Bisbee daily review., 1904-05-12
New Candidate For President
D. R. FRANCIS SUGGESTED AS
 THE POSSIBLE COMPROMISE
President of the Worlds Fair is Solid With Both Sides and 1t is Very Like iy His ctate Win Nominate Him at St. Louis.

NAGtS "IO AasCI thc HOHiudttOu Ol U.
 R. Francis for president. Following
 the suggestions thus made, some of
 the papers treat the suggestions with comment
 Had the fair been pulled os last
 year these is little doubt that Francis
 would be the candidate fer president this year. But the postponment of
 the fair caused the friends to doubt
 the avisability of an open fight for
 the nomination. They however, have
 been following another plan. Let it get mixed up in the east between Par
 ker and Tammany and the west be-
 tween Bryan ana the reorganizers and
 come in the convention with Fran
 cis as a compromise.
 The situation is analysed by the
 Boston Advertiser as follows:
 We have learned a great 6eal of
 late about stToug undercurrent of
 democratic sentiment moving in the direction of ex-Governor Francis, of
 Missouri. At first thought the idea
 may appear somewhat strange, and yet as one analysis of the situation,
 there appear many reasons why the
 party should agree OF the ex-governor
 who will be very much in the public
 eye from now on as the head of the
 St. Louis fair. Tammany is openly opposed to Judge Parker. Senator German. who may be the campaign
 manager. has refused to endorse his
 boom Colonel Guffey, and his we'll drilled force of democrats, revolt against the Parker leadership. And w. J. Bryan has promised to add his New York judge. Evidently some ore must be found who will draw par ty harmony in place cf one who will intensity the present factional and sectional raDcor.
 Ex-Governor Francis was a mem Der of Cleveland's cabinet. and this fact will operate in his favor in win ming the support of the Cleveland or conservative wing of the party. A good many democrats look to the ex- president as the inspirer of party pol icies for some years to come. and such as these will be willing to take MT. Francis in lieu of MT. Cleveland. Fur ther, the Missouri leader is and al ways has been regular and this will be tremendous advantage to him in holding the Bryanite element in line. While his belief was sound money, his party fealty was dominant. and the past two campaigns he has voted the straight party ticket. MT. Bryan has never had word to say in opposition to MT, Francis. It has been a general principle with the that he denounced who ever is his enemy. The lack of criti- cism of Mir. Francis places him in the list cf Bryan,s friends. He is the type of the aggressive. honest-mind- ed and fearless citizen of the middle west. In him is symbolized the great progress of the people of the Miss issippi valley. And the voters of that vast region will be attracted to him as a favorite son. All these factors taken together. make him a powerful figure in party councils.
 That Judge Parker should be dummy candidate to make safer the use ofex-Governor Francis name at the psychological moment, would not be without precedent. The situation suggests the campaign of 1868. anen the conditions were almost the same as now. And. singularly. Chief Jus tice Church, Of New York, was then the mask as Chief Justice Parker may be today. The eastern democrats wished to check the popular move ment in behalf of G. H. Pendleton, whose greenback dogma had a follow ing much like that of Bryan in 1896 and in 1900 In fact the greenback was really the forerunner of the free silver agitation. Chief Jus tice Church was very conservative man. who had the confidence of the business and financial interests. His attitude on public policies was well known (this being one particular in which he differed from Judge Parker). After he had fairly succeeded in unit ing the Democrats under one banner. he was suddenly dropped, and at the proper moment Horatio Seymour was brought forward, showing that MT, Seymour had been the real capdidate whom the leaders sad kept in mind all along. Chief Justice Church was entirely forgotten and the work which he had done in unifying the party not to his advantage, but to the advantage of MT Seymour.
 The political movements of ex- Governor Francis and his friends be- tween now and the time for the St Louis convention will be instructive. The nomination is to be made in his home city. With a well conducted in his behalf, it will not be hard to stampede the convention. r1vninotin,, ;n 1QQe shoWg how