Republican news item. [volume] (Laport, Pa.) 1896-19??, 1912-10-11
TAFT IS SURE
OF REELECTION
MANY DEMOCRATS WILL
TURN WILSON DOWN

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Republican managers in this city
are more confident of victory today
than they have been at any time
since the start of the campaign. The
feature of the week has been the
definite settlement of the electoral
problem.
There has been a growing feeling
of security un this point for some
time, but since the meeting of the
State Committee in Harrisburg on
Monday there is no longer any doubt
that the Roosevelt electors will re-
sign from the Republican ticket and
be replaced by men who will support
Taft and Sherman in the electoral
college of the State. The fact that
this substitution demanded by good
morals and an overwhelming public
sentiment, including sentiment
among those who have supported
Roosevelt himself, will he delayed
for another week, does not shake the
confidence of those who are directing
the Republican campaign.
"A1l voters who wish to cast their
ballots for the straight Republican
ticket, and who have been tormented
by the fear that they might be in
voluntarily voting for someone not
on the ticket, may disabused their
minds on this point" said Congress
man J. Hampton Moore, today.
Mr.. Moore is Chairman of the
National Republican Congressional
Committee of Pennsylvania, and has
recently launched one of the most
active campaigns that has ever been
conducted in the Keystone State. He
has set on foot an investigation in
every one of the thirty-two Congress
sional Districts, with a. EiaN 10 as
certaining what industries in each
would be affected, and how seriously,
by the removal of protective tariff.
His argument is that AS the second
manufacturing State in the Union,
and the second State in point OF
population, Pennsylvania would sui-
fer more and more speedily from the
the application of Democratic Free
Trade policies than any other State
in the Union, with the possible ex-
ception of New York. Francis Cur
tbs, who is in charge of the Repub-
lican ational Committees Parman-
ent L. -erary Bureau in New York,
visited the Pennsylvania Head
qurters yesterday and expressed
himself as delighted with the out
look here, and the work being done.
Secretary Hilles, and Congressman
Mckinley, Chairman of the National
Republican Congressional Committee
in Chicago, are more than pleased
with the trend in the last few weeks.
1--WE are at least reducing the fight
to the real issue, said Mr. Curtis,and
eliminating the side issues which
have from time to time obscured it..
This one real issue is not Taft or
Roosevelt, or Taft or Wilson, but
WORK AND WAGES. From the
rural distril Is of the State, the most
encouraging reports are coming III
every day. DR.. Wilson's speech at
Williams Grove, appears to have
made profound and very unfavor-
able impression upon the Pennsyl-
vania farmers, not only in that sec
ton but in all other sections of the
State. The sentence which has been
singled out for special criticism is
the one in which the Democratic
candidate assured his hearers that
"the farmer does not need protection
| AS bid for the agricultural vote,
1t is doubtful if any other assertion
could have been more unhappy. The
farmer is convinced that he does need
protection, as well as any other man,
land he is beginning to look about
him in order to determine to what
|extent he has profited by Republican
policies. He Is learning that the
old complaint put into his mouth by
Democratic promoters, to the effect
that everything he buys has increas-
ed in price, whereas he sells at about
the same old figure is an absolute
falsehoOd.