The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-15
AND ELECTION.
Their Standpoint, as Viewed by a New
 England Newspaper.
Springfield Republican (Ind.).

Springfield Republican tlnd.).
 The coming Presidential election will have an important bearing upon TWO questions. one of which has been refer red to already. That Is, Are the Re publicans to rule forever?" The other question is different> but hardly less interesting. It concerns the future or the Democratic party.
 The entire conservative sentiment of the United States, whether Republican or Democratic, desired that the control of the Democratic party be wrested from MT. Bryan and then be vested in conservative leaders. The safety of business, the safety of the country, it was argued, required MT. Bryan's over throw. And this was accomplished at St. Louis. The essential fact about Judge Parkers candidacy Is that 1t Is not only a conservative candidacy, but a candidacy representing the conserva- tive Democracy. In peculiar sense, therefore the fate of the conServativ" Democracy depends upon the result of this years elections. 1t should be cledf to every one that Judge Parker's de feat would mean much more than the election of MT. Roosevelt; it. would mean a renewed struggle within the Democratic party for control. and the probably reinstatement of MT. Bryan as the leader of the Democratic masst S.
 MT. Bryan, after Judge Parker's de- feat. could say that the conservatives had done no better than the radicals had in carrying the country, and the ground would be prepared for new propaganda based on the theory that an opposition party should strive not to be like. but to be unlike. the party in pow CT. The new Bryanism has already been publicly outlined. for MT. Bryan does not lack in candor. It will be d radicalism embracing State ownership and control. of the railroads, the mum. cipal ownership of municipal franchises. and Government ownership and opera . tion of the telegraph system. In short, Mr prt-o m W as 1t has not been before, and 1t will be made immensely more attractive than his old silVerism, or Western agrarian- ism, to the wage earning masses and the labor unionism of the East. It Is the same radicalism which, under the form of socialism, has practically he stroyed the old middle class liberalism of Germany and France. and in AustrA- lia has developed one of the leading parties of the commonwealth.
 If the conservative Democracy of tho United States is not to be submerged like middle class liberalism In Germany it must be now supported by all who desire its preservation as the controll - ing force in the historic Democratic party. One Can go even farther and say that the cause of conscrvatlsm in Judge Parker's election For the Re publican party is sure to remain essen tiallY conservative, while the Dem . cratic party can be kept free from
 
 ture only by the success of it's conHcrya tive leadership in gaining that great political objective of party endeav"r control of the Government. Tn" New York Sun, the most typical capltallstic journal in America, is supporting Roosevelt on account of "the Huns n the background" of the Democratic party But what will the Huns" do to the Democratic party If Representative leaders are to be disastrously defeated through their failure to be supported by conservative interests?
 | conservative Democracy may he out | of dateH all the socialists and all the radicas think it Is, As to that, time and events will speak with more au- l thority than speculative political phil osophy or partisan seers. What 's | clear Is that this is the most critical | election, probably, that conservative | Democracy has faced in this country and that-to use a colloqulal expres- sion-it iG now "up" to gold Democrats 2 | Me ck kinley Democrats. conservative In 1 deponGcnts and Independent conserva tives from one end of the land to the l other ta dociie what the immediate flu | ture Of the Democratic party shall b." l And this, broadly speaking, is qut N | tlon only less significant in its bearing | upon American political developmt m
 man that other. Are the Republicans | to rule fCrcvCrP'