The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-09-28
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Oil Company scandal, whicn may call for another statement from the pew Ha a ths tns wgs asSse the report that frssidsnt sooseyelt asmss Ethss Allen rffis HifchcoeR of the Interior Department, to grant an Oklahoma m territorial franchise to the FTairlS tlS cocs os and oil Company. and that aitenc9cn nS fsar the Presi6ert persisted. .s.,
 AS told here the story IS that there were interested in the Prairie Gas and oil Company. among others James K. Jones. former chairman oI the Democratic National ComIaittee. as counsel for Bark ksdale, the oil men or Pfttsburg; Senator Chauncey M. Depew and State Senators Franchot and Fan cher. of New York. Jones went to Oyster Bay to seek the preslnsn' cIsanssa com pany. but obtained no encourasemeana saa from MT. Roosevelt Then, 1t IS saio, Republican influence was prougnt r0 bear on the President while secretary Hitchcock all the time remained oodu-
 S"Secretary Garfield last April issued permit to the company to iay pipo ,, okiahorsa. % % When Governor Haskell lea rned of this action, 1t is pointed ous. M he called Secretary Garfield to task terfere with the internal affairs of q State. Garfield merely replied that his action only covered the Indian lanos' which, as the Secretary of the lnterio1' were under his Jurisdiction. ,,,.
 "Denlocrats here reiterate HaskeiLs statement that all he ever did Tn reia- tion to the Prairie Gas ana .d oii riShts E which that company had secured under the previous territorial form ot gov ernment from the Fedora, adminisera- Non aAnn,,ser m sandal which the admin- fstration has tried to suppress was s,ss rne subject of considering the sapihe' meeting in the snhs Whise n hoSs oS elsrEsbu ". va. an advocate of the Scherr fac tion. 1t had been announced, Mss sS be reprimanded and possipiy ,,H remo'e& prominent West Virginia Repnblicaaa who saw the President yesterday ,Sat t0adt him that Denham maintalnesut. % hs sserytn,es sSe ydone under nd the direct suggestion of his former ehiel. now chairman oI the Republican National CSmrnie.s;S ss;S Frank H. Hitchcock. Dennam ,s ,,r to nmblic scorn for having merely obeyed orders from Hitchcock, he would pug fish the letters and let them spes5 aor tb ority that it was decided in the cabi. net meeting that nothing would pe done in the Denharn case untll ahls' the election.
 Terre Haute Special.
 Mr. Bryan made a short speech here and among other things said:
 q have just been in Ohio, ana want to tell you that if you Demo crats in Indiana do as well on the olo day of November as the Democrats or Ohio will do there will be no ques- fion about a clean Democratic victory in both States. Everywhere l ana the Democrats up and doing. They are working hard and intend to win. Tn Ohio. New York, Rhode Island, west Virginia. everywhere there IS the same evidence of earnest work, and l feel sure that Indiana will do as well.
 eve have the Republicans on the run They are running hard. Taft has undertaken to revise the Republi- can platform. It was bad enough be- fore he began-what will 1t De when he is through with it?"
 Cincinnati Special to New York Even
 ing Post
 Democrats claim and Republicans concede an increased Democratic rep resentation from this State in the next Congress. Sixteen of the twenty-one Representatives from Ohio in the House at the present time are Repub- licans. The Democrats are confident that they will gain four or five of these seats. Some Republicans con cede them three. The factional fights between the Foraker and Taft forces before the Chicago convention and purely local district squabbles have brought about this state of affairs. An analysis of the Congressional situa- ton and outlook In Ohio reveals ample cause for the apprehension of the Re- pubIicans.
 The First and Second Districts are both in Hamilton county, in which this city is situated. and are now rep resented by Nicholas Longworth and Herman P. Goebel. Nominations for their successors have not been made by either party Both of the present incumbents undoubtedly will be re- nominated. GoebePs district in debat- able under normal conditions, and In MT. Longworth's district there is a sufficiently large negro vote to defeat him. if the blacks choose to strike at Roosevelt over his son -in-l laws shoul- der. The liquor issue, and the fear that the Germans will strike blindly at the whole Republican ticket in seeking to encompass the defeat of Governor Harris give cause for anxi- ganization managers in the county. Indianapolis Special to New York
 Evening Post
 The Democrats are better organized They have the entire liberal element. with a big barrel of money at their command. There Is less dissatisfaetion are more disaffected Republicans. There are thousands of workingmen in the cities who still feel the sting of ses aRa w0 rSsrs Ssn is sentiment against Taft and Watson among the union men and there are thousands of men who wouldn't vote they might Indirectly aid Governor Hanly in some way.
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 Chicago Special to Washington Star.
 It is not to |, be denied that the Re; mind at this time. Things have not been coming their way in the past two weeks, not by a long shot and they nations in number of States are con fronting the Republicans. and the present drift of place affairs seems to be against them.
 This Is not to say that they are in a panic. or that sort of thing. It is not to predict what may be the condition when the voters go to the polls Nov of feeling which may exist two weeks hence, when Taft and Hughes have stirred the West. It Is the purpose of ditions as they exist for the time, to call the cards as they fall. and not to forestall the cash-in.
 reports of actual conditions in several states which ought to be regarded as safely Republican indicate that the Republicans will have to make a fight, skillfui light, before they can claim the States, unless they would be like the man who cheats himself in play ing solitaire. Here in Chicago you get h atI al the atrinRQ which laAn into