The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-10-16
New York Is Principal Bat t|e Ground for PO|iti-
 cal Contestants
WHAT VOTERS WILL DO
 lS NOW THE PROBLEM
dicated, Which Is Considered More Favorable to the Chances
 of Democracy
BY ROBERT LEE CARTIER

BY ROBERT LEE CARTER
 New York. October 15.--(Special)- | While the political fight In New York is perhaps the most spectacular oi those in the eastern states, very pretty battles are in progress in Connecticut ! New Jersey and Massachusetts, while F Pennsylvania will bear watching It. lself
 In New York the personality of ex- President Roosevelt and his spectacular \ victory over the old guard has given more than ordinary importance to the battle.
 The republicans are striving to make the issue in the state campaign the alleged alliance between Tammany Hall and Wall street, while the democrats insist that the dominant issue is ! whether or not Roosevelt shall gain absolute control of the republican ma schinery for his own nomination in 1912 for President with the idea of be- coming the Diaz of the United States. i Ii is along these lines that the party orators are smelling the woods. The most striking feature of the campaign so far has been the apathy and indifference of the great mass of voters.
 The registration both in the city and upstate reflects the dont-care atti- tude of the voters. Just what 1t means J depends on whether a republican or u democrat explains 1t. The preponder- ence of opinion is that the small reg istration is bad for the republicans, and of the c. O. P. who will stay at home on election day.
 q Effect on Elections
 ic ba ,rr{1l cided effect on the congressional cleo tions and on the choice of members :, of the legislature who will elect suc- 1 cessor to Senator Chauncey M. Dc- pew.
 An element which is bothering the poli- ticians of both parties is the independ- ence league. This vote is an unknown quantity. In statement to the Brook 1yn Eagle today, William R. Hearst scouts the talk that Colonel Roosevelt is public menace" as charged by I John A. Dix
 issue of the campaign as has been de- ' clared.
 MT. Hearst declares that the public menace is Candidate Dix because of the financial and political corruption for which Mir. Dix is the stalking horse."
 If MT. Roosevelt should seek a third term in 1912 it will be time to deal with him then, says Mir Hearst.
 MT. Hearst declares that he expects the independence league ticket to accomplish in this campaign what 1t did last fall:
 Defeat and disrupt the alliance between the criminal trusts and the corrupt bosses \ of Tammany Hall.' Eventually he ex- poets the independence party to become the dominant national party.
 PIans of Hearst
 It is apparent that MT. Hearst will read
 I~4< K will do 50, he says, If 1t should become necessary to expose the betrayal of the bublic on the part of prominent men, and he quotes the example of George washington in the case of Arnold and Major Andreas for his Justification.
 The Tammany leaders profess to have no fear of the independence league, de- claring 1t will pull more votes from the republicans than from the democrats, but there is no denying the fact that they would give good deal to be sure of this.
 As the situation stands tonight 1t fa- vors a democratic victory. Whether the personality of Roosevelt and his red-hot campaigning methods will change this remains to be seen. l' In Massachusetts the democrats have gotten into such muddle over the gubernatorfal nomination that they prob- ably have killed whatever chances they may HdNO Hdu to S0AiJ tho SS"eS. ~ fore the convention mix-up 1t was admit ted they had good one.
 Judge Simon Baldwin is making a strong fight in Connecticut and Is conf- dent he will beat MT Goodwin, the re- publican nominee, and the democratic leaders express confidence that he will carry one if not two congressman in with him, with a chance of capturing the leg lelature and sending democrat to the Senate in place of Senator Bulkley. The republicans are hopeful but not over confident.
 Whirlwind Campaign In New Jersey President Woodrow Will , son of Princeton Is making a whirlwind leampaign He developed remarkable liability as a campaigner, and the Jersey kydcmocrats are more aggressive and con- Adent than they have been in 20 years Nr. Lewis, the republican candidate for N governor, Is also working hard and Is making a strong canvass of the state Both sides express confidence. To an un' biased observer, 1t looks as though VII son will pull the republican majority down to the nearest possible limit if he does not wipe 1t out altogether. What effect the charges against Johr Vi K. Tener, the republican candidate fol VI governor of Pennsylvania that he was mixed up with "Get rich quick con .cern is problematical. It would not bt fsurprising. however, if there were to bs heavy falling off in the nominal repub' lican majority