Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1904-05-12
DEMOCRATS IN SAD PLIGHT.
bund Old Party Despair of
Success.

In little more than two months the
delegated democrats of the nation will
assemble at st. Louis to nominate a
candidate for president and build a
platform on which he shall stand. Short
as is the time, the best men in the party
and the wisest thinkers are eXclaiming:
What are we to do when we have as
sembled?" Their dilemma has many
horns, all sharp, and any one likely to
be fatal TO the chooser. Glance your
eyes over the presidential timber offered
and you will understand how decent
democrats despair of success.
Cleveland: twice president, and vul-
nerable as a would-be third termer;
heartily hated in the south and west,
and loathed, not loved. by and for the
enemies he made while in power
Hearst: a candidate for cash, huck-
ster in the political market open to at
tack on negative and positive grounds,
impossible of election if nominated, as
his candidacy would be gall and worm
wood to the bone and sinew of his party
Parker: an absolutely unknown
quantity who asks support for the things
he has not done, for the principles he
has not voiced; handicapped by the ad-
vocacy of David Bennett Hill. who. as a
political Warwick" is as conspicuous
a failure as he is a disappointment in
the role of statesman.
German: claiming precedence over
better men because he is more the mas
ter of political chiCane than they, apt in
wire working, clever in specious profess
sion, ringing hollow and discordant
when his metal meets the blows of earn
est conflict, absolutely impossible in the
west and northwest.
Olney: cold as ice without its trans
lucency, a critic of his fellows and of
the New England Pharisees, hateful to
labor organizations and distrusted by
those of his party who would have to
manage his campaign.
Bryan: probably not a candidate, but
certainly a dictator with record of
polling the largest popular vote any
democrat ever gained, coupled with
memories of coalesced populism and
blatant cheap money heresies that turn
the stomachs of decent and country-lov-
ing men in and out of his party.
What shall the democratic platform
builders use as their salient? asks the
Cleveland Leader.
Anti-imperialism? 1t would be
laughed out of court With sad per-
versity republicans have killed that
bugaDoo by doses of good government,
pacifcation, and prosperity in all our
dependencies.
Economy? Not an issue. When the
books are examined it is found that the
republic is spending less to-day, rela-
lively to population, wealth, resources,
and results attained than it did when
jefferson. Jackson, or Cleveland him
| self was chief executive.
| Control of trusts? Facts-cold, hard.
| indisputable facts-anent the respective
| professions and performances of the ad-
ministrations headed by Cleveland and
| by Roosevelt in this regard would make
such an issue, as raised by democrats
against republicans, ridiculous and of
the boomerang sort
Truly our brethren of opposed polit-
| ical faith have their work cut out for
them at St Lous-rather they do not
know what to cut or what to fashion,
or how. or why. or to what end. Well
may they quote Loves Labors Lost
and cry: "Avaunt PerpleXity! What
shall we Go?"
EJOpinions still differ widely with re-
gard to what Judge Parker will say
when the time comes for him to say
something.-Ch Inter Ocean.
~ President Roosevelt has refused TO
interfere in the matter of the Illegal
fencing of public lands by the big cattle
owners of the west. The government
officials had ordered the fences removed
and the cattlemen appealed to the presi-
dent, who says the laws must be en-
forced. That may displease the cattle
men who have made fortunes by using
property which did rot belong to them
but it should please every ybody else
Troy IN. " Times.