The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1908-10-05
OUTLOOK IN NEW YoRK
Republicans Confident Of Carrying
State With Good Majority.

hepuDISdUo IouUuenI or Carrying
State With Good Majority
New York, Oct 5.-New York state
was never more safely and purely re-
publican than it is this year. This is
the conclusion reached as the result
of a careful examination into condit-
ions in all Of the countries, which was
begun by the state committee directly
after the Saratoga convention. From
the reports which have reached Chair
man Woodruff and by him transmit
ted to the chairman of the national
committee, Frank II. Hitchcock, it is
established beyond all reasonable
question Of doubt that no breaches in
the republican wall have been broken
by the democrats.
II any Of the big republican readers
were bitten by the zest TO utter pre-
election prophecies with the freedom
manifested by some OF the gentlemen
of the opposition, they would be
unit in hazarding prediction that
Mr.. Bryan will do this fall what he
did In 1896. lose every county except
ing little Sehoharie. But the repub-
lican chiefs are content to say little.
over confidence was ever a failing CT
the New York state democratic chiefs
especially those of the present regi-
me. These have chirked up wonder
fully since Mr.. Bryan rushed through
the state Mr. Bryan spoke to big
audiences. But they were not as
big as those that greeted him twelve
years ago, and hung upon his words
,rstfh 80 % 1,uf oil
most amounted to hypnotism. Mr..
Bryan found that they were less en-
thusastic, too. They received him
more as they would a lecturer rem
dering him measure of applause as
a matter of courtesy, but steadfastly
refusing to be permanently impressed
with the political goods he had to Of
fer
The truth is that Mr. Bryan has lit
tie in his 1908 wallet to appeal to the
Empire state. His free silver issue
took astonishingly In 1896, especially
with the farmers. For local consump-
ton he has nothing that serves so
well with them. They are Indifferent
to the bank guarantee proposition as
he frames It; the tariff interests them
intimately scarcely at all, they are sat
isfied with what the republicans have
done in the way of regulating trusts
and railroads and content to let Mr.
Taft carry on his rational program
along the lines blazed by Mr. Roose
welt Mr. Taft has their confidence,
something Mr.. Bryan never had.
When the attention of a democrat
&. nuIT,d a., Tho contract hatmaaV tho
way Mr.. Bryan fired New York state
from one end TO the other In '96 and
the unresponsiye attitude maintained
his year to his pleadings, he is apt
to shake his head solemnly and speak
Of a deep hidden flow of sentiment
that will rise to tidal wave proper
tons on election day and overwhelm
the republican ticket. II has been
the experience of veteran politicians
who have analysed deep, hidden flows
of sentiments, that tney are universal
ly accompanied by sullenness on the
part Of the voters, and disposition to
eyade discussion Of political topics
There is no sullenness in New York.
When a man is asked how he stands
almost invariably his response is
frank. explicit and instantaneous. He
let's you know Immediately how he
| feels and how he will vote.
The democrats are harping a good
deal on the unprecedented harmony
that they say unifes the discordant
elements of the party AS a matter
of fact, there is little more harmony
among the factions than there was
year ago. Connors, the state chair
man. Is frantically jealous OF nation
al chairman Mack, his political and
business rival I'm Buffalo. They are
not pulling together at all. The up
state leaders are disgruntled with
Murphy and are not inclined to yield
an inch for harmony II II is to ad.
vantage Murphy and Tammany. Few
OF the men who can sway votes trust
Bryan. None of them knows with
whom Bryan would affiliate in the
event Of his election. and rather than
run the risk of helping 10 elect him
and see him tratilcking In offices with
their rivals. they would rather let
him be defeated
Bryan also labors under the handi-
cap in New York Of being a failure
as national candidate The New
Workers cannot forget that he is
consistent loser They don't like los
ers. The abrupt way in which they
dropped David b. Hill after his defeat
for governor proves that AS long as
he was winning Hin was the biggest
democrat in the country. In the eyes
OF his partymen in New York. When
no lost his euunorf dronnpd away like
leaves in a gale following a frost.
There are just as many gold demo
Gratis opposed to Bryan as there We're
In 1900, and few OF them have come
back into the fold, so far as the Neb'
raskan Is concerned, since 1898.
Their antagonism to him was revival
lied nightly by the posthumous dec
laration of Former President Cleye-
land in favor OF Mr.. Taft. None OF
thn lttfa hoauaQ WhO are fugaiuN