The Montgomery advertiser., 1908-10-18
HITCHCOCK
 Is A FAILURE Repubs Alarmed at the Situation. CANNOT RAISE MONEY Political Writers Severe on the
 Old Party Washington Star Finds 1t Necessary to Advise One Man to See Things
 DiferentIy--Democrat
 LandslIde Talked.
BY ALFRED J. sTOFER.

l washington, oct. I1.-(Speclal. )-
 The criticism of Frank Hitchcock
 management of the Republican cam paign by Democratic newspaper cor.
 respondents who have been keeping
 close run of the situation from week
 to week Is not bit worse than thai l of the Republican newspaper writers
 Republican Congressman and stumT 1 speakers have also been severe in the | extreme on the young fellow pulled
 out of obscurity four years ago bS | Cortelyou and put to the front to the | exclusion of the war horses of the I party by General Manager Roosevelt and Candidate Taft. Evidently they are nearly all getting ready to throw l the entire blame upon Hitchcock in l the event the Democrats administer a defeat to the grand old party" next | month
 l The stories being told and printed l about Hitchcock indicate beyond any I doubt that Hitchcock is not the man | for the place. The charge is made all along the line that Hitchcock is | utterly lacking. It is asserted that | few Republican clubs have been or- | ganized in the doubtful States in com parison with the active, working ore ganizations of the campaigns managed l by the late Mark Hanna.
 Hitchcock and his pals at headquar. ters reply by saying that the 'pa- | triots are not putting up one dollar in this contest where they put up two thousand when Hanna was at the helm. He asks how in thunder can he accomplish the impossible if the ''sin. ewS of war" are denied him. Crying for Money. According to the information picked up here the Republican committees in the various States are loudly calling for money. and 1t is not forthcoming. Replies are sent out that they need funds they will have to collect them and look after things in their respect i've States and that the National Com mitteemen have hardly enough to meet the obligations already assumed. Does this not sound strange? The idea of the Republicans being short of "slush" money.
 Treasurer sheidon's call upon 10000 business men to subscribe $50 each to the fund, from all accounts. is not being responded to in sufficient num- bers to remove the gloom from Repub- lican headquarters These appealing letters were sent out on October 6. A large percentage were addressed to Democrats connected with banks. Pre- cious few of these men have subscrib- ed. Most of them are indignant be- cause they were called upon. A friend and former schoolmate of the writer who resides at Alexandria, Va, who is vice-president of a lead- ing bank in that city across the Po- tomac and who has extensive manu- featuring interests in both Virginia and North Carolina, was the recipient of one of Sheldon's pitiable appeals. AS he hapens to be Democrat who be- lieves in party regularity he Is sup" porting MT. Bryan earnestly, although he did not favor his nomination at Denver, it goes without saying that Abn AIaxaudrian made m FaanOnRa in Treasurer Sheldon.
 Cold chills crawled up and down the spines of the Republicans around the Nations Capital one day this week when they read in The Washington Post, red-hot Taz. organ, a sizzling in- terview printed with M. w. Hissey, of zanesville. a bosom friend and legiS- lative agent Of the late Senator Mark Hanna. Mir. Hissey predicted a Demo- cratic landslide at the coming election. He said that the Republican Party in Ohio was on the verge of division be- cause ot the attitude of President Roosevelt. He savagely criticized the President for constantly speaking of my policies" as if he literally owned the Republican Party.
 Gentle reader, remember this is a prominent Republican talking, and his utterances have appeared here in a newspaper th.t Is doing It's utmost to
  like this has created so much talk in Washington since President Roosevelt and Senator Foraker had their filings at each other through the papers a few weeks ago.
 Hear MT. Hissey further. 7Ie makes claims far beyond any statements that have emanated from Democratic extracts from the remarkable inter view:
 The Republican Party in Ohio has been the party of the .ajority, and never before has 1t heard from any President the expression my policies The party always has been greater than any one man. It was so with Hayes, Garleld, and Mckinley - the party was above the individual, and they always spoke of Republican poli- cies.
 Mir. Roosevelt. by the use of the big stick and the steam roller, has nomi- mated his successor. whom he declares will carry out my policies and Judge Taft agrees to do so to the letter, showing conclusively that the Repub- lican Party has lost its Identity and has become the personal property of Mir. Roosevelt.
 "The business interests of Ohio de- mand to know why these hard times occur under my policy administration. MT. ltOO50N6llt t.S DOllOul nhS ldllen out. There are no natural reasons for the existence of these hard times. It is up to MT. Roosevelt, who claims to own the Republican Party, to explain this situation.
 "The people of Ohio resent MT. Roose- velt's attempt to assassinate the char acter of one of her foremost ciu- zens, namely, Senator J. B. Foraker. Ohio is proud of Grant, Hayes, Gar field sherman. Mchinley. Hanna, and | Foraker, but among her great sons | there is none greater than Senator J. | B. Foraker, and the Presidents bru- | tai treatment Is indignantly resented | by the Republicans of Ohio, from the | lake to the river"
 serious disaffectlon exists in the negro vote in Ohio, and sixty per cent of that will be cast for Bryan. All over the State the negroes are wear Ing buttons with the inscription 'Re- member BrownsviHe.' This means &C., poo votes against Taft
 There is serious division in the la boring vote, eighty per cent Of which i will be cast against MT. Taft and for Mr. Bryan. and the Republican labor ng vote will mean 10000.
 There are in the State of Ohio 600.- 100 Republicans. Of this number, 1t Ia safe to say that 150, 900 are Fora xerites. It is not claimed that the entire number will vote against Mir. Taft It is conservative estimate. however, that ten per cent are sullen | Ind angry and Senator Foraker him jeff could not prevail upon them to vote for MT. Taft.
 "We have. therefore. a change of