The citizen. [volume] (Berea, Ky.) 1899-1958, 1908-10-22
POLITICAL NOTES
Forecasts Indicate Republican Vic
tory Taft Goes East. - Haskell
Sues Hearst.

The time has come when few
new issues appear in the campaign,
and people now discuss chiefly
the question OF who win DO elected
While all the Democrats agree that
Bryan w,ll win. each paper seems
TO have q different reason for be-
lieying this. Each prints a table
showing where Bryan viii get enough
electoral votes. but, as c general
rule, those votes are coming from
from somewhere. where the paper is
not. II Taft carries all the Etates that
one Democratic paper or another con-
cedes TO him. he viii have as big
majority &C Roosevelt. almost So
the question seems TO be largely the
size of Taft's majority.
II will take 242 votes TO elect Bry-
an. He has 1853 In the South. II he
gets Maryland. He will have a few
votes but hardly dozen. II he gets
all the coast states he claims. II he
lo6es New York. TO win he viii
have to carry Indiana. Ohio. Illinois,
Nevada, Nebraska. and Colorado. or
In place OF the last four. Iowa WILSON,
sin, and Minnesota. That would be a
landslide. II he carries New York.
he could get along with only Ohio and
Indiana or Illinois. But the big Demo-
cratic papers In New York say that
Bryan will lose there. Can he do the
other stunt7 Mr.. Mack cheerhlly
says yes. and predicts the election
OF Bryan by a landslide. But what
slide there II has been the other
way 80 far.
The beet forecast 80 far Is by Sue
cess Magazine" leading and i'm
partial publication without political
bias Their forecast Is based on opin-
ions from both sides. and In almost
every case both the Democrats and
Republicans IN each state agreed
which way Il would so. SO the fore
cast really represents the secret be-
llefs OF the Democrats themselves IN
each state. According 20 Success"
Taft viii hsve POS votes IN the
electoral college. This disroses Of the
states which have been backgrounds
az follows: for Taft: New York, Della
ware. West Virginia. Ohio. Indiana,
Minnesota. Wyoming. and Washington
for Bryan: Kentucky. Oklahoma. New
ada: doubtful Maryland. Nebraska.
Montana. Colorado.
Taft has finished his successful trip
thru the South, and has gone East. He
spent Sunday at the White House
and said he would bo well satisfied
With II az home and expected 10
live there the aext four years.
There hes come TO light in New
York letters which show that Mr..
Taft did not wish TO run. but 20 go
on u. S. Supreme Court but that he
consented 20 make the race after be-
ing convinced by Mr.. Roosevelt that
u was a public duty.
The week brought more attacks on
Gompers. aud r-ore proof that he can
not deliver" tho labor vote
Tho only real excitement was the
charge by Nathan Strauss that the
Republicans were trying to set money
In Wall ST. TIC Republicans have
shown that they have had no chance
10 do this. and Strauss has failed TO
bring PROOF. aai the matter has drop
ped.
HASKELL SUES HEARsT:--Gov
Haskell OF Oklahoma has sued wm
Randolph Hearst for Islander and libel
over the statements Hearst made a
bout him and HIS competition with the
Standard oil Co. lie asks 100000
damages. IL is evident that this
suit is merely a duff. for Hearst
has done nothing but read the
letters which seem TO compromise Has
kell. and there is no penalty for tell
ing the truth. AT any rate tine suit
win not be tried till after the election.
But a 100000 suit looks very well,
and may change a few votes This
IS not saying chat those letters prov
ed all that some people claim they
dld. but just that this suit is no proof
either
WHERE HEARST HURrs:-The
prophecy made in The Citizen some
time ago that the Independence party
would get most of its votes from the
Democrats this year is being proved
In Hearst's own paper. the New
York Journal. is printed an inter-
view between II. II. Kohlsatt Of Chi