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Show now advanced against Roosevelt, who is charged with being a pinchbeck pinch-beck imitation of the silverite "Republican and Independence papers are vying with the Democrats Demo-crats in pointing out the menace to the nation in Rooseveltian policies. poli-cies. . "There has' been a great falling off in registration in this city, it being estimated that fully 140,000 entitled to do so have failed to qualify for voting. An investigation discloses that the apathy is chiefly among Republicans, and it is upon this fact, and the almost total collapse of the organization that the prediction of defeat of tho Republican party and Roosevelt's aspiration are based." The Chronicle of San Francisco and the .Herald of New York are in full sympathy with the stalwarts of the Republican party and they see through colored glasses and all looks dark to them, but tho popular pop-ular recepions Roosevelt has received indicate that, even though the "old guard" in New York state desert Stimson, the advocacy of the Republican cause by Roosevelt will bring to the Republican candidate more votes than enough to make up the loss. THE ELECTION IN NEW YORK. The San Francisco Chronicle, the strongest Republican paper on the Pacific coast, says the New York Republican campaign is in collapse and signs point to the defeat of Stimson at the polls as a sharp rebuke for Roosevlt dictation. A special dispatch, published in the Chronicle, says: "Never in the history of the politics of this city and state has there been so anomalous a political condition as that which at present exists. There is no longer any talk of Republicanism or Democracy, of stand patters or revisionists; the whole fight is centering on Roosevelt, Roose-velt, and a determination is visible on every hand to administer such a rebuke to the Colonel that he will deem it expedient to be less obtrusive ob-trusive in future. "There seems to be no doubt in the minds of close observers about the outcome of the election next Tuesday. The Herald has gone on record with a prediction that there will be a landslide to 1ae Democracy, and this view is evidently entertained by the betting men, who are placing two and a half to one on Dix as against Stimson. "The defection from a Republican party resembles in extent and character that from the Democratic party when Bryan was first nominated, nom-inated, and reasons nearly similar to those given by Democrats for abandoning their party when the Nebraskan was forced on it are |