The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1908-10-09
Of POLITICAL INTEREST.

headquarters at the Metropolitan
Tower Ia New York city was looted,
and many papers carried away. Notes
and memoranda are also missing.
just what the envelopes contained In
the way Of contributions or letters, is
known only TO the thief and Mr.
Hitchcock.
Ex-senator Pettigrew told Mr.. Bry-
an that he had been offered SIC, 900 by
the republican campaign managers to
make ten speeches and that he had
reason to believe that the republic
cans are financing Tom Watson's
populist campaign. In reply Mr.
Watson telegraphed that if any one
ever offered Senator Pettigrew $780,
900 for ten speeches on any earthly
subject that person was more liberal
~ supplied with money than sense
Judge Taft's game Of golf and what
he personally thinks Of it as fat
mans exercise was stated at Wolsey,
s. d., by the candidate, who said he
had received an intimation that he
ought to come to South Dakota and
convince the people that he was not
an ariStocrat,. or was above the peo-
pie. He said that his friends were
certain that If he would go to South
Dakota and show the people of that
state what kind of a man he was in
appearance that they would get over
the impression that there was any
thing about him that resembled a
dude.
Mr.. Taft, when asked the question,
said he believed tariff revision should
generally be downward. but upward
as to pottery. In his Dakota speech
es he dealt with the various issues
except guaranty Of bank deposits.
William j. Bryan has offered tho
mascot mule presented him by the
Agricultural Society of Minnesota as
prize to the county showing the
largest percentage of increase in the
vote for the democratic electors over
the average vote for electors in the
last three campaigns.
Chairman Hitchcock of the republi-
can committee refused to alter fig
ures on Taft pluralities in western
states, but said they were very con-
servative. He declared every eastern
state would go for Taft. Chairman
Mack of the democratic committee
while Mr.. Hearst of the independence
party claims New York and Georgia
for his candidates and Thomas Wat
son, populist candidate for president,
also claims Georgia.
Observing at Mitchell. South Dako-
ia, that the windows and stores and
houses were placarded with litho-
graphs of himself, Mr.. Bryan, in the
course of his remarks there, urged,
the people to remove them and hang
up in their stead pictures Of Mr.. Taft,
who was to speak in that town the
next day, and thus ''show him the
same courtesy that you have shown
me-" He said he took it for granted
that the compliment paid him was not
a personal one, but that it was due to
the fact that he was a candidate for
the highest Office in the gift of the
people. "Mr. Taft is a candidate for
the same Office" he said and one
of us will be elected, As no one can
tell vet. with certainty, which viii
be elected, you had better tack up
both alike if you would be on the safe
side"
John w. Kern, democratic candi-
Sherman. republican candidate for
vice president, met in Chicago. Mr..
Kern was standing in the lobby Of the
auditorium annex when bystander
rushed up and asked to shake hands
with .'the next vice president. Ger
tainly, with pleasure said Mr..
Bern. "But, to make sure, you would
better shake hands with that man
over there-that one with the side
whiskers. That's Mr.. Sherman" The
stranger did as suggested, and then
Mr.. Sherman and Mr., Kern began
moving toward each other, and pres
emily the long, sinewy hand of the
second man on the democratic ticket
was grasped in the plump one of his
republican opponent They smiled
genially, exchanged fluctuations on
the drop in the temperature and other
commonplaces, and then departed to
catch their traips.
Mr.. Bryan, replying to President
Rooseyelt's recent letter said ne was
willing to make public his 1895 fund
Of less than 100000 if the president
would make public Mark Hanna's
fund of that year.
Governor ddShS1i u FOhAoAOAn" -
another letter to President Roosevelt
accuses him of enlarging on maya
zine article while attacking Haskell
and challenged him to publish the in
terror department record to substanti-
ate his claim that he did not favor
the Standard Oil company. Haskell
also appeals to Oklahomans for funds
to fight corporate oppression.
Both political parties have eomplet-
ed plans for a tremendous battle in
New York before the close of the
campaign.
Democratic State Chairman Con-