Durango semi-weekly herald., 1903-04-23
TIRE OF OLD LEADERS.
Democrats of South Dissatisfied With
Recent Management of Party.

Recent Management of Party.
CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. April "a
VIM. E. Curtis, Chicago Record Her
add have talked politics down here
a great deal with all kinds of people
and find almost universal discomfort
among Democrats concerning the re-
cent management of the party and its
present conditions, and universal de.
sire for new deal all around, with
new leaders and new issues. or. rather,
old leaders and old issues. The think.
ing men of the Democratic party in
the south feel that they have been
misled and misrepresented by popu-
listic politicians in the north and want
nothing more to do with Mr.. Bryan
and the faction that he represents,
because they have been false prophets.
because their theories of political
economy have proved to be fallacies
and their theories of government are
unsound. The intelligent element re-
gard Cleveland. Olney, German. Hill
and others AS genuine exponents of
Democracy.
There is friendly sentiment for
Judge Harmon of Cincinnati as presi
dental candidate, and good deal of
curiosity about Judge Parker. for very
little is known of him. phe fact that
somebody Is running full-nedged lit
erary bureau to promote his nomina-
tion rather detracts from the high
opinion that had been formed OF him.
The daily and weekly newspapers
throughout the south are now receiy-
ing printed broadside every week
from Maurice Minton of New York
City, setting forth the virtues of Judge
Parker and the reasons for his availa-
bility as a presidential candidate.
They are asked to publish as much of
this information as their columns Will
permit and to send marked copies of
papers containing 1t to the headquar-
ters of the propaganda in New York.
There is very keen sense of proprie-
| ty in the south and reluctance to
believe that Judge Parker is RESPONSE
BILE for this organized effort to force
his personality in the south and re-
luctance to believe that Judge Parker
is responsible for this organized eff
fort to force his personality upon the
| public, but at the same time 1t is dii-
ficult to understand how these full
some eulogies could be circulated with
| out his knowledge and approval. AT
any rate. they have done him no good.
On the contrary they have done him
very much harm.
He was regarded as a high-toned,
dignified, incorruptible jurist who is
willing to accept but is not willing to
seek presidential nomination, and
his refusal to permit the oyatlons that
were offered him by the Democratic
organizations of the south was re-
| garded as an evidence of his common
! sense and regard for his judicial dig
nifty. This newspaper propaganda.
has cheapened him in the eyes of the
thinking people and has placed him on
a level with William r. Hearst. who
has inaugurated a similar campaign,
and is using the same methods to keep
his name before the south as candi'
| date for the same office to which
Judge Parker aspires.
1t is also true that Judge Parker's
| judicial opinions on labor questions
have excited considerable doubt as to
the soundness of his views on certain
propositions which are beginning to
excite the attention of the southern
people. Until recently there have
been no labor troubles in the south
ern states, but the factory operatives
and the trades are beginning to organ
ize. President Gompers OF the FEEDER
alton of Labor has had missionaries
down in this section for two or three
years teaching the wage earners the
advantages of organization. In sever
al places there have been strikes 10
better hours or better wages or bet
ter treatment. and such demonstra
tlons mean a great deal more In th'
south than in the north, because this
people down there have always beei
accustomed to the absolute submia
sion of labor. 1t is an entirely ney
phenomenon for a workingman to ex
press his own wishes concerning th'
methods OF his employment or tn
, amount of his pay. and 1t Is considere'
quite revolutionary for him to resist o
even to Indicate determination 4
protect his personal rights against hi
employer Hence there is great dea
of apprehension as to the consequer
ces OF the organization OF labor in thi
section, and such radical opinions a
Judge Parker has uttered from tn
bench will never be approved by tn
owners OF capital and employers Of Ii
Dor In the south, who are almost e.
clusively Democrats.
! The Democratic party In the soutl