The Paducah evening sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1906-1929, 1908-10-10

There Is a landslide running their way.
We don't want them to be too much
lovercome the day after election. and
I've would save the rest OF you losing
'Iany money on the result.
The Republican party won't make
any gains this year. Il can't. II has
made about all that could be expected
of Il in the last twelve years. ard
would be better off II It hadn't made
Isuch O whopper last time. Why, don't
you remember, Roosevelt had 2,545.-
5l5 more votes than Parker and =
I36,2G4 more votes than all the other
candidates put together. You all
know that Isn't the natural Republi-
can vote and that only the presence OF
conditions, which don't occur sinru-
ltaneously IN hundred years, could
duplicate Il.
There wasn't much doubt In your
mind about McKinley's election in
1896 or 1900. was there? No more
popular, no better man was. ever pro-
duced By the country. was there? The
party was never more harmonious
and never was better financed and
never had a better campaign manager
than ON those two occasions. Yet
Mckinley in 1896 had popular plu-
Irality of only 6of,s04 and In 1900 OF
$3.50.
Let us imagine that Mckinney
came after Roosevelt In 1900. for
instance, and there was in October
evidences of a falling OF from 2.5t5.-
5i5 10 Sfg.7s0, and all of II in thoi
cities OF the north ana none OF Il in
the south. Don't you think the drift
of more than 100000 votes in the
cities away from the Republican
candidates would be Observable?
Wouldn't you hear on every hand this
remark; II voted for Roosevelt, but
] am going to support Bryan this ,
year," And woufdn't that expression
figure in every straw vote you ceu.d I
take? /
Now just Keep your finger ON the
place. and substitute Taft for Nc
kinley. Isn't Il simpie--that surface
isift? Some Democrats are slipping
back into their party. but there Is
nothing like the maximum change We
iook for example. and nothing like
he who.e number will go back TO the
Democratic party. The Independents
md the Popuiists and the Socialists
ire claiming gains this year, gains
rom the Democratic party as we'll as
he Republican.
But that Is Just the city vote. How
bout the American farmer? He xil.l
Iecide this election. He is getting
'igger prices for his crops now than
e ever ala before. Out west he is a
Roosevelt man to the last. .Brya= {
new this and tried to avoid a clash I
nth Roosevelt, posing as the Roose-.
cit heir. He didn't have the straw
cry mark OF identification and is /
busing the administration now.
You can't take straw vote In Ken
ncky or anywhere else in the United }
tates without discovering that the
rift Of the farmer Is toward Taft, ,
HE the east is lost to Bryan 7
y his proposition to Russianize .
merican business by establishing J,
5deral surveillance OF mans affairs 5
nd limiting his activity: to cut the n
lrin to pieces a little bit at time: u
D put men at work estimating IN
heir own way how railroad assets s.
ompare with their stock issues; to 4,
lake the injunction, one Of the safe n
yards of American liberty, of no q
vail by depriying a judge of the D
over 10 enforce his orders; TO make :
eposits in specializing banks as safe q
5 deposits in a sound bank, by COM
cling the latter to insure the de- !,
'osits at its expense; and che memory :
4 his free silver craze. his desire TO :,
urn the Philippines over to Japan q
md his government ownership OF rail- :
cad scheme y
Don't worry about this election. !,
,ut cast your vote for national pros :,
'erity and q reign of law in Ken y
lucky. is'