The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-04-05

out SERIOUS Dredcn he would certainly
be elected, but | regard such a nomna-
ton and support next to impossible and
/ think 1T better. for party harmony. that
all discussion about him as a candidate
shall cease.
The Democratic nominee should be as
nearly the opposite of Roosevelt az posi-
BILE.
The conservative, thoughtful people
Tear the strenuous Roosevelt They can
not guess today what caper he may cut
up tomorrow. They want a wise, thought
iul, able man at the head of this great
/ nation. They find such man in Judge
Parker. IT the party will unite upon him
lat st. Louis and offer him to the coun-
try as the candidate of a united Democ-
raey he can be elected.
The fact that he is a great lawyer and
not trained politician cannot be valid
objection. On the contrary it ought to
count much in his favor. His training as
a lawyer and his career on the bench as
a judge have taught him to weigh, to rea-
son, to study, to compare and to judge
wisely. If there ever was a time when we
needed a trained thinker with a judicial
mind familiar with the fundamental prin-
ment, it is now. Where can we better go
which Judge Parker has had his training
| His whole life has been given u the
study of questions of law and order and
government, in the practical affairs of
life. and to weigh and judge them by
those rules of right and justice without
which good government cannot exist A
safer man could not be put at the head
of the government or any of its depart
ments / shall support his candidacy and
would he glad to see our State ConVen-
ton declare for him. / believe ii will be
the wise thing to do. There is danger
that the extremists in the party may have
a serious clash at st. Louis. If it shall
appear beforehand that these extremists
are in hopeless minority and powerless,
their selfinterest. if nothing else, may
constran them to yield to the will of the
majority without a serious conflict. The
Democracy of North Carolina may, It
it will. do much to bring about this hap
ply result"
What do you think of the propriety
of nominating Southern Democrat for
the Presidency" asked The Reflector.
He answered: II do not think the nucs-
Confederate ought to enter in the mat
ter at all. Il certainly does not with me.
l trust and believe the American people
have gotten too far away from the war
for these questions to seriously effect
their votes. But it is my habit when
called upon to act in such matters to deal
with conditions as [ find them and not
as l would have them. Now what are
1 he WI he
must carry New York in order to win.
We may win with that State We GER
tainly cannot without it. 1t therefore be-
hooves us TO name, nan as our candidate
who can carry it. 1t is but natural to
suppose that an eminent, able. popular
citizen OF that STATE can poll more votes
| in it than a citizen of Massachusetts,
| Michigan, Mississippi or Texas can do
Practical politics as well as a noble pur-
pose to select MAJ eminently fitted for
The high office suggests the nomination of
| fudge Parker.
The Charleston News and Courier, the
! State newspaper, the Gaffney Ledger and
other papers in South Carolina have sug-
gested Governor Aycock. of North Caro-
lima, as Il suitable man for the Democratic
nomination for the Vice-Presidency. 1t is
| time the South was having some recogni-
fbon in the party and if we can't secure
the nominee for the Presidency we ought
| to at least be allowed to name the second
man on the ticket. Democratic success il
an impossbilty without solid South
and yet the South has very little voice in
the councils of the PARTY. The trouble is
with the South. We would like to see
| Governor Aycock nominated for the Vice
Presidency .-Newberry (S. CD Herald AMI
News.
Asked do you think Parker is the
strongest man before the people?' Leader
Murphy, of Tammany, said: No"
Don't let anybody brighten you about
putting a Southern man in the second
place this year. Forty years was long
enough for people to wander in a wilder
ness even for their sins. And Williams
OF Mississippi, or Aycock, of North Caro-
lima, would carry as many Western votes
in indiana or Illinois, if either got the
chance to state the case to the reoDle
and tell them just how it is, as Williams,
| OF Illinois. IT is time that the Southern
people were asserting their rights in the
house of their fathers.-Charlotte News.
Washington correspondent approach
ed John Sharpe Williams the other day
and asked him how his Presidential boom
was coming along Mr.. Williams said:
My boy, my private secretary has come
out in my favor, as well as relative of
mine in Mississippi. ] think my boom is
pr' crossing slowly but satisfactorily
The Cleveland boomers made possible a
Hearst boom, and now they are 'appall-
ed that Democrats are confronted with
the possibility of Hearst The Cleveland
radicals and Hearst extremists have a
sort of mutual booming society" and
while they are booming" each other tue
| Democrats will nominate straight man,
and "appai' the whole Roosevelt Cleve-
| land Hearst combination ilkesbo,o
| Chronicle.