Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1912-11-01
THE FIELD IN REVIEW.
How The Great Political Battle Is
Progressing.
CONDITIONS MORE OR LESS CHAOTIC.
Because Many Old Landmarks are Down, Political
Maps are Out of Date, and an accurate Forecast
is Next to Impossible.


tariff changes, defending the consti
tuition and appealing to Republican
to uphold the party. It is claimed
that the phenomenal prosperity o.
the country will help the party IL
power. Business men are campaign
ing for the president. 1t is stated
that the voters are returning to san
ity and that by election day the bull
of Republicans and many patriotic
Democrats will decide to let wei
enough alone and put in Taft ballots
The Progressives are certainly max
ing a vigorous fight. Their speaker!
have the zeal Of new converts and are
active in every corner Of the land
The Bull Moose managers claim new
converts daily, saying that they viii
get an enormous labor vote, that the
old soldiers are for them, that they
will have a majority Of the Republi'
cans and thousands Of the progressive
Democrats, that their program Of So
cial justice and humanitarian meas
ures Is winning to their standard the
best thought Of the land. that Colone
Roosevelt has a larger personal follow.
ing then ever before and that the das-
tardly assault upon him will bring
multiplied thousands Of votes through
indignation and sympathy, that straw
votes taken in many sections show
him far in the lead and that he will
sweep the Pacific coast and the middle
west and will break into the east and
possibly the south. They have the
fire Of crusaders and talk Of nothing
but victory. AS for Taft, they dismiss
him as a dead issue. All they have tc
do now is to beat Wilson, and they are
going joyfully about the task.
Democrats Claim Every State.
The Democrats are making theiI
fight on high prices, the trusts and the
tariff. They claim that Old Man Mo-
nopoly from his stronghold in both
the trusts and the tariff is the boy that
is troubling the country. They as
sert that Wilson will hold the Bryan
vote and go several hundred thousand
better. With their own side united
and the Republicans split wide open
between Roosevelt and Taft, they are
sure there is nothing more to it. They
believe for every Democrat their can
didate looses he will gain one or more
Republicans and that it is all over but
the shouting. Some of the more en-
thusiastic prophets even predict tina,
Wilson will carry every state in the
Union. They point to their gains In
Vermont and Maine as compared with
1908, jubilate that a poll taken by q
New York paper in a majority Of the
states shows Wilson far in the lead
and assert that the betting favors
their candidate by long odds. They
expect to carry not only the presiden-
cy, but both houses of congress.
In this connection a story is told
that fits the Democratic view Of the
situation. In the old days, when Ken.
lucky was a Whig state, there was
one district that was especially rock.
ribbed in it's Whiggery. Much to the
surprise Of everybody in Washington
this Whig Gibraltar once sent Demo
crat to congress. When the new mem.
Der reached Washington he was con.
graduated on his personal popularity
that had enabled him to overturn the
great Whig majority. Well, he said
he did not want to boast, but that he
had beaten two Wings in that election
and could have beaten three if they
had been running.
Fight in New York.
1t is impossible to present the situa.
ton in all the states in so brief ar
article, and little more can be done
than to refer to the campaign in a few
of the pivotal states. New York, hav.
ing the largest number Of electors, /!
naturally the state in which the figh
is being waged most fiercely. The EN-
pire state enjoyed the novelty thi!
year Of having Embossed conventions
in all the parties. The result is tina
the three candidates for governor are
popular. They are William Sulzel
(Dem.), Job E. Hedges (Rep.), ant
Oscar S. Straus (Prog)
Sulzer has been a congressman fol
twenty years, having been elected al
that time in a Republican district
Once Tammany refused to nominate
him, and he ran as an Independent
beating both old party candidates. HI
is chairman Of the house committee OF
foreign affairs and as such framed th'
resolution denouncing the Russian
treaty He also introduced the par
cells post bill in the house.
Job E. Hedges is one Of the bes
after dinner speakers in New Yorl
and a popular campaigner. He wa
once a United States treasurer and ha
held other jobs; also has refused few
Job is a philosopher, with humor ooz
ing between the cracks of his philoso
ply
Everybody knows about Osca
Straus. He has served under fou
presidents, mostly as ambassador t
Turkey, but once in the cabinet H
belongs to a family of famous philan
thropists and is it's most famous mem
ber
The Socialist candidate is Charlie
Edward Russell, an old time newspa
per man, who used to be called '1ro
Face" All of these candidates expec
to be elected, except Russell, and he |
having such a good time he doesn
care.
Governor of New Jersey Busy.
There is no campaign for governo
in New Jersey this year, the governo
being busy in other ways. The chic
interest centers in the fight for Unite
States senator, in which Frank Oba
diah Briggs, the present incumbent,
opposed by Congressman Billy Hughe
who beat former Senator Smith in tn
primaries. Briggs unfortunately suf
| fered a recent breakdown in health
Hughes has been known as a labo
member of congress and at the tim
| he resigned to become a judge in Pas