Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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The Presss and Banner. j . p a t?.t ff-pinn-km - t) f 1 *??? ? BRYAN WILL Wlh At Least That Is the Way I Looks Now. VICTORY IN THE AIR AH Signs Point to a Democratic Land slide on Tuesday, November 3 imen me i eopie wiu win :so Only the Presidency, but th< House as Well. All the forecasts of the electior indicate a sweeping victory for thr Democracy by the election of Dryai and Kern. The New York HeralJ and The New York World have beer conspicuous agencies of a serious attempt to arrive at some reliablt judgment of the conditions, and theii reports and conclusions are very iu teresting, and, to the Democrat more than important. In last Sunday's issue these greai newspapers each presented the re suits of a careful and extended canvas of popular disposition toward the candidates, made in conjunction with other newspapers in various sec tions of the country, and they botn reach the conclusion that the last few days of the campaign may determine the issue, while they agroe that there are strong evidences ot an undercurrent that may develo;: into a Democratic landslide. The Herald, which ia supporting the Republicans, thinks that Taft i3 within 38 votes of his goal, white Bryan needs 81 more electoral votes to assure him of victory. "Then are political conditions in the West,' says The Herald, "indicating a Democratic landslide. There are signs in New York, presaging political chaos." Obviously tnat means unrest and uprising of the people ani dissatisfaction with the party in power that must promise brilliantly for the Democrats. The World thinks the result depends upon the vote of New York State, and in that State it figures out a plurality of less than ten thousand for Taft, while it estimates thai the Democrats will elect their Statu ticket by 184,000 majority. A tremendous majority such as that for thp Stntp tiokpt rnuld not be r-> corded withiut material effect upon the national ticket, and if Chanlev is elected Governor of New York by anything approaching the indicated figures, Bryan will surely carry the State and win. COMMITS SUICIDE. Stole Money From Father and ReMorse Overtook Him. A special to the Augusta Chronicle from Atlanta says remorse over having taken $25 of his father's money to satisfy a longing for a bicycl led John Arthur Hiburn, a 12-yea> old boy. ti commit suicide Tuesday. The lad lived with his paretns at 286 Waldeo street. He left home Sunday afternoon and went to th< house of a neighbor, where he spent the evening. He left at 9 p. m. He was seen no more until when found early Tuesday suffering terrible agon;, from the effects of his dose of car bolic acid. The discovery was made b* John W. Henley, assistant United States district attorney. As Mr Henley was going tf wirk he heard the crieB of two boys, and on invest! gatlon found them carrying a third who was in the clutches of couvul sions. Young HUburn was carried intc the home of Alderman it-rank Pitt man on Park street, in front of whic' the acid had been drunk, but dlo< twenty minutes later without speak ing. .. half emptied bottle told th? story. The parents were prostrated b> news of their child's death and cai not account for the same except 01 the theory th3t such was brough about by remose over having takej $25 the elder Hilburn had left lyiui around carelessly. WARXXG TO MILLINERS. Colombia Merchant Fined for Yio lating Game Law. Mr. A. G. Douglass, president : the A. G. Douglas Company, whic conducts a fashionable dry goids an millinery establishment in Colun - ?? -? *0 TVim-oHav hv ATaf Dia, was tuieu yu luuigv., t istrate Fowles on a charge of viola1 ing the game laws of the Stat< The warrant was sworn out by Seen tary Rice, of the Audubon Societ: under the Act of 1905, and state that Mr. Douglas has in his possei sion and offers for sale the feathei of a non-game bird, which is a vi< lation of the statue. The feathers In question are th? of a heron on a stylish bat in tt Douglas window, and there are lo of others of the same kind in tl stock, which Mr. Douglas will ha\ to dispose of in some legal wa xv- oalleri in ti wnen iue um? n?? .. Magistrate's Court he entered a pit of guilty and paid bis fine. If the Audubon Society undertak to enforce the law throughout tl State Is Is likely that a good mat stocks of millinery In other towi than Columbia will be depleted some of their choicest fall ciferlog* | KIDNAP YOUNG WIFE TWICE CARRIED OFF BY TWO t N STRANGERS. Kept Prisoner in a Swamp, Enduring Maltreatment and Finally Return- ^ ing; to Her Home. After spending a night of terror, biding in a barn from friends, who were searching the woods for her, 11 Mrs. Abbie Meeriongola, who was twice kidnapped by two men and kept a prisoner In the woods, returned to hor sister's home, in 5 Huntington, L. I., Monday . She was so frightened and dazed by her ex1 perience at the bands of the kidnai/- c' i pers tbat she could tell no connected ** 1 story of her ill treatment. cr l Mrs. Meeriongola is 17 years old, pi the daughter of a well-to-do farmer cc and the wife of a contractor, to whom rc : she was married six months ago. nj She was first dragged from her home a on October 10. A neighbor saw her m being led to the woods between two cc armed men. P' Three days later, after her father . and husband had sought for her in c( . vain, she staggered into her father's af I home and said that she could re- el i member little that had happened ,:> during her absence except that she e? [ had been kept a prisoner in a swamp hs by two men. ed A few days later anotner attempt ( to kidnap her from her father's house m was made, but was frustrated by the i appearance of her husband. se Again last Saturday afternoon the m ; two kidnappers raided her father's va i home, and, frightening her mother th with a revolver shot, again dragged er i the young wife away. The help cf re the police again was summoned, and ce Sunday afternoon two officers fr j found her in the custody of two men j in the woods near Huntington. no ? An o r\i 1 n nf WI I I1C 5J1 1 *> ao ij nig vu u |/itv v? brush, while her captors were playing it a game of cards. The kidnappers to gave battle to the police, but were as overcome and arrested. Alarmeu and apparently half crazed the girl Tt fled into the swamps. The police M pursued her for a short distance, but sp soon lost trace of her. in on NEGROES BUNCOED. pr th An Old Flim-FIam Game Being n| wl Worked Again. th In The Columbia State says it has been reported that there are a couple w? of "smooth crooks" in town who St Yr work their game on unsuspecting uegroes. The two artists are of th?j ? colored race also and they go about their work in a hackneyed manner which, like other time-honored gags, j lands a "sucker" occasionally. . The two walk in among a crowd of negroes, and drop an old, worn vJ] IK)cketbook in the crowd. Then one of them stoops and picks up the pocketbook, which contains a $20 * ' bill. The negroes who are in tho immediate vicinity of 'the pocket- ^ book have their attention then called to the "find." The artists then proceed to tel lthe two or three negroes that they will "divvy" the money if ne there is nothing said about the finding of the pocketbook. The unsus- 0 pecting negroes agree to this, of o thf>n romps the division _ of the spoils. * After some figuring the exact ? amount due each is obtained. The Gr ' $200 bill, which, of course, is "fake" money, is handed over to one of the 1,1 I victims. He has to give back $15 0 change and this is where the crook? finish their work. They pretend ' that they are going to a store to qt ?et the rest of the money changed s The victims never see the men again. aj* It is said that several negroes who * 1 have come to town and sold cotton ' have lost much money in this way. ?v fo PREFERRED DEATH TO TRIAL. of Vew York Doctor Accused of Criminal Practice Suicides. R < Rather than face trial for manslaughter, growing out of a caee of s aiieged criminal practice, Dr. Irving a] I. Cook, a young doctor of New York. Irank a dose of a powerful poison . iud shot himself at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Friday. His body was ~ found by hotel attendants. The man ^ left a sealed letter addressed to hi5 wife, but accompanying it was a terse . note in which he asked her "not ^ h to take this affair hard." Dr. Cook ^ . was arrested last Tuesday night and the following day he was releaseo '* In $10,000 bail. He was to have '* been prosecuted for the death of a . voung woman at Summit, N. J., last 2 ' * P summer. * ^ FATALLY BURNEI). J, 5- t Coloi-ed Woman on Andei-son Farm p Meets Awful Death. . Esther Brown, a young clored ^ ie woman of Anderson, who had been * ts working on the plantation of Mr. 1 Charlie Jones, about two miles below rf) Starr, was so severely burned that 4 7- she died in great agoney. She had * been working in the field, near 1 w where she lived, and went to th-5 * house to start a fire in the stove t> prepare supper. It ie believed that woman used kerosene oil in start W ing the Are and that it blazed up on i ft* her when the match was applied. I of waa horribly burned all over < < * the body and face. + i PADDING ROLLS few York Democratic State Chairman W. J. Connors flAKES GRAVE CHARGE eclares that Republicans ait? Preparing to Steal Election In New York, but That Dead Men Will Not Be Permitted to Vote and Law Committee is Named. * A dispatch from New York says larges were made Thursday by W. Connors, chairman of the Dem ) atic State committee, that the Relblican organizations in up-State unties had padded the regulation >lls with from 10,000 to 20,000 imes, and to prevent the casting of fraudulent vote the executive comittee had appointed a State law immittee with former Judge A.B irker as chairman. Mr. Connors said that the law I )mmittee would bje composed oi >out 500 attorneys, and that ot ection day these attorneys would s assisted by special deputies to ich election district t osee that illots were honestly cast and count- j I. Mr. Connors said: "There will be no voting of dead en by the Republicans in this eiecjn, and the State committee will e that our opponents are not peritted to run over from Pennsy!inia and Canada to vote them In is State. Already we have discoved hundreds of cases of fraudulent gistration up State and have suceded in having the names strick >n om the lists. "We want a square deal. We are it going to buy the election, and 3 have not got the money to buy with anyway. We don't propose have the Republicans rob us they have done in the past." National Chairman Mack declared lursday night that the change in r. Taft's plans by which he will eak in thirty-five cities and towns this State instead of speaking in ly a few of the larger cities as eviously announced, indicate that e Republican managers felt the 'density tof carrying thiis tSate, lich was virtually acknowledging at they felt they were losing Ohio, diana, Wisconsin and Kansas. Mr. ack said that if the Republicans ?re certain of the middle Western ates they woi^ld not need New >rk. Speaking of the letter of President losevelt denanding that Mr. Bryan clare himself on the labor question the day, Mr. Mack said that If ere was any labor man in doubt out voting for Bryan the reading the President's letter would conace him that he should cast his te for the Democratic ticket. Mr. ack said he had received reports )m Ohio that the reception tended Mr. Bryan in the Buckeye State is the greatest demonstration er given a Presidential candidate. Mr. Bryan's meeting in the city xt Tuesday night, when he will eak at Madison Square Garden, is be made the occasion of a Demoatic rally in every Assembly di:sIct in New York. Not only as immany Hall arranged for overiw meetings at the Garden, but ere will be mass meetings in CoopUnion, Hamilton Fish Park and scores of halls throughout the ty. The demand for tickets to the adison Square Garden meeting lickly exhausted the supply and ands will be erected outside the nphi theatre for overflow assemages. Besides Mr. Bryan, Governor oke Smith, of Georgia; Congress-j an H. D. Clayton, of Alabama, and' rraer Congressman John L. Lentz, i Ohio, will address the meeting. * DON'T WANT BRYAN. aihvay Magnates Will Do All They Can to Beat Him. Alarmed by the growing sentiment mong railroad employes for Bryan, le managers of the Big Four divis>n of the New York Central railroad re sending a special train across hio with General Manager Van ,'inkle and other officials on board, rging the men to vote for Taft. he first stop was made at Springeld, that being headquarters for 3ur divisions of the road. "We have heard, men," said Mr. anWinkle, "that you think that we ant you to vote for Bryan. That ; a mistake. We hope as many a* ossible will vote for Mr. Taft, for re are convinced that Bryan's elecion would mean four years of d?riression. On the other hand, wo hink Taft's election will mean prosicrity. Don't think anybody is going to ie discharged if he votes for Bryan. Ve simply want to impress upon you hat work will be more plentiful il raft is elected." Men holding executive positions on he road are being asked to talk raft to the men under them. Jo nany instances the action of the oficial was resented. * Cotton Mills itesume uptranuus. A dispatch from Eatonton, Ga. says that the Floyd Cotton Mills cr that place resumed operation this R-eek. after being closed about fiv< months. RUINED BY COCAINE SAD FATE OP A MAN ANI) HiS Wife. Blighting Effects of the Drug Vividly Illustrated in the Case of Two Young People. The blighting powers of cocaine, says The News and Courier, were vividly demonstrated when Louis Malone and his wife, Rosa, a young white couple, were arrested an 1 hailed before Magistrate O'Shaughne&ey's Court on a warrant perferred against them by Mr. Ellas S. Wingate, charging them with malicious mischief in cutting up and otherwise demolishing an old schooner belonging to him, lying at Potter's wharf, in which he allowed them to liv.through compassion excited by thei.* destitute and desperate condition. Both persons appeared before the magistrate in an almost starving condition, clothing in rags, neither of them weighing over 75 pounds and frankly attributed their condition to the use of the devastating drug. Their wretched and skeletonlike appearance excited so much pi:y in the breast of the prosecutor dur ing the course of the trial that h' suddenly resolved to dismise the charges against the two and prayei the Court to turn the prisoners loose. Malone has since been arrested 'iy the police on a charge of vagrancy and sentenced to a fine of $5 or to ten days in the Oounty Jail. Before becoming addicted to the use of cocaine Malone, who was bom in this city, is said to have been a first-class carpenter, but the evil influence of the drug soon sapped his vital powers, and this is the more pitiful because of the fact that he married, and through his influence his young wife also became addicted to its use; About a year ago the couple came here to live, but tve'it I from bad to worse, and it eventuallv came about that the two had no place to call home. After wandering about for seven! months they at length picked out the old dismantled schooner "Maggie." mnni-ad nf Dnttor'o whorf oc n nlflW U1W1 CU UV M. \/VbVI W ?* MM* mf MW M of residence. The owner, Mr. Elia<= S. Wingate, hearing the deplorable story, was loath to eject them from the sorry shelter as long as they behaved themselves, but the two soon made themselves objectionable by tearing and cutting off the woodwork of the vessel to use as fuel with which to keep warm on cold nights. Mr. Wingate personally tried to induce them to leave, but had to resort to the law, as the Malone* positively refused to leave peaceably Constable William R. Way states that the condition of the two cocain? fiends in their "home" was almost unbelieveably bad. They slept in a place barely eighteen inches high in the hold, because the other parts of the vessel were too uncomfortably cold for them in their drugged con dltion. The officer had hard work to find out this sleeping room, but was finally attracted by the groans and moans of the woman, wh ohad just previously taken a stiff dose of the poison and was under its influence The deck of the schooner was described as being literally covered by the little white pill boxes which had once contained the cocaine. Offers of help were made to the Malones by Magistrate O'Shaughnessy and several other people present at the trial, with a view of relieving their destitute condition, but these kind offers were bruskly brushed aside by the man, who stated that they were too far gone alre-ady in their indulgence of cocaine to care for assistance. When Louis was arrested by the police on a charge o." vagrancy Friday afternoon he gave the officers a terrible fight for the possession of the cocaine syringe and the drug. Salvation Armv officers found out the condition of the couple, and were especially excited to pity through Rosa's ragged and wretched appearance. The woman was taken to the Salvation Army home and there cared for before It was decided to send her to her home In Birm-j Ingham, Ala., but Rosa stayed there only a few short weeks and then again followed the fortunes of her husband. In an uncommonly sbo't 6pace of time she was again in the same deplorable condition in which she was found by the Salvation Army officers. The skin of both unfortunates has turned a deep yellow through the excessive use of the drug. TOO MITCH GRAFT. Caused Monnett to Become a Democrat for Good. At Salt Lake City Wednesday H making a speech at a Democratic rally Frank S. Monnett, former attorney general of Ohio, said: "The reason I left the Republican ; party and advocate the election of Bryan is due to the fact that while I was prosecuting the Standard Oil ' Trust in Ohio, and with every rea' son to expect a successful Issue. The 1 Republican campaign fund of Ohio was swenea oy coninuunuuo n?iu the Standard Oil jUompany and u return that the company was allowed to name the personnel of supreme . court of Ohio, whereupon all of the f Standard Oil cases were promptlj s dismissed. ? "Then," said Monnett, "T became a Democrat." * IA FOUL TRAGED Band of Mask Men Lynch 1\ Prominent Men. CAUSE OF THE CRIM Was u Law Passed by the LcgLs ture in Reference to Fishing hi Certain Lake Near Where the Ti Men Were Killed by the Ri Hans. Col. R. Z. Taylor, aged 60 yeai and Captain Quinten Rankin, bo prominent attorneys of Trentc Tenn., were taken from Ward's Hot at Walnut Log, Tenn., Monday nig by masked night riders and murde ed. Captain Rankin's body w found Tuesday morning riddled wl bullets and hanging from a tree oi mile from the hotel. Efforts to locate the body of Cc onel Taylor have been futile th far, but it is relieved i hat he was al killed. The trouble which resul ed in the death of Captain Rank and the probalbe murder of Colon Taylor was caused by the passai I of an Act by the Legislature regula ing fishing in Reel Fr?ot Lake, a sho i distance from Walnut Log. A night rider disturbance ovi ; the Eame matter occurred ever I year ago. Ever since then Colon Taylor and Captain Rankin ha1 been in constant receipt of threate ing letters, to which they paid litt heed. Mr. Ward, the manager < the Ward House, at Walnut Lo telephoned Sid Wadell, a stockhol er in the West Tennessee Land Cor pany, stating that about 25 mask< night riders came to his hotel midnight last night. According to this report the nigl riders lined up cutside the hott pulled out their revolvers and callt Colonel Taylor and Captain Ranki The two men did not suspect trou le and came down immediately. I the attorneys passed into the froi yard of the hotel the night ride covered them with revolvers. Befoi Captain Rankin and Colonel Tayl< had an opportunity to retire th( were surrounded and seized. They were put on horses behir night riders and carefully guarde The night ridfers then quietly toe up their march from the hotel, turi ing down the road toward Reel Foi Lake. Proceeding to the edge ( Reel Foot Lake the night riders pul ed out a rope and placed the noo! about Captain Rankin's neck. Captain Rankin was strung v from a limb on the bank of the lai for the fishing privileges of whic he had contended with the night ri' ers. The masked men then stepp back and opened fire on the swim ing body, riddling it with bullet Leaving the corpse of Captain Rai kin hanging on the bank of Re Lake, the night riders took Colon Taylor to another spot. Search nei Captain Rankin's -body has failt to reveal a trace of the murderers. The, trouble between inhabitan on the banks of Reel Foot Lak* at Colonel Taylor and Captain Rank organized several years ago, wh< the two latter men organized tl West Tennessee Land Compan bought Reel Foot Lake from no resident property owners and mat regulations of their own concernir fishing privileges. Colonel Taylor also secured tl passage in the Legislature of an A making it a misdemeanor to fish the lake .without paying a heavy fe Fearing trouble Captain Rankin ai onirtripi Tnvlor had remained awi from the vlnnlty of the lake f I some time. Recently, however, th< heard that the feeling against the had somewhat subsidised. The a torneys went to Walnut Log Mondi to see about some legal papers. A man named Powell is said have been forced to accompany tl members. Powell had been stoppii at the hotel, aud when the ride called every one out and compelb them to line up, Powell, Colon Taylor, Captain Rankin and the su ve.vor, whose name is unknown, a said to have been taken away. Powell states, it is said, that aft killing Rankin a vote was taki regarding the dispuosition to mai of Taylor. During the dispute Ta lor made a dash and jumped into t bayou, starting to swim across A number of shots were fired at hi' and in the confusion Powell sllpp away and brought back the story the escape or attempted escape Taylor. R. Z. Taylor was the father of t Vanderbilt foot ball star. Hillsm; Taylor, who was married to Ml Katherine Taylor, the daughter Senator Robert L. Taylor, last fa Captain Rankin was a promine I lawyer of Trenton . Ho was capta I of a military company in the Spanis American war and served iu t Cuban campaign. Go\rcrnor Patterson offered a i ward of $10,000 for the arrest the person or persons guilty of t murder of Judge Taylor and Capts Rankin at Reel Koot Lake. Gc ernor Patterson was at Coviugt when news of the murder was i ceived and immediately cancelled ! engagements to speak there Tu day. Y DARING ESCAPE SAW NIGHT RIDERS KILL H FRIEND. Judge Taylor Broke Away and R ||T Into the Woods, Suffering Gre I ir.,??.ui IACAiai2l|/A? Judge Taylor, who was suppos< to have been killed by fisherm< night riders with Quentln Rank! turned up near Tlptonvllle, Tenl to 30 miles from the scene of whe he was abducted, at 8 o'cloi Wednesday morning. Judge Taylc telling his story of the affairs, say "The night riders forced in 01 rs, door at the hotel and at the poi tk of revolvers, compelled us to dres They then took us on horseback ' ' the edge of Reelfoot Lake. Here :eI watched them hang ,poor Capta bt Rankin and the fire into his bod ;r- After they were satisfied that he w; as dead, they discussed my fate ,and ^ had to stand by while they debate whether to hang me or keep me ca .. - . - - - - ? uve, noping to force the Reelfoi fishing company stockholders to coi >1- cede free fishiug on the lake. Bi us those who favored hanging seem( ^ to be winning the day when th< e0 pointed out that they could m keep me prisoner without my kno\ In ing my prison, and that this woul el lead to their being taken captii when I was freed. When I saw tl day was going against me, I dete ' " mined to try for liberty. I broi r* from the two men who were holdir me and ran. They followed slow! er for they thought they could easii catch me. It was growing dayligl and I knew that I made a fair; good target. So I surprised them t v" plunging into the bayou that rui n from the lake. le "I used to be a good swimmer an of I stayed under water as long as g, could. When I came up they sht d- at me. I could not stay in the wj 11- ter longer, and jumped on the banl id There came a volley of shots. Gc at was with me, and I was not hit, bi I straightened, threw up both dand tit reeled and fell face-downward, si, thought my ruse had failed whe ;d they fired at my prostrate body, bi n. they missed me. Thinking they ha b- igjlled me, they departed withoi ^ crossing the bayou. at "After an hour I cautiously move rs and then got up and walked throug re the forest. Tuesday night in tl)r woods and Wednesday morning ;y ventured on a public road. I w< afraid to go into a farm house, fc 'd fear of meeting enemies, but I ha d- not eaten since Monday night, an >k the ravages of hunger became tc a- strong, and I went into a farm hous at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning an was fed. The occupants telephone to Tlptonville that I was safe. The 3e I was driven here and here I am." Governor Patterson has ordere lP soldiers to the neighborhood whet the outrage took place, and the r; :l1 ward for the guilty one has be?? 4* increased from SI 0.000 to $12 !d 000. ? s- FOUND HIM GUILTY oel ej Of Attempting to Burn His Stoi lr at Bennettsville. >d A dispatch from Bennettsville t ts The State says Zephry P. Wrigh id chsgred with burning his store. v;i In sentenced by Judge Gray Monday 1 >n serve a period of ten years at har le labor in the State penitentiary, y. The grand jury returned a trii n- bill. The solicitor empaneled a tri 1c jury, put in the evidence for t?' lg State and then announced that tfc State would be satisfied with a ve 32 diet of guilty with rccommendatio ct for mercy. Attorneys announce in that such a verdict was acceptable, e. The foreman was instructed ( id write such a verdict. When the di l.v fendant was arraigned for sentem nr his counsel read the proceedings ha ?y before the probate court and mac m an an eloquent and touching appe: it- for mercy on the ground of the mei iy tal unsoundness of the defendan basing his plea upon personal know ti edge of the defendant's mental coi lie dition and the proceedings in tl iR probate court, whereupon the presii rs ing judge imposed the minimum sei tence of ten years. e! The. entire community sympathizi if- deeply with the defendant's famil re but the general opinion is that h counsel acted wisely, er IjK.-WI'J !>tMUUIi lbiiv. nr>n, do Saved tlie Lives of the Children i Her Charge. 01. ed A dispatch from Alpena, Mich of says among the most thrilling exp of riences of the survivors of the Pre que Isie county forest fires was th he of Miss Grace Barber, school teache an 19 years old, whose school was I So session when the flames swept dov of upon the school house. 11. She took all of the school childn nt fo a plowed field nearby where th. .ia were kept crowded close togethe ih- each burning emher being exti he guished as it fell upon their clot ing. Soon animals began to appe re- on the edge of the field, and durii of the ni6bt two bears made their a h-j pea ranee. Arnnne- nthpr animals artnearii >v- nas a fox and a wild cat. hut non on including the bears, made any he re- tile demonstration. Miss Barber ke bis her charges in the field until mor ps- ing, when they were sent to th< homes. WILL WIN OHIO I i IW Results of tin Cincinnati ?? 1 qufrer's Pol) Ir. ate " A BRYAN LANDSLIDE ei The Canvas Was Accurst < Made, en Q and the Figures Show Big Demo 1" era tic Gains, and Are Such *a to re :k rut the Election of Bryan Beyond r. -J Any Doubt. . V;'v u* With the view of getting a line oh nl tha drift of political sentim'ent io >8. . these last weeks before election, the t'j I Cincinnati Enquirer has been taking in a secret ballot. The canvas is ac y- curate, the results being ascertained j and verified by mathematical expetts. The figures show big Democratic p- gains and are such as to put the at election of Bryan beyond any doubt. n" Mcst interesting are figures from x\ Taft's own State, Ohio, and his own .1 ?V City, Cincinnati. They show a state at of affairs which admits of only one v. interpretation?that Bryan will carry U Ohio by many thousand plurality. fe pot example, the Enquirer made a ie canvass of the Lunkenheimer Braw r. works in Cincinnati, one of the larger est concerns of its kind in the ooun* ig tryly Out of those in the establishment ly who voted the Republican tioket in u 1904, forty-nine will vote for Bryan :{j iy In- 1908. Only sixteen who voted Jy Democratic in 1904 will vote for Taft j'j, this year, while eight Republicans will vote for Debs, one Republican, for Prohibition, one Republican wiU - vote Socialist and three Sociallsta will vote Democratic. The canvass made in the First Nat- # j ional Bank building showed thirtyld nine Republicans who will shift to Bryan as against nine voters who s will shift to Taft. In the Fourth ! National Bank building eleven R> IU publicans voted for Bryan, while on'y jf two who voted Democratic in 1904 (j will shift to Taft this year. In the lt Mercantile Library skyscraper it shown this extraordinary change: ,,j Republican to Democratic, 51; Dern* ocratic to Republican, 4. In the ll? Union Trust building, among bankers, j lawyers, doctors and insurance men, ,, forty-three shift to Bryan as again?* )r twenty-two to Taft. j In the canvass of the plant of Helj mere, Bettmann & Co., one of the ^ largest shoe factories of Cincinnati, ie seventeen Republicans went over to j Bryan, and not a single Democrat will . vote for Taft, this being especially n significant as showing the Bryao^ trend of the labor vote. The decisiveness of Democratic ,e gains is brought out with startling clearness by analysis of these figure*. Among the professional and mecantile classes, as represented in the <, big office buildings, there i? a Republican shift of 17 per cent, While the Democratic shift to Taft to only 8 per cent. Among the laboring people, as shown by the canvass of the e Helmers-Bettmann concern, there a Republican shift to Bryan of 33 1-9 per cent and no shift to Taft at all. o It Is fair to assume that workers t and salaried people represent ?t is least two-thirds of the entire vote of o the country. d Now, the total Republican vote of Ohio in 1904 was 600,059. The total ie Democratic vote was 344,674. Apil plying the canvass in Cincinnati to >e general conditions throughout tho i.. State of Ohio, we have: r- Total Republican shift to n Bryan 166,333 Deduct Democratic shift of 8 per ecnt of professional :o and mercantile vote .... 9,200 e. ;e Net Republican shift to ;d Bryan 157,133 U Add total Ohio Democratic a) vote in 1904 344,674 i tMlmntn/l /\f>r Q t In vnfp r t r^SllUiaiCU i/ViUwiuviv . 1- Jn Ohio for 1908 501,80? i- Estimate Republican vote in ie Ohio for 1908, after dej. ducting net loss of 157,a 133 <42,92* />s Estimate Democratic pluraly. ity in Ohio for 1908 68,881 is Similar or larger Democratic gains are shown all through the Middle West. Every indication is that they will be repeated in New York. This extraordinary testimony to Bryan's strength is the unwilling evidence of a hostile witness. John R. McLean, proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquirer, who is making the canvass, hns i.. always been bitterly antagonistic to e- Mr. Bryan. His papers, the En* s- quirer and the Washington Post, are at both fighting him. But he is eomi.\ pelled, by the stern logic of facts, to in make these remarkable concessions, 'o And they agree with the admissions of Republican National Chairman in Hitchcock, who is forced to admit in-irtmncn T>nm rtfira 1all ir, through the West. n h* Dies In Circus. ai' Waddy Bramlett, a rural carrier j ou one of the R. F. D. routes oat of ?i dreenvilie. dropped lead in the tent j of Ringland Brothers circus Tuesday 151 He was entering the tent 1 .'to witness the performance, and >'=-1 it is supposd that be became over- 4 pt j heated while waiting for the gates. n-i fn mien. He fell just as he entered ?ir! the tent and died* before medical atd *" | ecu Id reach him. - %'