The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-10-23
Whereat the Democrats
Laugh in the Throat.
1T is FUNNY, ABSURD
This Confidence and Apathy on the Part
of the Republicans Who Believe
the Rough Rider Will Vault
Every 0bsta-
BY CICERO w. HARRIS.

Especial to News and Observer
Washington, d. c., Oct. 22.-The
Democrats one meets on the streets
are all chuckling over the absurd over
confidence of the Republicans. 1t is
recalled that they were precisely III
the same frame of mind in 1892,
when they got so great drubolng III
the Presidential election. A Repubn-
can who was once district attorney of
South Dakota travelled all the way
from Cincinnati to this place and dld
not once hear the names or either
Parker or Roosevelt mentioned or one
word of national politics He says
that in his experience there never was
such an apathetic campaign. he ar
cues for this untoward results to his
party. who are relying on their having
control of the government and on what
they call prosperity for success. a man
who has just returned here from New
York says he found the same degree of
apathy in the interior of that great
State 1t is nearly always the case that
the party in control suffers most from
apathetic conditions 1t is certain
that ex-Secretary Roots note of warn
ing that the dropping behind of Hlg-
gins, the Republican gubernatorial
candidate in New York, presages evil
to the party all along the line is per-
| fectly well-founded. The Republican
| masses and most of the leaders are in
/ fatuated with the idea that Roosevelt
! can't be beaten. The result, as mat
| ter of fact seems now to depend upon
/ the votes of Indiana and West Vir-
ginia, both of which are trend1ng
strongly toward Democracy, Later il
New York is known to be sure for
/ Parker. the trend in New Jersey and
! Connecticut will be the same way.
Democrats are pleased with Gull
] berSon'S bold attack on RooSeVeltS
/ Panama policy and the revelations he
made in New York. The Texan SEN
ator is too large and conservative a
man to go wrong in a matter of this
sort He is confirmed by circum-
stances. The President is a dangerous
man to have at the head of affairs in
crisis. His hgh-handed action in
| the case of the Panama canal Will
merely mark the inception of a policy
of invasion of the rights of foreign
nations which will bring this republic
into disfavor and eventually into dan
ger
| Secretary Edwards, of the Congress
sional Committee, is in New York. The
gentlemen found at headquarters to-
day seem hopeful of the results of the
great campaign now waging in all
| quarters Of the countrN II One said:
| IAefe are SlTOllP lIldI JuuSe
/ Parker will win BECAUSE the party is
united and hard at work and the peo-
pie have greater respect for our can
/ didatR~ R~than they have for the PreSi-
dent. IT looks like we are gaining
steadily in Indiana and other doubt
| full States
1t is known here that Judge Parker
regards his campaign as one likely to
| increase in volume and energy from
/ this time up to the day of election. He
has never been confident that he was
already elected as has his adversary
| The difference between the two men is
shown consDicuousy in this matter.
Roosevelt cannot be convinced that he
can be beaten. Parker thinks he will
be elected with the best work of his
friends. One is an optimist of the
childish, imperious type; the other, a
alm-eyed man who knows what has
to be done in higher politics and knows
also how to do it. Between two such
men the American people ought not
TO be long in reaching decision.
The sketch plans for the Elizabeth
City public building have been agreed
upon in Cabinet session.
| Mr.. A. BerWanger, who was buried
here Thursday afternoon, having died
in this city at his apartment at the
Concord Tuesday evening left two
i
men. For the past forty years Mr..
Berwanger had been well known
and highly respected Washington busi-
ness man. For long while he was In
the clothing line and then became a
commission merchant. He left d wild
ow, who will hereafter reside with her
brother, Mr. Samuel Lynn, 1882 Co
| lumbia road.
Rural free delivery schedules are an
inounced on routes Nos. / and 2 from
! Hope Mills Cumberland county; on
routes Nos /, 2, 8, 4, 5 from La
| Grange, Lenoir county.