Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-11
WAR SPARK IN SERvA DISCUSS PEACE PANSGET CHEERING news
Stq Pleased With
Explosion. Ministers Meet. From Indiana.
TAKING THE DECISION STRENGTHENED
ProoudC
uarpM drlA
in Greatly Ambassadors Adopted
Edward oeysc the Campaign
Republicans Pleased With Re.
ports From Indiana.
HOPES ARE STRENGTHENED
Will Benefit From Attitude on the
Liquor Question.
MORAL SENTIMENT AROUSED
Attitude Of Labor Still Disquieting
Matter-Policy Adopted for Rest
Of the Campaign.

of the Campaign.
Special From a STAT Correspondent.
NEW YORK, October 1O-The repuo-
licans have cheering news from Indiana.
Two weeks ago that state was in the dis
card. Things are looking up, however.
and even Jim Watson, the candidate for
governor, has ceased to weep and Is
wringing out his handkerchief. 1t all
comes about from the appeal to the moral
sentiment of the state.
Once we touch on that and we seem
to have them going," remarked a case
hardened old politician. 1T does beat all
how the people rise to q moral ISSUE"
Republicans Benefited.
The remark of this wise old owl in poll
tics is being exemplified on every hand.
There Is Ohio; take note of the elections
in the past ten days on the issue of county
local option. County after county has
wheeled into line favoring this attack on
the liquor interests. Bear in mind that
this inures to the benefit of the repub-
leans, since the republicans took ad-
vanced ground in favor Of restriction OF
the liquor trade. The democrats have re-
NAMED aloof. hoping to take adyantage
yet not daring to come out in the open
and fight.
The same thing has happened in 1ndi-
ana. The republican party has come to
the front in a decided stand and with an
aggressive program. The democrats.
feeling that It was not up to them to take
a pronounced position. stood aside and
hoped to derive reflected advantage. All
reports from Indiana are to the eject
that the republican party will receive
cfo nm
question. The country districts show In
dications of having very pronounced views
upon the liquor question. and as the re-
publican party is the avowed advocate OF
hostility to the liquor interests 1t is de-
clared that republican prospects are look
ing brighter.
The Labor Vote Uncertain.
Late reports from Indiana are to the
effect that the state will probably go Tor
Taft on the national ticket, and that
there is reasonable prospect that the ma
tional ticket will pull the state ticket
through. These reports would have a
more confident tone II it were possible to
accurately locate the labor vote. In this
vote the liquor question will not enter. It
Is a matter of political economics aside
from all other questions. and the vote Is
much in doubt. The republicans are pro-
ceeding upon the theory that the labor
side of the protective tariff issue.
The republicans realize that they are
weak on the proposition of the tntunc-
ton. They contend. however, that they
are strong on the main question. which
is whether the shops will continue to
run and employment be given to the
workingmen. That question seems to be
overshadowing the matter Of injunction.
There are a great many thousand men
out of work in Indiana. and the sugges-
10 hAfv1 @,,f % Ah>~- hot HhAWA
may. be more unemployed ii Bryan wins
and If the shops shut down.
Argument Presented to Labor.
The. question is coming up to the work
ingmen in this form: What good will It
do you to worry about Injunction or anti
injunction II you haven't any job? II the
republican party remains in power you
will have a Job and In your leisure mo-
ments can thrash out the Injunction prob
lem If Bryan wins out you won't need
70 worry ever Injunction: there will be ne
strikes because there will be SO few men
at work that they won't dare to strike.
and the Injunction question Will not
trouble anybody
This same leayen Is work ing In the east
In all Of the busy Industrial cities Of the
section east of the Allegheny mountains
the workingmen who are drawing their
weekly wage and supporting their fami-
friends who are out Of employment. They
come home In the evening. Erimy AID
sweaty from their days tell and and
their friends and companions sitting dis
consulate upon the doorsteps. with their
families suffering from their non-emp1oy-
ment.
1t Is probably true that the unemployed
men are likely to vote the ticket of dis
content but 1t Is also a reasonable GER
tainty that the men who have Jobs are
q tn HCtn Tn he
publican argument that Bryan's election
will make matters worse.
Considered Effective Argument.
This argument is considered by the re-
publican managers to be their most eff
fective campaign document. It is ex-
pected to outweigh Mr.. Gompers' appeals
on the injunction question. The republic
can campaign from this time On 10 to be
directed more especially to the working
men. 1t Is a fact that up to this time
the republicans have not harped upon this
erature has been devoted to an appeal for
the election Of Mr.. Taft as 9 personality.
Henceforth the campaign will be waged
In a manner to get more directly at the
own material interest as viewed from the
republican standpoint.
Both parties are pledged to tariff revis-
lon. This. of course. Is direct bid for
the vote of the middle west states, where
tariff revision sentiment is supposed to be
strong. The east has been overlooked.
From now on the money In the shops of
the big manufacturing centers of the
eastern section will be appealed to on the
score of maintaining the tariff and keep
ing the shops going.
The republican managers claim that the
Workingmen are not SO much concerned
in publicity Of campaign contributions or
in guarantee of bank deposits. What
concerns them is the question whether
they will have a job or not, and on this
question the republicans claim to have
the advantage, inasmuch as their program