The semi-weekly messenger. [volume] (Wilmington, N.C.) 1897-1908, 1904-09-02
CURRENT

And the act must be kept in mind
nat the people vote more for the per-
son than they do for the platform.
Nearly every man chosen TO the presI-
dency is chosen because IL his personal
ity. Judge Parker is strong, he is dig
nfned, he Is discreet. and, according IN
his pictures, he is handsome. He would
look well on the front Of a platform
and he would make a good impression.
The democracy could put him before
any crowd in the country and say. here
is a man good to look upon and good to
vote for" Nor would there be anything
harmful or u~ndignfied in doing it,
Virginian-Pilot.
Mr.. Cortelyou, manager Of the re-
publican campaign, is retermined TO
avoid the penalty OF Il told YOU So"
contrary to the usual campaign prac-
tice, he has steadfastly refused TO give
out any republican claims of the
states which will fall into the Roose-
welt column. He will make no pronh-
ecies. If next November his chief shall
be numbered among our distinguishes
private citizens, no man will be able To
say to the national chairman, where
are those ridiculous figures you gave
out during the campaign? / knew YOU
were all wrong But if Mr.. Cortelyou
holds fast in his purpose, We shall De
much surpriseG.-Columbia State.
The Hon. William Jennings BRYAN.
being somewhat put to it to make his
advocacy OF governmental control of
certain public utilities square with his
aversion TO the principle of centralizin,
the Management of federal affairs al
Washington has recently argued at
length in favor of a plan to have all
railroad and telegraph lines become the
property Of the several CONFERENCE.-The
OF the nation. The suggestion is dis
tinctly reactionary to the extent that
it involves an appeal to the now vigor-
ously denied doctrine of states rights.
But were this not true, it is rather
hard to understand how our present
system of conducting transportation
could be successfully and satisfactorily
subjected to a round half hundred Diff
ferent and oftentimes conflicting medi-
inns of control.-News and Courier.
Nothing that has hitherto happened in
the campaign. we submit shows Judge
Parker in a more favorable light than
his reception yesterday of the delega-
ition from the Women's Theatrical Par
ker Club. A candidate makes UP has
mind beforehand how to receive the
diamond-studded and dyed moustached
ward leader as well as the high
browed and White-handed! doetrinaire,
but the descent upon him in blocks of
five, of fluffy, vivacious, coquettish
femininfty and millinery, not merely,
as Horace put it, "dulce ridenten," but
in~exorably ''dulce loquentem,' is an
ordeal the older campaigners than he
would have s~idestepped. Judge Parker's
farm is ample, and a broken fence or
an ailing asparagus patch at it's farther
limit would have given opportunity for
a day Of bucolic secluSion. But the cam
didate stood his ground, delighted a del
egatiOn of SOubrettes by his hospitality,
without at the same time fOrfeiting a
solitary vote from a believer in the
eternal damnation of all things theatre
cal. If ever a man deserved the votes
which a delegation promised HMM
this case 160-it surely is the Judge.
Yet. if all the votes necessary for cleo
ton the COUNTRY over were to- be a at
the same price. we seriously question
whether even the opportunity for saw
ing the country would compensate for
turning Rosemount into a country club
for the 'IVVhite Mice."-New York Post.
William J.. Bryan. OF Nebraska, and
Thomas E. Watson. of Georgia, are the
only promising possibilities yet IN sight
for the leadership of the radical party,
the formidable organizations, made up OF
the RADICALS of all parties, that is bound
to be. evolved from existing conditions.
The Post claims no special gift OF
rophecy but judges the future by the
rast, applying the instruction derived
from that which has been TO that Whlcn
is TO be. when it declares that the con-
dftions/ of 1904 are a decree that sucn
a party will be in the field iE19OS. The
Americans are too practical a people
to maintain two great parties-the
two leading and competing parties
whose only serious difference or corr
tention relates to the personalities OF
presidential candidates. Whether Pres
ident Roosevelt or Judge Parker is the
filter and safer man to be lnducted INTO
the presidency next March for a term OF
four years is conceded by Judge Par
ker's supporters to be he issue, the
isue, and they are conduct
ing their campaign in accordance with
hat view. How they are proceeding
was sampled last week my DAVID Ben
nett Hill at a county fair in Deposit,
N. Y. and by Senator Joseph w. Bal
ley, of Texas. in Brooklyn. AS almost
anything is possible In poiltics, tHs
plan may win. But, however that naay
be. and utterly regardless of the voting
in November, there is altogethes toe
| much of radicalism in the United States
to tolerate as a permanency the eondl-
lions that render such a campaign pos
| sible. There are many voters in each
of the two great parties VINO belleVe
there are issues of principle n policy
TO be settled. Many of these hold eX.
IRENE views. In all the minor parties
there are masses Of discomfort. Before
the campaign Of 1908 begins the differ.
emf contingents of radicalism will fine
some common ground and effect a com
bination. We think that either Bryan
or Watson will be the leader OF new
party, but it is too early to decide be
tween their respective qualifications an
claims.-Washington Post.
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