The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-27
POLITICAL POINTERS

The Memphis Commercial-Appeal publishes a letter from Joe Wheeler Hanley. of Florence, Ala. Enclosed find papas check No. 21 on Traders and Farmers Bank. HaIeyville. Ala. for s1 to help elect Mir. Bryan. am a little boy 10 years old. When 1 was | baby was at a baby show and the show offered 50 cents for he prettiest baby: so won the prize I think now is the best time I wi.i ev,r have to | invest my 5o eel.s. anu I borrowed 70 cents from papa. winch makes ths doi- lar. I want to go with papa to Wash ington. D. C., next March to see MT. already paid his sl to the local club here"
 New York Times.
 lent authority that the total contribu- tions to this years campaign fund which had been received by the Repub- lican National Committee when its of- ice closed on Saturday were within $500. .e0O.
 It was also learned from the same excellent source that in previous Pres idential campaigns in the last sixteep years the Republican National Com mlttee's total contributions have never fallen below s3,0oo. o.000--that is, ten times the sum received to date. There are still six weeks of the cam paign to run. and of course some fur ther response to the appeal for contri- buttons may be expected, but the par tvs expenses are going on all the time and the slimness of the responses so far Is causing not a little uneasiness among the party leaders New York Special.
 National Chairman Mack said tonight that the committee was receiving S5 per cent of its funds from newspa- pers, and that only swo newspapers and MT. Bryan's paper had turned In
 He added that the Standard oil Con- papy had never even made an at- tempt to contribute to the campaign fund. Nathan Strauss, Chairman of the Committed. today appointed several business men from each State mem bers of the committee and called the committee to meet Tn Chicago on Co., tober and 8. when MT. Mack and MT. Bryan will advise with the members.
 National Committeeman John T. Mo- Graw, of West Virginia, who attended todays meeting, said that tn his opinion conditions in West Virginia had never been so suspicious for Democratic success since 1902. and that Bryan would undoubtedly be elected. 4ar. McGraw said that the coal miners were either out of work or working on half time, and that they would vote
 
 Melville E. Ingalls, of Cincinnati called on Chairman Mack today and was invited to attend the meeting of the Eastern Campaign Committee Mr. Ingalls said that Ohio was without doubt safe for Bryan.
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 Monroeville, (Ala.), Letter 10 The New
 York Herald.
 The writer was one of the delegates from the First Congressional District of Alabama to the Denver Conven- ton, and made it point to inquire at several cities and towns in Kansas, Ne- braska and Colorado as to prospects of the Democratic ticket and found a very strong sentiment at every place for Bryan and Kern.
 We are in receipt of letter from a reliable correspondent in Ohio, who says Ohio is not a doubtful State at this time, but is safely for Bryan: thae it is up to the Republicans to change 1t. We are also in receipt of q letter from correspondent in h. diana who believes that State will be found in the Democratic column this time.
 In his former races MT Bryan was county. but this time. 50 was inform ed in Lincoln, he will carry his home county without any difficulty, 1t being the opinion of the gentleman with V --om I discussed 1t that he would get seventy-ive per cent of the vote in L.ncoln. and this man was a Republj- can. L. J. Bugg New York Sun.
 If Taft and Roosevelt knew all along that Foraker had a Standard