The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-01
incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on
 The National Contest
nattle Wssid Have Been Cisse,

asttle Wsuid Have Been Ctese,
 Delaware. Indiana. maryland. Nils souri, New York and West vtreinis is the Democrstic column wcu,c sss. nave n.ss ker a2S; Ro0ssveits majority in Eise-
 0kiahomas seven new eleotcrai votes ars generally conceded @ t9 9.aI. Ms. Parker would nave received had l6.ss per cent of the Republican vote been turned from Roosevelt. Oklahoma makes the Democratic Total 5sQ. All that Mr. Bryan would need in addition ticut's !. which Cleveland ~polled. to make the result: Bryan 2<s, Taft 2ss.
 white House Typewriter.
 New York special.
 The card index system and the flt- ins cabinets SO carefully prepared Uy Chairman Hitchcock have been put out of business. Tne room where they arv stacked rssemDiss | nn0rgus. Not \ single card was moved from its case touay nor a new one inserted. Ths Wnite House typewriter mas taken thf pace of the ming caDinets. The con Ireyersy or the ready letter writers nas entireIy changed the course or the Hs> c0ck smiled faintiy at today's sessloB with the political reporters and talked iiiere1y against time.
 T must confess to you at the very pesinning," ne said, there is abso- luteiy no news iere. 1 am sorry 10 say that have no1hng to give out.
 There as alarm about the submersion of Juage Tafl Dy reason of the Presl- aents pIunge into tne lineiixhL, basi hepuplican managers hope It mas prOss d good thing for hiili to emerge ciean when the mud -siinging between the Big Stick" and "Ilis Commoner IS ended. x.
 1t was President aooseveit who ordered that General duRont resign from the hepubiican campaign last week. That was merely an ifictuent m tue active management he haS as- sumed over the whole party business. Who or what the 'tsig Stick" will hit next nobody can tell. The MetropoI- itan tower outnt Is lying low.
 Betting in Wal Street.
 New York Herald.
 odds in the election betting in Wall Street went from 5 to 1 on Taft yester- day to to and 3 to l. In the face of the order prohibiting any open Dst- ting on the curb, all wagers had to be made under cover.
 in The Herald sunday, has been ind ing its way into the street in large sums, found takers in moderate sums yesterday at even niUhey.
 The slump in the odds on Taft. that have ruled at to 1 since any elect ion. money at all was brought into sight. was attributed to the part Pres- ident Roosevelt Is playing in the cam paign. 1t being argued in the financial district that he will in5ure the Taft prospects by the course he Is pursuing.
 In addition to this, the reports from Northwestern States given out by Frank H. Hitchcock yesterday were not taken as promising. Considerably more money is being posted on the out. come of the State fight than on tho National.
 One of the largest bets made since the opening of the State cam paign was reported last night at tue WaIdorf-Astoria. A, 8. Hudson. said to have been acting for John W. Gates. wagered s24.000 with Richard H ("Cad") Doggett, that Chanler would be elected, MT. Doggett betting $20,0o0 that Hughes would have second term.
 1t was estimated that in the last few days, in the brokerage ofiices in and near the Waldorf-Astoria, more than $100, 900 had been wagered at odds of six to five in favor of Chanler.