The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-12

ago had a close shave in Maryland Seven of his electors were successful by plurauties of about 500, and the present Attorney-General, Colonel Bonaparte. was the sole Republican siector. who got through, his plural ity being only fifty-six.
 To Trim aBilI. Jackson.
 Congressman Sidney Mudd is the Re- publican boss out in the counties of Maryland, and old "Bill" Jackson down on the eastern shore of Maryland, is a sort of political side-partner of Mudd. "Bill" Is running for Congress again this year. and the reports all indicate that Harry Covington, the Democratic candidate, will trim him, in spite of the large sums of money that "Bill' pours out.
 Two years ago Jackson boasted to Baltimore reporters that he had bought his election, but when the papers of the city scored him for such bfazen statement, and Bonaparte set up "a mighty howl about the shameful ad- mission old Fill" conveniently craw- fshed by calling the reporters liars. and swearing he had made no such statement. The reporters had repu- table witnesses that Jackson made the statement.
 By long odds the most popular Re- publican in the city of Baltimore with the masses of the people. is ex-Con- gressman Frank c. Wachter. Stones Republican machine hassfor some years tried to put a collar on Wachter. ana he would never submit to 1t. wachter was the Republican candsnse@ for Mayor when. the late Mayor McLane was elected by a marrow margin. Mo- Lane, 1t will be recalled. committed sui eide a few months after taking his office. Wachter was elected to < Con- n Dc Ifofr tot xt..l. is usually Democratic. Mir. Wolf, the present Congressman, from the district. Is Democrat, and has the distinction of being the youngest man tin the House of Representatives, being a few years the junior of Representative Craig of Alabama. Wachter declined to run again beeaess he " ar,tea -te. be Mayor. Stone and his gang turned him down. Wachter says the situation In Maryland Is. squaliy for the Repub- licans. The Stone crowd charge that he being down and out, is sore, and that causes him to talk that way. Wachter is not a bolter, nor is he a "knifer." He just sees the situation as 1t is. and while he is for Taft. he recognizes that the Republicans prob ably have @ defeat coming to them this year. He is German-American. He knows nearly every man he meets on the streets of Baltimore His pop ularity with the plain people is re- markable. His standing with the great body of the Germans in Balti- more is high. Wachter knows that in this contest the Germans are not as generally Republican as they wers. Labor is in revolt, also. and there is a serious disaffectiop among the Balti- more negroes.
 Plain People Change Vote.
 To get at the sentiment in Balti- more, your correspondent went about among the people in the various walks of life. The opinions of men in tn dairy lunch rooms and other moderate prices eating places was obtained. Street car conductors and people on the cars were sounded as far as possi- ble. Employees about the hotels were asked what they heard as to the feel ing of the masses. Even hod-carriera and street laborers were sounded. Teamsters and men working around the basin where the steamboats and other vessels have their wharves, were mingled with. The information picked up clearly indicates that the changes among the plain people are so great that the Republicans are going to suf- fer great losses.
 Labor Leader Hirsch, head of the Baltimore Federation. is positive that the majority of the working men will GAPROAN 0tS6hs HI HE ANO contests this vote was practically all against him. Samuel Gompers and other prominent officials of the Ameri- can Federation, are billed for speeches in Baltimore the 23rd instant. Arr arrangements are being made for great turn out of workingmen. and as is well-known, Gompers and his asso- ciates are opposing Taft vigorously.
 In talking with the plain people. 1t was manifest that most of those who have heretofore voted the Republican ticket and who now intend to support Bryan have several reasons for a change of heart. There is too much Roosevelt on this fight" manyS were heard to say. That expression is a common one among the clerks and laboring people. Others hold that as Republicans have always charged that hard times in this country were due to Democratic victories, that 1t is only fair to hold Republicans responsible for the empty dinner pails of the past year, and they demand a change at Washington. Others consider that