The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-11-01
Gives Taft 306 and Bryan TT.
 - sas FORECAST IS FOR GREAT
 REPUBLICAN, VICTORY Democrats Will Save Governors In
 Some States. @ Correspondents Believe That Brynns Trip to East wps of Little Ser vice to Party-LIttIe More
 Than Solid south Is
 to Be Saved.

This Is the final forecast by The New York Herald of the election of 1908. There have been few changes In the outlook since the publication of the forecast of last Saturday. when The Herald's electoral table gave Taft 2s0 votes, Bryan I56; doubtful, with Re- publican ieanings 2s; doubtful with Democratic leanings. 21. yrs
 Easing the forecast of today stili CT | surface. indications on investigationa made by disinterested Correspondents in various doubtful States, The Her. | aid gives Mir. Taft 30s electoral votes | and Mir. Bryan iT7 re | The States changed from the tabie of last Sunday are six. No state Mfr, ! Taft seemed then to have with reaH- l enable surety has been lost @-.--a''- during the last week of the ca 1 ing. No State Mir. Bryan V. ited with last week has go 1 his column. The four States | orado. Indiana. Montana and | which were Iast week classed ful. with Republican tender now credited to Mir. Taft by respondent of The Herald. l States of Nebraska and which were ciasBed as doul Democratic inclfnations. are l to Mfr. Bryan. ta 1 Thus. during the week th, | parent gain of the Republic .. | date has been twenty-slx cleo. votes while the net apparent gain N the Democrattic candidate has been | twenty-one. All observers agree that Mfr. Bryan l did mot add to his electoral strength by his last journey to the East. H. utterly failed 10 shake the eiectora 1 vote of New York from its Republics mOorings, and indeed, during his pre- | ence in the Empire State the bel. | was intensified that there is 6 wor ing agreement oetwesna large nni Der of Democrats au Republicans | threw the state to A..r and Chan RorkefeIler Fimnrea.
 It yet remains to be seen, howeve., whether the peculiar announcement I by John D. Rockefeller that he would l support Taft. can be turned by the Democrats Into an argument which I may swing nofne close States back 70 i Bryan. The Democratic campai ITS are mating use of the Incident the avidlty with which last | seized upon in the closing hours
 There are indications that tF
 sachusetts pIuraiity~Qf M
 be very large. The
 Rhode Island and
 Republicans over
 In Rhode Island |
 A mixed result
 Democrat. will be
 over A. J. Pothier 1 Tn Connecticut
 ley will run far be
 likely to win by
 In Pennsylvania tn
 siderable uneasiness
 Republican managers
 vote in large centel
 such as Pitteburg.
 This has been caused n
 ger in which congreash -n
 are placed than by any aS4-- the success of the Republican el al
 swinging westward west
 ia still regarded as gafe Y~
 i5,000 plurality. but the
 come a political sham
 bitter contest over ] It is believed the
 will be elected
 gressional deleg | ginia will be R
 situation in that ,
 proved for Judge Tais
 Ther@ appears to he
 of douBt in Ohio, but tn.
 ments gfrom that state say
 give Mk. Taft a plurality of !
 30. 900 while Harris. Republice.
 probably be elected governor.
 The Republican managers have heeA in desperate frame of mind over Afr Tafts home State because of the pc culiar conditions existing there ane because the expected large drop in tht plurality from 25s. 1000 for MT. Roose- welt in 1904 allowed no reliable basis for calculation.
 The extraordinary exertiona forth by the National Republican Cor mittee, which followed Mir. Roosevelt advice and extended. a helping haf in that State has resulted in far ter condition. e@ | Secretary Root, who caFEiea th-
 utatlon as the spokesuaan of MG.
 welt on political occasions, made
 speeches in the state, one at Clnci natl and one St Toledo, both hotbeds
 Foraker dIsgruntisment, and 1t isl neYsd that they did much goo1.
 Indiana is going to be close, and very careful canv@sses during the were made by the newspapers aesocA ed with The Herald in this forecast.
 Michigan will go for Taft. but | State hght is very close. What Is garded as a conservative estim places the plurality of Governor Wi ner at 0,00o. Some SonEreseiot losAes in Michigan probably will be sI tained by the Republicans
 The Republicans seem Co be winni everything In Illinois. Tafts plural Is likely to be Unormous Mr. Cha the Prohibition candidate for Preside who is very ungrlendly to Mfr. Tai says the Republican National tiekt will have at least 100000 excess votat There has been a ripping light ovt | the Governorahip. but apparent Govern or Deneen. (Rspublican), ( to win oy Adlai B. ,Stevenson. (Demoerat). approximately 100000.
 The Republican state Commit ,, | claims Densen's election by 1S0.000 plus raiity while the Democratic state Com mittee asserts that Stevenson will wir by 90 900. Ali the Northwest continues to le