The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1908-10-28

CINCINNATI.-With the view of
getting a line on the drift of pOliti-
cal sentiment in these last days
before election the Cincinnati En-
suirer has been taking a secert bal
lot. The canvass is accurate, the re-
suits being ascertained and verified
by mathematical experts. The fig
Mres show big democratic gains and
are such as to put the election of
Bryan beyond any doubt.
Most interesting are figures from
Taft's own state, Ohio, and his own
city. Cincinnati They show a state
of affairs which admits of only one
interpretation-tha Bryan will car
~ Ohio by many thousand plurality.
For example, the Enquirer made a
canvass of the Lunkenheimer Brass
works in Cincinnati, one of the
largest concerns of its kind in the
country. Out of those in the estab-
lishment who voted the republican
ticket in 1904 forty-nine will vote
for Bryan in 1908. Only sixteen who
for Taft this year, while eight repub-
licans will vote for Debs, one repub-
lican for prohibition, one republican
will vote socialist and three social
lists will vote democratic.
The canvass made in the First Ma
tional Bank building showed thirty
nine republicans who will shift to
Bryan as against nine voters who
will shift to Taft In the Fourth Ma
tional Bank building eleven repub-
Iicans voted for Bryan, while only
two who voted democratic in 1904
will shift to Taft this year. In the
Mercantile Library skyscraper is
shown this extraordinary change:
republican to democrat, 81; demo-
crat to republican, 4. In the Union
Trust building, among bankers, law
yers, doctors and insurance men,
forty-three shift to Bryan as against
twenty-five to Taft.
In the canvass of the plant of Hell
mers, Bettman & Co, one of the
largest shoe factories OF Cincinnati,
seventeen republicans went over to
Bryan. and not a single democrat
will vote for Taft, this being espe-
cjally significant as showing the Bry-
an trend of the labor vote.
The decisiveness of democratic
gains is brought out with startling
clearness by analysis of these figures.
Among the professional and mercan-
tile classes as represented in the big
Office buildings there is a republican
shift of II per cent, while the demo-
cratic shift to Taft is only per cent.
hs Iol ,aY CbCv
by the canvass of the Helmers-Bett-
man concern, there is a republican
shift to Bryan of 80 1-3 per cent
and no shift to Taft at all 1t is
fair to assume that workers and sal
aried people represent at least two
thirds of the entire vote of the coun-
try
Now, the total republican vote of
Ohio in 1904 was 600,059. The total
democratic vote was 344.674. APP
plying the canvass in Cincinnati to
general conditions throughout the
state of Ohio we have:
Total republican shift to
Bryan ................... ,333
Deduct democratic shift of s
per cent. Of professional
and mercantile vote. ... 5000
Net republican shift to Bryan 1913
Add total Ohio democratic
vote in 1904. ..344,G74
Estimated democratic vote in
Ohio for 1908 .5O1.807
Estimated republican vote in
Ohio for 1908, after de-
Quoting net loss of 49,
1913 recommendations
Estimated democratic plural
ity in Ohio for 1908. 58,8S1
Similar or larger democratic gains
are shown all through the middle