The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-08-16
Political Chat.

EX-COmptrOller OF the CURRENCY
Eckels, of Chicago, is bearing hand
in the Illinois campaign. He has been
elected chairman of the Democratic
finance committee of the State COM
mittee. and is expected to raise not
less than $4,000 for political eX-
penses. He hopes to enlist the in
terest of numerous gold Democrats
Franklin MacVeagh, Marshall Field
Thomas A. Moran, Lambert Tree, ,.
S. Gregory and other wheel horses OF
former Democratic days in ILLINOIS.
This work is not calculated to conflict
with Mr.. Eckels' duties as a member
of the Democratic national executive
committee. This and other develop
ments of late are thought to indicate
that Democrats will make something
of fight in Illinois. and should there
be a situation promising any success
the organization would be in Such
shape that the national committee
could hasten to cooperate. The Re-
publicanS in Chicago are starting TO
get all their voters registered, being
we'll aware how vital it is to Re-
publican majority in illinois TO Keep
the Democratic vote down in Chicago.
Experience shows that 80 per cent OF
the population of each ward changes
every year. In the first ward the
annual change is sometimes as great
as 80 per cent.-Washingto Post.
The consultation clerk of the New
York Court of Appeals is A. S. Brol-
ley, who has been at ESopus aiding
Judge Parker in closing up the court s
business. Brolley is a poet; he dotes
on political themes for his muse.
Judge Parker is said to be Ignorant
of the fact, but Brolley has written a
poem, very laudatory of his former
chief. 1t is styled 1.-THE Comet and
the Sum The Comet is applied to
the career of the Republican candi-
date; the Sun to the Democratic can
didate in this poem, the opening verse
of which reads:
Did you ever see the antics OF comet
in the sky
Cynosure of every eye,
Passing every planet by:
He is aiming for the sun but no one
knows a priori
If he'll keep the course, or back up.
knocking heaven into ri.
When comets fly
Dangers nigh.
The concluding sentiments Of this
remarkable effort by Brolley follows:
But the Democratic party has at last
discovered one
Fit to shine as central sun
And put comets on the run.
He has won his way to glory without
bowie knife or gun,
Playing cowboy, or yarns printing,
egotistically SPUN
And he's the one
For Washington.
He's calm, and cool, and clean, and
modest brave and gentle, too;
Knows the proper thing to do
When the tangle comes in view
He's equipped for all emergencies, the
brighter and the darker;
He's just fhe man for Prcs!dent--T.
r. is not a marker:
But Chief Judge Parker
Needs no DARKER"
mark what I tell ycu--New York
State is as certain to cast it's cleo
toral vote for Alton b. Parker as the
law of gravitation Is bound to keep
in operation" said Mr.. Edward w.
Creecy, of New York and Washing
ton, last evening in the New Willard
to a Washington Post man.
This is no hidebound, partisan
talk, no declaration made to pandec
to Democratic boomers, it is my hon
est unbiased opinion, and is based on
swhat l have seen and heard in the
course of an extended sojourn in
Gotham. I had some business deal
ings the other day with New York
manufactures who employs a small
knew how his hands were going to
vote He told me that to satisfy his
own curiosity he had recently polled
them. not having any idea but that
they would be divided as heretofore
in their presidential preferences
There were forty men in his shop,
and when he came to record them
to his great surprise the entire forty
voted solidly for Parker and Davis
This was a fair ballot and was abso-
lutely without coercion, for the en-
ployer cared not a straw what the
politics of his force might be.
"Of course, this is a small incident
but by such straws one can note the
current of the wind. Plenty of other
Barker evidence could be narrated
the gossip of the Hobbies. the newspa-
per talk, the action of independent
men, the desire of thousands to get
back to the ancient policy and prac.
tice before there was any talk OF
America being a world-power Last.
ly, If it is as good a bet as | believe
it TO be that New York will be in the
Democratic columns, it is also no H.
fusion to. think of New Jersey an6
Connecticut AS following the Empire
State. And later on there will b.
plenty of money to say that New
York, at least. will prefer the juris
candidate"
Senator Plat says that Roosevelt
will carry New York, New Jersey ant
Connecticut but saws Wisconsin Is