The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1908-10-28
Leaders in the Party All Over the
Country Quiz the Nebraskan
Ofice-Secker and Come
Gus for TAFT.
cleveland Democrats" Refuse to Ee
Whipped Into Line and Organize
to Fight the Man Who Disrupted
tho Party-solid South Shows
Signs Of Breaking Up.

One of the best indications that the
Taft and Sherman ticket will sweep the
country in November is found in the
continued numerous defections of here
party. Practically all of them give as
reason that they cannot support the
thrice offered candidate and his change
able and unstable theories OF govern
ment- They simply cannot bring them
selves to be identified with Bryan.
Perhaps the most mortifying Incl
dents which the Democrats have expe-
rienced in the present campaign were
in Massachusetts, where two big men
named as Democratic presidential cleo
that they were unable to support Mr.
Bryan and greatly preferred Mr. Taft.
These men were Ferdinand Strauss and
c. H. P. Gould, OF Lyons Falls, both
business men OF the first rank Mr.
Strauss, especially, has been prominent
In the Massachusetts Democracy for a
long time. Their declination to serve
as Bryan electors caused sensation in
the old Bay State and throughout the
country.
Democratic Consressman for Taft
Eugene Walter Ieake, Democratic
Representative In Congress from New
Jersey, called at Republican National
Committee headquarters early this
month To nffor 10 %ho c$,,
for William II. Taft. Though he has
been stanch Democrat all his life, he
Is bitterly opposed to William Jennings
Bryan and because he believes that the
election Of Bryan to the Presidency
would mean the greatest calamity to
the country since the civil war. he is
ready to exert himself to the utmost to
aid the election Of Judge Taft lie is
speaking Mt Republican rallies through.
out the Eastern States.
Democrats Organize to Fight Bryan.
That the sentiments felt by these men
are shared by many in New York is
shown in the organization Of the 'Cleve-
land Democracy" an association whose
principles are anti-Bryan, and which
has been formed, according to the arti-
Giles of incorporation, ito revive the true
spirit Of Democracy among the voters
of Harlem and of the whole city,"
Headquarters have been opened and the
club Is doing active work, not, 1t is al
most unnecessary to say, in the inter
ests Of the continuous Nebraska office
seeker
John r. Dos Passos, leading New
York lawyer and author. who has al
ways been n Democrat, has come out
IL long statement announcing his al
legiance to Taft and denouncing Bryan
ism and the remnants Of the party which
Bryan controls II am Democrat" he
says, II expect to cast my vote for Mr..
Taft" William B. Davenport, we'll
known Brooklyn Democrat, for many
years Public Administrator Of Kings
County, has denounced the Democratic
platform and is now a vice president of
the Taft-Sherman Lawyers Club.
Anti-Bryan Sentiment Widespread,
Former Special City Judge Irving
X. Baxter, of Utica, N. Y, who has
always been a Democrat and was
elected ON that ticket, not only has re-
Dudiated bryan, but will take the
stump and advocate the election of
Tiff and Sherman. Even up in Maine.
where the members OF the Democratic
minority are supposed to he hopelessly
bidebound. there is detection. w. II.
Mclaughlin. of Scarboro, for instance.
announces that he has become so dis
gusted with Bryan in the Haskell CON
tnoversy rhgt he has swung over to
the Republican party.
After hearing Judge Taft speak at
st Louis. j. ID. HOuseman, Of Denver.
Colo. a @ell:known railroad builder.
announced his conversion to the Re-
publican party and it's candidates. Mr..
Housenlan had been loyal Democrat
for many years This incident of
conrse. lis direct tribute to Judge
Taffs powers as "a campaigner, of
which many evidences were produced
on his now famous western trip.
"Conv~rsisas' in the West.
AT St Joseph. Mo. one OF the feat
ures was the conversion" OF w. y.
Davis, prominent DenlScrat, wig
went to meeting at the STOCK yards
to see Mr.. Taft After Sizing up the
latter Mr. Davis declared II
thought would yote for Mr. Bryan,
but this man surely looks good to me-"
Another Missouri Democrat. r. B..
Haywood, Burlington Railroad co,,-
ducfor of st. Louis. evidently was
similarly impressed; at any rate he
has announced that Taft will get his
vote. Noticeable among the vice presi-
dents at the Taft reception Mt St
1o7is were james r. Smith, head of
the st. Louis Business Mems League
and Frederick n. Judson, well-known
lawyer. both Democrats who have de-
ciared their intention of suppo.tt