Saint Mary's beacon., 1904-08-04

legro question assures Us Maryland.
nd with either Illinois, Wisconsin.
n Indiana, we win win the fight.
q looks as though Wisconsin were
assured 10 Us on account
n the factional fight in that State
between the Republicans, and with
Tom Taggart OF Indiana for National
we are assured OF that
State.
There are many words Of praise |
here from leaders Of the party for
the Hon. William Randolph Hearst.
His action in wiring the convention
of his loyalty TO the ticket and his
congratulations 10 Judge Parker
have caused many men who hitherto
were bis bitterest enemies 70 speak
words of praise in his behalf. There
is no doubt that his eight great
newspapers will do great and effec-
tive work in this campaign. The
Democratic party needs Mr.. Hearst
more than he needs it, and he has
grown much in political stature by
proving that he does not have to be
bribed with the nomination, in or.
der 10 remain Democrat.
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The leaders Of the Democratic
party are looking forward, not with
apprehension. but with pleasurable
anticipation, TO Judge Parker's let
ter OF acceptance. A ringing letter
of acceptance. able and conservative.
would strike q popular chord and
give his campaign further impetus.
More may hinge on what that letter
says and how it is said than on any
amount of the thousands of docu-
ments that may appear in the cam
paign. That letter will decide many
men now wavering between the two
candidates and the chances are that
it will bring them TO the support of
Judge Parker, and the Democracy.
The South is enthusiastic for Judge
Parker and would be SO If there
were but one issue in the campaign.
To them, the all-absorbing and over
powering issue is the negro ques-
tion and they are anxious for the de-
feat of Roosevelt on account OF that
issue, il for no other reason. A re-
cent communication to the Washing
ton Post by a negro named Henry
S. Baker serves TO accentuate the
negro issue more than anything that
has lately appeared. In that CON-
munication, he calls attention to the
difference between the Republican
and the Democratic National Con-
ventiOns. He says that at the Re-
publican Convention the colored
man was treated as a companion,
friend, and brother that there he
was made to feel as though he were
not only political, but social equal;
that the delegates followed the ad-
vice and example of President Roose-
velt, who teaches that the colored
man deserves to be treated as q So
cial equal. He says that to empha-
size this fact, he had the courage to
have ut his table, Prof. Booker T.
Washington, and that, if Roosevelt
is elected, it will SO encourage the
negro men that they will demand
that Booker Washington shall be the
Republican candidate for Vice Presi-
dent in 1908. He calls attention to
the scene in the Republican Conven-
tion, when q beautiful white girl was
placed upon the stage and by her
side a negro boy, and that they led
the cheering. thus making an exam
pie of the equality of the races. He
then points out that the Democratic
Convention was a white man S con-
vention, of white man s party, and
that in it, there was not a single ne
grol man. Talk like that will do
more to make the race question one
of the leading issues of this cam
paign than anything else that could
be suggested. There are many
doubtful States in the North that |
will give to the Democrats sufficient |
votes upon the negro |
question alone to send them into the |
Democratic column. The chances
are therefore that the Democrats |
will force this issue whenever they
can.
OF course, it goes without saying
that if the Democrats win the Pres
idency, they will also win the House.
because no President was ever elect
ed who did not carry the House with
him. Specifically, the Democrats
are counting upon gains in the next
House in Wisconsin, Michigan, IL
inois, Indiana. Ohio, West Virgin
"a, Virginia, Maryland, Pennsylvan-
a, New Jersey, and possibly Con-
1ecticut and Rhode Island. In the
West, they will probably elect their
congressman or a majority of them
a Colorado-also their Representa-
ives in Montana and Idaho posi-.
bly, Wyoming and possibly make
.ains in California. There is a pos
'ibility of the House going Demo
.ratic with Republican victory for
resident. But it is not probable,