The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1908-10-06
Reports Reaching Republi-
cans in New York Are
Very Encouraging.
WESTERNERS TALK
ON THE SITUATION
Declare That Vote Will Elect
Taft With Empire
States Aid.

NEW YORK. oct. 6.-"You have to
come to New York TO hear any Of this
talk about Kansas and Nebraska. and
Iowa and Indiana going for Bryan. %
vigorously declared Col William Il.
Nelson. owner and editor of the Kan
sas city Star. on drifting in at the
Waldorf from The West.
And you can put il down that Mr..
Taft has made one Of the best hits Oh
the Western stump that Las ever been
recorded" added George Thompson,
owner and editor Of the St Louis Dis
patch.
The two men sat in Mr.. ThOmpson's
room and talked over the middle West,
Northwest, and Southwest, for an hour.
Both are Republicans ana original Taft
men. but their business relations give
them unexampled opportunity for know
ing conditions in the West. and both
assured their New York friends that
Taft would win without doubt.
Taft can win without New York.
snd 1 think he would DO It even if he
should lose New York, said Mr.. Thomp-
son Bryan can't win without New
York. No, It seems to me that it's all
over. Taft has made an immense hit
on the platform in the West. He talks
solid sense, and the thing that fetches
people is his manifest, absolute honesty
and sincerity. Everybody recognizes
& from the State. He has courage and
earnestncss. and along with them a
splendid magnetism and a faculty for
meeting people. Individually OF in
r.Ta Tg
hardly second TO that Of President
has been a great thing for him with
the people"
Nelson's Views.
Colonel Nelson conceded with al
this. and added to it:
Don't pay any attention TO any
stories that Kansas may 90 for Bryan.
il VIII do nothing Of the kind III tell
what 1 would do. I would rather pct
that Taft carries Missouri good deal
rather-than that Bryan gets Kansas
II isn't at all sure that Bryan viii carry
Missouri. Folk Is going to beat stone
in the Missouri race for the Senatorship,
by a big vote. In fact, Folks only
serious danger now is that the Legs
lature may go Republican, and cut both
Stone and Folk out OF IT, The Repub-
licans are going to elect Hadley gov
ernor over Cowherd, in my opinion"
This sort Of report is coming from the
West with a frequency which has given
cheer at Republican headquarters The
truth is that the scare about the Middle
West never was very strong In the
Middle West, so far as concerned the
national ticket. A good many Western
politicians concerned about the sundry
and uncomfortable State fights out
there have been willing TO enlist the
national committee in every way pos
sible, in the effort to secure the national
influence as an aid in the local contests.
But the national ticket has never been
seriously in danger, il Is declared
New York the Center
New York is recognized more and
more as the center of things; New York
plus Indiana. Here is what a very
widely known New York city RepUbli-
can politician told me OF. the city:
THE negro vote is in bad humor. Ne
Eroes will not talk to you. and that
means they are wrong. The labor vote,
especially the unemployed section Of it.
IS suuen- That is "a bad sign. There is
a very apparent drift toward Bryan
among the Jews. Italians. Hungarians.
and Germans. Taft viii run better BY
many thousand than Hughes: but I
would say that if Taft carries this
State he Will have TO come TO the city
gates with $4,000 plurality from the
country"
This statement was from a man whose
political judgment on New York city is
accepted by people who know this town,
from President Roosevelt down lie
knows the foreign vote as few mex
know II.
Taft viii lose the city by 1900"
Ie had said Forthwith. I hunted up
an expert in upstate New York az
fairs, politician who has been active
up there for many years, and who re-
Gently has made a tour Of investigation.
He said:
Taft will come down to the Bronx
with 10000 plurality. Don't worry
about the State; if the city goes Demo
cratic by less than that, Taft gets the
electoral vote"
Nobody HIS been found thus far who
would seriously claim that Bryan can
get anything like 10000 in the city. The
popular estimates run from 1900 10
100000 Tammany is scared to death
over the way group of socialist can
didates is running on the East Side. and
81 looks as If the Debs vote would hit