The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-25
POLITICAL
 POINTERS
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cInelnnssi Special to New Fork Eve

sefts each day the results of its can- vases. taken at random. in the car barns of Newport, in the shoe facto- of the Chamber of Commerce build ing In the city. These are better than postcard votes. because the reporters who take them aim to question every sSoy sSSy m change rss o Tss o aota ths Democratic to the Republican, ticket, as against changes in the other direction numbering 1.47i, In the record to date. ss1sa This tendency ssst,s. t muss be acsnewl ts Charles P. Tafi's newspaper. has just had a poll made by It's correspondents ot the eignty-eight counties. From it they figure out . Republican lead of years ago. Roosevelt carried this county of Hamilton then by plurality of over 10000. The Tiines-Sfar polls are now claiming 1t. by just 10000, an
 cspsse Certain Ssets stand stand out plainly: Bryan Is an altogether different can- didate from Alton B: Parker. No such overwhelming defeat may be ex peotsd; McKinlsg carried the State four times the bogie that he is now. by only 47,000. Taft lacks the prest- ige Of Roosevelt, aud the contest in Ohio will not be one.sided, as 1t was everywhere four years ago.
 Indiana h the Balance.
 Indianapolis Special to New York Even-.
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 Marion County. which includes about sO,00o people, Tn addition to this city, votes by machine, and its decision on the Presidential contest should be known few minutes after o'clock, Eastern ti1ne, on November [. Few. isolated returns early in the evenine should be more illumi hating than these. An experienced Republican editor of Southrn Indiana expects to know how the country has gone as soon as he hears the Marion County returns; from the State has gone, and Indiana, he says, always E0ee as does New York, and furtb ermore, which Is nearer the fact, he says, Indiana is always found Ssa.t NS he haet Sde inie .hs 0ns must 10 find a Presidential election kbarring that of 1S1e) in which the man for whom Indiana voted did not take the oath of office in Washington the fol- oa tRs tssst ss 0sia since the cS War, for Tilden. and for Cleveland on two oceasfnns when he was success ful. No wonder Indianahs think In- diana's verdict in high degree indi-
 This, Republican editor says that if Bryan carries Marion County "all is lost" The county Is a little more Re. publican than the rest of the State. If W wifi sS show SSf that @ fndiSSS ES PsS1ih k mishty close" and that the last precinct and election district may have to be wait ed for in order to know where the electoral vote falls. If Marion County givssf Taft 2,so0 plurality 1t will show. according to this observer, that the State has gone Republican by 26,O00. People vote with such regularity in Inc diana, party lines are so firmly held and the organization is so complete, that these figures doubtless possess excellent interpreting value.
 Many observers who insist that Inc diana Awdll vote for Bryan profess to see nc tendencies making for Taft the Debs vote, which most people here believe will suck in q good deal of the radical strength. Debg.s hold four years ago lay in the unwilltngness ot rsaicai pemoSrsts tS vote TOT ssi,ss; Parksr; it tsS generally agreed that Debs will get more votes here than he did then. The Hearst ticket ds not cutting much figure here. Prohibition movement. which has amounted to about 2B,0o0 votes in the state. ought logically to be reduced to small proportions bee cause of the large extent practically to which the Republicans have espoused
 s Indiana gets an astonishlnsly iarge' vote It has a population smaller than by 900, 0,000s yet 1t casts a 50 per cent. larger vote. Most of It's Congressional districts are close. To. nine are Republican. If Bryan should carry the State, they woulc stand at least eight Democratic to live Repub. lican. The ballot is very long. and in the counties where t is . Sti anaos,ta markeo the party emblem at the top will be very large. If Q. man votEs spne ticket under the law here be will have to mark each eIector; but this IS not where one punch of the button carries the electoral group.
 The outcome thus depends on the ability Of this year'B forces, tangible and intsnstSis. .tnh Gi1eGI orr Snu in 'n. Rrxan.s favor to overcome the momentum which the new Indiana. Everybody realizes that the Bryan sled win go vel, well up pass the crest is the point upon which conservative observers are not clear.
 soesassst Strength in wIseonsin. special to Washington Post; reduction in the Republican plurality In Wisconsin is the certain increase in the Socialist vote. In that state the taccessions to the Socialist ranks WlAl COHl1 hAOAO OAN AAOtAA ASO~ Dubllcaus than the Democrats, because of the fact that the Republicans pre- dominate in the manufacturing cities where workingnen have been forced sion. Another reaRon for the incfease Is the temporary eclipse of Senator La Toilette as the dominating figure Of the Republican Party.
 A very respectable per centage of the support heretofore extended to Ia Fol iette has been by men of socialistic He appeals to these men, because of his progressive vtws, more than any other public character in Wis.,. In fsss. has no such hold upon them as the martial Senator. Socialists who voted for Bryan twelve years ago will support Debs at the election two weeks hence Many Sf these ,I, meH ao,H vosea a,nsf noF Taft this, year. 4 complete realtgn- nent Of the radicals Is taking place In that state. Thousands of them who otherwise would vote for Bryan: and further reduce the anticipated plural lty of Taft, gre now marching under the Socialist banner
 RepublIcana Policy About ohio. Special to New orleans
 General alarm to all Ohio Republi- eans in Washington Is going out to- night, practically commanding them to hurry home to work and vote Tor Taft, In consequence of the arrival here of an Ohio Republican politician, bring Ing the gloomiest reports of the com dition of the party there that have yet reached Washington. According to the story told to members of the admin Istration and to Ohioans in particular, by the politician iri question. that State at the present moment Is lost to Taft, and mothipg can save It but the most desperate work and the most liberal use of money on the part of the Re-