The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1904-09-17
DEMOCRATS LOSE GROUND.
Bad Management in New York Hurts Cam
paign and Parkeris Appealed TO

Bad Management in New York Hurts Cam
paign and Parkeris Appealed to
to Reorganize Things.
Under the above caption the New
Orleans Daily States, az obdurately
democratic newspaper, prints the fol
| lowing dispatch from New York in its
issue of Sept. 10:
The sudden activity Of the demo-
| cratic managers and the appeal to
| Judge Parker to come to New York
| to rally the fight is due to the criti-
cisms of the New York papers which
| took the Parker side, to Mr.. Pulitzer Is
letter to the editors, to the organiza-
ton Of the party ia the state, to the
Vermont result and particularly to the
somewhat sensational editorial in
Thursdays New York Times, which
has been the special champion of
Judge Parker:
1.-The only certain and safe inference
from the 81, 900 republican plurality in
Vermont is th at Roosevelt electors will
be chosen in that state on Nov. s. The
conclusion that the September election
in Vermont makes sure the election of
Roosevelt and Fairbanks in Novem-
Der would not be warranted either by
human experience or human reason.
LII everybody came to that conclusion
at once, of course both party commit
tees would close their headquarters
and stop spending money, the demo-
Gratis because further efforts would be
hopeless, the republicans because it
would be superfuous. Forty-four other
states will vote for presidential cleo
tors in November.
''At the same time the gentlemen at
the democratic headquarters up town
would show themselves to be pretty
p.e'r observers of political signs and
p@.lents it they did not accept the re-
suit In Vermont as proof that their
campaign thus far has made little i'm
preston upon the voters whose support
they must have if they are to win. Yer
mont is obdurately republican, but its
electorate has shown in the past that
II was sensitive to impending political
changes. The rather unusual republic
can plurality this year means not tn at
the Green Mountain State voters are
lnsensltlve, but that no marked i'm
preston has been made upon them by
the democratic candidate and cam
paIgn. LII the gentlemen at headquarters
will get out among the people of this
community they will probably hear
from all sorts and conditions of men
10 the street and elsewhere the almost
universal opinion that they are max
ing losing fight. They will be told
that Judge Parker campaign reached
high-water mark in the days following
the publication of the gold-standard
telegram; that the ebb then set in, and
that since his speech of acceptance the
fall of the Parker tide has been visi-
bic, and somewh at disquietingly rapid.
1t is we'll that the campaign managers
should know these things. They are
too sensible to prize the comforts of
the FOOLS paradise above the manly
satisfaction Of knowing where they
stand in the serious business in which
they are engaged.
"They should know then, for Yer
mont warns them of it, that they are
losing ground daily. x
The picture of tranquil canvass
in which 100000 freemen, all
philosophers, all highly enlightened,
all burning with the love Of truth
and the hatred Of error, might
sit down to study the principles and
professions Of the rival parties, and,
undisturbed by the hoarse appeals of
the stump or the tumult of professions
with banners and bands, should with
calm deliberation make their choice
between the two candida tes, is in
many ways delightful. But that is a |
dream, a foolish imagining; there is
no such thing possible among men.
s'* Plainly there is nothing
to be gained by keeping the tissue"
Of the Philippines to the fore. 10 begin |
with, it is not an issue; if it were, the |
democrats would lose by agltating it.
They have lost votes already by the
attempt to keep tn at question in VIEW |