The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1908-10-24
THE CAMPAIGN
GOING EASTWARD
Sounds of Battle Receding From
the Prairie Stamping
Ground.
By Ernest G.. Walker.

Mail Special TO the AdverUlser.l
CHICAGO, October 12-The noise of
political battle is receding somewhat
from the West. Not that the issue has
been fully decided here or that the
heavy firing is over on this side of the
Allegheny Mountains But the alarm
has been sounded from the East and
the feldmarshals, generals and captains,
the heavy artillery and many of the
effective engines of political contention
are being hurried toward the rising sun.
That does not mean essentially that
they are all going to New York. For,
while New York has now become the
great political battle-ground and prob
ably is the pivotal state in the cam
paign as much if not more than it ever
before was the pivotal state in a presi-
Dental year, the Republican leaders
and the Democratic leaders, for that
matter, are sweating and groauing from
the exchange of herculean blows only
Just little east of the windy eity-in
Indiana and Ohio.
The progress of the campaign demon
strates more and more what a terrific
battle-ground Ohio, the state of modern
Presidents, Republican Presidents, if
you please, really is. The Republicans
deny it. They say it is preposterous to
talk about Ohio going against Taft,
that it viii give him a majority of
$4,000. Their estimates of pluralities
in some instances are more ambitious
than that, even go up to $4,000, which
is twice as much as Mckinley ever re-
ceived in Ohio when running against
Bryan But, after all is said, the Re-
publicans are tremendously scared about
Ohio. While they disclaim and deny
about Ohio, they are hurrying reinforce
ments of workers into the state, have
decided to keep Mr.. Taft there this
week, longer than at first planned, and
are moving heaven and earth to dis
lodge the recalcitrant labor voters.
Ohio Very Doubtful State.
The opinion grows In well informed
circles that Ohio is more doubtful even
than Indiana or possibly than New
York and that all the reserve strength
of the national management must be
devoted to keeping the candidate s own
state from going back on him election
day. If Ohio should 60 for Bryan, how
ever, it is next to certain that Indiana
would do likewise and the day would
be pretty nearly lost for Taft, even if
New York should vote for him.
The Republicans in this western coun-
try are aware that there is the feel
of a landslide for Bryan in the air.
They hope il is nothing but decided
drift of sentiment for Bryan. 1t may
develop, after all the hard work Repub-
licans can and will do in the next ten
days or two weeks that this feel of
things is only decided drift to Bryan,
which will not suffice to overcome the
normal Republican majorities in the
western states hereabouts. But Bryan
continues to wage a very effective cam
paign. He is distributing his efforts
all over the debatable western country
this week, is speaking all the way from
Colorado to Ohio, and will seek during
that period to overcome whatever adj
vantage Nominee Taft may have gained
by his recent sweep of recent weeks
through the same region. Then Bryan,
after having followed Mr. Taft s trail
all over the west, viii track him to
Ohio and the east and make his whirl-
wind tour of New York and adjoining
states.
Labor Votes May Decide Election.
Out here it looks more and more as