The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-14
Incidents and Opinions Throwing Light on
 The National Contest

, licans. We resent the means and man nef, in which Senator Guggenheim IS of the Republican party in the State. The Fight Narrowed Down.
 The fight in the West for the Pres- idency has narrowed down to a few States. In the. East the campaign E also being similarly concentrated.
 From now on for three weeks there will be little scattering of ammunition. The nominees and their national chair men are we'll aware where the hard
 Ohio, Indiana, Nebraska and Wis., consin are the Western States where the parties are going to mass all their possible strength. The Democrats at respective State committees, concede there are no conditions that warrant a struggle for electoral votes in Min. r,, Quite as much might be said about o',, clings to the hope that there Is pos- Dakotas are so so largely agricultural and the voters so overwh elmingly Re- publican under normal conditions that little Democratic effort will be made New York, New Jersey, Maryland and West Virginia are the four East ern States where the heavy battling Democratic work in the three last named commonwealths will be pressed more earnestly. because they might be- combination should New York go for Taft, as the Republicans claim 1t is next to certain to do.
 Denver Special to New York Herald. It is entirely within the bounds of possibility that the Presidency in 1908 kh0llI6 inc election hA nInsA thQFa ia little doubt that the nine electoral votes of Idaho, Wyoming and Utah, which are controlled by the Mormons.
 At the beginning of the national campaign the Democratic managers established branch headquarters of placed John E. Osborn, at one time Governor of Wyoming, in charge. Mir. Osborn has a fully equipped machine confidently laying Claim f to aeH eleven nVG of the twenty electoral votes for which he is fighting. These are the five of Colorado and three each of Nevada and nine other electoral votes-the three each of Utah. Idaho and Wyoming are absolutely in the keeping of the and that unless William J. Bryan can show beyond doubt between now and the last week in October that he has obean e aets w91 9 af as S SsnHt tree se%Ps % s named.
 Should 1t be made to appear req sonably certain. however. to Joseph Smith and other rulers of the Nor mon Church. according to Governor Osborn, that MT. Bryan. has winning strength week before the ballots are cast. the Mormon Church can be de- pended upon to throw the determining weight of its powerful influence to
 Controf Three States.
 aTf Vv0u16 hA Qf1ix fNp ma Fn hAa@ about the bush in this matter" said Mfr. Osborn today. "Everybody in this part of the country knows that the Mormon Church controls Utah. Idaho and Wyoming as completely as either Likewise is everybody. in. this part of the country aware of the hard and fast deal made by Mark Hanna and Perry H. Heath with the Mormon Church in 1900. through which .pluralities hv Bryan carried three Mormon 'Statea In end their electoral votes were given
 T have no false notions about this thing and indulge in no diplomatic language Tn discuesing il. The Nor mon Church gives it's votes to the So I say If within the next two weeks the heads of the church become con- vinced that Bryan is going to win we shall sweep the platter clean fin the five mountain States placed under my Jurisdietion and gain one United Shoot in Utah We shall at the same time retain the Senate seat we now hold in Colorado by eIecting Charles '. Hughes. Jr-. to succeed the veteran Henry M. Teller who declined 10 stand for re- election"