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WILL WIN OHIO Results of tne Cincinnati Enquirer's Poll indicate A BRYAN LANDSLIDE The ChiiVIM \Vn? Accurately Made and the Figure** Show llig Ik'inocratlc Cains, and Arc Such a** to I'ut the Flection of Dryan lloyoml Any Doubt. With the view of getting a line on the drift of political sentiment in these last weeks boforo election, the Cincinnati Knqulror lias been taking a secret ballot. The canvas Is accurate, the results being ascertained and vorlflod by mathematical expert* Th.v i\ ?ui- iigurro snow Dig Democratic gains and are such as to put the elect'on of Bryan beyond any doubt. Mtst Interost'ng are figures from Tuft's own Stato, Ohio, and his own city, Cincinnati. They show a state of affairs which admits of only one interpretation?that Bryan will carry Ohio by many thousand plurality. For example, the Mnqulror made a canvass of the Lunkenheimor Brass works In Cincinnati, one of the largest concerns of Its kind In tin) country. Out of those In the establishment who voted the Republican ticket In 1904, forty-nine will vote for Bryan in 1 908. Only sixteen who voted Democratic in 1 904 will vote for Tafi this year, while eight Republicans will vote for Debs, one Republican for Prohibition, one Republican will vote Socialist and three Socialist: will vote Democratic. The canvass made In the First Nat lonal Bank building showed thirtynine Republicans who will shift to Bryan as against nine voters who will shift to Ta/t. In the Fourth National Bank building eleven Republicans voted for Bryan, while on'y two who voted Democratic In 1904 will shift to Taft this year. In the Mercantile Library skyscraper L shown this extraordinary change Republican to Democratic, 51; l)om 1 L* 4- /x T> ...... I. D ? v?j ivtrpu in Iran, 'i. in t r?. Union Trust building, among bankers lawyers, doctors and insurance men, forty-throe shift to Bryan as against twenty-two to Taft. In the canvass of the plant of Itelmers, Bettmann & Co., one of tne largest. shoe factories of Cincinnati, seventeen Republicans wont over to Bryan, and not a single Democrat will vote for Taft, this being especially significant as ?howtng the Bryan trend of Che labor vote. The decisiveness of IKnnocrntfc gains Is brought out with startling clearness by analysis of these figure*. Among the professional and mecantlle classes, as represented in the big office buildings, there is a Republican shift of 17 per cent, while the Democratic shift to Taft is onl> 8 per cent. Among the laboring people, as shown by the canvass of the Helmors-ttettmann concern, there a Republican shift to Bryan of 8.7 l-i per cent and uo shift to Taft at all It is fair 16 assume that worker? and salaried people represent u least two-thirds of the entiro vote of the country. Now, the total Republican vote ot Ohio in 1904 was 000,009. The total Democratic vote was 94 4,074. Applying the canvass, in Cincinnati tr general conditions throughout the State of Ohio, we have: fil I Pr?r\it hi loo r* A . w WW I I unit ninii ID Bryan 1H6,33> Deduct Democratic shift of K per ecut of profoaalonal and mercantile vote .... 9,200 Not Republican shift to Bryan 157,133 /Vdd total- Ohio Democratic voto in 1901 344,674 Est I mated Democratic veto In Ohio for 1908 501,807 Estimate Republican rote In Ohio for 1 908, after doducting not Iohh of 157,133 112.928 Estimate Democratic plurality in Ohio for 1908 58.881 Similar nr Imtwip r>nm,.n*oHn ? - v. r?^'? iiarviiim. sciatic are shown all through iho Middle West. Every Indication is that I hoy will ho repeated In New York. Th> extraordinary testimony to Bryan ^ strength is tho unwilling evidence of h hostile witness. John It. McLean, proprietor of tho Cincinnati P!n<inicer, who Is making tho canvass, has always boon bitterly antagonistic to Mr. Bryan. His papers, tho EntjuiFer and tho W ashington Post, are both flghlfng him. But bo is compelled, by the si em logic of facts, t.? inalte theso remarkable concessions. And thoy agree with Iho admission? of Republican National Chairman Hitchcock, who Is forced to admit immense Democratic gains air through the West. Kills Two Officers. Charlie Mitchell, colored, sho' and killed T. L. Peek, bailiff, and C. K. Afgo, ft young white man, Sunday morniug about 10 o'clock at his home about 1 i-fc miles north of Lithonta Oft., and brutally beat C. S Elliott, deputy skoriff, over tho head with his PLAN TO BUY VOIES m:riiUiivA\s WILL ATTKMPI TO 111 Y ELECTION Says llrynu, Who In /h'conhnl Enthusiastic Demonstration Throughout His Trip in Illinois. A dispatch from Chicago snvs William J. Hryan arrlvod in that city Monday night at eight o'clock in a librae of glory after an all-day trip through IUIuoIh. A donee throng assembled at tun union depot to greet him an his special pulled in an hour and 1 f> minutes late, and in the crowd to do him honor were a largo delegation from the Cook county Democracy, members of the national committee and all the local Democratic candidates, including th<candidates for congress, who escorted him in f.O automobiles to Pilson park, where lie addressed a great, throng. As he emerged from the statin; a great quantity of red tire and Human candles wore set off, the crowd all tiie while wildly cheering. As the long procession of motor cars passed down the street their open pants continued the pyrotechnic display. From Pilson Park the Deni ocratic candidate was escorted to Arcade hall, where another big crowd was on hand and accorded him a < ovation. Many in the Pilson park audience were laboring people. "If I am elected president," sat Mr. Hryan. "and the more I travel and mingle with the people th< mrrti am convinced that I will be elect ed?if I am elected I intend to liav a secretary of labor as a member of the cabinet. The affairs of the working men of this country are too great not to have a representative on the prosidiout'a advisory hoard. From lhis secretary 1 should Hiivi#.-. 011 legislation of in to met to the working lunn." Taking tip the subject of publicity of campaign funds, Mr. Bryan said: "I asked a large audience whether ihoy were In favor of the Republican method of publishing contributions , after the campiugu or the Democra'io way of puo. .,g mom before. 1 ashed all in favor of the Republican way to hold tip their hands. Not one hand was displayed." The feature of Mr. Bryan's journov through his native State of Illinois today was the accusation, repeatedly made, that the Republican party was now pr paring to purchase the election. The statement, first made at Alton, caused a distinct sensation. The Democrats, ho wild, wuiu uskdng. only for $!OO.uu(T w.m which *o finish the work of the campaign, while the Republicans were asking for $1,000,000. What do they need the money for now?" he inquired. And Answering his question he declared that It was for use on election day, "as they have used it year after year." i a" trip to unicngo from Lincoln \vvh made via St. LouIh and tho uomocratlc. candidate tor president all along the lino*of travel through thI-? State was v?> ft worded enthusiastic demonstration by large, cheering crowds. Ho delivered 1G speeches in all, some of them of consldernb'e length. Stop? were made at East St. Louis. Granite City, Alton, Oarllnvllle, Vorgen, SpruigflOi^, Llncol \ llloomlngton, Pontine. Jollet, Leont and several other places not on the schedule. At llloomlngton he met his former running 'mate, Acjlai K. Stevenson, the present Democratic candidate tor governor, and botu spoke to an immense audience. one of tho surprising features o. the trip was the monster demonstration accorded hiin at Jollet. Hut 10 days ago ho spoke in tho same place He talked mainly on the labor question. Vociferous applause greeted him when ho sahl: "My friends, i think too much of tho next genera tlon to stop my efforts to rid this eouutry of tho evil of private monopoly. "I am willing to go down on my knees, every morning and say to my Father in heaven. "Give u? thi?j <t?^ lour daily .* but Oo?1 forbid thn* i should nuiko my countrymen u?*? down on their knees at morning a*;d say to a trust magnate, '(Jive us this day our dally broad,' and have hi* ? answer, *1 will it' you will vote the ticket I want you to.' You can not afford to fasten that sort. * of svatem on this country or any other country." JOKK liKAIKS TO KlMJXtt. School Hoy in Pennsylvania Accidentally Snot by Brother. A message from Harrlsburg, Pa., says Albert Hell, a twelve-year-old school boy, wan shot and instantly killed by bis sixteen-year-old brother, Raymond, while hunting in Wildwood Park late Saturday afternoon. With the brothers on a hunting expedition wore other boy's, one of whob without saying anything to anyone, Hlipped a cartridge into the rifle, which was tlio only weapon they had. T.ater on Raymond playfully pointed the rifle at his brothel and pulled the triggor, tho youth sank to the ground with a bullet in hla brain. i PADDING ROLLS j New York Ddimcratic States Chairman J. Connors MAKES GRAVE CHARGE Dwlartw thut ltepublicmiN art" Preparing to Steal Election in New York, bat That Ik'ad Men Will Not I to Permitted to Vote and Law Coinmittw In "Numrd. A (llHpateh from New York eays chargea were made Thursday by VV. J. Connors, chairman of the Dem ?cratlc State committee, that the Hopublican organization!* in up-State countiea had padded the regulation roilrt with from 10,000 to 20,000 names, and to prevent the canting of a fraudulent vote the executive cotnmittee had appointed a State lu'v corninitteo with former Judge A.It Parker uh chairman Mr. Connora aael That the law n/,i,.mltl/.n t-? I- - - - 'I v. *14111 i>?- roinjuwu u. ; about f>00 attorney*. and that ou j election clay these attorneys wou'.l | bo assisted by sp?*cial deputies to each election ri'ptrtet t osce that' ballot 8 wr-e honestly east a a t count m1. Mr. v'unnors said: "There will t??? no voting of (load men by the Ropubllcniis In this c leotl Mi. and the c* ??i?- con'.Toltt?s> will i ?? < that r OT>y?on?*u(n are n it per- I | miffed to run over from lVnnav ; vsnis uti ' Canada to vote them In i this State A*ready \v? have diaoov | rod hutv'i"*'.'s ot eases el fraudulent ' resist rath ?u i ? State and have sue- j cceded iu having the names slrlck n i front the ilbUs. "Wo want a i'iu;ee deal. We are not going to buy the election, and we have not got the money to buy it. with anyway. Wo don't propone to have the Republicans rob up an they have done in the past." National Chairman Mack declared Thursday night thnt the change fn Mr. Taft's plana by which he will speak In thirty-five 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 of carrying thia tSate, which was virtually acknowledging that they felt they wore 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 1 OTK. Speaking of tho letter of President Roosevelt donnndlng that Mr. Hrynn declare himself on the tabor question ' of tho day, Mr. Mack said that .( there wan any labor man In doubt about voting for Hryan tho reading ' of the President's letter would convince hiin that he should oast his vote for the Democratic ticket. Mr. 1 Mack said he had received reports 1 from Ohio that the reception tend- ' ered Mr. Hryan in the Much eye State was the greatest demonstration ever given u Presidential candidate. 1 Mr. Hryan s meeting in the city ' next Tuesday night, when he wi i 1 speak at Madison Square Garden, is ' to bo made the occasion of a Demo- 1 crstic rally In every Assembly <11 >- ' trict In New York. Not only as ' Tammany Hall urrnnged for over- 1 How meetings at the Garden, but ( there will bo mass meetings In Cooper Union, Hamilton Fish Park and 1 ! in scores of halls throughout the J I city. 1 The demand for tickets to the * Madison Square Garden meeting* c quickly exhausted the supply and 1 stands will be erected outsiHe the 1 amphitheatre for overflow assem- * hlages. Resides Mr. Hryan, Governor ^ Hoke Smith, of 0**orgln; Congresa- ' man 11. I) fin vf ?n nt1 a imKo1 . .. / wv??? I Vfc MM) l/i> 1 ii If II UU former Congressman John L. I,eutz. * of Ohio, will nddre?n the meeting. * CHKHTKR NKGltO A 8L ICIDK. ( Aj^hI Plantation ltarkry Cuts 111* Throat With Itnzor. James H. Heatherington, on ago J 1 negro, living on Mr. J. 15. Atkinson' c place, near Armenia, Chester oounty, a \ Monday committed suicide, a thing s | few negroes do. Heatherington was ! | an Industrious and respected negro, | ano 'vii getting along as well as l ( usual 'his year, but somehow became j j worried about the outlook, with the L i result that his mind became affected I " ' a r i - . . . - - - c I i\ m.'w unj'8 ago no told riiB daughter | ejood-byo, and since then in conse- ( j quonce, bis actions had boon watched f so as to prevent him from taking t any rash stop. Monday morning, however, lie got hold of a razor, and \ stealing off into a nearby thicket, f cut his throat. Coroner l^ockie hold j an inquest Monday afternoon, with i Mr. Harrison Grant as foreman of the f Jury, the verdict being that the do- f ceased came to his death from t Inflicted woundR. \ f>ead!y Work of Snowstorm. ^ Six accidental deaths are traceable ji to a snowstorm that prevailed in i Colorado Saturday night and Sunday, t Hesldes, seven persons sustained re- rloua injuries in railroad collis- d sions and in coming in contact with h live wires* c # kidnap young w.Fc> I i IWICK CAKKIKI) OIF IJY TWO SIUA\(.KuS. Kept PrlNonor in a Swamp, Ktiduring Mult rent incut and f inally Returning to Iter Home. After rpeudlng a night of terror, hiding in a buru from friends, who were searching the woods for her, Mrs. Abl)ie Moeriongola, who was twice kidnapped by two men ana kept a prlaoner in tne woods, turned to her sister's home, in Huntington, L. I., Monday . She was ho frightened and dazed by her experience at the hands of tho kidnappers that she could tell no connected story of her ill treatment. Mrs. Meeriongola Ih 17 years old, the duughter of a well-to-do farmer and the wife of a contractor, to whom she was married six months agj. She was first dragged from her home on October 10. A neighbor raw he* being led to the woods between two armed men. Three days later, after her father and husband bad sought for her In vain, she staggered into her father's home and said that she could remember little that had happened during her absence except that sue had taen Kept a prisoner in a swamp hy two men. A few days lat??r anotner attempt to V.idnap h?-r from her father's hor.se was made, but was frustrated by the appearance of her husband. Again 1:.? t ftpt.urdA.v afternoon the hidnapp' rs r. tided her fathers home. and. f?ight? tug her mother with a revoh *r shot., again dragge 1 i v jwuw;; < -ac av ly. The help of 11? police again was summoned, an 1 Sunday afternoon two office: s 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. The kidnappers gave battle to the police, tint were overcome and arrested. Alarmed and apparently half crazed the erir? lb>d into the swamps. The polio* pursued her for a short distance, but soon lost trace of her. NKUltOHS IIUNCOKU. An Old Flim-h'lam Gmiikh lleing j Worked Again. The Columbia State says It has boon reported that there are a coup'o 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 fn a hackneyed manner which, like other ttmo-honorod gags, lands a "sticker" occasionally. The two walk lu among a crowd of necro4>,i nnrl a ? ?. ? ..v. viiw|? <?n uju, worn pocketbook In the crowd. Then one of them h too pR and picks up the pocketbook, which contains a $20 hill. The negroes who are in the Immediate vicinity of the pockethook have their attention then called .o the "find." The artists then proceed to tol itlio two or three negroes :hut they will "divvy" the money If here la nothing said about the timing of the pocketbook. The unuus- , pectlng negroea agree to this, of I course, and then comes the division >f the spoilt). After some figuring the exact imount due each is obtained. The r J200 bill, which, of course, is "fake" t noney. Is handed over 10 one of the rlctlms. He has to give back $ 1 f? f :hnhge and this Is whoro the crook, c Inlsh their work. They pretend 1 hat they are going to a store t> 1 cet the rest of the money chnngfMi The victims never see the men again, n t is said that several negroes who e inve co,me to town and sold rotten iavo loHt much money in thin way. FOlTND HIM GUILTY >!' Attempting to Burn MJn Store < i?t Beiiiintlsvilli1. A dispatch from Bor?nc?ttsvlHe to Phe State says Zophry i\ Wright t hagrod with burning his store, was lontenced l>y Judge Gray Monday to lervo a period of ten years at ha?*d abor in the State penitentiary. The grand Jury returned a true >111. The solicitor empaneled a triil (ury, put in the evidence for the itftttf and tnen announced that *?* ? State would bo satisfied with a vorilet of guilty with recommendation or mere)'. Attorneys announced hat such a verdict was acceptable. The foreman was instructed to vrite such a verdict. When the deendant was arraigned for sentence ils counsel read the proceedings had H'fore the probate court and made in an eloquent and touching uppeal or mercy on the ground of the men* al unsoundness of the defendant, mslng his plea upon personal knowledge of tho defendant's mental con1 it ion and the proceedings In tho irohate court, whereupon the presidng Judge Imposed the minimum senence of ten years. The entire community sympathizes leeply with tho defendant's family, ' >ut the general opinion Is that his ounsel acted #isely. BKYAN WlL WIN ai Least That Is the way It Looks Now. VICTORY IN THE AIR All Signs Point to a Democratic landslide on Tuesday, November .1, When the I'mplfl will Win Not Only the Presidency, but the llonse tw Well. All the forecasts of the election indicate a sweeping victory for the Democracy by the election of Bryan and Kern. The N?-w York liernij and The New York World have been conspicuous agencies of a serious <v.tompt to arrive at some reliablo judgment or me conditions, unci their reports and concluBionB are very in terestiug, and, to the DomocrnU. more than important. In last Sunday's Issue these great newspapers each presented the rohnItb of a careful and extended canvas of popular disposition towaVd the candidates, innde in coujunctlo 1 with other newspapers in various see Hons of the country, and they hot a reach the conclusion that the last few days ol the campaign may determine the issue, while they agr-.ei that there are strong evidences of an undercurrent that niav develop into a Democratic landslide. The Herald, which is supporting the Republicans, thinks that Tuft i within 38 votes of his goal, while Bryan needs 81 more electoral votes to assure him of victory. "Thor* are political conditions in the West, savs The Herald, "Indicating a Democratic landslide. There ure signs in New York, presaging politic u chaos." Obviously tuat means unrest and uprising of the people an i 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 n plurality of less than ten thousand Taft, while it eHtlmnt.es that he Democrats will elect their State ticket by 184,000 majority. A tremendous majority such as that for the Slate ticket could not be recorded wit hiut material effect upon the national ticket, and if Chauie; is elected Governor of New York by anything approaching the indicated figures, Bryan will surely carry the State and win. Home Meal and liominy. The Barnwell People gives this .1. ?* v. - rjiiL UOIIie RTOWn ftll'l ground uorii meal and hominy. There ure now In the State insane asylum In Columbia about tweu'.y persons Buffering with pellagra, an Itlalian disease caused by eating unsound meal. There have been thirty-seven deaths within the pn.i year from pellagra, which first crazes anj then kills its victlines." 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