Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1903-09-30
CHASING MORE RAINBOWS.
Democratic Missionaries Trying to
COnjure Up Hope of Repub-
Iican DiscOrd.

Iican Discord.
A few democratic papers are still
! dreaming dreams. The Philadelphia
| Record says: "The Sun, of New York,
| continues to cast it's baleful CLEANS in
| the shape of double-leaded leading ar
| ticles upon the president" in mention
| ing Cleveland's attitude towards the
Debs rebels in Chicago in 1894, and adds:
THAT paper Of the Suns relations to
Senator I. G. Plat should pay high COM
| pllments to Mr.. Cleveland in order to
| arouse hostility to Mr.. Roosevelt shows
what very happy family the republican
family is The Record is too innocent
for this world. 1t does not remember
how the same New York paper attacked
Cleveland when he was in power, at
tackled Mckinley and attacked every
other president of the past 40 years,
So far as known, however, these assaults
never attracted the attention of the per-
sons assailed, and never turned ten
votes against the parties to which they
| belonged. 1t is not likely that Mr.
| Roosevelt or any of his supporters are
giving any serious thought to these
filings.
The republican outlook is clear
enough to prevent intelligent observers
from making any mistakes about the
result in 1904, says the st. Louis Globe
Democrat. President Roosevelt will be
nominated without any opposition. He
| will be elected by majority which will
be sly big that no electoral commission
will be needed to declare the result.
Senator Platt will support the president
In the canvass and be one of his close
friends during the coming term. The
| chances are that the New York Sun will
be among the presidents champions in
the campaign, although this is matter
OF no especial consequence to the presi-
dent Or the republican party Wall
street, according to some of the demo-
cratic papers, is against the president.
If those journals are wise they will not
mention this fact, if it be fact. There
are hundreds of thousands of democrats
in the United States who will very cheer
fully support any candidate who man
| ages to encounter Wall streets hostili-
ty, irrespective altogether of the party
to which he belongs or the platform on
which he stands. Some of the corpo-
| rails guard Of newspapers which are
urging Cleveland's nomination cite as
an element of strength for the ex-presi-
dent the circumstance that Wall street
would be pleased to aid him. This is
sort of argument which is not calculated
to appeal with any great force to dem
ocratic OF any other sort of a national
convention
Nobody now alive remembers time
on the eve Of presidential campaign
when the outlook was darker for the
democrats than it is now. There is no
| semblance of agreement among them as
| to platform. Not even in 1868 in ad-
vance of the convention were they sc
uncertain as to the candidate. Bryan
controls the bulk of the democrats OF
the west, and he is against Cleveland,
Hill, German and every other man who
| has been mentioned in connection with
the nomination by any considerable sec
| ton OF the democracy of the east. Every
western state which was carried for
Mckinley in 1900 is reasonably certain
to be won by Roosevelt next year, with
Colorado, Montana, Idaho and probably
Nevada, the four states of this section
which Bryan held three years ago. The
republicans will carry Indiana, New Ter
sey, Maryland, West Virginia and Con-
necticut, and they are tolerably sure to
win New York. No sane democrat in
his estimates of the vote for 1904 is put
| ting Roosevelt's lead in the electoral
| college much, if any, below the 1877
| which Mckinley had in 1900. Nothing
is in sight which offers any hope for the
democrats to reduce that margin to any
considerable extent, if at all All that
the democratic Missionaries are trying to
make themselves believe to be repub-
lican discord will quickly disappear
when the delegates begin to be chosen
to the republican national convention
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