 land last year it was cast almost sol- l Idly for Mayor Tom L. Johnson when l Congressman Burton. urged by Roose- welt and Taft to make the race. was 1 nitted against that invincible 1emo- crat and Kentuckian. lfor Johnson was born and reared in the "Biue Grass" | Statel. who simply wiped the earth up" with Burton. All the power Of the administration and pretty much the entire business strength Of the city was arrayed against Johnson. HIS majority, 1t was admitted, would have | been nearly cut in half had ha not received th6 esupporte of the negroes. 1 The blacks even then resented the admintstratton's action in connection with the BrownsyiIIe Shooting. They are more worked up this year than ever. Foraker they look upon l as their Moses, and to nave nm abused and 1nsulted by those who gave the black soldiers such soak ing seems to be more than they can stand. Negroes revere the memories of Lincoln, Grant and Sumner. They are all dead. Foraker is much alive. and they fairly idolize him.
 No better illustration of the feeling AA han right here in Washington and in the counties of Maryland and Virginia
 contiguous to the Capital City. The ofice- holding negroes here have been beating the bushes to induce their people to organize Taft eluba in the city and the outlying territory men tioned. But they refuse to hearken
 unto the calls of the "biack bread and
 butter brigade"
 In Washington they have a sort of
 local headquarters established by the Republicans with a view of arranging for frequent meetings and to send vot-
 CTS to their homes for the coming election. There are a couple of halls in the building of moderate size. Me-
 gro meetings are announced right
 along, but even bands of music hired
 to stir up enthusiasm do not attract
 the blacks. They are a quiet and sul- len lot at present, and peculiar
 thing Is that you seldom ever hear a
 negro in this city mention the name
 of either Roosevelt or Taft.@In pre-
 vtous campaigns they would talk al-
 most Ineessantly if 8 group got to-
 gether anywhere. and were particular ly loud-mouthed In the street cars.
 But all that Is changed. They haven't
 word to say now.
 Maryland ls Democratic. Maryland has been for many years a
 doubtful State. first one party and then
 the other winning at tho elections.
 The revolt among the negroes this
 year Is so serious that many of the
 prominent Republican politicians ad-
 init that they cannot hope to win this
 year.
 The negroes all over the State have
 refused to join the Taft clubs. and
 a large percentage have declared
 frankly that If they vote at all on
 the presidency they Intend 10 put in
 8 ballot this time for Bryan.
 Congressman Pearre has plainly in-
 formed President Roosevelt that
 Maryland is lost to the Republicans if
 the national committee does not get
 down to the hardest sort of work Evidently Pearre sees the hand writ
 ing on the wall.
 The Democratic leaders are positive