The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-04-09

DR.. J. A. Du Bots, of Sank Center,
who was the Democratic nominee for
congress in the Sixth district two
years ago, being defeated by Con-
gresham Buchanan largely on the
presidential issue, is spending a few
days in St. Paul. DIR. Du Bots has
long been a great admirer of William
Jennings Bryan and admits that he
has been receiving numbers of letters
from his friends in the district asking
as to his personal preference for the
Democratic nomination for the presi-
dency. DR.. Du Bots says that he is not
actively in politics, but in the light
OF the present situation, he considers
Judge Parker, of New York, the most
available candidate for the presidency.
Mr.. Bryan is a great man." said the
Sank Center doctor, last evening. Il
regard him as one of the greatest
Americans of the present or the past,
but he is impOlitic in a way. The OPP
position in the party has forced his
hand and he has declared against
Parker In no party are the leaders
so vigorously attacked by the factions
in the party as in the Democratic Or
ganizatiOn, and Mr.. Bryan has center
ed in himself much of the adverse crit
icism of a large element in his party
He is no trimmer and he has permitted
himself to reply to the assaults of his
enemies in way that has put him
and many of his personal followers at
disadvantage. There is nothing In
the Hearst movement attractive to me
and from it's start have not looked
on 1t with favor. Many of my per-
sonal friends through the district are
enthusiastic for Mr.. Hearst and am
sorry that I cannot follow Them but it
is a matter OF principle with me and
am for some good man in whom the
party can unite. l have no sympathy
with the 'reOrganizers,' and the worst
think that can be said Of Judge Par
ker's candidacy is that his nomination
may give some of these men ground
for claims that they are again In the
saddle.
AS to the platform it may be said
that no party can make a platform on
issues that the people are not think
ing about. Issues that were alive and
pressing for a solution eight years ago
are not now before the people, and
these must permit others to take prec-
edence. I believe that questions of
freer trade relations are pushing them
selves forward, and If the Democratic
party declares for reciprocity with the
other countries of the Western hemi-
sphere 1t will be in line with the most
advanced thought in the United States.
Our relations with our insular possess
SiOns are questions that must be kept
tied and settled right. We must not
retrograde, but we must keep apace
with the advance of the times and new
conditions.
AS to Judge Parker, will say that
1 have read a good many of his de-
cisions and through them is evidence
of sound legal mind and a genuine
Democracy. Often there is more true
Democracy in judges decision than
is contained in the loudest claims of
party fealty. OF course, there may be
some candidate before the convention
In whom greater elements of strength
and more availability are contained
than in Judge Parker, but as the present
advised favor the New York man for
the presidency"
w. B. Anderson, the Winona lawyer
and former member Of the legislature,
is in the city and says that altogether
too much prominence has been given
his reputed candidacy for the next
house and the speakership. II am not
yet certain that l shall be candidate
for the house." declared the Winona
man last night. "It is not considered
probable that David Sinclair will again
become a candidate, but l shall not
make the run unless there is a pretty
general demand on the part of my
friends. If some of the other men who
fully step aside" Anderson, it is said,
could have easily landed the speaker
ship two years ago, but declined to
make the run for the house. He has
just been chosen head of the A. o. U.
w. in Minnesota and has a wide ac-
quaintance throughout the state.
The present campaign revives many
q good story of the campaign of 1892,
when the present mayoralty candidates
were the contestants. At that time
Leedom Sharpe, an attorney whose ex-
perience in politics was brief and in
glorious, was writing the speeches for
Wright. He had written and turned
over to the colonel what he considered
TO be his ce-de-resistance q fam
boyant effort, with the following pero-
ration: Il propose when elected to
turn the hydrants loose upon the Au-
gean stables"
The colonel had committed the
speech to memory, and was to deliver 1t
at Lucker's hall in the Second ward.
AS he was proceeding to the hall on
the Seventh street car, with Fred
Schiffman, who acted as his bodyguard