The Grenada sentinel. [volume] (Grenada, Miss.) 1868-1955, 1904-07-30
EXCITES MUCH INTEREST.

magnitude, and to which no inconSid'
cradle significance is attached, is the
coming to the support of Judge Park
er by the New York Herald. Two
years ago the Herald favored the nom
nation of Mr.. Roosevelt for the pres
idency, and SO ardent was it's support
that even at that early day it nailed
the name of the Rough Rider to its
mast head. But for good and Suffi'
cient reasons the Herald has seen the
error of its way, and today is using
its influence in behalf of the able jur-
iSt, in whom it sees the most logical
candidate for the most exalted posi-
tion within the gift of the American
people. After declaring that Judge
Parker has won the confidence of the
people; that sort of confidence PreSi-
dent Roosevelt has not inspired, " the
Herald says:
His imperialism and his dictator
ial ways together with his revival Of
the race issue in the south and other
Rough Rider fads have awakened
among the people a diStruSt Of Mr..
Roosevelt and the republican party
quite as great as the diStruSt which
Organism, SiXteen-tO-Oneism, pOpul-
ism and other freakiSh iSmS had eX-
cited with respect to the democrats.
Mr.. Roosevelt has the support of his
intimate friends and his political pro-
tegeS, but conservative people eye him
with diStruSt. They acknowledge
that he is irreproachable as an individ-
ual but they doubt his capacity for
S~elf-cOntrOl, diStruSt his Judgment and
question his conception of presidential
duties. He wishes to NEEDLE in every
detail Of the public service, to control
every department, to rule every Off
'cial, to be both the lawmaker and the
executive, to be the source of power
and to apply it.
Between Mr.. RoOSevelt'S views of
the presidents duties and the views
of the American people on that sub
ject there is a wide difference. He
evidently thinks the president of the
United States is a sort of dictator,
while the people rightly regard him
merely as their chief magistrate, as
the executive head of the adminiStra-
tiOn. This ~domineering conception
of his official duties has excited wide
spread resentment among republicans
and has led him to make mistakes
that would have prevented his nomi-
nation if the republican party had
had any other available candidate"
A special from Washington says,
"at Democratic headquarters it is as
serted that the course of the Herald
clearly indicates that the drift of pub
lie sentiment is toward the Democrats
this time" And, in this connection,
let it be added that there are others.
The New York World, the New York
Times, the New York Sun, and
the Brooklyn Eagle, all of which
supported the Republican nom
ineeS in the last campaign, are put
ting forth their best efforts for the
success of the Democratic ticket in
the November election. Northern
newspapers of less prominence in the
political world, but whose influence in
their respective fields is propOrtionate-
Iy great, have joined in the stampede
to the Democratic nominee, believing
him to be conservative and safe. One
Michigan paper which we have in
mind comes out boldly for Judge Park
er after having swallowed Repub-
Iican medicine for more than a quar-
Jer century. 1t asserts that the
safety of the nation depends upon the
of men who are not cratic in
their views and actions"
1t is now the general belief that the
Democratic nominee is going to re-
the bulk of the independent vote
If the North, while thousands of the
Democrats who deserted
Bryan on account of the free silver
blank, asserting that hereafter their !:
,ote would be cast with the party !,
hat stood for a gold standard, have re- ,
urned to the fold, and will not only :
asst their votes for Judge Parker in :
November but are as busy as bees in
lis behalf. That New York will cast .
IS vote for the Democratic nominee .
, now almost a foregone conclusion. Y
wen Teddy's campaign manager o
laces that state in the doubtful a
olumn. p