The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-09-11
NEW YORK PAPERS
AND THE EDITORS
How Reporters Described
Great Conference.
BRIGHT AND CHERRY
Some Pencil Pictures Of The Editorial
Conference and Visit to Judge Par
ker the Inception and Success
of Which is Given Mr..
Iosephus Daniels.

Iosephus Daniels.
How the New York papers from the
viewpoint of the reporters viewed the
Editorial Conference is a matter OF
interest. Here are some. items from
those papers. which tell of the eventi
of the great successful meeting o.
over 500 Democratic editors, in charge
of Mr.. Josephus Daniels. of Raleigh
editor of The News and Observer.
Chairman of the Editorial Conference
and the North Carolina Member of
the National Democratic Executive
Committee, the meeting being for thu
conference of Democratic and Inde-
pendent editors favoring the election
of Judge Parker as President, and fon
the purpose of meeting him.
The banquet was given Wednesday
night at the Waldorf-Astoria and on
Thursday morning the editors visited
Judge Parker at Esopus.
The New York Times of Wednes-
day says:
'The Democratic editors flocked into
Democratic National Headquarters
yesterday to see the camaign mama
gers. Headquarters for the visitors
were established in the Waldorf-As.
toria, where National Committeeman
JosehuS Daniels, of North Carolina.
who is an editor himself and who act
ed as chairman of the Committee OF
Arrangements for the conference, Was
on hand to greet them all. Chair
man Taggart Secretary Woodson, AMI
other officials OF the National Com
mittee gave up practically the entire
DAY to the editors. and today will ac-
company them on the trip to Esopua
to meet Judge Parker.
\ Il - obi n
vantage of an invitation extended by
August Belmont and made tri p
through the subway. Two trains were
utilized, one of five ana the other OF
three cars"
As Seen BY the journal.
In describing the banquet the Ne7s
York Journal has this:
Presidents of the Waldorf-Astoria
made way for the Democratic editors
last night while these moulders of
opinion ate of meats and drank on
wines; descanted upon the decay OF
Americanism; spoke unpleasant wordss
about Mr. Roosevelt and warmed them
selves into genuine Democratic en-
ergy when gestowing panegyrics "a
the stan iard bearer whom they viii;
visit at Esopus today.
s"The banquet hall OF the Waldorf
was dressed fittingly for such a feast,
From llS Wallis lIlcEc lOOhCO uO"h UPOAi
the good. humored guests, come ia
New York for happy interchanges OF
fellowship, the portraits OF Parker
and Davis. The band played Dixie.
and those who couldn't shout pattef
their feet The speeches were ap>
plauded. toasts drunk in wild enthu-
siasm-the name Of Judge Parker
each time bringing fortn huzZ'a.ns
that meant affection.
Editors from All Sections.
1t was the largest gathering of Dem.
ocratic editors that has ever take
place in New York. They were here
from every section OF the country
A letter from Joseph Pulitzer was
read in which he advised the assem-
bled Democrats to accept the result OF
the Vermont c.ection sS d warning,
but not as a discoura cement.
Colonel Henry Watterson, of the
Courier-J JournaL got the applause OF
the evening when he responded to the
toast assigned him. The editors, many
of whom have been reading his double
loaded and thunderous assaults on the
enemy for more than quarter or a
century, ali rose to their feet ana
gave him a welcome that was genu-
inely Kentuckian in its hospitality
and enthusiasm When they had "a
ken their seats there came an in
and in the galleries. like the hush
of an organs music when the bel
lows are let drop, all wanting to hear
his words
Samuel j Johnson, of Cincinnati
acted as toastmaster He happily in
troduced Colonel Watterson, saying
Tomorrow we go to the altar ri
the Constitution, to the mecca OF
Democracy. and we shall not detasr
you tonight very long, because We
wish to see our candidate while we
are wide awake. / promise you thers
, will be nothing Sporific in the Speecnes
that will follow me-
Mr.. Johnson said of Judge Parker
1--WE should welcome him because hi
has shown that he is a handy man al
the end of telegraph wire" He
announced that the editors would ac-
cept President Fox's invitation to visit
the Democratic Club. They will mo-
go in a body, but as they desire from
time to time.
.
Speaking of the Presidents attitTSs
toward the South, Mr. Clark Howe',
editor of the Atlanta Constitution
said:
disguise as they may. they can.
not deny the sectional animus of their
party purpose nor evade record Ci
their administration in it's unjust anG
ungenerous dealings with the tbt
South in the matter of Federal ap
pointments. and in the brutal anf
indefensible manner in which thei1
President has raised the lid of TIKI
radical Pandora's box-that our peo