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the Cleveland tail; is sincere, Cleveland
has always been hateful to Tammany,
and Cleveland's political affiliations
now are all hateful to Tammany. Say
what you please, Tammany represents
| the people as no political organ
| iZatipn on earth does, and naturally
| such an organization would not de-
| liberately select its candidate from the
/ plutocracy. -Hannls death frustrated
| the plans Of the Wall street financieis.
| In fact, their plans for the time being,
went to pieces The outcome of all
this Is an agreement on Parker a
promise to support ham, and the ten
der of an enormous campaign fund to
defeat Roosevelt.
There is no more doubt OF the atti-
| tude of Wall street In this campaign,
than there is OF its existence They
| propose to carry New York for Parker
| IL money can do it, and this means
| Connecticut and New Jersey, for Wall
street owns these two states 1t Is not
| probable that they can give New York
| to Parker, altho they may succeed in
| Connecticut and New Jersey The peo-
| Pile of the state of New York are the
most independent of any state In the
union; they are informed, free from
partisan bias, and they are fearless.
Besides this, elections in New York
state and in New York City, are abso-
lutely honest, and the will of the peo-
! ple will be recorded as the ballots are
cast.
| If Parker is nominated Tammany
will support him. but 1t will be a per-
functory support only. Tammany will
not take kindly to- a plutocrat nominat-
ed by millionaires. Nobody can assail
Judge Parker's character, but his assoc
Citations are all aristocratic, and his de-
cisions on the bench indicate that his
Earnings are on the side of organized
wealth. To my mind he would seem a
more dangerous man than w. r.
Hearst. II Parker should be the nomi-
nee of the democratic party, then there
will be complete reversal or an his
toric situation. Heretofore It has been
changed, and it is true that nearly all
rich men were in the republican party.
So. until 1886, the democratic party was
believed by many students OF history.
to be closer to the people, more near
ly a representative of the common peo-
ple. In 1896 it became the party OF
fads and crankism, and the men who
were welded by education and tradl-
ton to the democratic party left 1t and
allied themselves to the republican
marty. But Roosevelt has changed all
this. He stands for the people and
against the encroachments OF corpora
lions and organized capital on their
rights and liberties as no president has
since the time of Jackson He has in
Cured the hostility of the representa-
tiyes of wealth and failing to prevent
his nomination they have turned to
Parker Parker, then, as the represen-
tative of democracy, will stand for
p,utocracy. Roosevelt as the represen-
tative of republicanism will stand for
the common people.
If men like Morgan. and Baer, and
2e,mont. and Woodland and Silliman.
and Hill and Rockefeller were polti-
clans their course might be different.
Aldrich, in the senate, allied TO the
Rockefeller family by marriage and the
acknowledged champion of trusts and
tariff beneficiaries. may pretend to be
pleased with Roosevelts course, but he
isn't. But he realizes the Importance
of the presidency to the party, so he
is supposed to be loyal to Roosevelt
Morgan, ct. al. have no politics. Like
Jay Gould, they are republicans in re-
publican districts and democrats In
democratic districts, and ! have every
reason to believe that men like Aldrich
and palZell will not go into mourning
over Roosevelt's defeat. so long as the
senate or house is safely republican
Those men are there, not so much to
elect a republican president, as to see
to it that there is no hostile trust leg
islation, and no interference with tariff
schedules, and no invitation to compe-
tition by recipro city treaties.
! &. D. w. NORRIS.