The Birmingham age-herald., 1908-09-05
RAILROAD SUITS
 QUIETLY DROPPED Administration Holds Up Cases
 Till After Election NEW DEAL HAS BEEN MADE Indications Point to an Arrangement With Hartman for Campaign Funds In Return for Freedom From
 Active Prosecution.
NEW DEAL HAS BEEN MADE

Chicago Record-Herald of Tuesday its correspondent, discussing the market re- port, sends the following:
 "The most interesting feature of the day was a report which circulated in the best circles to the effect that govern ment attorney was authority for the statement that the suit of the govern- ment against the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific companies for violation of the Sherman act had been definitely dropped, the prosecution having after many conferences and thorough consider alton arrived at the conclusion that it would be unable to make out a case against those roads Formal announce ment of this termination of the litigation would, it was said, be withheld until after the election"
 Hon. J. D. Lamb of Indiana, a member Of the advisory committee of the national committee, commenting upon this state ment, had this to say: Tn view of the fact that this statement Is published in the Chicago Record Herald, which Is SUD- porting Taft and Sherman, however much 1t may astound the general public, may be considered as authentic These suits against MT. Harriman's pet railroads were ordered brought by the administration something near a year ago, with a great flourish of trumpets, and it was generally believed that the administration was in earnest and that the department of jus tice would obey orders. Now that Mir. Hartman has promised to be good, and his special attorney, William Nelson Cromwell, has been appointed a member of the republican national advisory com mittee, and has contributed S5O,OOO to the fund of that committee, 1t seems that the prosecution has, after many conferences and thorough consideration, arrived at the conclusion that it would be unable to make out a case against those roads, is the conclusion arrived at an honest one? Or rather is not the conclusion the re- suit of the changed attitude of the Har- riman railroads toward the republican national ticket? Is the fact that formal announcement of the termination of this litigation would, it was said, be withheld until after the election corroborative proof that a new deal has been made between My Dear Hartman and some- body representing the United States gov ernment? These are questions that will be thoroughly discussed and considered by the voters until the November cleo ton.
 News From the Middle West.
 Henry George, Jr., the son of the fam ous apostle of the single tax, who has been out on nine-weeks' chautauqua lecture tour, called at the headquarters today to proffer his services as a speaker for Bryan and Kern and to report the re- suits of his observations in Nebraska and Kansas and adjacent states 'I am thor oughly convinced" said MT. George, that the democratic ticket will sweep both Ne braska and Kansas, and the other chau- tauqua speakers whose lines I crossed and who had been to other agricultural states, declared that their opinions concerning Iowa and Minnesota coincide with mine as to the two states first named. The great striking feature of the campaign throughout these states is the growing strength of the bank deposit guarantee plank I have heard at least three repub lican. bankers declare that while they had never voted the democratic ticket before, they were going to vote 1t this year be- cause they absolutely believed that the incorporation of these principles in the law would be of the greatest benefit to their business.
 "The chautauqua audiences that I ad- dressed though my lectures were not in any way partisan, showed the greatest enthusiasm whenever any reference to MT. Bryan or any expression of appro- bation of the democratic principles was made. I have not been in New York for two months, but I know that the senti- ment of the voters there is for Bryan, and believe that if the last three weeks of the campaign were devoted to vig- orous attack upon that old-time strong hold of the money power, that state, too. could be carried"
 Newspapers and Campaign Funds.
 The success of the system of raising the necessary funds for the democratic cam paign through the efforts of loyal news papers Is rapidly becoming apparent. Within 10 days, for example, the New Or leans States has reported its first sub scription list as doubled. The Commoner, of course, leads the list of collectors of funds, but such papers as the Memphis Commercial-Appeal, the Memphis News the Buffalo Times are all reporting rap-' idly growing subscription lists. The Knoxville Sentinel has sent out through its correspondents throughout the state printed blanks on which the names of subscribers and the amounts subscribed may be noted and offers cash prize of $10 to the correspondent who will send in the largest amount of cash subscrip- tions from any county in east Tennessee outside of Knox county This Is work in which any paper may well join, whether great or small. Twenty-Five dol lars subscriptions are apt to mean good many more than 25 votes, and record of the subscribers and the name of the paper securing them will be faithfully preserved at the democratic headquarters for reference after the election.
 In some of the states of the middle west, notably Ohio and Indiana, meth cd of soliciting even smaller subscrip- tions has been adopted, and is being pressed largely by women. They form what they call 30-cent clubs, enrolling members who are pledged to secure as many subscriptions of that amount as possible. The plan Is spreading widely, and while entaiing the least possible bur den upon the subscribers, is likely to bring a considerable campaign fund to the aid of Bryan and Kern.
 Chicago Merchant Dead.