Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1910-11-03
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NOW On THE
DEFENSIVE
New York Campaign a Hard
Fought One.
Betting Continues Heavily in Dlx'S
Favor and This Is Taken asa
Omen Of Certain Democratic Sue
cess In Coming Election.

me AasL law 0aFS seem 70 justify the
assertion that it is not going to be al
landslide in the ordinary deception of
that word Conditions do not yet war
rant extravagant predictions as to
although the campaign
on both sides are indulging
in tLls customary and somewhat alb
surd habit ten days before election.
Prentice, the Republican State chair
man, for example, is prophesying al
plurality Of 100000 for Stimson, while
men identified with the management OF
the Democratic campaign are striking
the high spots in computing the mar
gin Dix will have. Although it is pos
sible the election will produce great
surprises, it is not yet safe to venture
so recklessly into the realm of fore
cast at this time. The betting odds
are still heavily in Dix's favor, and
this in itself is naturally one of the
most suspicious omens Of Democratic
success. The betting brokers report
they lave difficulty placing money at
, to 1 on the Democratic candidate.
Teddy the Central Figure.
Col. Roosevelt continues to be the
central figure in the campaign, and
by tbs time he has been practically
despoiled of all of the dignity which
in the past has surrounded the person
OF an ex-President. All of the prin-
cipal Democratic stump speakers and
the newspaper editors who are advo-
eating the election of Dix are firing
broadsides at him daily, and it is
astonishing tie amount of ammunition
they have on hand. The heat of the
conflict has made them forget that the
man who they are assailing was the
head Of the nation for seven and haif
years. and they are treating him with
even less consideration than they are
Stmson, the man he is supporting
The violence of their attacks may even
be compared with those made in the
past upon Dick" Croker, when ne was
the Tammany chieftain, and upon
Charles F. Murphy, WHO now is leader
Of that organization, although the
charges of corruption and graft level
ed against Tammany are not embraced
in the counts against Roosevelt.
Some Criticisms of Mr.. Roosevelt.
One of the leading New York news
papers always refers to the colonel as
the superhuman," and another calls
his s1rcastically, the only honest
man" The cartoonist are going the
limit in caricaturing him, while the
latest efforts of the editorial writer's
have been to show that the colonel
lacks in ordinary courtesy by not
acknowledging he made a mistake IN
coupling up Dix with the wall paper
trust, witch was dissolved some years
prior TO the decision of the Supreme
Court last year, when judgment was
rendered in favor of a Cincinnati fran
which refused to pay bills rendered on
the ground that the combination had
been operating in violation of the Sher
man antitrust law The coloneI's crit
les are also questioning the refinement
of his instincts for not making amends
to Judge Baldwin, the Democratic can
didate for governor in Connecticut,
for his alleged Misrepresentation Of
the judges views on the subject of
workmen's compensation
Doesn't Enjoy Being Target.
The colonel does not enjoy being
made this kind of target, but finds
he mast continue to work, desperately
to turn the threatened Democratic
triumpL into Republican victory. In
order to accomplish this APPARENTLY I'M
attainable result it will be necessary
for the Republicans upstate to cast
their normal vote, and to come down
to Greater New York with plurality
of more than 100000, in order to over
come the preponderance of the DEM
ocratic vote in the metropolis. Roose-
welt, fully alive to the necessity, has
been laboring indefatigaibly to prevent
the detection of the workingmen in tie
upstate cities and of the farmers, who
heretofore have been very regular in
their RepublGcanism. All of his speech
es in the labor centers have been de-
signed to convince the men who work
in the factories and mills of the abso-
Lutte sincerity of his interests in them
and TO counterfeit the effect of the
charge of the Democrats that he and
his party are largely responsible foc
the cost of living.
One Hope for StimsOn Ticket.
The colonel knows that unless the
Republican working men and the
farmers are loyal this fall there Is
no chance for success and
the Republican state committee has
been engaged in making a very careful
canvass of the sentiment of these
classes of voters. They also have been
trying to ascertain the true signifi- |
canoe of the silence of the Catholic !
clergy, who in the past seldom hesitat-
ed to express their interest in NJ |
Roosevelt and his aspirations But |
since the colonePs experience with the
Vatican last spring there has been ap-
parent less cordial feeling toward |
him among some of the leading men OF
Ike Catholic Church, and it is gener-
ally accepted in New York that this in
1uence will not be exerted in behalf
If the coloners ticket this year.
Roosevelt in the past was also very
strong on the lower East Side, where
hnrn is o arna Inmrich manhattan and