The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-27
is NOW FOR FOLK.
Judge HaymaI1er, Democratic Dele
gate, Makes a Flip Flop

gate, Makes ''Flip Flop
Judge J. N. Haymaker, of Wichita.
who was elected as a delegate-at-
large from Kansas to the Democratic
national convention at st. Louis, has
come out in favor of Joseph W. Folk,
of Missouri, for the Democratic presi-
Dental nomination.
Judge Haymaker was elected as a
Hearst man and was announced as
certainly for Hearst after his election.
He was not considered among the
leading candidates for delegates up
to the time of his nomination, but the
Hearst people knowing him to be IA
vOrable to the New York newspaper
man, rallied to his support and elect
ed him over J. Mack Love.
Now Haymaker announces that he
believes neither Hearst nor Parker
available as presidential candidates,
as neither would satisfy the opposite
wing Of the Democratic party He
says Folk is the most available man
the Democrats can nominate, because
he would come nearer uniting the
warning factions of Democracy than
any other man. In discussing the
matter and giving his reasons for
coming out for Folk, Judge Haymaker
said:
Il think that Folk would make the
most available candidate that the
Democrats can choose. He is a man
who could safely carry the eastern
Democratic vote as we'll as the west
ern. Not only that, but he could mus
hcan following which would surprise
the Rooseveltian regime. Folk has
done more toward clearing up the
idea the lamented Ingalls, set in mo-
ton years ago, when he uttered the
statement that politics is an irrfdes-
cent dream Boodleism true, has
suffered through his manly efforts.
but omrality, decency, good govern
ment and Justice have been enhanced
by Missourf's favorfte son.
Why do oppose Parker? He is not
quite a pure-a siTnOn-pure Democrat.
He could not organize the western
Democracy on New York platform.
That platform is not based upon
straight Jeffersonian principles Again
Parker would have the Bryan faction
to struggle with and conquer before
he would have a ghost of a show for
election. The candidate who cannot
satisfy both the east and the west rs
far as Democracy Is concerned cannot
hope for even a solid Democratic vote.
Parker may be all right with Hill and
old Grover, but, if l mistake not, he
would find many fnsurmountable OBJ
stacles in his pathway in travelling
west into Bryan's camp, who will have
no little to say in the coming cam
paign.
Hearst would not do, either. He
has the western Democrats behind him,
but in the east there would be trou-
bic in the family should he receive the
nomination. Bryan is for Hearst be-
principles which no one will deny.
Neither will anyone contradict the
statement that Hearst is a good man
and would make a splendid race. Put
the point is, can he bring peace into
the warning tribes where Hearstism is
looked upon as a precursor of ruin and,
virtually, socialism? In other words
can he pacify Hill. Cleveland, Olnssy
and many other Democrats?
For all these reasons believe that
Mr.. Folk would make a far better can
didate than either Parker or Hearst.
There is nothing to be charged against
Folk. He stands for good government
and virtue in and out of political
arenas. He stands for all that is pure
and good in politics. What more could
the Democratic party ask for?
To-day the Missouri Democracy is
about to nominate Folk for governor.
In fact. it will nominate him beyond
the delegates elect to the state con-
vention have been instructed for him.
Missouri has praised him for his work,
the United States have eulogized him
upon many occasions for his splendid
achievements, and the whole world
has sanctioned his plans for cleaning
up the municipal and state govern
ments. There is not another man in
the Democratic party who could mus
ter the strength that Folk could. He
would have Bryan and every western
Democrat and Hill, Cleveland and
every eastern Democrat lined up in q
solid phalanx in defiance to the enemy.
I shall always think that he is the
right man, and viii work on that opin-
ion in the st. Louis convention