The citizen. (Honesdale, Pa.) 1908-1914, 1908-10-28

perceive what Bryanism would mean,
In Its destructive, obstructive and re-
dictionary effects, to the commerce,
the agriculture and the manufactur-
ing industries of that thriving COM
monwealth. Among leading Mary
land Democrats who have decided to
support Taft and Sherman against
the Bryan-Gompers combine are
Leigh Bonsal, who has declined to
make speeches for Bryan; John e.
Semmes, president of the Board of
Trade of Baltimore; Waldo New
conner, president of the National Ex-
change Bank: w. A. Garrett, chief
executive OF the receivers OF the Sea-
board Air Line Railway; George R.
Willis, formerly president of the Po-
lice Board and William Weems, a
we'll known lawyer and lifelong DEM
ocrat, of Frederick, Maryland, The
Taft Democratic Club Of Baltimore
includes a number of prominent
Democrats OF large influence in the
party, and the effect of its work is
evident everywhere in Baltimore and
beyond the bounds of that great
commercial and industrial centre.
Maryland, from present indications,
Will give Taft handsome majority
largely composed of Democrats who
cannot stand for Bryanism and the
four lean and wretched years that
Bryan victory would entail.
Delaware, where Victor du Pont
and H. M. Barksdale, both o. Will
mington, are conspicuous among the
Democrats who are for Taft and ma
tional sanity, Is assured to the Re-
publican column, and as election day
approaches the number of TAFT
Democrats" more rapidly increases.
In New Jersey also the Republican
majority will be swelled by Demo-
cratic accessions.
1t is not surprising that the South
ern States, although In all estimates
their votes are counted for Bryan,
should include large proportion of
influential Democrats who have de-
clared themselves for Taft; for the
South, with It's comparatively new
and flourishing industries, would be
hard \hit by the tariff for revenue
only" of which Bryan is sponsor.
Among prominent Democrats Of At
lanta, Georgia, who have come out
for Taft, are w. M. Crumley, of At
lanta, head of the Confederate Vet
Grams of the South, ex-president of
| the Jobbers' Association of the South,
and vice-president of the Beck &
Gregg Hardware Company; Frank s.
Ellis, head of Keely Company, a
large dry goods house; Thomas Eg-
lesion and w. e. Chaplin, leading in
surance men: F. ]. PaXon, of lead
ing dry goods house, and Alexander
A. Smith and Victor Smith, prom
inent attorneys, members of Smith,
Hammond & Smith. Wilkinson Call
of Florida, former Democratic United
States Senator from that State, and
George w. Garland, of Salisbury
North Carolina, are accessions to the
Taft ranks that have attracted at
tention, and have led many others
to shake off blind adherence to the
Denver nominations, and to study
without prejudice the Republican
candidates and platform. These
changes by men of prominence and
influence are encouraging as to the
immediate outlook and full of prom
ise for the future.
Colonel John McAnerney, of New
York, Democrat who was president
of the New Jersey electoral college II
1883 and who was an ardent supporter
Of Alton B. Parker four years ago
has come out for Taft. 81 am Dem
ocrat," he declares, "but not of tht
Bryan variety. There are many able
Democrats throughout the country
but they have no influence while
these agitators and demagogues are
in control. The laborer, the mechan
ic, the manufacturer and the mer
chant want a restoration of conf
dence, which would be wholly impos
sible with Bryan and bunch Of hi
Oklahoma advisers in control of tn,
government and the court appoint
ments."