The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-23
MONEY IN SIGHT
 TO ELECT PARKER
SECRET DEMOCRATIC PLANS TO
 LAND THEIR CANDIDATE.
sI,0ooy 900 for New Yerk--Another Slil- lion te Be spent In Doubtful states Within Forty-Eight
 Hours of the Election.

Raymond in Chicago Tribune. <
 With the betting 8 to 1 in favor of Roosevelt. and not much Democratic money in sight even at odds. it seems hard to believe that Alton B. Parker and the people nearest to him and deep- est in the campaign secrets actually believe he can be elected. Yet it seems they do.
 I had talk the other day, of a con- fidential character. with one of the foremost men in the Democratic, party. He has national reputation. is in a position which gives his access to the inner circle of the party management. and. while 1t is possible he may have had some ax to grind. what he said bore the stamp of intimate. know ledge. have every reason to believe he Is loyal to Mfr. Parker. yet know that if his name were used he would be charged instantly with treachery. I give his story for what 1t is worth. without myself making any comment upon its probability or the lack of 1t. All I can do is to guarantee that the source of the information is such that if 1t were disclosed it would command instant and most curious attention.
 Certain of Parker's Election.
 Betting odds and current public opinion" said my informant. ''only help our plans. You may not believe it, but can assure you that the latest and most confidential reports presented to Mr. Parker and the half dozen men who are managing his campaign indi- cate strong probability that he may carry the country. We are quite will ing that the Republicans should be lulled into feeling of overconffdence. Our best work will be done within q week of the election. and 1t will be done at time when 1t will be impos- sible for the Republican managers to counteract It.
 Our plan of campaign is compara- lively simple one. It is more than gamblers chance. and the wisest, men in the Democratic party have come to the conclusion 1t is a chance worth taking. and worth paying big money for. There are in the solid south 151 votes we do not even have to fight for. Add to that the eight votes of Maryland and we have a total of 15s. which are as sure to go for Parker as those of Pennsylvania will go for Roosevelt.
 Look to Doubtful States.
 Now, we have gone back to the OL 1cCS as VAPkC5bAtb ,tu0 real strength of the Democratic party in the debatable states. At that time Mir. Cleveland carried New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, Delaware, West Virginia, and Indiana. There are In those states under the new apportion- ment eigthy-three ectorial Votes. IS you add those to the 159 in our im- pregnable southern nucleus the total is 242. whereas only 2s9 Is necessary to q choice. a
 Thus you see, If we can carry the debatable states which went Demo- cratic in 1892 we can elect Parker. Then there are a half dozen of the Rocky mountain states. Idaho. Nevada. Colorado. Utah. Montana, and Wyoming which have twenty votes between them. We are as likely to get some of those as the Republicans and they would make good possible defection in the Cleveland states of the north, in addition to which there is Rhode Is- land with five electoral votes, which we consider 'get-able.'"
 Important Secret Conference.
 According to my information. there have been during the last month a series of the most important. .secyet con ferences held in New York. As result of them, 1t Is said, August Belmont, Billy Sheehan. Delancey Nicoll John R. Mclean, David B. Hill, Senator German. and Tom Taggart convinced them selves there was a chance to win, pro- vided they could enlist the services and hearty support. first, of the money ed men, and. second. of the leading Democrats in the debatable states Representatives from each ope of these states were called secretly to New York. Some messengers went to Eso- pus. but the most of them were heard by Judge Parker and his advisers in his private rooms at the hotel or in tho innermost chamber of the Democratic National Headquarters { on Thirty fourth street, opposite the Waldorf Astoria
 $1,OOO,OOO to Carry New York.
 Pursuing the story given to mo in good faith, as have no doubt although it does not shake my belief in Roose velt's election. a plan of operations was organized involving the expenditure of large sums of money. An appropria- tion of an even million was set aside for New York State. This was to pay ordinary legitimate campaign expenses, to create enthusiasm among the Tam many men, to silence the dissatisfac- tion in Brooklyn by the mere presence of an abundant campaign fund. and to burn up" the agricultural section of the State with campaign oratory.
 New Jersey was to be given $300,00O and a similar amount was set aside for Connecticut Rhode Island was deem- ed to be debatable ground, and its five electoral votes were estimated to be worth the expenditure of $150,OO0 to aid the campaign Governor Garvin is making against the Aldrich machine. It was decided to press to the front in Connecticut and Rhode Island the re- ciprocity with Canada. which has be- come so popular there.
 In New Jersey the local campaign for reform in the taxation of railroads was to be utilized to pull the national ticket through. The plan involved. as a matter of course. the expenditure of large sums. possibly two-thirds of the entire amount. in Connecticut and New Jersey within about forty-elght hours of election day. when it. would be too late for the Republicans to counteract this effort to capture the floating vote.
 Free Hand in Indiana.
 As to Indiana. it was decided to give Tom Taggart free hand. He pledged himself to carry the State If he had plenty of men and an abundance of the best kind of campaign oratory. To aid this plan in Indiana he was to be given the benefit of the services of Will liam Jennings Bryan. David B. Hill. Tobn n C,arIisIa M r Ingalls, BOurke