The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-17
POLITICIANS NOT PLEASED.


| BY the Republican papers OF New
! York city there is disposition to
! throw cold water on the movement to
make Judge Alton Parker the nominee
! Of the Democratic party for President.
| One of these papers. in its Sunday cdi
| ton, says that Judge Parker's speech
at the dinner of the Colonial Club on
Saturday night was coIdly received.
1t was coldly received probably by
the politicians, who hoped that he
would say something to indicate that
he was aware of the movement to call
him to a higher sphere of action. The
Republican paper in question, in its re-
port of the proceedings, stated that the
impression prevailed among the guests
that what Judge Parker said could
only be construed as meaning that if
| the nomination were offered to him he
would not accept it. The sentence from
which this meaning was drawn was as
follows: The judge in love with his
work can think of nothing so attrac-
tive"
Judge Parker is altogether too clear
ment in his interest until it has ds-
sumed far greater proportions than it
has at present. At the dinner of the
Colonial cub there were politicians
of pretty nearly every stripe. Among
them doubtless were some who were
not friendly to him as candidate for
the presidential nomination of his par
f,r he 4
there would have been an attempt at
once to kill him off as a candidate.
The fact must be remembered that
there are two factions in the Demo-
cratic party, and that each faction is
ready to knife the candidate that is not
in sympathy with it. For instance, on
Saturday Mr.. Bryan was asked, during
an interview which he gave out to one
of the New York papers, what he
thought of Judge Parker as a candi-
date. He answered that he did not
know much about him, but that he
would be better able to answer the
question after he had read the judges
speech at the dinner of the Colonial
Club. 1t is evident that if the judge
had said anything that was not in en-
tire harmony with the Chicago and
Kansas City platforms he would have
taken a position against him, and if
the judge had placed himself squarely
on those platforms the other wing of
the party would have attacked him.
Therefore, he showed his wisdom by
combining his remarks to the judiciary.
He was on safe ground in discussing
that subject.
Judge Parker was trained in a school
of politics which taught that silence
is golden. The man who gets the
nomination of the Democratic party for
President in 1904 must be acceptable to
the whole party if he is to have a
chance for success.
1t is not at all surprising that the
Republican papers desire to create the
impression that Judge Parker is not
meeting with the approval of the poll
ticians of his party in New York. 1t
is pretty we'll settled that Mr.. Roose-
welt will be the nominee of the Re
publican party, and they don't want
the Democratic nominee from that
state. If both candidates were from
New York there would be a tremen-
dous fight for New York, and the re-
suit of the presidential campaign might
depend upon it. There is ground for
thinking that Mr.. Roosevelt is not as
popular in his own state as he was
Immediately after the Spanish Ameri-
against him as Judge Parker would be,
the outlook for a Democratic victory
would be greatly improved.