Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-05-19
A DEMOCRATIC VIEW
Representative Livingston
Talks on Politics.
CLEVELAND AND BRYAN
NEITHER COULD BE A SUCCESS
Full CANDIDATE.
Either Senator German or Judge Par
ker, He Thinks, Could Win
Over Roosevelt.
CLEVELAND AND BRYAN

Representative Livingston of Georgia,
who is democratic politician of years and
discretion, foretells for The Star that
Cleveland cannot be the nominee Of his
party, but that with German or Parker
preferably the former-as the standard
bearer, and Roosevelt the nominee of the
republicans, the result will be democratic
success.
with the democratic party" he began,
much will depend upon what the repub-
lican party concludes to do as to candi-
date, as well as what they do at the coming
session Of Congress Just at the present
time they are tied up to Roosevelt, and
they cannot help themselves But some
thing may happen this winter to free them
from him.
with Roosevelt the republican nominee,
either Parker or German will be nominated
by the democrats, in my opinion AS to
Mr. Cleveland, the masses of the demo-
cratic party. north, south, east and west.
feel this way about him: He Is good
man. and they would like to see him Presi-
dent, but, being at the head Of one faction
and Bryan at the head of another, they
think that 1t is not only safe policy put
an absolute necessity, that they should
nominate a man that both factions can
vote for, and this without any strained eff
fort to get out the vote.
Cleveland and Bryan.
'Tn other words, if Mr.. Cleveland should
be northumberland no one discredits him
as man and an efficient offlcial-it would
take great deal of hard work to bring
the extreme Bryan faction to support him,
and without that support, unless we had
landslide he would be defeated. The same
might be said of Mr.. Bryan. should he be
nominated. 1t would be almost impossible
to get the eastern democrats to support
him, and again, unless there was land
slide, he would certainly be defeated.
What is true of these two men Is also true
of any prominent leader in either faction
and we could not afford to nominate any
man who is tied up to either the Bryan or
the Cleveland faction in such way as to
make his Objectionable to the other fac
ton.
Il do not approve of the hard things
which are being said either about Mr..
Cleveland or Mr.. Bryan. There is no ne
cesSity for it or good politics in 1t. Mr..
Bryan is a force in the democratic party.
So is Mr.. Cleveland, and the object of the
party should be to consolidate both upon
a candidate which the united party may
vote for. This could be done with either
Mr.. Parker or Mr.. German.
II want to say this about German,
continued Mr.. Livingston, warming up to
his subject. He was blamed somewhat
in the Cleveland administration for in
creasing the duties in the Wilson bill.
as it was sent from the Senate to the
House. Mr.. German took the position that
the Wilson bill would not raise revenue
sufficient to meet the expenses OF the gov
eminent by more than $1O0.OOOOOO My
recollection iG that as amended In the
Senate by German and the German demo-
Gratis that 1T fell short as a revenue-pro-
ducing meaure about $2OOOO,OOO. Had IT
not have been changed by German 1t would
have been more. than s1o9. 600 900 short.
This would have proved very disastrous.
indeed, to the administration and the
party. Now that Is not generally known
among democrats who have been censur-
ing German for holding high-protection
principles and ideas to tariff. I think
his conduct in the Senate at that time
was necessity.
Advantage Of Mr.. German. i.
"As to the advantage Mr.. German would
have as a candidate over Mr.. Parker: Mr..
German is thoroughly acquainted with pub
lie matters and public men. He is a skill
ed politician in the good sense of the word.
He has demonstrated to the world his
leadership capabilities.
MIR. Parker has been on the bench,
shielded to large degree from public men
and public matters, and would be more or
less dependent upon his advisers While
German would be thoroughly independent
of any such environment. You must also
| remember that Mr.. German has to his
credit the fact that he defeated the force
bill in the Senate at a time when the
whole south was so seriously involved.
Consequently the south, which is really the
democratic party in this country, would
not hesitate to support Mr.. German"
Turning his attention for moment to
Mr.. Roosevelt, Mr.. Livingston continued:
Mr. Roosevelt is very popular in the
northwest and on the Pacific slope with
the people who were so fond of Mr.. Bryan
| and Bryan teachings. This has been
brought about no doubt, by Rooseveits
so often putting his feet in Bryan's tracks.
But l predict unhesitatingly that with
German pitted against Roosevelt, German
would win, hands down. This same pre-
diction would hold with Mr.. Parker as the
democratic candidate 1 think the demo-
cratic party is shut up to these two men,
and one of them will receive the nomina-
ton.
Serious Business for the Republicans.
Mr. Livingston believes that the republic
cans have got to face serious business at
the next session of Congress, and looks for
the foundation of democratic victory in the
mistakes that will be made at this time.
1.-The republicans at the next session of
Congress have got to readjust the tariff;
settle the financial question in some way,
and this is not all-they have got to decide
this question of the isthmian canal all over
again from top to bottom And the republi-
can party will be held responsible for the
defeat of canal legislation.
1.-The financial question is one~that the
business part of the country demand shall
be taken care of, and the republicans have
this to do, and it is going to be no easy
task
Turning his attention to probable financial
remedies Mr.. Livingston ventured the sug
gestien that the proper way to provide the
country with a greater supply of money
would be to authorize national banks to
issue currency up to one and one-half times
the par value of the government bonds
which they are required to deposit as Sc
curity for such currency. These bonds are
selling on the market for $123. and he be-
Geves there would not be the slightest risk
to the government in allowing circulation
of $3.50 on a hundreddollar bond. Besides,
I there would be no difficulty in making the
assets of the bank additional security, and
this would more than cover the notes is
sued. This would increase national bank
circulation just one-third, and would fur
nsh money enough to meet all legitimate
| demands. according to Mr.. Livingstone be-
lief.