Daily capital journal. (Salem, Oregon) 1903-1919, 1904-08-17
ANOTHER REPUBLICAN WAVE.

ANOTHER REPUBLICAN WAVE
Nobody Will accuse Chairman Co
telyUU Of the Republican national con
miitee with being too optimistic In hi
Forecast Of 267 electoral votes beIn
certAin for Roosevelt. AS 239 will cleo
shss means that the Republicans vii
have a long lead In any case. Mr. Con
aelyEn gives President Roosevelt al
the states won by President McKinle,
tn 1909. and the four little western
STATES which went Bryan that year
except that he places New York. New
JerSey and West Virginia In the doubt
fnl column for this year. These three
states we're carried by Mckinley In
She Parker column he places the states
commonly classed as the solid south
IN which Missouri is noticed These
siAies have a total electoral vote OF
1bl There are a good many Missouri
Ds7nocrats who dislike this grouping
OF their state with the south but until
hhS Republicans carry Il the state will
have to submit to this humiliation
Ihere Is a cnance, however that
Roosevelt and Walbridge will take
missouri out OF this discredlble afilla.
zion this year, and place It with the
west, where It belongs geographically
and individually.
VIII strike most persons that
Chairman Cortelyou Is rather generous
20 the Democrats In placing New York
New Jersey and West Virginia in the
uncertain column Parker is not likely
Co prove strong in any OF these states.
New York will be against him. The in
Guiries Of bne of the Parker papers
among the business men Of New York
city shows that a large majority of
them are for Roosevelt. The old talk
abont Wall street rising In rebellion
against the Republicans on account of
the Presidents enforcement OF the
trust laws can safely be discounted
Wall street disllkes these attacks by
Roosevelt, but Wall street knows that
the defeat OF Roosevelt would put the
democracy In power. and the panic
that that calamity would bring would
hit Wall street Just as quickly and
1nst as heavily as It would tae rest of
the country. II Is condition ana
a theory that confronts that big money
cenier, A Democratic victory. with
the consequent financial smash.up
which II would bring. would entail
bigger loss on Wall street than Roose.
velts crushing OF the trusts can lnaict
The Northern Securities company. the
beef trust the coal trust and the rest
oi the combines which the President I
has as9ailed or which he viii assai
nan adjust themselves to the laws A 7
good deal more easily than they can !
irnn away from the monetary crash J.
nat Parker's victory would start.
One state Is In the Republican col. :
imn. however. In the Cortelyou diyls. II
ON which does not belong there This "
= Maryland German and his election II
a~ VIII put Maryland In the Demo
'raiic list this year. This will cut II
Iown Rooseyelts certain electoral Ct
o,e To sO9, or 20 more than a majority d
4 the electoral college. This alone u
fonld make a good sized margin. but
viii be broader than this. The 5S
iecioral votes OF New York. New Jer
ey and West Virginia will be cast for =
he Republican ticket. Parker never !,
ias strong In New York. There is not %.
ne faintesi reason Tor anybody to sup. q,
oSe that New Jersey viii 80 Demo +,
rasic this year In West Virginia vice \,
rsldential Candidate Davis asplra
ons are not taken seriously by any. -,
ody West Virginia save a plurality :.
$1,000 TO Mckinley In 1900 II the !.
emocrats reduce this TO 10000 IN 1894 ),
Iey viii be surprised Tho tarla Is. =,
~ Will be SURE to keep West Virsinia