Show ONLY THREE WEEKS MORE Three weeks from Tuesday next the presidential election electon will wi take place and conclude one of ot the most moat Interest InterestIng interestIng t tIn Ing In yet et peculiar campaigns since tin Lin Lincoln coln s first election electon In some ways was the conditions this year are not unlike those of or tho years Immediately preceding precedIng precedIng ing the thern war Then the oligarchy olgar hy of or orthe the south had been in power so long longi it i had become so arbitrary and It had so 11 lost touch with wih the people as a whole that its Is destruction was inevitable inevitable ble blo If I the nation naton was to continue Now ow the tho Republicans those who ho really realy dom the party part have been in power so solone long lone haveS become so completely committed to the special interests and which have kept them In tn power that they the have no conception of oC the real sentiment of the people or it U they do realize this sentiment they are arc utterly defiant of oC it I As the campaign has progressed it i has developed an extraordinary situa situation sit a tion ton The Tho Republican candidate a aman aman aman man of unquestioned ability to speak fr for himself one who is nominally the st of the party has been relegated to the rear by the president the th platform issues have bave been obscured and evaded by him and an effort efort made to divert the Democratic attack on real reat issues I sues by concentrating the r on comparatively unimportant subjects The tariff and its Is correlative evil evi the trusts and monopolies has been dis discussed cussed gingerly by b Mr Taft TaC but Mr Sir Roosevelt has chosen choen to ignore them except as a he ho has cited his activity in legal prosecution as evidence that the Republican party part is opposed to trusts He has not dwelt upon the failure of or his method on the insignificance of ot the punishment secured even cen whan whan prose prosecution cution uton has resulted in conviction His most mo t strenuous attack atack has been bee an at attempt attempt tempt to show that the Standard Oil Ol the th typical monopoly Is opposed to the Republican party and is giving aid and comfort to the Democracy Judge Parkers reply to this at Bal stopped that line lne of oC argument He H called attention to the fact that Mr Roosevelt was elected by the th aid of Standard Oil 01 contributions and with withrel cruel rel sarcasm he dwelt upon the con contribution of to the Republican fund by Mr 11 Harriman at the direct yolk tat cn of or Roosevelt himself as an instance of or the th presidents insincerity now X Nor r did he fail fal to remember the fact that at the close of the last campaign v h hAn n h Judge Parker accused the Republican nep national committee of soliciting funds from corporations through Cortelyou who then had per personal personal onal supervision of or the corporation bureau Roosevelt then denied the lurge and abused Parker with bitter billingsgate It I was wn not expected then en enthat that the insurance hearings and the Harriman Harrl maT correspondence would prove r cr cry ry word of or Judge ud e Parkers Parkers charge t n f Un r Roosevelt of ot a du duplicity I to put It 1 mildly which forever bars him from credence in a political statement It I is worth noting that interest In the election is apathetic In the east ast where the Republicans have hae heretofore been strongest while Ja Ia In the middle west which is the real r al fighting ground Bry Bryan an has made a winning fight from the opening of ot the campaign New ew York with its Is local issues complicating gen general generl general eral erl conditions is debatable ground wIt the tile chances in favor of ot Democrat i 1 victory vicor strength an tn un unknown unknown unknown known factor is isba being ns exerted in be bej behalf behal half hal cf c the Republican ticket and a d the fact fat is iM so well understood d that he is likely to lose all aU of or the labor vote which has been ben Ks Is h s main maln dependence and come to io o the polls with wih an inconsiderable inconsiderable erable showing Hughes is undoubted undoubtedly ly Ill strong in the country count districts and he wilt will wi poll pol more votes probably than any other man who could haVe havo been named in his party For all al that the sentiment of NewYork New York City the or organization 91 ton of ora a united Democracy and the discontent of or the mahine ashin Republicans cans arc WC factors in favor of or Bryan r and an anc c Chanler which lead the discerning to toc expect c a a Democratic victory As is well el known Ohio Republicans R are badly divided Senator enato Foraker Forker and ard his friends are not likely to the presidents letters or the refusal of Taft Tar to define his own attitude except In a n hostile hoste way way The negro vote will willbe wi willbe be split spIt for the first time and the local option opton question queston is apt to to make more trouble Indiana Is Just as a bad from a Republican Republican lican standpoint The is off of the reservation and the Indianapolis oIls olis oIs News the most powerful news newspaper newspaper newspaper paper In the state is embarrassingly frank frnk in its publication of or matter mater in inimical inimical to the Republicans Rep Watson the candidate for tor governor has been the subject of or attack atack by the labor organ organizations by alt all al the large German pop population of ot the state and by forces s with within wih in the Republican party hitherto Iden Identified i en tilled with wih the Fairbanks regime In Indiana Indiana diana dlana H is unquestionably u a doubtful state with wih the chances much In n favor i of ot Democratic success Minnesota with Johnson leading the state ticket is good fighting ground Wisconsin in the language of oC the Chi Chicago Chicago Chicago cago Inter Ocean has no Republican organization left let These are only a few fe of or the salient facts in a curious situation In Illi 1111 Illinois Il nois the Republicans Rep have factional quarrels within and face tace local problems problems problems lems that Involve the loss of the Ger German German German man and Scandinavian vote ote which has been staunchly Republican for a num nurn number number ber her of ot years cars Practically every Ger German German German man newspaper in the country count is sup supporting supporting porting Bryan Bra a a complete reversal of oC conditions four and eight and twelve years ago Moreover the Indefinable trend of or public sentiment has been steadily and d toward Bryan Bran from the day of his lis nomination The threat of a panic in Jn case of hIs hla election electon has been Leen een tried and found fo nd wanting because the Republicans find it most awkward to t discuss panics this year The old stock dock arguments as to his lack of executive experience have been tried but the ax ex example example ample of ot Lincoln and others of or the most illustrious Republican presidents demolished that line of ot attack Held Keld to the comparison of platforms and candidates the Republicans have bave been kept on the defensive from the start str strand and are still sti there with a visibly weak weakening weakening ening eni g position Not since 1892 when Cleveland was elected the second time has the party been In such good lIghting fighting trim or so sanguine of success In spite of or a small smal campaign fund in spite of the support given ghen the Republicans by the trusts and large larse moneyed interests in spite possibly because of ap appearance appearance in the field feld the Democrats have gained In confidence and strength tren th thas as the campaign has ha progressed and they the have every eV r reason Teason to be gratified with wih the conditions cond tons now existing three thre weeks before election electon day |