The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-23

ms purpose from the misty mountain eops. He is apt to be an;et about what ne Is going tc, .lo Ane from ehe managers of our bureau of club concentrations find the quiescence ooes not extend to Democrats rce nave yet to learn of any Democrat who once voted for Bryan who does not in- tend to vote for him again. and an- hounces that fact. We know that of the gold Democrats thousands and tons pr thousands are back in the fold working arduously and talking en- thusiastically for the ticket of Bryan and Kern. And, finally. we know, as tney must know at the Republican neadquarters in the Harvester Trust Building, of almost uncounted Repub- licans who this year intend to vote the Democratic ticket or not vote at all.
 only today met an Ohio man. a Re- publican. Said 1. What are you fellows about Clinton doing in this campaign?" Said he: Tt is the most curious situation have ever seen. The men who have ordinarily been the hard-working wheel horses of the Re- publican party this year don't seem to care whether we elect our ticket or not. The situation there is such that IT 1t exists all over Iowa is likely to produce a Democratic majority in that time honored Republican State. !"
 l think this situation is one which exists in many sections. It certainly does In Indiana, for Friday night last 1 talked in a railroad station with a man who was for years the political manager of Senator Beveridge. He told me that from the best informa- ton he could get throughout that State It would be carried by Bryan and Kern and Marshall. Here in Illinois there Is almost practical unanimity of opin- a ~ rnru ef fAoI 1fxa
 Will be carried by a swinging majority for Stevenson and by a sufficient plu- rality for Bryan.
 Everybody about the Democratic headquarters is rejoicing at the belated decision of the Republican managers to permit their Presidential candidate 10 appear at the banquet of the Chi caso commerce Association. There nave been so many changes of plan We began to think 1t was another case Of 'On again, on again, Finnegan. |" It VIII, of course, not be a political galnering, nor will either candidate make political speech. It is a pity John Temple Graves has not been in- vited. or has tied himself up with a peculiar type of politics so he cannot
 repeat his famous stunt at c dinner in
 Nashville of begging Mir. Bryan to l put MT. Roosevelt in nomination. Could Graves but come he might round out
 most impressive political career by
 turning to each of the nominees and | asking both to withdraw in favor of the Hearst ticket. of which he is a | part.
 But testing aside, 1t Is recognized in l poitical circles that the action of this association in asking both of the prin- cipal Presidential candidates to be | present at its banquet is indicative of
 material lessening of political acri-
 mony this year. If one who remem- bers the 1sS6 campaign will search his memory he will recognize the fact tn at
 no body of business men of this type would then have invited Mir Bryan to 1 be its guest. and. for that matter, re- | calling the bitterness of that campaign and the one in 1900. I doubt whether
 In either of those years a Democratic body would have asked the late Mark
 Hanna to address It's members Per | haps we are entering on a period of political reeonciliations and passing by the days of bitter political preju- 1 dices.