The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-12

NSA lANTS of democracy assembled al S St Louis in Titanic struggle;
 men of mighty intellect, persua- sive tongues and broad influence were gathered there from all parts of the land; in fact the very cream of the democratic party with the exception of Grover Cleveland, Judge Parker and Senator German, who were not present may be said to have been scooped up and poured out into the assembly hall of the fair town. but pr. Mary Walker and her trousers reigned supreme. The noted female suffragist whose congressional privilege it is to wear pants may con sole herself with the thought that she won all the notoriety her impressionabie nature could possibly crave despite the fact that she did not have much weight in building the democratic platform. II a woman wants to wear trousers 1t IS all right. but she ought to stay at home ar ter she gets to be as old as the esteeIheo pr. Walker. A youthful transgressor against skirts may be pardoned but sere and yellow female who has attained to grandmother's years-never! It IS in- teresting to speculate if Dr. Walker oe- longs to a pressing club and whether she swears when collar button is refrac- tory. The identity of her tailor is also a subject for remark. In view of the fact that the doctor eschews cigars and cannot appreciate tub of suds' when offered by a Tammany politician the gen. eral public is forced to the conclusion that she is yet far from being a man., all though she has usurped mans attire.
 As Judge Parker is now a subject for the camera fiends it is indeed very for tunate that the esteemed jurist was not caught by a kodaker while emerging from his swim on the morning of his nomina- tion. The result would have been embar- rassing to the public, the judge and the democratic party. But the fact that Judge Parker is a fine swimmer is very consoling to his admirers who feared that he would not have a single strenuous quality to offset the brilliant array of chance would a democratic nominee who could not do anything but be a good lawyer and an honest man have against roaring, wild western hero who shoots rides, fights, writes books. talks and stirs up the anti-coon sentiment of the south with equal abandon7 Judge Par ker is not quite so strenuous a man as Roosevelt; he has not won fame on bloody battlefelds, in literature or in politics.- as yet-but he can swim he has a long arm and broad shoulder and is about the best challenger the party could put up against the picturesque Theodore who is nothing if not spectacular.
 Here of late a spirit of elopement has been in the air, but 1t remained for a gentleman of California to reach the limit in such picturesque affairs of the heart. The man referred to is no modern embodiment of the late Apollo, his face Is by no means his fortune, and in fact he has no fortune at all, but he has just succeeded in accomplishing the remark able fact of eloping with another mans entire family, including his dog. As a rule the "eloper" is satisfied with the person of the elopsess'' and has no desire to take the family along, but the Salifornia man is an exception to all precedent His adoration engulfed the woman, her three children and the wronged husbands bull pup It is hard enough for man to