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ESTABLISHED EN' 18 OUTLOOK BRIGH1 Far Democratic Success in the Election Next Itesday Ha Tells Inte-ryiewer That Some Elec the Papers ?M . jfot Agree With Reports Rceeivefl After a week of hard campaigning Dftp. J. Bryan, Democratic candidate fbr President, rested Sunday in ,New York. He said that some of the fore casts he had seen in the morning ??pers did not agree With the reports that he had been receiving. '?How do things iook, Mr. Bryan?" "Very encouraging," was the re ?ly. : y "What do you think of Indiana?" He was asked. "We had very enthusiastic meet ings there and also in Ohio. The prospects in both States are very ijrlght," was the answer. jtfr. Bryan said that all the S'raw ballots that had been taken in the country showed Democratic gains, "but," he continued, "of course the accuracy of the straw ballot depends upon the way it is taken and the way the names are selected. ? You select a list of names to send postal cards to, you receive many answers, but you have no way of finding out bov the men who' did not answer are going to vote. The trouble comes when you try to average the votes of the ones who have not responded with the votes of those who have responded." "Where have the Democratic gains been this year in comparison with other years?" the candidate was askbd. "This year the Democrats hav3 gained in every State. Heretofore we have made gains in some States and have lost in other States. Tt.is ' year there are gains throughout the whole country and gains in every occupation. There are gains among the farmers; these gains are very marked. There are gains among bus iness men; professional men, and especially among college men. That, is the Inte'esring point in this cam paign as compared with the other campaigns that I have had anything to do with." "What is the reason for this gain?" "Only one," replied Mr. Bryan. "I thibk that it is that the Repub lican party, in power for twelve years, has failed to meet the respon sibility." Mr. Bryan said that the poll in New York city, the largest city in the country, and the poll in Iowa, probs.bly the largest agricultural State, showed that the Democratic gains were substantially the same. In New York State and city the re ports show 50 per cent gains, and In Iowa about the same. Mr. Bryan today received the fol lowing cablegram from Oxford Col lege. England: "William J. Bryan, Democratic Headquarters, New York: American Rhodes scholars, after debate, em phatically support you for President and wish you success. (Signed) "American Club." GAFFNEY ELECTRICIAN KILLED. Young Man From Michigan. Touches Live Terminal and Dies. A young electrician named N. vK. 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. Ha only lived about five minutes after the accident. The nhysicans say that he probably bad a weak heart. The young man has only been in Gaffney about two months and came here from Michigan. He has rela tives in Ashville and the remains were turned over to Shu ford &? Lam 8ster, 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 him. THE FARCE GOES ON. Two Revenue Collectors Reprimand ed for Political Activity. A dispatch from Washington says the civil service commission Friday announced that after thorough in vestigation J. H. Forlham. a deputy collector of internal revenue at Oranseburg, S. C. has been repri manded and suspended without pay for fifteen days for participation in the .Republican State Convention at Columbia. Robert A. Stewart. a temporary deputy collector of Clar endon County. S. C. has been repr: manded. R. O. Pierce, an employe of the Marine Island navy yard, who announced his candidacy of super visor in the 1st district, has been dis charged from the service. Clyde Knook, a letter carrier at Indepen dence. Kansas, who became candidate; for the District Court clerkship, re signed from the postal service t > avoid dismissal. * V 69. BRYAN AND TAFT WILL TOUR NEW YORK THIS WEEK. Indiana, Ohio and Other States Will Be Stumped This Week by Both Parties. Nfew York State will be the storm center of the closing week of the political campaign. Both the Re publican and Democratis presidential nominees will* tour the State and some of the ablest speaker2 at the command of the National Commit tees have been assigaedv to, .partic ipate in the battle f?r votes. With, the exception of a ' brief speech in New Haven, Conn., Mr Taft, thev Republican candidate for president, will spend the entire week within , the Empire . State. Mr. Bryan will devote four days to New York and on Friday will en ter Ohio, which, like New York, has a place in the doubtful column. Indiana, another uncertainty, will be toured by Mt. Bryan on Saturday, the Democratic candidate closing the week's campaign with a night speech in Chicago. James S. Sherman has a week's campaign outlined in New York State, while the plans of John W. Kern, who had expected to devot? the week to speech making in India 1 na, depend on the condition of his I son, whose illness compelled Mr. Kern to abandon his tour at Syra cuse last week. Members of President Roose velt's cabinet will take an active part in the week's campaign. Secretary of State Root will speak in Ohio and New York; Postmaster General Mey er in Ohio. Maryland and New Jer sey; Secretary of War Wright in Virginia; Secretary of the Nary Metcalf in West Virginia; Attorney General Ponaparte in .New York; Secretary of Treasury Cortelyou in New York, and Secretary of the. In terior Garfield in Ohio. While New York will be the center of*political activity, Ohio and Indiana will be stumped by both parties. The Democrats will send two special trains bearing prominent speakers through each State and the Republi cans are planning many , meetings. Throughout the country the week will be one of red fire and speech making. TRAGEDY IN MISSISSIPPI. Cowboy and Policeman Shoot Eacn Other to Death. A special from New Orleans sayo news was received there Monday of a double tragedy Sunday night at Gulfport, Miss., in which a cowboy belonging to a Wild West Show and a Gulfport policeman lost their lives. While the show was packing ut> preparing to leave for New Orleans, Lon Seely, the cowboy, is alleged to have ridden into a crowd of ne groes, beating them over th0 heads with the butt of his revolver. Police man Lee Varnadoe started in pursuit of Seely and the two men were lost to view in a cloud of dust. Later their bodies were found near the railroad, each body bearing a single I bullet wound and each man's re volver containing one empty shell. Seely was the son of a ranch owner! living near El Paso, Texas. * ! -1-?7 STARVED TO DEATH In a Car On Which He Stole a Ride. At the Buffalo, N. Y., city morgue Friday were the remains of a negro who was found starved to death in a car loaded with cotton in the Le High Valley yards. The car was billed at Pine Bluff, Ark., October 2, and rebilied at St. Louis on Octo ber 14. It was consigned to J. H. Foster at Providence, R. I. Marks on the doors of the car indicate that the man made a desperate fight to escape from his imprisonment. Spli ters of pine were scattered on the floor, and there was blood Imprin s of fingers in the splintered wood on the inside of the car door. * [ AMERICAN CONSUL A SUICIDE. l?lls Himself in His Compartment* in German Train. A dispatch from Berlin, Germany, says wheu the Hamburg Burlin ex press arrived at Ludwigelut Sunday morning the body of a man shot th-ough the right temple was found in one of the compartments whieh he had occupied alone. The body was identified by papers on his person as that of Silas C. MacFarland, of Iowa, American con sul general at large for the Euro pean district. It is evident that Consul MacFarland committed sui cide. Mrs. MacFarland was unable to give any reason, except that her husband was greatly worried of late. Shot His Sister. John Hughes became rowdy afttr jrinking too much whiskey Friday at Liberty and shot his sister. Mrs. Hunter. She is still alive, but her recovery is doubtful. A policeman went to arrest Hughes, when the latter ran into his sister's house to get a pistol to shoot the officer. Mrs. Hunter tried to prevent him and he shot her. * OR?NGtEBUF BRYAN A WINNER National Chalunan Mack Predicts a Democratic Landslide. HE CLAIMS AT LEAST j Three Hundred and One Electoral Votes, Which is Fifty-Nine More Than Enough to Elect the Demo* cratic Ticket, and Names the States the Democrats Will Carry. In a statement issued Saturday from New York,, Chairman. Mack claims that Bryan will be elected by a landslide. Chr.irman Mack says: "The rumbling and thunder of the Bryan landslide in the West are already" heard in the Easter State, and today I can confidentially predict the election of Mr. Bryan. That landslide in the West will extend to the shores of the Atlantic. It means the Democratic national ticket will carry every doubtful State in this section, and in rock-ribed Republi can districts the majorities of that party in recent years will be reduced to a minimum. Basing my forecast on the most conservative lines, in view of the optimistic reports I have received from all sections of the country. I figure that Mr. Bryan will have at least 301 electoral votes, or 59 more than necessary for a choice. This comfortable ma jority will be increased rather than decreased when the vote is counted. "In addition to the 166 votes of the solid South?I am confident that Mr. Bryan will carry New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Idaho, Montana, Colorado, Nebraska, Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, Delaware, Kansas and South Dakota?a total of 301 votes. All over the country there is a change of 25 to 50 per crmt from the Roose velt vote of 1904 to Mr. Bryan. "The result is no longer in doubt in New York. The 39 votes of the State are assured for Mr. Bryan He will win by a substantial plural ity. The Empire State can no longer be included in '.hat territory called the enemy's country. I speak from Information gained from a thorough canvass and reports from every county in the State. "From Connecticut. I have received very encouraging reports. Judge Robertson, the Democratic candidate for governor, will carry the State by about 20,0.00 plurality, and the nat ional ticket, backed by a united party, has the best chance in years for winning the seven electoral votes "New Jersey sounds an optimistic note and there is every reason to believe that that State will be In the Democratic column. Few if any State in the Union have a better or more effective organization that Now Jersey. "Mr. Bryan's tour of the State rn Fritlay last and the ovation he re ceived spelled victory to' my mind. The internal dissension in the Repub lican party in West Virginia and the swing of the labor vote in that State to Mr. Bryan are powerful factors for his success. "Delaware we expect to win. The people are hot with resentment against a party branded with Du Pontism. Thousands of Republicans there will either vote for Bryan or not vote at. all. "In Ohio and Indiana every ele ment is working for our success, and despite the great Republican majorities of previous years, I am confident that both States will be in the Democratic column. They are for Bryan today, and there is no reason for believing that the next week will witness a change of senti ment. ^Eighty per cent of the labor vote indboth States and fully as large a percentage of the German popula tion are for Bryan. "Illinois is doubtful, with the chances in favor o? Mr. Taft, but if he wins it will be by a greatly re duced plurality. "The Pacific coast States all show a trend toward Bryan and a dis gust of the extravagant, destructive policies of Mr. Roosevelt. In each, particularly in Oregon, State Issues are an important factor. "The Mountain States, from infor mation I have received within 4S hours, will, I .am confident, be count ed in the Democratic column. "In fine. I figure at the present time Mr. Bryan will have at least 300 electoral votes. I include In my estimate the following Stales: "Solid South. 166; Idaho, 3; Mon tana, 3; Colorado, 5; Nebraska,8; Nevada, 3; Indiana, 15; Ohio, 23; Delaware, 3; Kansas, 10; New York, 39; New Jersey, 12; Connecticut, 7; South Dakota, 4. Total, 301. * FATALLY BURNED. Colored Woman on Anderson Farm Meets Awful Death. Esther Rrown, a young clored woman of Anderson, who had been working on the plantation of Mr. Charlie Jones, about two miles below Starr, was so severely burned that she died in great agouey. She had been working In the field, near where she lived, and went to th-? house to start a fire In the stove 11 r,:vpare supper. It Is believed that tbe woman used kerosene oil in start ing the fire and that it blazed up on her when the match was applied. She was horribly burned all over the body and face. ? Sr CS. TUESDAY. OCT DARING ESCAPE SAW NIGHT RIDERS KILL HIS FRIEND. Judge Taylor Broke Away and Ran Into the Woods, Suffering... Great Headships. Judge Taylor, who was supposed to have been . killed by fishermen night riders with Queutin Rankin, turned up hear Tiptanyille, Tenn.. 30 miles from the scene of where be was abducted, at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning. Judge Taylor, telling his story of the affairs, says: "The night riders forced in our door at the hotel and at the point of revolvers, competed us to. dress. They then took us on horseback to the edge of Reel foot Lake. Here I watched them hang poor Captain Rankin and the fire into his body. After they were satisfied that he was dead, they discussed my fate ,and 1 had to stand by while they debated whether to nang me or keep me cap tive, hoping to force the Reelfool fishing company stockholders to con cede free fishing on the lake. But those who favored hanging seemel to be winning the day when they pointed out that they could not keep me prisoner without my know ing my prison, and that this would lead to their being taken captive when I was freed. When I saw the day was going against me, I. deter mined to try. for liberty. I brok?v from the two men who were holding me and ran. They followed slowly for they thought they could easily catch me. It was growing dayliglu and I knew that I made a fainy good target. So I surprised them by plunging into the bayou that runs from the lake. "I used to be a good swimmer and I stayed under water as long as I could. When I came up they shot at me. I could not stay in the wa ter longer, and jumped on the bank. There came a volley of shots. God was with me, and I was not -hit, bur. I straightened, threw up both dands. reeled and fell face-downward. I thought mv ruse had failed when they fired at my prostrate body, bn* they missed me. Thinking they had killed me, they departed without crossing the bayou. "After an hour I cautiously moved and then got up and walked througn the forest, 'luesday night in the woods and* Wednesday morning ? ventured on a public road. I was afraid to go into a farm house, for fear of meeting enemies, but I had not eaten since Monday night, an I the ravages of hunger became too strong, and I went ipto a farm house at 8 o'clock Wednesday morning and was fed. The occupants telephoned to Tiptonville that 1 was safe. Then I was driven here and here I am." Governor Patterson has ordere i soldiers to the neighborhood where the outrage took place, and the re ward for the guilty one has been increased from $10,000 to $12, 000. * PREFERRED DEATH TO TRIAL. New York Doctor Accused of Crim inal Practice Suicides. Rather than face trial for man slaughter, growing out of a case of a.ieged criminal practice. Dr. Irving J. Cook, a young doctor of New York, drank a dose of a powerful poison and shot himself at the Waldorf Astoria Hotel Friday. His body was found by hotel attendants. The'man left a sealed letter addressed to his wife, but accompanying it was a terse note in which he asked her "not to take this affair hard." Dr. Cook was arrested last Tuesday night and the following day he was released in $10,000 bail. He was to have been prosecuted for the death of a young woman at Summit, N. J., last summer. ? DEATH ROLL GROWS. Five Hundred People, Horses and Cattle Drowned. A dispatch from Manila says the death roll of the storm in Cagayan valley October 13th, grows heavily as reports come in. Constable Ary, at Taburgo, reports live hundred persons were drowned there and all houses destroyed or damaged. Dam age to tobacco is estimated at sev eral million pesos. In the province of Abra a heavy loss of life and great damage to property is reported. It is known 2C9 people were drowned, and it is said other lives were lost. A hundred horses and cattle were drowned. Cnoiera has appeared in three towns of Abra province. * ATTEMPT TO ABDUCT GIRL. One Man Killed and Another Very Badly Wounded. Emory Wilson died at Millwood. Ga., on Saturday as the result of a shooting affair, which may lead to another death, A. J. Little having been dangerously wounded at the same time. The cause leading up to the shooting are not clearly known, but it is said that romance lies back of it. A young Jady was sunt to Kirkland to prevent her marriage, as the family disapproved. A party of young men was formed to help the prospective groom abduct her and make a runaway match of it. The attempt resulted in. the shooting affray in which the two men were wounded. 4 OBER 27, 1908. PADDING ROLLS New York Democratic State Chairman W. J. Connors MAKES GRAVE CHARGE Declares that Republicans are Pre paring to Steal Election in New York, bot That Dead Men Will Not Be Permitted to Vote and Law Committee is Named. A dispatch from New York says charges were made Thursday by W. J. Connors, chairman of the Dem i cratlc State committee, that the Re publican organizations in up-State counties had padded the regulation rolls with from 10,000 to 20,000 names, and to prevent the casting of a fraudulent vote the executive com mittee had appointed a State law committee with former Judge A.B Parker as chairman. Mr. Connors said that the law committee would be composed of about 500 attorneys, and that on election day these attorneys would be assisted by special deputies to each election district t osee that ballots were honestly cast and count ed. Mr. Connors said: "There will be no voting of dead men by the Republicans in this elec tion, and the State committee will see that our opponents are not per mitted to run over from Pennsyl vania and Canada to vote them in this State. Already we have discov ered hundreds of cases of fraudulent registration up State and have suc ceeded in having the names strick n from the lists. "We want a square deal. We are not going to buy the election, and we have not got the money to buy it with anyway. We don't propose to have the Republicans rob us as they have done in the past." National Chairman Mack declared Thursday night that the change In Mr. Taft's plans by which he will speak in thirty-flve cities and towns in this State instead of speaking in only a few of the larger cities as previously announced, indicate that the Republican managers felt the necessity cf carrying this tSate, which was virtually acknowledging that they felt they were losing Ohio. Indiana, Wisconsin and Kansas. Mr. Mack said that if the Republicans were certain of the middle Western States they would not need "New York. Speaking of the letter of President Roosevelt denanding that Mr. Bryan declare himself on the labor questio.i of the day, Mr. Mack laid that :f there was any labor man in doubt about voting for Bryan the reading of the President's letter would con vince him that he should cast his vote for the Democratic ticket. Mr. Mack said he had received reports from Ohio that the reception tend ered Mr. Bryan in the Buckeye State was the greatest demonstration ever given a Presidential candidate. Mr. Bryan s meeting in the city next Tuesday night, when he will speak at Madison Square Garden, is to be made the occasion of a Demo cratic rally' in every ?Assembly dis trict in New York. Not only as Tammany Hall arranged for over flow meetings at the Garden, but there will be mass meetings in Coop er Union, Hamilton Fish Park and in scores of halis throughout th-3 city. The demand for tickets to the Madison Square Garden meeting quickly exhausted the supply and stands will be erected outside the amphitheatre for overflow assem blages. Besides Mr. Bryan, Governor Hoke Smith, of Georgia; Congress man H. D. Clayton, of Alabama, and former Congressman John L. Lentz, of Ohio, will address the meeting. * HEARST'S LIE NAILED. Bryan Always a Friend of the Labor ing .nan. "I protest against there being placed before the country as beggar.,. They do not ask for pity; they do not ask for charity; they simply de mand justice." This quotation was officially pro mulgated by John E. Lamb, in charge of pemocratic headquarters, at Chicago Friday, as being what Mr. Bryan actuany said upon the oc casion when he is alleged to have ro ferred to laboring men as "public beggars." "While the charge came only from W. R. Hearst, Mr. Bryan refused to take notice of it." said Mr. Lamb, "but now that Secretary Straus has used the term in a newspaper inter view, it Is tune we gave out the cor rect version." Mr. Lamb said the quotation was a matter of record at Washington. * Threatens the Governor. A dispatch from Sunbury, Tenn.. says because of threats against th.-* life of Governor Patterson, who is personally directing the investigation of night rider depredations In this city, the detachment of troops as signed to safeguard the Governor has been increased, and the neces sary precautions taken to prevent anv attack on the military camp here. ? WANT HIM TRIED NEGRO LETTER CARRIER AT SPARTANBURG OFFICE Likely to Canse Trouble Unless lie lb Removed, Because He Wrote Let ter to White Lady. A special dispatch from Spartan burg to the Columbia Record sayB there is likely to be a prettv post office mess there unless J. A. Ander son, colored, who was recently ap poitned substitute letter carrier in the city, is removed. Shortly after Anderson was appointed by Post master Pointer the Spartanburg Journal published an article to thi effect that Anderson was formerly in the postal railway service and had been removed on the charge of writ ing an improper letter to a white woman. The officials in charge of the postofflce were informed of the charge against Anderson, but no steps were taken so far as is known to find out if the charge v. as true. Last Friday night week a colored sporting house was raided and for teen colored gamblers were arrested, and among those taken in by the police were a colored miniate.* and J. A. Anderson. The latter begging the police not to give out his name to the reporters, saying that if his name was published in the papers it would hurt him, as he was in the post offlce service. Anderson was to take out his route and he hustled and not some one to put up bail for him. so that he might secure his release and deliver his mail on time; Lut, it is said, he failed to secure bail in time and many peopi? receive! late mail. Many patrons on Anderson's '.oute are said to have made the remark that they did not intend to allow him to come to their door, believing aim to be the man who was fired from the postal service for writing an improper letter to a white woman. Unless Anderson is removed, and a white man appointed, there is likely to be trouble for it* is said that the clerks in the postofflce endeavor ed to keep Anderson from being ap pointed, informing Postmaster Poin ier of the charges against Anderson.'' FIVE NEGROES HUNG 1 For Taking the Lives of Seven Other People. A dispatch from New Orleans says Friday was known as "hangman's day" in Louisiana, owing to the hanging of five negroes for murder, iThe taking of seven lives constituted the sum total of crimes for which this quintette paid the death pen alty. Robert Hall, hanged in Plaque mine parish, killed two members of his own race; Ernest Montgomery, hanged in Vermillion parish, killed three negroes, and Edward- Ayles, hanged in Rapides parish, murderei one, his wife. The remaining two negroes killed a white man, Policeman Robert Cam bias, in New Orleans, where they were hanged. These negroes, Edwaid Horne and Jacques Pierro, belonged to the self-styled "Council of God,, sect of negro fanatics of New Orleans, and they attacked Policeman Cambias for attempting to quell a disturbance at one of the meetings of the sect. * BRAVE SCHOOL TEACHER. Saved the Lives of the Children in Her Charge. A dispatch from Alpena, Mich., says among the most thrilling expe riences of the survivors of the Pres que Isle county forest fires was that of Miss Grace Barber, school teache.\ j 19 years old, whose school waB in session wheu the flames swept dowal upon the school house.. She took all of the school children to a plowed field nearby where they were kept crowded close together each burning ember being extin-j guisbed as it fell upon their cloth ing. Soon animals began to appear on the edge of the field, and during the night two bears made their ap pearance. Among other animals appearing was a fox and a wild cat, but non.,| including the bears, made any hos tile demonstration. Miss Barber kepr her charges in the field until morn ing, when they were sent to thei: homes. * TOO MI CH GRAFT. Caused Monnett to Become a Dem ocrat for Good. At Salt Lake City Wednesday in making a speech at a Democratic rally Frank S. Monnett, former at torney general of Ohio, said: "The reason 1 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 Republican campaign fund of Ohio was swelled by contributions from the Standard Oil Company and .n return that the company was allowed to name the personnel of supreme court of Ohio, whereupon all of the Standard Oil cases were promptb dismissed. "Then." said Monnett, "I becarr" a Democrat" ? fl.?O l'KK ANNUM. A GROOM SLAIN By Former Suitor for the Bride's Hand On a train TERRIBLE TRAGEDY. After Killing Her Husband, the Oow> / ardly Assassin Turned the Weap on the Bride and Would Have Killed Her Had Not Her TJaete Caught the Pistol. A dispatch from New Orleans says on her bridal tour, which had begun acarcely an hour before, and seat ed in a railroad poach almost be tween her husband and a former suit or for her hand, Mrs. Fred Van Ingen Thursday night saw the flash of the suitor's revolver, felt thy sudden grip of her husband's hand as the bullet killed him, and-the* turned and fought for her life. When the girl appeared about t > become the victim pf the second bul let from the revolver her uncle, a man with gray hair, but strong aad cool under the excitement, rushed and thrust his thumb beneath the hammer of the revolver, Jamming the mechanism and rendering ths weapon harmless. Thi3 was the story which the other passengers on the. Texas and Pacific "cannon ball" told whpn they reach ed New Orleans Friday/ but the principal actors in the tragedy, most of whom are connected with Louis iana's leading families, have so far refused to discuss the matter. The former suitor js F. S. Beauve. of Piaquemine, La., at which' phuu he was taken from the train and placed under arrest. The unfortu nate husband was Prof. Fred Van. Ingen, a prominent teacher, of Alex andria, La., and a relative of former Governor Blanchard. The bride i-s the daughter of James M. Rhnrer, one of the leading officials of Ii>er ville Parish, residing at Baton Rouge/ Beauve is 24 years old ^nd Vau Ingen was 23. The wedding took place at Alex andria. Beauve was in town, having arrived there, It is reported, on the same day as Miss Rhorer. Wheu the bridal couple left for New Orleans he boarded the train also, and after a time sat in a seat where* he was facing Mr. and Mrs. Van Ingen, with the bride between him and her husband. Other passengers say Beauve talk ed with the bridal cquple just before the shooting and that his manner appeared cordial. It was at first re ported that he congratulated them, but this was later denied. The young woman's hand was in her husband'^ when Beau7e suddenly drew b?a re volver and fired. After , being dis armed the young man quietly sub mitted to arrest. ? DON'T WANT BRYAN. Railway Magnates Will Do All They Can to Beat Him. Alarmed by the growing sentiment among railroad employes for Bryan, the managers of the Big Four divis ion of the New York Central railroad are sending a special traip across Ohio with General Manager Van Winkle and other officials on board, urging the men to vote for Taft. The first stop was made at Spring field, that being headquarters for four divisions of the road. "We have heard, men," said Mr. VanWinkle, "that you think that we want you to vote for Bryan. That is a mistake. We hppe as many as possible will vote for Mr. Taft, for we are convinced that Bryan's elec tion would mean four years of de pression. On the other hand, we think Taft's election will mean pros perity. Don't think anybody is going to be discharged if he votes for Bryan. We simply want to impress upon ypu that work will be more plentiful li Taft is elected." Men holding executive positions on the road are being asked to talk Taft to the men under them. l,i many instances the action of the of ficial was resented. e GOMPERS NOT AFTER OFFICE. He Tells Bryan He Would Not Ac cept Cabinet Position. National Chairman Mack made public the following telegram from Samuel Gompcrs, president of th-* American Federation of Labor, ana received by Mr. Bryan upon his ar rival in Jersey City Friday: "Washingtou, I). C, Oct. 23, 1 DOS. ?Hon. W. J. Bryan, Jersey City, N. J.: Just saw President Roosr.velt's attack. I deem it my duty to ad visa you that I am preparing an answer. Some newspapers are trying to em barras you be declaring that you wiil appoint me a member of your Cabi net, if you are elected President. You may say that I have publicly, emphatically and frequently declared that, under no circumstances, would I accept any public office, either elec-r tlve or appointive, and this declara tion Is Irrevocable. The contesf. of labor Is for justice and npt for of fice. (Signed) "SAMUEL GOMPERS." ?