The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1903-05-10
JUDGE PARKER.
IF NOMINATED HE WILL CARRY
NEW YORK.
Opposition to Cleveland Strong and
Positive-He Would Split the
Democratic Party.

sentative at Washington, D. c., in spe,
cial dated May 7, says:
Representative John Wesley Gaines
of Tennessee has been spending few
days in New York and returns tc
Washington thoroughly saturated with
enthusiasm for Judge Parker to lead
the Democratic party in 1904. Another
matter which impressed him was the
awakening of the people of the East to
the view that the South has for the
white man.
The people of the East" said Mr..
Gaines today, ARE coming to believe
that the white mans South is just and
honest and right in its treatment of the
negro. They feel that the South is the
negro's home, his proper home, and that
there he will remain and should remain.
They do not believe that ignorant ne
groes Or whites should be allowed to
vote, but that the control should be left
to the intelligent"
Expressing his views on the can
didacy of Judge Parker, Representative
Gaines added:
i talked with a very prominent
Western Democrat while in New York,
a man who has always been one of the
most successful politicians in the coun-
try. He asked me whom | was for and
l said for Parker.
"'sYou are right said the Westerner,
who has always been a Cleveland man,
and is still warm friend Of the former
president, but he expressed the opinion
that if Cleveland were norni-
mated, he would split the party. He
would drive off the Populists in Indiana
and Illinois, both of which states we
need. This same idea found prevalent
in New York, and many others were
talking along the same lines. -
The ST. Louis affair has brought
Cleveland to the front, and just now he
occupies the central position of the po-
litical stage. This will blow over, how
ever, and the eyes of the people will
again turn toward Parker, whose eligi-
bility, to my mind, is unprecedented He
is good farmer, who lives on his farm
and cultivates it, as any one who has
visited him there can testify; a good
lawyer, good citizen and a great Judge,
It has come his way to pass judicial
opinion on questions of semi-poIitica1
nature and of great popular interest,
namely, trusts, monopolies, unlawful
combines and corporations, and the
right of the people to control them, and
ne has passed upon them from the
standpoint of right and justice, quoting
often the Declaration of independence.
He is conservative man, the friend of
David B. Hill, Grover Cleveland, Will
lam Jennings Bryan and John G. Car
isle. He has always voted for the
Democratic nominee and has supported
he ticket actively. He has been suc-
,essful party chairman, and has been
,lected in New York when other Dem
,erats were defeated
Cleveland, on the other hand, put
Republicans in his cabinet and allied
himself with the Republicans to get his
bill through Congress. It is
ny opinion that he could not carry a
Jingle Southern delegation in the nomi-
lating convention. Not one man of the
ennessee delegation would vote for
i'm. nor do | think any other Southern
member of Congress.
All the prominent Southern men T
NOW Of practically are for Parker, and
hose who are not avowedly supporting
nm are not opposed to him, but have a
reference for Senator German as an
politician and a successful
eader.
But Gorman's position on the tariff
las always been criticised. Whether
lghtfally or Wrongfully / can not say,
ut the people have the idea that he is
proteetionist, and that would hurt
i'm as a Democratic candidate.
Ny platform s to save the Republic
$ Republic first; to save the people,
rom the vicious class legislation and toll
egulate trusts and combines BY the en-
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