The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-11
"DANGER FLAG
 IS FLYING" As a Warning to Republicans. LEADERS ARE BADLY SCARED The Washington Post Admits Party
 Is Losing. The Post Some Weeks Ago Said That Taft Would Have Walk over--singtns Entirely Dif-
 ferent Tune Now.
 

Washington, Oct. 10-(Special)- "The Danger Flag Flying is the cap tion of an editorial leader in the past few days in The Washington Post.
 The Post was started along about 1877 by Stilson Hutchins and for many years was a consistent supporter of the Democratic party. Then 1t fell into the hands of the late Frank Hat ton, who had been for something like a year Postmaster General in the cab fnet of President Arthur. The late Beriah Wilkins who served two terms in the House of Representatives as a Democratic member from Ohio, was the chief owner with Hatton. Shortly after the death of Wilkins, John R. Mclean, owner of The Cincinnati En- Quirer, acquired a controlling interest Under Hatton and Wilkins. The Post was about as fair and impartial an independent newspaper as there was in the United States. This position, in- deed. was so well maintained under the editorial management of Hatton that Republicans would write him that he, as a Republican, ought to stop his Democratic partner, Wilkins, from let- ting the paper be so fair to Demo crats and Democrats would write Will lkins that a Republican like Hatton gave the Republicans too much of a show to suit their notions.
 Mclean used to call himself Dem ocrat, and within a dozen years has been the party candidate for Senator and Governor out in Ohio.
 Rank Republican Sheet.
 For couple of years or longer The Post has been training so persistent ly with the Republicans that it Is generally conceded by readers up in this part of the country at least. to be about as rank Republican sheet as The New York Tribune. The Wash ipgton Star or The Philadelphia Press The Democrats have been abused and ridiculed systematically, and right af- ter the nomination of Mir. Bryan at Denver, the whole tone of The Post indicated that its conductors consider ed his third race for the presidency as nothing short of @ farce.
 Articles throughout the paper from day to day belittled Mir. Bryan and the entire Democratic party. To read The Post one would have imagined then that Judge Taft had walk-over and nothing remained but to count the vote and tabulate the list of States the Republicans were certain Of car- rying next month.
 The Post Is now singing an entirely dlnerept tune. It is badly scared inst like all the other ardent supporters of Roosevelt and Taft and the adnninIs- tratton policies. Following will ha fpund The Posts signincant wall:
 The Republican party is without doubt losing from two sources and losing from those two in every section or inc country from Maine to Gait fornia. It may also ba losing in fha agriculturai vote, but if so if la not So marked in all sections of the TynIt~ ca States as the heavy deeectIons Jn the labor vote and the lighter but ner- sistents losses in the votes of the col. oEed population. WI frne Republican corresnondants who have recently made tha fonrs es the warmly contested States aSa unanimeus in their reports of basn,, ana serious labor losses in ali oe ~ states they have visited. The ca1Iins. or Warren s. Stone. chief of the 5fotn erhood of Locomotive EnRineers. Eatrick Ii: Morrissey. chief of the La. comotlVe Tratnmens and Daniel OKeefe. the head of the IIonrShora" mems Union. to the White House Sor conference with President Roosavalt ts public recognition of the serionsnass Oa the situation for the RepubIican
 - Danger Flag Flying.
 1ne oanger flag is flying as q. warn. Ing for Republicans ali alone n" ,,I. when there arises an occasion that heItner Hitchcock. his Iieutenants tba canoioates or their friends can con troI' but requires the personal atten- H0h, Ine oirect care of that master VT poilticss that commander of atates men, that ruler of the princes oe nnance and captains of industrv Yba drill master of the Republican partss theodore Roosevelt. President of tbs united states. His quick eye and ready ear nave detected the false steps and the oiscordant tread of the Repuhli- can columns. He has noted tha Isn glng and the sagging lines and he baa started to improve the situation are 1t be too late to rectify the faults oS convention, of Congress, and of can- didates.
 He finds the Republican Party mak. ing no progress and, if not in retreat badly put upon the defensive bv th@ resentment of labor at the record of prominent Republicans and of the Re. publican Party.
 He may be also able to hold a por- ton Of those who feel offended, but It Is beyond even the power of Pres tdent Roosevelt to replace in the Re- publican lines all of the massed labor vote that was there in 1900 and 1904,
 After trying his hand on the labor vote President Roosevelt will find the colored troops sullen and unrespon- sive to the call of the Republican Par. ", and will have to take them in hand as we'll"
 The foregoing is strictly in line with the statements showing the weak spots in the Republican line that have appeared in The Advertiser correspond ence from Washington for the past month. The Post and other Taft sup porters are now forced to admit that the situation Is nothing short of des- perate for the Republicans. Labor is in revolt. the negroes are sullen and even defiant, and the call is still per sistent for President Roosevelt to take the stump.
 Hitchcock a Failure.
 Hitchcock is generally considered a rank failure as National Chairman. the corporations upon which Republican campaign managers have formerly re- lied for their enormous "slush" fund, are not producing the cash. Sheldon is unable to induce them to shell out in comparison with sums they gave to Hanna and Cortelyou. and as The Post truly says. "the danger flag is flying" for the Republicans.
 When he passed through Washing ton the other day Senator Johnston, of Alabama, remarked that The Post edi- torfal was an evidence that the Re- publicans are not only badly rattIed but that they see certain defeat star ing them in the face.
 Senator Johnston is in prime condi- ton for the hard work ahead of him in the speaking tour that has been arranged for him in the Eastern States by the National Derocratic Com mittee. He certainly looks the pic- ture of health and Is going into the fight with about as much enthusiasm
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