Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-03-28
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Washington March est is now
pretty we'll settled that the presidency
of the United States cannot be bought
At any rate William r. Hearst's eff
forts to buy it have failed. He cannot
even buy the nomination CT the Demo
cratic party. He cannot get one-third
of the delegates to that convention
and his candidacy, which for a, time
alarmed the Democratic leaders and
both amused and disgusted the country
is doomed to end in an inglorious fias-
&C.
The salient feature of the political
development of the past week, SO far
as the Democratic party is concerned,
is that the South has repudiated Harst.
1t will have nothing to de- with him.
The reputation is emphatic and final.
Hearst will not have more than a
handful of delegates from the entire
south. If the unit rule is not enforced
he may get a few votes in Kentucky,
Tennessee Missouri, Arkansas and
perhaps one or two cther states. But
all the probabilities are that the unit
rule will be enforced and that the
south's unwillingness to permit itself
to become part Of the yellow peril
will be made complete and universal.
Without support from the great Demo
furnish nearly all of the electoral votes
the Democratic party hopes to win
Hearst's candidacy is hopeless.
For a time there was danger that
the south might give countenanca to
the Hearst movement. The man had
his agents at work throughout that Sec
ton, as he has had them at work ev-
erywhere. Some weeks ago they were
making headway. At one time it look
ed as if the south might be tempted to
| lcok with favor upon this "unspeak-
able candidacy" as the New York Ev-
ening Post has called it.
But the Democrats of the south are
the conservative element of the Old
party, and their conservatism, their de-
cency, their regard for the fitness OF
things, their sell-respect, have at last
led them to repudiate Hearst and turn
the cold shoulder to his hired agents
sent into the field to hire every man
who would sell himself Hearst has
fallen in Georgia, in Alabama, in Mis-
sissippi, in Florida, in Texas; in fact,
almost everywhere in the south. With
out the south, wthcat the great state
of New York, without Indiana, without
the support of states which are to give
the Democracy its only chance of sue
cess at the polls, Hearsts candidacy
becomes a mere thing Of shreds and
patches, pieced together by the use of
pelf. This yellow peril" this yellow
kid candidacy for the presidency has
virtually run its course. It has been
a sort of ogre; it has created alarm
but the danger that it may triumph or
that it may hold even one-third of the
Democratic convention in it's grasu
and, with that one-third, a veto power
over any other nomination, seems to
have passed, greatly to the relief OF
the Democratic leaders in this city, and
thanks to the conservatism and decen.
cy OF the cid Democracy ct the south.
Democratic senators who in the
past have been worried by the Hearst
business are &C., Convinced the dan.
ger is at an end. They have looked
over the field since they became
aware of the failure of the Hearst eff
fcrts in the south and they cannot
find that the yellow aspirant has
more than 200 or at the outside 25(
delegates under his control, present
or prospective. Granted all the
claims made with any reasonable ba
Sis OF fact by his hired men. 500 votes