The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-26
Acting Secretary Taylor
Himself BIunderS.
PARKER mot GUILTY"
The Heads of Administration Have
Shut Down on Giving Out Inform
alton, LUST as Parker Has Said,
Says This Cores
pondent.
BY CICERO w. HARRIS

Washington, oct. 25.-The news
from the doubtful states received by
Democrats is very much better than
that published in some of the great
papers. New York is so largely a
factor in the strife essential to sue
cess to both parties that the mere
claims made are TO be taken with
grains of allowance. The Repubii-
cans at this stage of the gam. ella m
big majoritieS for both National and
State tickets. The forecast given out
by Chairman Taggart naturally gives
satisfaction to Democrats. His claim
absolute to the majority of the Rocky
Mountain States is believed to be we'll
founded by all close calculators. His
claim to Delaware seems warranted
by all the reliable news received
from there since the late attempt at
fusion was made. There is no hearty
Republican fusion, and the Democrats
are likely TO carry the State all
around Connecticut is less certain,
and so is New Jersey. But Represen-
tatlVe Clayton who has recently can
vassed parts of the latter State thinks
II Is probably a Parker State. The
cruX of the situation is Indiana. Here
the Democrats have been stimulated
10 make their grandest most hercu-
lean efforts. If the detection i'm the
industrial centres is as represented;
II Taggart knows where the sore spots
are If the number of floating votes
.ia as large as usual: if the harmony
secured by Grydn's speech is as vEi, t-
spread as believed on good evidence
then the State will cast it's vote fol,
Parker and Davis. No Democrat
thinks ii is quite won as yet. The
90,
ito spend the last week of the cam
paign in his own State, speaking sew
eral times every day, indicates how
uneasy the Republicans are at the
prospect of losing that commonwealth.
50 necessary for their success. That
they can carry New York, and thus
counter balance the loss of Colorado.
Indiana and West Virginia is not to be
considered amor~ probabilities They
all Democratic calculations. all pres
ent probabilities. fail ana there is q
regular Roosevelt landslide. OF this
there is no likelihood. Did not Odeli
say rightly when he discredited the
heavy odds put last week on Roosevelt
and Fairbanks carrying New York
State?
But Two Weeks More.
Beginning with yesterday, the cam
p2ign enters in it's last fortnight. The
election is to be won or lost in these
current two weeks. The party having
the keenest insight the most energy
and keeping up its nerve to the high
est point of utility Will win the cleo
ton. 1t is pretty safe to say that the
Democratic party was perhaps. so far
as it National organization and some
of it's State organizations are concern
ed, never better organized than at
present. With SO great political vet
eran and tactician as Senator Cor
man as chief of staff, and with num-
Der of very able coadjutors together
with such candidate as Judge Par
ker who has had experience in prac-
tical politics before the present cam
paign, the party is i'm prime condition
for victory. At any rate if it does
not win success this time, it surely
will achieve the miracle of reunion
land rehabiliment for happier day in
the unremote future But it really
seems that it shall triumph this year.
having the better side of the public
questions Of the day
Taylor Himself is Wrong.
Acting Secretary Taylor, gave his
statement to-day in reply to Judge
Parker's recent averments that the
administration had issued orders for
bidding the publication of government
tai expenditures. He says, this is "A
mistake" / know the fact that the
acting secretary is mistaken and that
Judge Parker's general statement is
substantially If not literally correct.
1t may be that Mr.. Taylor who is ali
honorable men," 10 use the phrase in
the play of julius Caesar. it may we'll
be that Mr. Taylor is within the limits
of technical correctness when he
speaks thus for the Treasury Depart
ment and as regards express orders
of the Chief Executive. There may
have been no formal order, but never
theless and notwithstanding the heads
of administration have shut down on
giving out information doing any
thing in the line of regular work that
would impart information until after
the election 1t is no use for Mr..
Taylor or anyone else to deny this
fact, which the newspapers men here
know is true The ability TO discredIt
the excellent acting secretary of the
Treasury in this particular, as l do
on the very host authority in the
world, also enables me to impeach his
next averment. H says that MIR.
Parker seems to have unfortunately
acquired from untrustworthy sources
considerable misinformatlon' especi-
| ally about the management ana condi-
tion of the Treasury department
etc He declares that the only order
issued concerning estimated expenses
was that no subordinate should make
any estimate pubic unllI the heaas
of denartments had -one over them
with the President. and they had been
approved" Precisely. Here is the