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the Hon. William Randolph Hearst.
His action I'm wiring the convention
OF hls loyalty to the ticket and his
congratulations TO Judge Parker
have caused many men who hitherto
were his bitterest enemies TO speak
words of praise in his behalf. There
is no doubt that his eight great
newspapers will do great and eff
fective work in this campaign.
The Democratic party needs MIR.
Hearst more than he needs il. and
he has grown much in political
stature by proving that he does
not have Co be bribed with the
nomination, in order to remain a
Democrat.
The leaders of the Democratic
party are looking forward, not
with apprehension, but with pleas
urable anticipation, to Judge Par
ker's letter of acceptance. \ ring
ing letter of acceptance. able and
conservative, would strike popu-
lar chord and give his campaign a
further impetus. More may hinge
ON what that letter says and how it
Is said than on any amount of the
thousands of documents that NAV
appear IN the campaign. That let
ter will decide many men now
wavering between the two candi-
dates and the chances are that il
Will bring them to the support of
Judge Parker, and the Democracy.
The South Is enthusiastic for Judge
Parker and would bc 50 if there
were hut one issue i'm the campaign.
To them. the all-abSorbing and
over-powering issue Is the negro
question and they are anxious for
the defeat of Roosevelt on account
of that issue. If for no other reason.
\ recent communication to the
Washington Post by negro named
Henry :. Baker serves To acccntu-
ate the negro issue more than any
thing that has lately appeared. In
that communication he calls at
tentiOn To the difference between
the Republican and the Democratic
National Conventions. lie SAYS
that at the Republican Convention
the colored man was treated as
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 advice and example of
President Roosevelt, who teaches
that the colored man deserves to be
treated as a social equal. He says
that 10 emphasize this fact. he had
the courage To have at his table.
Prof. Booker +. Washington. and
that, If Roosevelt is elected, il will
SO encourage the negro men that
they will demand that Booker
Washington shall be Republican
candidate for Nice-PreSident i'm
1905. He calls attention to the
scene in the Republican Conven-
ton. when a beautiful white Girl
was placed upon the stage and 10y
her side a negro boy, and that they
led the cheering, thus making an
example of the equality of the
races. He then points out that the
Democratic Convention was 4
white mans convention, of white
mans party, and that in it, there
was not Il single negro man. Talk
like that will do more to make the
race question one of the leading
issues of this campaign than any
thing else that could be suggested.
There are many doubtful States in
the North that will give to the
Democrats sufficient Republican
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 Presi-
dcncy, they will also win the House,
because no President was ever
elected who did not carry the House
with him. Specifically, the Demo
Gratis are counting upon gains in
the next House in Wisconsin, Mich
igan, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio, West
Virginia. Virginia, Maryland,
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
possibly Connecticut and Rhode
Island. In the West, they will
probably elect their Congressman
or n majority of them in Colorado
also their Representatives in
Montana and Idaho possibly
Wyoming and possibly make gain,