Waterbury evening Democrat., 1903-12-05
HANNA PICKS PARKER.
Senator Says the Judge Will Win Democratic Nomination.
GIVES REASONS FOR HIS OPINION

eThe Senator, Walter WeIlman Says,
 Relieves All Wings 6f Democratic Party wuI Favor the New York
 Man-with Him as Candidate For
 President, He says, Republicans
 Must Fight Hard to Carry Empire
 state.
 Senator Hanna believes the Demo cratic party will nominate Judge Alton IB. Parker of New York for president next year, gays Walter Wellman, the special correspondent of the Philadel. ph1a Press at Washington. He also believes Judge Parker will make a strong candidate and that the Repub- 1tcans will have to fight hard to carry New York state for President Roose- welt. He has no fear that President Roosevelt is to be defeated, but he does not share the views of those Republic lans who think the battle is to be won with ease. He believes there is to be D stiff and stubborn fight and that the Republican ticket will win on account Eof the popularity of the president in Ithe west and northwest.
 Senator Hanna who returned from New York recently. expressed to a 6rfend who saw him there not long ago khe views given in the foregoing para graph.
 Mir. Hanna has never believed the Democratic party would nominate ex- President Cleveland next year, though he has not denied that in his opinion MT. Cleveland would prove the stron- gest candidate that party could put up. EHe has inclined to the opinion that it would be impossible for the Democrats to nominate the ex-president on ac- count of the fierce and unyielding op- position of the Bryan Democrats of the west and considerable share of the Democrats who are not favorable to MT. Bryan, but who dislike MT. Cleve- gand as 8 result of old scores.
 A number of southern Democratic Aenators have told MT. Hanna that if MT. Cleveland were to be nominated they could not guarantee Democratic success in their states. One of the most prominent men from Texas, rep resentipg his state in congress. de- clared that in his opinion the nomina-
 
 { giving her electoral vote to President Roosevelt. This man said scores of prominent Democrats of his acquaint- ance had told him they would vote for Roosevelt if Cleveland were made their party candidate, and a number of them added that they would not only bolt the ticket, but would take the stump for Roosevelt.
 Since the publication of MT. 1Cleve- lands letter of declination Senator Hanna has been more than ever con- Einced that Judge Parker will be the Democratic candidate. He picked Parker as a winner six months ago and sees no reason to change his mind. His conviction is based upon a knoWl- edge Of the fact that the Democrats will naturally and insttnctiveIy seek q man who has chance to win, and he believes the conditions are such that they will hit on Parker as that man.
 Judge Parker's strength is that he has no troublesome record on public uuestions and is acceptable to all wings of the party. He voted for Bryan and therefore bears the stamp of regular tty'' and at the same time is not ob- 5ectionable to the conservative wing of the party nor to the business interests of the country
 MT. Hanna does not say so in plain Language, but it is we'll understood by his friends that since his recent so- journ in New York he is convinced the money power will throw large share of its influence in favor of Judge Parker if he is nominated and against President Roosevelt The Rockefeller interest, by long odds the most pow erfuI chain of banks, railways, insur-
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