The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-10-05
8 DEMOCRATIC LANDSLIDE?
Hon. j. 8. Fielder. OF Atlanta, Says
the West is Going for Parker.

the W est is Gong Ioc Farker.
TIE Atlanta Constitution publishes
the following: ~ know it will sur
prise good many people to hear it,
but I tell you that if the present
trend in the doubtful States continues
during the next month, or, if the con-
dltioDs remain practically as they are,
there is going to be a Democratic
landslide.
The speaker was Hon. T. B. Fielder,
who returned from stay o. several
weeks in the Middle West. Mr.
Fielder spent some time in Indiana
polls, several days in Michigan and
about two weeks in Chicago. He has
many acQuairtances among the bust
ness men Of thai section CT the coun-
try, and the impressions he gained O!
political conditions are based upon
intimate personal talks with men Of
this stamp. lie found many Of them,
great many, who haze always been
Repu blicans, bu5 who will vote for
Judge Parker this year: and the con-
clusion he reaches is that unless there
is radical change from present con-
ditions, the Democratic ticket has an
excellent charce in that section which
the Republicans are claiming to be
safe and solid f,r Roosevelt.
i am willing, just to show my
good faith, to bet that the Democrats
Will carry Indiana" said Ctl. Fielder.
Z went West pretty firm 10 the con
viction that we had no possible chance
OF carrying any of these States. l
had been studying the figures OF re-
cent electors and these, I admit, hold
cut very little Democratic hope. But
after l had spent some time there,
after l had talked with men whom l
know and in whose opinions have
confidence, I was led to the belief that
thousands Of men who are Repabll-
cans will vote the Democratic ticket
this year"
''Now those men, "he went on in re-
spouse to a question, are business
men who are against Roosevelt be-
cause they believe him to be un a'e
In political c'rcles there is the usual
surface talk confidence. TIE men who
DO be talking for both p4rties, espec-
iaily the nea who do the talking for
the Republican party, are giving vent
to the usual expressions OF certainty
ovsr the result. But it is not the sur
face vote or surface tai that is going
to decide this election. It is going to
be decided one way or the other by
the Quiet business men who 60 to the
polls, vote a secret ballot, and make
90 noise In Indianapolis, for instance.
I found a large number Of these men
who told ne, in discussing the issues
quietly, that they ere going to vote
for Parker, and these are men who
have always voted the Republican
ticket. The Columbia Club, at 1ndi.
annapolis, is Republican organization
GO man can bsc me member OF II
un,ess he i, Republican, and yet
/ had a number Of members Of that
club. men whom l have known for seV
eral years, conhde in me their inten
tion of voting against Roosevelt TO-
the reason I have indicated. OF course
these men are saS iug nothing abou'
this out in the open for their member
ship il the club would be at stake i
it were known they were going to vot'
the Democratic ticket; but they talk
I'd it t. NE and l am C. nident The.
not only speak for their own votes
but, what is more important, they re
present a trend on the part Of th
! business els ment generally which is
serious menace to the Republlca1
ticket.
Il found the same talk among busj
ness men OF Detroit and other part
OF Michigan: and 10 Chicago where
was thrown with pIomint lawyers an
business men, l found the same s)r
Of trend against the Republica
ticket. l came to the conclusion tha
unless there is a decided change b:
. foe November, the Democrats wi
carry lot only Indiana, but they al
likely to carry Illl1 o:S and TO have
ightirg chance in Michigan. -