The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-27

the President. and call attention to the Tact that the beneficiary of the corporations has savagely denounced the very combination to which he ap- pealed to save him from possible de- feat in his own State.
 Repubs Campaign Fund.
 The best information obtainable Is that the Republicans have raised con siderable money. Probably they have scooped in a million or more. But what Is that compared with the many millions which were placed at the command of Hanna and cortelyou? Mere nothing. The Republicans need twenty dollars where the Democrats need one. for the former have relied so much on the power of the almighty dollar to attract votes that they are in a bad way If the cash box runs low.
 Regardless of the threat of Con- gressman Sid" Mudd that if the Mary land negroes do not tote fair" with the Republicans in this contest. he will be happy If the Democratic Leg islature next year takes the right Of franchise away from them. the reports from the State are that hundreds Of the blacks have lately joined Bryan clubs. they are wearing Bryan but tons and are openly declarius that they are going to yete the Democratic t'ShfL IaEkce pbttffhe06V OA StAN Maryland negroes who cannot exactly vote. for Bryan. have indicated their intention of not voting for Taft This disaffection is due entirely to the Brownsville matter.
 Every day The Philadelphia Record publishes accounts of the formation of Bryan clubs by the negroes in Pennsylvania, New Jersey. Delaware and Maryland. At Camden this week there was a monster negro meeting. The chief speaker was ex-Mintster Powell who was seEt to Haiti under the first Mckinley administrations He denounced the Roosevelt administra- ton furiously, advised negroes to "p- pose Taft even if they could not vote for Bryan. and announced that ne would take great pleasure in casting his own vote for the Nebraskan. Bish- op Walters, one of the leading men in negro religious circles. Is for Bryan He is a Kentuckian by birth and gear ing, and went out specially to urge his race to break away from the Re- pubHcans The Republican campaign managers try to belittle this moNe- ment. However. 1t Is serious enough to cause them lots of uneasiness, and they are not able to deny that they might have been obliged to look sharp Iy after A class of voters the manages formerly could chalk off as safo and solid at the very beginning or a con. test.
 Richardson on stump.
 According to advlces received at Con. eressional headquarters here, Repre- sentative Richardson of Alabama Is Tn Indiana filling a number Of appoint ments made by the National Demo cratic Executive Committee ana the Democratic State Committee Of Inui- ana. Most of his appointments are al industrial centres where many laoor- CTS are employed. Republican nostii- ity and indifference to the interests and welfare of labor were demonstrat- ed in the manner in which labor was treated in the formation of the De- partment of Commerce and Laoor' fudge richardson was the Democratic conferee on the bill to create this new Department, and resisted in every way he could the humiliation and the re" hule that. the Republicans administer cd to labor by first refusing to create Q Denartment of Labor with secre- tarv in the Cabinet of the President and then, adding to the further nu- initiation of labor by reducing It rom an independent department that 1t then occupied. to a mere bureau alongside the Bureau of Statistics and Standards Fisheries. Steamboat Service. etc. Be- cause of his having been the Demo- cratic conferee the Democratic com mittees were anxious that Judge Rich- ardson should speak in Indiana ana he has been requested to dWeH upoh 4hJ, Saatura In his speeches.