The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-08-21
CAMPAIGN OUTLOOK
DEMOCRATS ARE HOPEFUL OF
 GREAT VICTORY.
Champ Clark Tells Chairman Mack of Conditions as He Finds Them Eject of the H1linots
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l spohuehce. 1--Champ Clark. the veteran
 Missouri Congressman. was an early
 visitor at Democratic headquarters to-
 day. where he conferred with Chair.
 man Mack and the heads of the various bureaus. Ex-Governor Dockery of Mis-
 sourl. accompanied Mir. Clark. What
 the Missouri Congressman had to say
 about the general political situation
 was very pleasing to the leaders on duty at headquarters. Mir. Clark, who
 Is regarded as one of the readiest and
 most effective speakers in either party
 has just returned from a featuring tour
 whieh embraced most of the debatabls
 states in the West He has lectured in
 Illinois. ohio Indiana. Iowa. Kansas,
 colorado. Nebraska and Missouri.
 T haven't been making political ] speeches" observed Mir. Clark. but l at the same time I have not failed to l let my audiences know my politics. I
 travelled and talked with a great many
 people during my trips through these
 western states It is Bryan every
 where that have been, and that means
 about eight States. Included in these
 are Ohio and Illinois. Missouri will
 give Bryan all of 5o,Ooo majority and
 the States adjoining are also tending
 towards Democracy. Not only Is the Presidential outlook encouraging. but
 I firmly believe we are going to wipe | House of Representative. Indications point to the fact that the people have reached the conclusion that they need a change in the administration of the Federal Government"
 Senator Thomas F. Gore. the blind orator from Oklahoma, has set a pace for piatofrrn orators of the Democratic persuasion He has a series of engage rnents over a Chautauqua circuit, and had agreed to give one-half of his share of the receipts to the Demo- cratic national campaign fund. His first engagement, with this object in view. is at Danville. H.. next week.
 The Chicago papers contain columns about the lynching of negroes and ef- forts to check mob rule at Springfield. These publications reproduced in the same issue an Interview from B F.
 Yoakurn, chairman of the Executive Committee of the Rock Island and Frisco lines. in which he stated that 100000 railway men are out of jobs and that railway employees are losing every day as the result scf the present de- pression in trade. &1,000.o00 On the editorial page of The Chicago Tribune, there also appeared this significant ed- itorial, Lack of work. drunkenness dependency. These are the three reasons for the marked increase in the number of wife assertions in Chicago. Just how many. eases there are In the course of year is not definitely known But the statement Of officials of socie- ties likely to be informed on the sub- Ject is that the number Is large.
 This same sort of story comes from New York. The plaints of deserted wives have been so numerous in that city as to become subject of con- siderable discussion. Tn both cities the same trio of reasons is mentioned Tack of work drunkenness, despond- ency."
 These new stories which about made up the Chicago papers on the date mens tioned, were a strong arraignment of the Republican Party. It is that party that has absolute control of the Gov ernment in the nation. in the State of Illinois and in Springfield. Here. then. is the adnnissoin of a leading Repubii- can papers in the country that men are deserting their wives for lack of work and that hundreds of thousands of men in one particular branch Of In. dustry are looking for some sort of employment. The Tribune holds out no promise to this army of unemployed, though appealing for their votes for the Republican Party. What The Tri- bune says editorially and in its news columns is very likely to recall to the attention of these idle people a dec- laration in the Republican campaign handbook four years ago. In the chap ter in the hand book devoted to the tariff, this remarkable statement ap- peared: "A Republican tariff is. always followed by business prosperity; and 6 Democratic tarif bu business adver- sity." At the Chicago Convention this year no reference was made to this remarkable campaign declaration of four years ago. Its falsity Is as likely to appeal to the great mass of unem- ployed as it did to the convention at which nominated Taft and Sherman and which ignored 1t with sil- ence. The idle voters who have been told by Republican stump speakers that Reublican success Is always attended by good times will doubtless be slow to accept the advice of those metro- politan papers like The Tribune which are urging the election of Taft. They know they are out of work and they know full we'll what they were told 1 four years ago.
 Every good citizen regrets the de- | plorabie affair at Springfield. and yet | one cannot help but wonder how such |