Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-22

| President Roosevelt stepped again into
| the center of the POLITICAL stage. throw
| ing into the background all of the other
| political news of yesterday. He has
| sent letter to Senator Knox in which
he ridicules Mr.. Bryan's claims upon the
labor vote of the country and charges
the democratic candidate with being an
ally of Samuel Gompers. whose remedies
for existing evils he called Ian empty
sham" The letter will be found in full
elsewhere in The Star.
BRYAN ARoUsEs OHIO
| Mr.. Bryan devoted the day to labor
| in Ohio. The crowds that greeted him
| in the industrial towns along the Ma
honing and Ohio rivers were so great
that he declared he had witnessed moth
ing like it before. Women tainted and
the candidates voice was lost In the
roar. He characterized the alleged at
tempt by New York Central officials to
| influence their employees on the Big
Four road as a ''crime against Ameri-
can citizenship. He also called on
President Roosevelt to retract his mis-
| campaign fund.
TAFT MAKES CLAIMS
| Judge Taft, resting in Cincinnati, eX-
pressed himself yesterday as being more
confident of his election than ever. He
said Ohio, West Virginia. Maryland and
Delaware are safely republican, and Ken
lucky is "debatab able He believed the
seed had been sown in Kentucky for a
republican victory in 1912, if not this
year.
HITCHCOCK PROPHESIES-
In announcing that the big guns dur
ing the remainder of the campaign will
be used in Ohio and New York, Frank
II. Hitchcock. republican national chair
man, yesterday declared that Kansas.
Colorado. Nebraska, Oregon. Washing
ton, California, South and North Dakota
are safely republican. Conditions have
| so changed in the last few days. he
stated. that there is now no question
whatever as to the result in the states
mentioned
OF the three border states-Missouri,
Kentucky and Neutrality-suspicious. will
probably go republican. he said.
TAFT'S NEW YORK ITINERARY
New York State Chairman Timothy L.
Woodruff last night announced the re-
ceipt of a telegram from William H. Taft
authorizing him to complete preparations
state next week.
Monday, Brooklyn; Tuesday. Yonkers
Peekskill. Fishkill Landing, Poughkeep-
sic. Hudson. Schenectady, Cohoes and
Troy: Wednesday, New York city;
Seneca Falls, Auburn and Syracuse; Fri
day. Oneida Rome, Utica. Batavia and
Buffalo; Saturday, Elmira, Oswego
fBinghamton, Cortland, Ithaca and Roch-
ester.
CHANLER'S FRANK REPLY
II am not in favor of the repeal of the
Agnew-Hart laws.
II am opposed to government by ap
pointive commission. I want the public
utility corporations regulated and super
vised under the direction of public serv-
| ants chosen by the people and directly
answerable to them
In these words, at jamestown. n. Y,
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, democratic
nominee for governor, replied to the Oft
| repeated challenge issued by his OppO-
nent. Gov. Hughes. demanding frank
statement of his attitude upon what the
governor has called the two chief issues
of the campaign.
HUGHES ATTACKS M'CARREN-
Five thousand men applauded Gov.
Hughes wildly for several minutes last
night when in a speech in the audi
forum in Auburn, N. Y, he turned his
guns on State Senator Patrick II. Nc
Carren of Brooklyn and ranged the lat
ter and his democratic opponent for tine
governorship, Lewis S. Chanler, on the
same side of the fence with reference to
the race track gambling issue.
GRAVES DENoUNCES BRYAN
Col. John Temple Graves, candidate
of the independence party for Vice
President, at a party rally last night
at Utica. n. Y, severely denounced Will
liam ]. Bryan, charging him with in
sincerity and Inconsistency. John w.
Kern also came in for severe censure.
THE republican party Is no better
than the democratic party" said Col
Graves. but I have been pointing out
the evils of the latter because l was
for years a democrat
SHERMAN ON LAST TRIP
The republican vice presidential NOM
inee. James S. Sherman, addressed