The sun., 1910-11-01
DISTRICT DIS RRIIGT FIGHTS Red Red hot
DEMOCRATS HOPE TO Gam FIVE
CONGRESSMEN HERE.
3.oo0 Jsin the NIX nepub,ican ttuf,-rnr
Cost of Living and the Whirns of
Roosevelt Echo From Q Hundred
Platforms stimsen's Repiy 10 Earie.


Platforms stimsen's Reply To Earie'
The Democrats are feeling pretty cocky
over the Congress outlook Tor Greater
New York When In. tidal wave they re
expecting rolls nv Eve Republican Con-
gr. ssmeu will he strswu among the
wreckase they tell you. three IN Brooklyn.
two in New York What with the Colo
nel's bass and the Serg-ants trap drum
ming and the nols.. made by orators Tor
| the State tickets on both sides. people
haven had Az much time perhaDs 90 lend
an ear 70 the noise in the Congress districts.
| but the Democrats insist that IL one listens
closely one will hear cries OF alarm from
Herber, Parsons and william ). Bennett
in New York county and from William III
Calder, Alfred +. Hobby and Charles b.
Law in Brooklyn. Tho Democrats say
that ..,ass have been reserved in the Down
and Out Club for these two members OF
the Lower House
Henry George will beat Smiling Fill
Bennet by butter aud beef. shoes. shirts
and Socks they figure: that is. Mr.. George
has put the cost OF living issue At Bennett
so hard that the voters in ths Seventeenth
are becoming convinced that Bill Bennett
10 to blame every time they look over
their wsskly bills from the corner grocery
AID ses that tbs German has added on a
few cents.
Jefferson NJ. Levy has Parsons sasping
for breath in tho Thirteenth. according
TO this estimate. Parsons . former family
connection with the sugar trust his whisk-
broom service for His Majesty and his
general unpopularity ought 20 shove Levy
into the House handsomely. said the
Democrats. Over In Brooklyn. ex-
Sheriff Alfred T Hobley is defending the
seat Foelksr now holds against the Demo-
crat James p Mah.r. and Maher has the
support of the labor element and has been
putting up a rafting fight. Foelker won
two years a 60 becans.. OF his melodramatic
support OF the racetrack anti-gamblinG
bill. In Charles Laws district. the
on out OF which DIR Frank E Wilson. the
Democratic candidate. II eNpecoed TO
snatch victory. The third proba bIlity is IN
the Sixth where William NJ Calder ishgh;-
ing against Michael f. Butler. Calder =
vote showed Tim Woodruff on the State
committee and WoodruH's friends are
sore.
OF course in making these predictions
the Democratic optimists ar- banking on
a tidal wave which will roll Mr.. Dix in by
an unprecedented ma ,ority and drown all
kinds of Republican aspirants. II will
only be necessary. they say. to Increase
tn. best Democratic plurality for Greater
New York bv per cent. and 10 cut down
the best Republican plurality State by
~ per cent.
The Republicans concesie that there are
many ticklish little situations in the city
campa gn and that things are up In the
air generally because nobody knows how
deep the feeling 10 against Col. Roosevelt
or how much of figure the cost of living
is going TO cut IN the minor contests The
minor candidates are playing these trumps
with both hands. All around town. from
cart tails and dry goods boxes and in the
stuffy. smoky little halls. aspirants for
Republican seats in the state Senate or
Assembly are saying that because
womens stockings cost thirty cents in
this year Of grace instead of fifteen cents.
a. they did in 1900. Republican legisla-
tors should be turned out to Craze. One
Of the most active young campaigners
IN the Democratic lists IL Walter X. Her
rick who is a brother ~ Judge D-Cady
against Assemblyman Charles A. Dana
in the Twenty ty-seventh. and few nights
pass without a comparison Of market
prices and an assertion that the Colonel
Is. TO say the Least not what he should
he. Herricks fight is John q. Saxe's
IN the Seventeenth senate district. since
the Twenty-seventh Assembly district is |
one Of three that make up the Seven |
teenth The grandson Of the poet SAKE /
is confident that on November Senator
Agnew will be eI.
The Democrats are making more NOISE
with she Roosevelt issue than with any
o,h her explosives IN their can, but they
are actually buSIer spreading cost OF
living arguments than buitering the
Colonel's nose The twelfth floor OF
West Thirty fourth street. where the
Democratic State committee campe, ex
hlbit- sc~nic effects similar TO big
grocery stor-. The walls are papered
with pink and yellow posters. down which !
run IN parallel columns dollars and cents
arguments that ara expected TO turn the |
rascals ont. The price Of things TO eat !
and things 10 wear ~ set forth for the |
perrisal OF folk zap State and down. Every
out going mail carries sacks OF cost Of |
living literature. and the voters are told |
Z nat Roosevelt and Root. Stimson Depew /
and Payne all the g o. r. mahouts
run away from the family market basket !
think that the resentment against Col |
Roosevelt runs high. but they say that |
there II more demand fc- cost Of living I
facts than for anything else.
Mr. DIX will com. 20 New York to-day
NJ VIII Nv UST- lnlll nlrauAy |
morning. Tomorrow night he will speak |
at Carnegie Hall on how little restitution |
can h- got from IN. sugar trust by an |
ADJ. special prosecutor for the Govern
nent- Pre@Id-nt VI Wools.y Stryker Of |
Hamilton College on. Of the first os |
eminent upstate Republicans u stand /
out for Mr.. DIX. will speak from ths same
platform The Carnegie Hall meeting
~ regarded ny the Democrats as their
most important rally of the campaign
II will ne IN" last big speech on the part
Of the candidate for Governor. He will |
not talk Brooklyn and after the meet
ing hers tomorrow night he will 10 to |
hs horn. ~ Thomson. The Democratic
managers have relied on Mr. Dix for
advice IN nv" conduct Of ti.e campaign
and he will have conferences here all |
day to-day
The Republican candidnte j. booked for
six spe~ch.- in BROOKLYN tonight With
n. candidate for Lieutenant.
Governor Nj StIinKnn will light first AT |
Prospect Hall and t,."n -p-ak at Memorial