The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-06-14
TUESDAY, JUNE IA, 1904
JUDGE PARKER's LEAD

Fhe very interesting situation in the
Democratic party today with reference
to the st. Louis convention is fully and
fairly stated by a correspondent of the
Chicago Tribune, whose resume was
printed in Mondays Globe e. After a
careful analysis of the field and fair
and reasonable assignment Of the dele-
gates from states where binding i'm
structions have not been given, he
shows that UP to the present time 40 out
of the 81 states and territories, sending
1855 delegates, have declared them
selves about as follows: For Parker
SO7; for Hearst 146; for various ia
vorite sons 126, and doubtful 1877.
1t is not easy to make this align
ment of votes, because there are so
many states in which Democratic opin-
ion has not yet absolutely declared it
self as to candidates. The situation all
over the country early developed as
fight against the corrupting influence
u A1Ce'Iot' 1T IL ISSpOHSIDle LOT THIS
line of cleavage. In every state where
he had a fighting show he engaged a
long roll of high-paid employees and
poured out money like water. 1t be-
came necessary for Democrats who
loved their party and believed in main
tanning it's purity to make the fight
against the Hearst money power, and
to make it early and hard without
waiting and concentrating upon any
single candidate Thus it happens that
the line of division between the Hearst
and the anti-Hearst people is that most
distinctly marked in the party with
reference to the st. Louis convention.
As an aid to this warfare upon de-
basing influence, Judge Parker was
brought early into the field. The num-
Der of delegates that have been in
structed for him is the most convinc-
ing argument of his strength before the
people. Here is a man, until lately
comparatively unknown to the Demo-
cratic masses in general not an active
participant in political affairs outside
of his state, man who makes no effort
and no bid for the honor, a man who
has declined to be interviewed or to
make any public statement as a matter
of honor, and who has yet succeeded
in having one-t third of the entire mem
bership of the national convention
formally and positively instructed to
vote for him. There has very seldom
been such an evidence of public
strength as this in advance of a cam
paign.
The Hearst estimate of 146 votes up
to date fairly represents his maximum
strength. Wherever the Hearst people
have been in control, they were ruth
less. They insisted on delivery of the
goods for which the money had been
paid. If they had majority, be it of
but single vote, it tied up whole del
egatien for the yellow newspaper man.
They are bound by the most rigid in
structions, and they count every man
SO shackled, although personally he
may be against Hearst, as theirs until
the end. This same policy has made it
equally true that wherever a state was
carried by the opposition to Hearst he
is shut out definitely and finally from
all hope of support there. He will get
few scattering delegates from New
England states; where men were chosen
with some liberty of action before the
campaign hardened into definite lines.
His total strength, however cannot be
reckoned in any emergency at more
than $50 votes at the present writing.
with whatever he may win in the states
yet to hold conventions. BY no posi-