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ESTABLISHED IN 1 BRYAN WILL WIN At Least That Is the Way H Looks Now. VICTORY IN THE AIR All Signs Point to a Democratic Land* slide on Tuesday, November 3, When the People will Win Not Only the Presidency, but the House as Well. All the forecasts of the election Indicate a sweeping victory for the Democracy by the election of Bryan and Kern: The New York Herald and The New York World have been ?conspicuous agencies of a serious at tempt to arrive at some reliable judgment of the conditions, and then reports and conclusions are very in teresting, and, to the Democrats more than important. ' In last Sunday's issue these great newspapers each presented the re sults of a careful and extended can vas of popular disposition toward the candidates, made in conjunction with other newspapers in various Gee tions of the country, and they bota reach the conclusion that the last few days oil the campaign may de termine the issue, while they agree that there are strong. evidences ol an undercurrent that may develop Into a Democratic landslide. The Herald, which is supporting the Republicans, thinks that Taft i" within 38 votes of his goal, while Bryan needs 81 more electoral vote* to assure him of victory. "Ther: are political conditions in the West,' says The Herald, "indicating a Dem ocratic landslide. There are signs in New York, .presaging political ?chaos." Obviously tuat means un rest and uprising of the people cuj dissatisfaction with the party in power that must promise brilliantly for the Democrats. The World thinks the result de pends upon the vote of New York State, and in that State It figures out a plurality of less than ten thous and for Taft, while it estimates that the Democrats will elect their State ticket by 184,000 majority. A tre mendous majority such as that for the State ticket could not be re corded withiut material effect upon tbe national ticket, and if Chanlrv Is elected Governor of New York bv anythingc approaching the indicated figures, Bryan will surely carry the State and win. COMMITS SUICIDE. Stole Money From Father and Re Morse Overtook Him. A special to the Augusta Chronicle from Atlanta says remorse over hav ing taken $25 of his father's mon ey 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 tho 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 agony from the effects of his dose of car bolic acid. The discovery was made bv John W. Henley, assistant United States district attorney. As Mr. "Henley was going tf wirk he heard the cries of two boys, and on investi gation found them carrying a third, who was in the clutches of convul sions. Young Hilburn was carried into the home of Alderman i-rank Pitt man on Park street, in front of which the acid had been drunk, but died twenty minutes later without speak ing. .? half emptied bottle told the story. The parents were prostrated by news of their child's death and can not account for the same except on the theory that such was brought about by remo?e over having taken $25 the elder Hilburn had left lying around carelessly. GAFFNEY ELECTRICIAN KILLED. Young Man From Michigan Touches Live Terminal and Dies. A young electrician named N. K. Streter, while painting a switchboard in the engine room of the Gaffney Manufacturing Company Tuesday morning, touched .a live terminal with his brush, with the result that 2,300 volts of electricity were sent coursing through his system. He only lived about five minutes after the accident. The physicans say that he probably had a weak heart. The young man has only been in Gaffney about two months and came here from Michigan. He ha? rela tives in Ashville and the remains were turned over to Shuford & Lam aster, undertakers, awaiting instruc tions from his people as to their dis position. The young man made many friends in Gaffney and his death was a shock to all who knew bim. Cotton Mills Resume Operations. A dispatch from Eatonton, G%., says that the Floyd Cotton Mills of that place resumed operation this week, after being closed about five montbs. KIDNAP YOUNG WIFE TWICE CARRIED OFF BY TWO , STRANGERS. Kept Prisoner in a Swamp, Enduring Maltreatment and Finally Return ing to Her Home. After spending a night of terror, hiding in a barn from friends, who were searching the woods for her, Mrs. Abbie Meeriongola, who was twice kidnapped by two men and kept a prisoner in tne woods, re turned to her sister's home, In Huntington, L. L, Monday . She was so frightened and dazed by her ex perience at the hands of the kidnao |pers that she could ted no connected story of her ill treatment. Mrs. Meeriongola is 17 years old, the daughter of a well-to-do farmer and the wife of a contractor, to whom she was married six months ago. She was first dragged from her home on October 10. A neighbor saw her bring led to the woods between two i.' med men. Three days later, after her father and husband had sought for her In vain, she staggered into her father's home and said that she pould re-/ member little that had happened during her absence except that she had been kept a prisoner in a swamp by two men. A few days later anotner attempt to kidnap her from her father's house was made, but was frustrated by the appearance of her husband. Again last,Saturday afternoon the two kidnappers raided her father's home, and, frightening her mother, with a revolver shot, again draggeJ. the young wife away. The help of the police again was summoned*, anj Sunday afternoon 'two officers found her in the custody of two men in the. woods near Huntington. The girl was lying on a pile of brush, while her captors were playing a game of cards. r^The kidnappers gave battle to the police, but were overcome and arrested. ; Alarmed and apparently half crazed the girl fled into the swamps. The police pursued her for a short distance, but soon lost trace of her. NEGROES BUNCOED. - An Old Flim-Flam Game Being Worked Again. The Columbia State says It has been reported that there are a ouplo of "smooth crooks" in town who work their game on unsuspecting negroes. The two artists are of the colored race also and they go about their work in a hackneyed maune* which, like other time-honored gags, lands a "sucker" occasionally. The two walk in among a crowd of negroes, and drop an' old, worn pocketbook in the crowd. Then one of them stoops and picks up the pocketbook, which contains a $2? bill. The negroes who are in the immediate vicinity of the pocket book have their attention then called to the "find." The artists then pro ceed to tel lthe two or three negroes that they will "divvy" the money If there is nothing said about the find ing of the pocketbook. The unsus pecting negroes agree to this, of ?course, and then comes, the division of the spoils. After some figuring the exact amount due each is obtained. The $200 bill, which, of course, is "fake" money, is handed over io one of the victims. He has to give back $15 change and this is where the crook.? finish their work. They pretend that they are going to a store to get the rest of the money changed The victims never see the men again. It is said that several negroes who ' have come to town and sold cotton have lost much money In this way. FOUND HIM GUILTY I Of Attempting to. Burn His Store at Bennettsville. A dispatch from Bennettsville to The State says Zephry P. Wright chagred with burning his store, was sentenced by Judge Gray Monday to serve a period' of ten years at hard labor in the State penitentiary. The grand jury returned a true hill. The solicitor empaneled a trial jury, put iu the evidence for the State and tnen announced that th.? St-Ue would be satisfied with a ver dict of guilty with recommendation for mercy. Attorneys announced that such a verdict was acceptable. The foreman was Instructed to ! write such a verdict. When the de fendant was arraigned for sentence his counsel read the proceedings had before the probate court and made an an eloquent and touching appeal for mercy on the ground of the men tal unsoundness of the defendant basing his plea upon personal knowl edge of the defendant's mental con dition and the proceedings in the probate court, whereupon the presid ing judge imposed the minimum sen- i tence of ten years. The entire community sympathizes i deeply with the defendant's family, but the general opinion is that his counsel acted wisely. < Deadly Work of Snowstorm. i Six accidental deaths are traceable ! to a snowstorm that prevailed i:i i Colorado Saturday night and Sunday. ' Besides, seven persons sustained se- I rious injuries in railroad collis- I sions and in coming In contact with 1 live wires. I ORANGBBTJ HOME ONCE MORE Senator and Mrs. Tillman Landed at New York Saturday. ??-?? ?' i * ARCHBOLD LETTERS \ Read by Hearst Are Important Fac tors of the Campaign?He is "Glad That the Light Has: Been Turned on the Commercial Democracy Gang" in This f^tate. Senator and Mrs. Tillman landet in New York on Tuesday after an absence of five months in Europe, fie is greatly improved in health an 1 enjoyed his trip,abroad very much. He did not tarry long In New York, but left for his home soon after ?e landed. He crossed the ocean in the fine steamship Kroonsland. He was besieged by news gatherers as soou as he landed in New York. "The Archbald letters that Mr. Hearst has read are the big thing of this campaign and the one sub ject of interest on the other side," "I see that he got McLaurin. I am not surprised. We were on to McLaurin in the Democratic wing of the senate, and read bim out of the caucus eight years ago.' He be longs with the corporation?controll ed senators and we told him so." "I cannot but feel a little pity for Senator Foraker," continued Mr. Tinman. "'He is an old man .and Is no worse than a good many of the rest of them?In Ohio, too, I might add. He, of course, deserves what punishment this expose will bring, but I hope Mr. Hearst will get the rest of them. "No, I will take no active part in the campaign. It is too nearly ov*.r for me to bestir myself. The last session in Washington was the most trying I have ever known and I was almost prostrated at the end of it. I do not^want to waste any of my regained strength. Senator Tillman paused to engage in repartee with a Philadelrhian on the tariff question, and then said that he would hurry to Washington for a few days. From there he will go to his home and rest until his duties call him to the capital agabi. Tillman in Washington. The Washington correspondent of The Nevs and Courier says. Senator and Mrs. Tillman arrived in Wash ington Tuesday night en route home. When seen at his hotel Wednesday morning, Senator Tillman was sur rounded by half a dozen or more newspaper men and other friends, who had called to welcome him home, and to get his views on th; Presidential campaign and other matters. Senator ?Tillman is naturally very deeply interested in the outcome e-f the Presidential election, and al though he has been absent, and not In close touch with the management of the campaign, yet his general knowledge of the situation leads him to believe that Bryan will be the next President of the United States. He does not intend to enter the campaign, but will rest from his travels, and be ready for the ap proaching session of Congress in De cember. To The News and Courier corre spondent the Senator 8aid that hi had read the Archbold and McLaurin disclosures, and that the light had been turned at last on to the acts and doings of the "commercial De mocracy gang." With unusual vigor the Senator said: "What I would like to know- now is this,* 'what newspaper in the State received any portion of that five thousand dol lars from the Standard Oil, and why is it, the different detective editors within the State have not taken the trouble to ascertain what newspaper supported the 'comercial Democracy gang' and publish the list so that the people could know who the ben eficiaries were." Continuing, he said: "Certain newspapers have been very vigilent in 'raking up past records. Now let them come forward and give the people the names of the bobtail papers in the State that were knock ing at the doors of the Standard Oil treasury for 'lubrication.' Hal it not been for the unexpected death of President McKinley it would b3 difficult to say just how much harm, would have been done to the Demo; racy of the State by the sleuth-like editors pf South Carolina so long as they were receiving 'substantial support." " SEVERAL KILLED In an Attempt to Make Arrest? in Indian Camp. ' A telephone message from Ovando, Montana, says that Deputy Warden C. B. Peyton and four Flat head In dians are dead as a result of a light between Deputy Peyton and his as sistant. Herman Rudolph, and a band of Flathead Indians near Hoi lands prairie on Swan river Tues day afternoon. Peyton and Rudolph were attempting to arrest the In diaus for hunting without a license and killing deer In excess of -the Dumber permitted by law. Peyton went to the camp of the Indians and [old them they must accompany bim Lo Missoula. Without varning they fired on the deputy with rifles. The Eire was returned by the deputies. EG, S. C. FBIDAY. OCT? RUINED BY COCAINE SAD PATE OP A MAN AND HIS Wife. Blighting Effects of the Drag.Vivid ly Illustrated in the Case of Two Young People. The blighting powers of cocaine, says The News and Courier, were vlvialy demonstrated when Louis Malone and his wife, Rosa, a young white couple, were arrested and I hailed before Magistrate O'Shaugh nessy's Court on a warrant perferr [ ed against them by Mr. Elias S. Win gate, charging them with malicious mischief in cutting up and otherwise, demolishing an old schooner belong ing to him, lying at Potter's wharf, in which he aiiowed them to live through compassion excited by their 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 condit ion to the use of the devastating drug. Their wretched and skeleton like appearance excited so much pUy in the breast of the prosecutor dur ing the course of the trial that hi suddenly resolved to dismiss the charges against the two and prayed the Court to turn the prisoners loose Malone has since been arrested by the police oh a charge of vagrancy and sentenced to a fine of {5 -or to: ten days In the County Jail. Before becoming addicted to the use of cocaine Malone, who was born in this city, is said to have been a first-class carpenter, but the evil in fluence of the drug soon sapped nls 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 we'it from bad to worse, and It eventuallv came about that the two had no place to call home. * After wandering about for several months they at length picked out the old dismantled schooner "Maggie." moored at Potter's wharf, as a place of residence. The owner, Mr. Elias 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 wood work 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 Malone0 positively refused to leave peaceably Constable William R. Way states that the condition of the two cocair.3 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 dition. 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 de scribed 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'Shaughnes sy and several other people present "at the trial, with a view of relieving their destitute condition, but these Jclnd offers were bruskiy brushed aside by the man, who stated that they were too far gone already in their Indulgence of cocaine to care for assistance. When Louis was ar rested 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 Army officers found out the condition of the couple, and were especially excited to pity through Rosa's ragged and wretched appoarance. The woman was taken to the Salvation Army home and there cared fbr before It was decided to send her to her home In Birm ingham, Ala., but Rosa stayed there only a few short weeks and then again followed the fortunes of her husband. In an uncommonly short space of time she was again in the same deplorable condition in which she was found by the Salvation Array officers. The skin of both unfortu nates has turned a deep yellow through the excessive use of the drug. STARTED TO BURY LIVE WOMAN. Physician Finds that Supposed Corpse nus Not Dead. At Ellis. Kan., the timely inter vention of a physican who was not satisfied with the appearance of'tlu body Tuesday prevented the burial alive of Mrs. Thomas Chapman, sixty years old, who was supposed to have died suddenly of heart dis east on Saturday. The body was prepared for burial, but was not embalmed. The funeral was to have taken place at 2:30 o'clock Tuesday afternoon. A few minutes before the coffin was sealed, a physlclao requested permission to see the body. An examination confirmed his sus picions tb:it the woman's body was made rigid by suspended animation. The wompn was removed from the coffin, placed In bed and revived. While her heart is weak it Is believ ed Mrs. Chapman will recover. 3BEB 23, 1908.. A FOUL TRAGEDY .1 . Band of Mask Mien Lynch Two Prominent Men. i . CAUSE OF THE CRIME Was a Law Passed by. the Legisla ture in Reference to Pishing in a Certain Lake Near Where the Two Men Were Killed by the Ruf fians. Col. R. Z. TayloiY aged 60 years, and Captain Quinten Rankin, both prominent attorneys of Trenton. Tenn., were taken from Ward's Hotel at Walnut Log, Tenn., Monday night by masked night riders and murder ed: Captain Rankin's body was found Tuesday morning riddled wPh bullets and hanging from a tree one mile from the hotel. Efforts to locate the body of Col onel Taylor have been futile thus far, but it is believed I hat he wan also killed. The trouble which result ed in the death of Captain Rankin and the probalbe murder of Colonel Taylor was caused by the passage of an Act by the Legislature regulat ing fishing in Reel Foot Lake, a short distance from Walnut Log. A night rider disturbance over the same matter occurred over a year ago. Ever since then Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin have been in constant receipt of threaten ing letters, to which they paid little heed. Mr. Ward, the manager of the Ward House, at Walnut Log, telephoned Sid Wadell, a stockhold er In the West Tennessee Land Com pany, stating that about 25 masked night riders came to his hotel at midnight last night. According to this report the night riders lined up outside the hotel, pulled out their revolvers and called Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin. T,he two men did not suspect troub le and came down immediately. As the attorneys passed into the front yard of the hotel the night \riders covered them with revolvers. Before Captain Rankin and Colonel Taylor had an opportunity to retire they were surrounded ,and seized. They were put on horses behind night riders and carefully guarded. The night riders then quietly took up their march from the hotel, turn ing down the road toward Reel Foot Lake. Proceeding to the edge of I Reel Foot Lake the night riders pull ed out a rope and placed the noose about Captain Rankin's neck. Captain Rankin was strung up from a limb on the bank of the lake for the fishing ^privileges of which he had contended with the night rid ers. The masked men then stepped back and opened fire "on the swing ing body, riddling it with hullets. Leaving the corpse of Captain Ran kin hanging on the bank of Reel Lake, the night riders took Colonel Taylor to another spot. Search nea<" Captain Rankin's body has failed to reveal a trace of the murderers. The trouble between inhabitants on the banks of Reel Foot uake and Colonel Taylor and Captain Rankin organized several years ago, when the two latter men organized the West Tennessee Land Company, bought Reel Foot Lake from non resident property owners and made regulations of their own concerning fishing privileges. Colonel Taylor also secured the passage in the Legislature of an Act making it a misdemeanor to fish in the lake without paying a heavy fee. Fearing trouble Captain Rankin and Colonel Tr?; lor had remained away from the vi unity of the lake for some time. Recently, however, they heard that the feeling against them had somewhat subsidised. The at torneys went to Walnut Log Monday to see about some legal papers. A man named Powell is said tD have been forced to accompany the members. Powell had been stopping at the hotel, and when the riders called every one out and vompellei them to line up, Powell. Colonel Taylor, Captain Rankin and the sur veyor, whose name is unknown, are said to have been taken away. Powell states, it is said, thai after killing Rank,in a vote was taken regarding the dlspuosition to made of Taylor. During the dispute Tay lor made a dash and jumped into the bayou, starting to swim across it. A numlier of shots were fired at him. and in the confusion Powell slipped away and brought back the story of the escape or attempted escape of Taylor. R. Z. Taylor was the father of the Vanderbilt foot ball star. Hlllsman Taylor, who was married to Miss Katherine T;.ylor, the daughter of Senator Robert L. Taylor, last fall. Captain Rankin was a prominent lawyer of Trenton . He was captain j of a military company in the Spanish American war and served in the Culian campaign. Governor Patterson offered a re ward of $10,000 for the arrest af the person or persons guilty of th-3 murder of Judge Taylor and Captain Rankin at Reel Foot Lake. Gov ernor Patterson was at Covlnpton when news of the murder was re ceived and immediately cancelled his engagements to speak there Tues PLAN TO BUY VOTES REPUBLICANS WILL ATTEMPT TO BUY ELECTION Says Bryan, Whet Is Accorded En thusiastic Demonstration Through out His Trip in Illinois. % A dispatch from Chicago says William J. Bryan arrived in that city Monday night at eight o'clock in a blaze of glory after an all-day trip through Illinois. A dense throng assembled at tne union depot to greet him as his special pulled in an hour and 16 minutes late, and in the crowd to do him honor were a large delegation from the * Cook county Democracy, members of the national committee and all the local Democratic candidates, including the candidates for congress, who escort ed him in 50 automobiles to Pilson park, where he addressed a great throng. As he emerged from the station a great quantity 6r red fire and Ro man candles were set off, the crowd all the while wildly cheering. As the long procession of motor cars passed down the street their occu pants continued the pyrotechnic dis play. From Pilson "Park the Dem ocratic candidate was escorted to Arcade hall, where another big crowd was on hand and accorded him a t ovation. Many in the Pilson park audience were laboring people. "If I am elected president," said Mr. Bryan, "and the more I travel and mingle with the people the more I am convinced that I will be elect ed?if I am elected I Intend to have a secretary of labor as a member of the cabinet. The affairs of the work ing men of this country are too great not to have a representative on the president's advisory board. From this secretary I should seek advica on legislation of interest to the work ing man." Taking up the subject of publicltyl of campaign funds, Mr. Bryan said: "I asked ? /large audience whether they were in favor^of the Republican method of publishing contributions after the campaign or the Democrat ic way of puo. .ig tnem before. I asked all in favor of the Republican way to hold up-.their hands. Not one hand was displayed." The teat?re of Mr. Bryan's journev through his native State of Illinois today was the accusation, repeatedly made, that the Republican party was now preparing to purchase the elec tion. The statement, first made at Alton, caused a distinct sensation. The Democrats, he said, were asking only for $100,uuO w?fcfl which xo finish the work of the campaign, while the Republicans were asking for $1,000,000. What, do thftjf need the money for now?" he in quired. And answering his question, he declared that it was for use on election day, "as they have used it year after year." The trip to Chicago from Lincoln wa i made via St. Louis and the uem ocratic candidate for president all along the line of travel through this State was accorded enthusiastic demonstration by large, cheering crowds. He delivered 16 speeches in all. some of them of conslderab'e length. Stops were made at East St.. Louis, Granite City, Alton, Carlin ville, Vergen, Springhorn, Lincoln. Bloomington,' Pontiac. Joliet, Leont and several other places not on the schedule. At Bloomington he met his former running mate, Adlal E. Stevenson, the present Democratic candidate for governor, and both spoke to an Immense audience. yjiie of the surprising features o. the trip was the monster demonstra tion accorded him at Joliet. But 10 days ago he spoke in the same plape He talked mainly on the labor ques tion. Vociferous applause greeted him when he said: "My friends, 1 think too much of the next genera tion to stop my efforts to rid this country of the evil of private monop oly. "I am willing to go down ou my knees, every morning and say to my Father in heaven, 'Give us this day cur daily bread,' but God forbid that I should make my countrymen go down on their knees at morning and say to a trust magnate, 'Give us this day our daily bread,' and have hiri answer. 'I will if you will vote the ticket I want you to.' You can not [ afford to fasten that sort of sys tem on this country or any other country." I CHESTER NEGRO A SUICIDE. Aged Plantation Dnrkey Cuts His Throat With Razor. James H. Heatherington, an aged negro, living on Mr. J. B. Atkinson' place, near Armenia, Chester county, Monday committed suicide, a thing few negroes do. Heatherington was an industrious and respected negro, ana w < getting along as well as usual this year, but somehow became worried about the outlook, with the result that his mind became affected. A few days ago he told tns daughter good-bye, and since then In conse quence, his actions had been watched so as to prevent him from taking any rash step. Monday morning, however, he got. hold of a razor, ana stealing off into a nearby thicket, cut his throat. Coroner Leckle held an inquest Monday afternoon, with Mr. Harrison Grant as foreman of tie jury, the verdict being that the de ceased came to his death from ??!f lnfllcted wounds. $1.50 PBB ANNUM. WILL WIN OHIO ??i?- i Results of the Cincinnati En quirer's Poll indicate " A BRYAN LANDSLIDE The Canvas Was Accurately Made* and the Figures Show Big Demo? cratic Gains, and Are Such as U* -Put the Election of Bryan Beyond Any Doubt. . > With the view of getting a line on the drift of political sentiment iu these last weeks before election, the? Cincinnati Enquirer has been taking; a secret ballot. The canvas is ac curate, the results being ascertained and verified by mathematical experts. The figures show big Democratic, gains and are such as to put the election of Bryan beyond any doubt. Most interest'ng are figures from Taft's own State, Ohio, and his own city, Cincinnati. They show a stata of affairs which admits of .only ona interpretation?that Bryan will carry Ohio by many thousand plurality. For example, the Enquirer made ;* i canvass of the. Lunkenheimer Brass, works in Cincinnati, one of the larg est concerns of its kind in the coun try. ( ' Out of those in the establishment who voted the Republican ticket in 1904, forty-nine will vote for Bryan. in 1908. Only sixteen who voted Democratic in 1904 will vote for Taft this year, while eight Republicans: will vote for Debs,,one Republican, for Prohibition, one Republican will vote Socialist and three Socialists will vote Democratic. The canvass made in tho First,Nat ional Bank building showed thirty nine Republicans who will shift to Bryan as against nine voters who will shift to Taft. In the Fourth National Bank building eleven Re publicans voted for Bryan, while on'/ two who voted Democratic in 1901 will shift to Taft this year. ' In the Mercantile Library skyscraper is shown this extraordinary change: Republican to Democratic, 51;'Dem ocratic to Republican, i. In th* Union Trust building, among bankers, lawyers, doctors and insurance men, forty-three shift to Bryan as against' twenty-two to Taft. In the canvass of the plant of Hel-^. mers, Bettmann & Co., one of thtt largest shoe "factories of Cincinnati seventeen Republicans went over to Bryan, and not a single Democrat will vote for Taft, this being especially significant as showing the Bryan, trend of the labor vote. The decisiveness of^ Democratic gains is brought out with startling clearness by analysis of these figures. Among the professional and mecan tlle classes, as represented In tho> big office buildings, there is a Re publican shift of 17 per cent, while the Democratic shift to Taft Is only 8 per cent. Among the laboring peo ple, as shown Ly the canvass of the Helmers-Bettmann concern, there is a Republican shift tr Bryan of 33 1-:? per cent and no shift to Taft at all. It Is fair to assume that workers and salaried people represent it least two-thirds of the entire vote of the country. Now, the total Republican vote of Ohio in 1904 was 600.059. The total Democratic vote was 344,674. Ap plying the canvass in Cincinnati to general conditions throughout tb<3 State of Ohio, we have: Total Republican shift to Bryan.166,33$ Deduct Democratic shift of 8 per ecnt of professional and mercantile vote .... 9,209 Net Republican shift to Bryan.157.13J Add total Ohio Democratic vote in 1904 .'.344,67 E Estimated Democratic, vote in Ohio for 190.8 .501,80? Estimate Republican vote in Ohio for 1908. after de ducting net loss of 157, 133 .442,92-; Estimate Democratic plural ity in Ohio for 190S. 58.881 Similar or larger Democratic gain.-; 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. McLeau. proprietor of the Cincinnati Enquir er, who is making the canvass, has always been bitterly antagonistic toi Mr. Ilryan. His papers, the En quirer and the Washington Post, are both fighting him. But he is com pelled, by the stern logic of facts, t.i make these remarkable concessions. And they agree with the admissions of Republican National Chairman! Hitchcock, who is forced to adml*: immense Democratic gains ali through the West. Dies in Circus. Waddy Bramlett, a rural carrier on one of the R. F. D. roi.tes out of Greenville, dropped lead in the tehc of Ringland Brothers circus Tuesda/ He was entering the tent to witness the performance, . and it is supposd that he became over heated while waiting for the gate* to open. He fell just as he entered! the tent and died before medical aid. could reach bim.