The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-12
WEST ABANDONED
BY DEMOCRATS
Republicans See Indications That
Entire Fight Will Be Made
in the East.
New York Sun Special Service.

New York Sun Special Service.
Washington, Aug. 12.-As a result
of the decision Of the democratic ex-
to establish western headquarters, the
belief is growing in Washington po-
litical circles that the Parker-Dayis
managers have practically abandoned
the entire west to Roosevelt and will
concentrate their efforts upon the
eastern states.
In Indiana, Wisconsin and other
states, it is said, the democratic man
ayers have little hopes of success, and
that would explain their decision to
confine aggressive campaign work to
New York, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Rhode Island, Delaware, Maryland
and West Virginia.
The democratic attitude will not
cause Chairmen Cortelyou and Bah
cock to relax their vigilance in this
west, however it is said, altho they
may feel sure of states in that section
on the national ticket.
Southerners Start Friction.
The extraordinary activity of south
ern statesmen during and since the
democratic national convention is
proving to be less of an unmitigated
blessing to Judge Parker and his
friends than a source of satisfaction
try. Their insistence upon his stand
ing in the limelight, upon exhibiting
the trophies of battle which they
wrested from the eastern representa-
tive Of plutocracy at st. Louis, and,
finally, their intermeddling in the af-
fairs Of the committee that has been
chosen to conduct Judge Parkers
campaign, are productive of endless
friction and annoyance.
They took UP Thomas Taggart at
st. Louis and named him for chairman
of the national committee in defiance
of party practices and tradition be-
| cause, as they explained at the time,
they had surrendered everything else
to the east and wanted to control the
party organization for their own pur-
poses four years hence.
Now they are furious at Taggart
because he has surrounded himself
with men who are the embodiment of
the eastern idea of modern politics,
and also because the new chairman
hitting grave strategical blunder.
Bailey Scores Taggart.
Senator Bailey of Texas, who was
chiefly responsible for the Sunday aft
ernoon meeting Of the committee at
which Taggart was Endorsed, and who
has remained in and about New York
for three weeks past, scrutinizing
every political movement Of Judge
| Parkers eastern friends, has lost pa
thence with Chairman Taggart and
frankly told him SO yesterday. On the
other hand, the eastern. men frankly
regard Taggart as a misfit, who sig
1 nal1zed his return to New York from
Indiana when he promulgated his
d1ctum that Illinois was a hopelessly
republican state and that Indiana Of
fered the only lighting ground in the
middle west.
In conclusion Mr.. Taggart said il
was his purpose to locate the western
headquarters Of the campaign at In.
d1anapolis but he reckoned without
the executive committee. That body
to man dissented forcibly and EN-.
phatically from Taggart's announced
purpose and said that If a western
headquarters was established at al
it would be located, at Chicago. The
committee only refrained from locat
ing the headquarters at Chicago be-
cause it was pointed out by one o.
Taggart's friends that such actor
would be accepted as a reflection upor
the chairman.
"Win by Any Means"
The southerners are moved by
single consideration in this campaign
They want to win. Their slogan i.
Victory" They don't care how it i!
attained. They foresee in the election
of President Roosevelt with it's &C.
compartment of another republican
majority in congress, the beginning o.
a determined movement to enforce the
spirit and letter of the fifteenth
amendment to the constitution by re.
ducing the southern representation ii
the house. The republican party i:
committed to this policy thru the
terms Of a strong plank in its Chicago
| n
committee and convention have al
ready constituted it a party dictun
by adopting resolution which viii
hereafter limit representations from
southern states to republican conven
tons to the number of votes cast a
presidential elections.
Senator Tillman, who at least DO
sesses the quality of frankness, re
peatedly told the ST. Louis convention
that the only consideration which
ought seriously to move the delegates
was how can we win ?" Again whel
he found himself confronted by thu
opposition of men from his own sec
ton, he cried out in a passion: CIV,
have got to win this time"
TilIman's Surrender.
That sentiment accounted for Till
mans unconditional surrender to wha
his friends spoke of as the forces O
Wall street.
Tillman hates Roosevelt because tn
president withdrew an invitation t.
the senator to attend White Hous
dinner to Prince Henry on the occa
sion of the visit of that interesting
young man to the capitol year ag
last winter. The withdrawal of tn
invitation was dictated by Tillman'
physical assault on Senator McLauri
in the senate chamber.
The press of the south almost unan
: imously denounced the attempts o
: the administration to break up peon
= age and characterized them as a de
5 liberate purpose on the part of tn
: president to reopen the racial issu
: in their, section.
Homeseekers' Excursions.
Aug. 9th and 23d, and Sept 13ti
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