The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-09-29
Bryan stronger Than Ever In East.
si"er Sentiment Against Roose.
velt-Neeroes Against Taft.
Republican Mistake.

from personal investigation the won.
u'rfnl strength of the democrat
presidential ticket in this section of
the country.
Republicans with whom | have
talked, said Representative Sbeu.
paid, admit that If the election
were held tomorrow. BRYAN would
win. The democrats do not pro.
pos" 30 lose any ground within the
next six weeks. The prospect OF
"Iectins democratic president has
not been so bright in many years. [
cannot remember when the party
was so thoroughly in harmony as il
Is today NV York and Nebraska
VIII give their electoral votes 70
Bryan. and Missouri will surely 70
that way. There is likewise good
chance of carrying Wisconsin and
the two Dakotas.
The train" continued Mr.. Shep-
pard, will be much of an issue.
For the first time since the FIRST Me
kinley campaign the republican plat.
form fails TO mention reciprocity.
The only inference is that the party
is drawing farther and farther away
from revision of the traiff. which
many ardent republicans cunccde
Is necessity. Senator Bcveridge.
] VINO has been selected to traverse
the continent i'm an attempt to ans.
/ wer Bryan, says he is in favor of a
| commission to revise the tariff.
/ knowing fun well that revision by a
/ commission would not be accom-.
/ pllshed in many years. The great
mass of the people are anxious for
a revision of the tarifr now"
I DR.. j. ). Lankford of San Antonio.
who is here 10 attend the interna-
/ tional tuberculosis congress, spent a
week in New York and Pennsyl-
vania. lie says he coull hardly
realize the strength of Bryan in the
East. Friends in Philadelphia told
me" said DR.. Lankford, that
Bryan and Kern club was organized
in that city last week, POO of whose
400 members voted the republican
ticket in the past. | find the sen
timent is bitter against President
Roosevelt, and these political dis
senters from their fathers faith
say they will not vote for any man
whom the president picks out as
his successor"
At the present stage of the cam.
paign. Maryland, If anything, ap
pears to be the most doubtful state
that has entered into the political
calculations of the present cam
paign. Normally democratic. the
prejudice which has existed in Balt.
more was strong enough to influence
the state against Bryan In both his
former campaigns but the BALTIC
more prejudice has lost it's potency
even in the city ITSELF and the big
democratic leaders of the state, fol.
lowing the example OF the con.
s"rHaiive leaders of New York and
New England, have swung enthusi.
aslically into line for Bryan. leay.
ing the boiling Baltimore sun high
and dry, TO eNtricate itself as best |
II can from its ridiculous attitude
against it's own party
That paper speaking of the re.
ncwed hopes which the Maryland re-. |
publicans leaders found in a recent |
visit to Chairman Hitchcock in New (
York, is forced to make these signi.
meant admissions:
The republicans who went to
New York Thursday 10 confer with
National Chairman Hitchcock says
the sun, returned yesterday. While
publicly they said things could not
look brighter, and that they had as,
sured Mr.. Hitchcock that Maryland
was absolutely sure 10 cast its cleo
oral vote for TAFT and sherman, yet
Il is a fact that some of them are
4 good deal less confident than
hey We're a month or so ago.
There are two features of situa-
ion continues the sun, which the
'epublican managers fear, and which
we're made plain to Mr. Hitchcock,
)ne of these is that certain por-
ion OF the negro vote reposed in
Mr. Bryan. and the other feature