The Wisconsin tobacco reporter. (Edgerton, Wis.) 1877-1950, 1908-10-30
Three States That Will Glow
with Red Fire During the
Final Political Whiri.
NEW YORK, OHIO AND INDIANA
Great Parties Zig Guns to Boom with
Their Utmost Vigor.
Bryan and Taft Will Both Whoop Ii
UP for the Empire State and
Then Start West with
Continued Effort.

The political campaign which has en-
tered upon its last week is to have a
real Whirlwind finish.
From the highest to the lowest
all the spellbinders of all the par
ties will be out in force from now to
Saturday night, and wavering voters
the several causes to cast their ballots
right In practically every state of
the Union rallies and mass meetings
almost without number have been ar
ranged, but it is in New York that the
real battle will be waged. There prac-
tically all the leading candidates will
concentrate their efforts, ably assisted
by a large number of the country's
most forceful and resourceful cam
paigners.
Hot Time in Ohio and Indiana.
Ohio and Indiana also will be given
considerable attention, particularly by
the two leading parties. Among the
speakers who will urge the voters of
Ohio to support Taft will be three
members of President Roosevelt's cabi-
net-Root, Garfield and Meyer-and
the Republican candidate for president
himself will deliver two formal adj
dresses at Cleveland and Youngstown.
on Monday. Vice President Fair
banks will head the Republican forces
in Indiana, which will include Senators
Beveridge and Hemmenway.
Bryan's New York Whirl.
William J. Bryan, after four days in
New York state, will close his long,
hard campaign by a series of speeches
in Ohio, Illinois and Indiana. All the
forces the Democratic national COM
mittee can summon will be brought to
bear to secure the electoral vote of
New York state for Bryan. Led by the
presidential candidate himself, who
will speak four days in this state, an
army of speakers will be sent into
every county and town to spread the
doctrine and appeal for votes for the
ticket. Monday morning Bryan spoke
at Paterson, N. J., first and then
made the round of cities and towns in
the vicinity of the metropolis. At night
it was red fire night in New York.
Bryan speaking to a great mass meet
ing in Madison Square garden and then
visiting many places in other parts of
tie city. and Thursday he starts west
Taft's Empire State Wind-Up.
The Republican wind-up of the cam
paign in New York city calls for
twenty-five mass meetings to be adj
dressed by speakers Of national reputa-
tion a parade of the Republican clubs
of Greater New York, and big parade
of the Business Mems Republican asso-
citation. The big Republican event of
the week will be the Madison Square
Garden meeting on Wednesday night,
at which Taft and Governor Hughes
will be the principal speakers. Taft
and Governor Hughes will address
four monday meetings. on the 2Sth.
Claims That Are Being Made.
The national managers of the two
great parties are beginning to make
tables of the states they claim and fig
ure up the result that will be reached
Nov. 3. Chairman Hitchcock claims
314 votes in the electoral college
for Taft - every northern and west
esn state, except Nevada and Okla
hOma leaving the Democrats
those two states and all the southern
states. Mack, of the Democratic COM
mittee, claims the ''solid south and
adds Idaho, Montana, Colorado. Ne
braska, Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, Della
ware, Kansas, New York. New Jersey,
Connecticut, and South Dakota. This
claim Owes BRYAN 201 untnr