The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-09-30

regular ticket is headed nv q wv
owlSner' a professional politician
me Lincoln ticket is headed nv Ar
nold Z. Sheer. Both men have s,b
Stantlal followings, and neither is
Sumclently a reformer to correct tbo
corporation rule which is the hano
u west Virginia. Both senator's
VINO nave no hatred for corpora atoms
nave vowed allegiance to Swisher
Meanwhile the democrats bo
taken advantage of the dissension
ana nominated Lewis Bennett
clean man without faint of cornoro-
tlon service or interest. Mr. Taft
consistently declines to receive ron
resentatives of either republican fac
tloh' He will take no part in their
nght but he does ask that both
name the same set of presidential
electors. Even if this request is
granted the harmony in the demo-
cratic ranks is sure to cut down the
Taft vote and perhaps swing West
Virginia into the democratic column
The situation in Indiana grows no
better as the weeks roll by. The
indianapolis News, the Fairbanks or
gan, in saying nice things about Bry-
an, which is a fair indication that
the vice-president will not hurt him
self to help the national ticket. In
both Indiana and Ohio the situation
IS complicated by anti-liquor agita-
ton. In Iowa there is factionaI
fight between Cummings and the old
Allison adherentS.
Kansas Radicalism.
Kansas republicans have gone
against the national platform on the
guarantee of bank deposits. This
sort of move was downed with little
consideration by the republicans ait
Chicago, but Kansas was under press
ure. On her southern border state
banks were losing their deposNs.
Kansas farmers who were close to
Oklahoma just naturally trotted
their coin tt the banks, where it was
protected by Oklahoma's new state
guarantee, and Kansas bankers de-
manded salvation.
Kansas belongs in a group of
states which have imbibed a liking
for more radicalism than is voiced
IN the republican national platform.
| Included in the same category are
Nebraska and Wisconsin, al beast.
The leader of republican radicals is
La Foll@tte, and he has a large fol-
lowing in South Dakota and in Min
nesOtav as we'll as in his own state.
Nomiually he is for the republican
ticket, but the kind of support which
he gives it does not help much.
His radical policies were turned
down by the Chicago convention upon
the mere assertion of Senator Hop
kins that socialism was embodied in
them, Whether these radicals will
vote with La Toilette for the repub-
lican ticket, or whether they will
tswing their influence and votes for
| the more radical democratic plat
form is still open TO question.
Witt these disseusions and diff
cult situations growing ominous Mr.
Hitchcock has demonstrated that he
is the finest little traveller who was
ever chairman of the republican ma
tional committee. He thrives in the
air of Pullman sleepers, and dreams
to the accompaniment of the whirr-
ing ear wheels. Every paper you
pick up tells of his arrival at Newton
or Podunk or Washington, and his
hasty departure to New York Or Chi
cago or Hot Springs.
Instead of devoting himself to his
well-advertised speciality of keeping
his card index posted up to date he
has revealed his social nature in null
Ititudinous conferences from one end
of the country to the other
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