The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-14

The action of the Brooklyn delegates to
the New York convention makes 1t almost
certain that on next Monday the Demo
cratic State Convention of New York
will instruct its delegates to the National
Convention to vote as unit for Chief
Justice Parker as the candidate for
President. For some days the result Of
the Brooklyn primaries has seemed in
doubt The friends of Judge Parker had
become alarmed by the confident predc
ton that the Brooklyn delegates would
vote against instructions. That might
have denied to Judge Parker the solid
vote of his State, and unless his friends
could insure the country of a solid vote
from his own great State, the opinion large
ly prevailed that he would probably fail
OF the noplination. and New York State
might not nave the honor conferred upon
one of its sons. OF course, until New
York acts On the 18TH of April. it cannot
be definitely settled whether it viii In
struct for Judge Parker. but IL the latest
news from Brooklyn is correct, Mr.. Nc
Carren probably stated the situation cor
rectlv when be said: well we have
made President 1t is often upon such
comparatively small matteTs-the action
of a single city or a few wards IN city
that the fate of party or q republic
hangs!
In lis issue of March 18th, the day after
Hearst had carried Rhode Island, in
three-column editorial upon the question:
as tho Democratic Alternative Hearst or
Cleveland?'' this paper took strong
ground against the nomination oil either
and thus defined its position:
For months and months the neWspa-
pers that are known to be antl-Democratic
which call themselves Democratic and
nearly always support Republican policies
and candldates-have been arrogatlng TO
themselves the right 70 write the Demo
cratic platform of 1904 and to name the
candidates. They have assumed that be-
cause Mr.. Bryan has declared he would
not again be a candidate, the party was
ready to turn back to Cleveland and die
tation by Morgan who controlled the hnan-
cial end of Cleveland 5 last administration.
They have insulted and denounced every
Democrat who did not bolt the party in
1896 or 1900 and have demanded that all
such men be driven from the councils OF
the party and the boilers and Sulf1ers
be put in charge More than that: they
have demanded that the party platform
be such as would please the Wall Street
gamblers and would be as near like the
Republican platform on all live issues as
tweedledum is like twecdledee. And then
they have sought, in season and out OF
season. to force the nomination of Mr..
Cleveland. thus. demanding that the six
and q half million Democrats who kept
the ruGdar true when Cleveland betrayed
the party that honored him, stultify and
abase themselves by helping to keep the
national government in the hands of the
money changers who have been tht real
rulers at Washington under Harrison,
Cleveland. Mckinley and Roosevelt. Some,
weeks ago Mr.. Cleveland wrote letter
declaring that his decision not to he
candidate lis unalterable and conclusive"
actionists in the party have gone on de-
claring that he is the only man the party
can elect and continuing to press the Sc
lection of delegates to the convention who
are known to SneeZe when Cleve-
land takes snuff.
What has been the natural result OF
such effrontery upon the part of party
wreckerso The rank and file of the De
Al
land or to Clevelandism would mean to
keep the trusts in power, have detcrmin'
ed at every hazard 70 save their party
from the proposed prostitution. If the
trusts and the Wall street gamblers are
to control the national administration for
their own enrichment. true Democrats pre-
Ter that Republicans shall be the corrupt
agents, and that the livery of Democracy
shall not be stolen in which to serve
the purposes of Mammon. They do not
desire 20 perpetuate party chickering's. They
are ready to strike hands with all men
who will cooperate to secure real Demo
cratic victory that will carry out Demo
cratic ideals But they will not consent ,
to put forward as the leader the man who
the party in 1896, and used the
power given him by Democrats to defeat
his party. That would be party perfid'
and party dishcnor." The man to lead
must be man who has always been will
ing 'to submit to the arbitrament of the
national convention" Party loyalty could
not be invoked in behalf of any candidate
who had conspicuously exhibited party
disloyalty in crisis in the party.
the spirit of returning to the party, |
alter causing its defeat by betraying it in
1896, by Cleveland and his allies. and de-
clarlng their intentions to 'call the fig.
gers or bolt again, has aroused the deep.
est resentment of true blue Democrats
everywhere. Mr.. Hearst has been quick
to see this feeling and his managers have
quickly sought to realize upon it by tryin.
TO get the sentiment crystallized that all
who oppose the trust-domination of the
party and its lapse to Clevelandism should
feel that the most effective way to fight
it is to rally to the support OF Hearst.
In Rhode Island his friends we're able to
do this and their success there will en-
nolden them to try to secure the same
lining UP everywhere. If they can sue.
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