The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-23
!, THE KEEKTK POLITICS.

thousand One of the most ingenious
things put on the market this year Is
a small tablet, like medicine pellet.
which, when dissolved. in a finger
bowl, resolves itself into picture Of
Taft or Bryan, as the case may be.
Already thousands of these tablets
have been sold to New York hotels
and restaurants.
Eugene v. Debs, in Philadelphia,
said Roosevelt has reduced the Of
fee Of president to the level OF the
ward heeling politician. With the re-
publicans 1t is Wall street and Taft,
and with the democrats it is Tam
many and graft"
Mr.. Bryan; in his speech before the
University Of Nebraska, called Gov
ernor Hughes a defender Of trusts"
called attention to the contributions
Of Morgan, Rockefeller and others to
/ his campaign fund and described him
/ as a doctor who laughed at the pre-
|. scription given by another physician,
though refusing to furnish prescrip-
ton, of his own.
mt. Taft has finished his tour Of
Ohio, making sixteen speeches. He de-
voted much time to the labor question
and defended his decisions when on
the bench in labor cases. He said
labor conditions had thrived under the
law as he had laid it down. He repeat
ed hts woman suffrage sentiments.
Mr.. Sherman, speaking in New Jer-
sey, said Bryan was dangerous" be-
cause he was sincere and would not
be II he were a faker.
Governor Hughes in New York
spoke at Oswego, Waverly and Elmira
to large audiences He said the indi-
cations for the election of Taft and
Sherman, are very gratifying" that
he would sign no bills for popularity
and my family is largely dependent
upon the insurance companies If any
thing happens to me-"
Ex-senator w. A. Clark, of Montana
will stump for Bryan, whose election,
he says, would help and not hurt bus
mess interests.
Samuel GOnpers issued an appeal
to 1aboring men to vote for Bryan,
He called Taft the Originator and
specific champion of discretionary
government" and said "despotic pow
er is as dangerous under ermine as
uuueT the CTUWu.
The total registration in New. York
is 6S1 ,602, (which is 6,789e less than IN
1904, the last presidential year, and
22,382 greater than in 1906. = -.
Republican doctrine received unex-
pected publicity through democratic
channels when two van loads of cam
paign literature were unloaded in the
mailing room of democratic national
headquarters in Chicago. The litera-
ture intended for republican head
quarters, block away, was written in
Bohemian, Lithuanian and Salvish
and before it was discovered that the
documents were appeals for the cleo
ton of Mr.. Taft, most of the literature
was mailed to the voters.
eff we had twenty-five speakers and
$4,000 we could carry Georgia at this
election" says Eugene v. Chain, pro-
hibition candidate for president in
speech at Logansport, Ind. "The par
ty that is defeated will go to smash
and drop out Of existence. The only
real issue in the campaign is prohi-
bition. There is no power on earth
that can prevent the prohibition party
from electing president in 1912"
Treasurer Riders figures showed
that the democratic national commit
tees campaign fund figures up to Oc-
tober 8 was $248,567, of which all but
$22,604 had been expended. Chairman
Mack gave out a supplemental state
ment showing receipts of $12,556 from
seventy contributors between October
and IA.
Mr.. Bryan concluded his tour of Ne
braska, speaking to large crowds, and
left for Denver. He called President
Roosevelt an imitator, said every pre-
datory corporation in the country is
back of Speaker Cannon and that If
Carnon's most intimate friend, Sher-
man, was chosen to preside over the
senate the people would be unable to
obtain any remedial legislation. =
Mr.. Taft received a warm walcome
in Kentucky and made speeches in
several cities. For the first time in
some time he discussed the question
Of guaranteeing bank deposits. I'm
fortunately chair broke under him
and he fell to the floor. His careful
inspection Of the next chair offered
caused laughter.
Ignoring the protestations and
screams of Mrs. William Randolph
Hearst, who was disrobing for the
night, deputy sheriff smashed in the
door of the editors compartment of
a Union Pacific train at Omaha, Neb,
and served him with papers of the no
tif1cation suit for $666,O00 that had
been brought against him for. slam
der and libel by Governor Haskell Of
Oklahoma.
Mr.. Sherman spoke on protection at
Jamestown, N. Y. He seemed to en-.
ic.r disohorrir,r. his r,hrreicin Nc .la.oa n