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The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Lining Up for the Ticket.
.ingfield Republican.

Springfield RepuDl1can.
Many of the Democrats who left
the party in 1896 and have since act
ed with the Republicans will remar,
where they are; but the great major
lity of them have simply been Waitina
for a chance to return. and they FIND
lit in Judge Parker'S candidacy on q
gold platform of his own. Before
the now famous telegram was sent
and facing simply the fact that the
convention had decided to make no
mention of the financial issue, they
were ready to swallow Roosevelt az
the smaller evil. But all has been
changed SO far as they are concerned
by the startling break in Judge Par.
ker's silence, and it is evident that
he will draw to himself the unite
support of this great majority of thu
gold Democrats and their newspaper
organs.
This is made clear by such a samp-
ling of newspaper comment is appeary
elsewhere in the Republican, and by
expressions coming from rprominen;
gold Democrats in all parts of the
country. Papers like the N. Y. Even
ing Post will the more heartily sup
port the ticket because it also STANDS
| for anti-imperialism and anti-milita-
rism, and imperialist papers, like the
! New York Times, will accept what is
| placed before them, and even put UT
with that anti-government-by -in june.
| ton plank which was held to consti,
| tute an important part of the an,
archy in the Chicago platform OF
1896, rather than permit another
term of Rooseveltism. Thus the tick
ct is already assured of very strong
newspaper support contrasted Wits
almost no support of the kind at al
in the Eastern States for the Bryan
| Democracy. This influence in the
campaign will be pretty closely divid-
ed for the first time in nearly de.
cade. What the effect of this re,
alignment will be on the more radi~
cal Bryan vote is Understandable al
present, and may remain so until
election day: for its lack of newspa-
per representation is SO great as TO
afford little indication of the drift OF
sentiment in that quarter. Only this
appearance of Bryan himself active
ly on the stump for Parker will afforC
assurance that the radical vote is tC
be counted on in the pivotal States.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

In the general rejoicing at the har-
mony and unity made possible and ac.
complished by the Democratic candi-
dates and platform, the Democratic
press is getting together in splendid
style Yet there is one discordant
note, one dismal croak, coming from
a paper alleging to have been DEM
ocratic This is the Chicago Chron-
icle, which in 1896 bolted the ticket
because it could not stand free silver.
In 1900 it gave a Slukewarm and in
furious support. Now it bolts Parker
and goes to Roosevelt, thus showing
that all the while, though protesting
to be Democratic, it has been Re-
publican organ. 1t alone enjoys the
distinction of being all kinds of a
bolter, while it has consistently BUSH
whacked in the woods as Republican.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
BYNUM WHO SEES THINGS.

One w. d. Bynum, erstwhile of In
diana, once a Democrat, but spurned
by his party, now enjoying the fruits
of the pregnant hinges of his knees as
a Republican job holder in Washing
ton, is the only man in America thus
far heard from as declaring that the
gold standard is an issue in the pres
the latest number of the Washington
Post.
Here is a short sketch of Bynum, a
sort of redivivus of an unhealthy
specimen, whose checkered career is
such that he is evidently of the Dugald
Dalghetty class. In 1894 he was re-
pudiated and turned down by the
Democracy of Indiana, it being alleged
that he was mixed up in a shady trans
action concerning postoffice affairs in
Indianapolis, in which money figured.
In 1896 he bolted Bryan and became
the National Chairman of the Palmer
and Buckner extravaganza. and being
virtually employed by the Republicans
for his services, it is asserted that he
was paid SO much per hurrah by
Chairman Hanna to draw off support
from the Democracy.
When Mckinley won he sought a
job at once, and was finally appointed
by President Mckinley as one of three
members on a commission authorized
to consist of two members of one par
ty, one of another. Mckinley appoint
ed Bynum as a Democrat, and as he
was not one the Democratic Senators
refused to vote for his confirmation.
Later he was given a job as Re-
publican and in 1900 he supported
Mckinley. He now holds some sort
of a position in Washington as Re-
publican, beneficiary of the party in
to which he crept after being kicked
out by the Indiana Democracy. 1t
is not to be wondered at that so YER
satile a topper can see things which
escape wise men.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
A SILLY CANARD.

The Republicans are hard hit at
the very beginning of the contest,
and SO hard hit that in their early
straits they are letting Stiffness of the
senile brand affect them.
This is exploited by the kilograms
sent out yesterday from Washington
in which it is stated that the strike
of the employees in the meat packing
houses is connived at by the big beef
trust men in order to worry the Pres
idetn in the beginning of the Nationa!
campaign, and to force him to re-
scnd his proposed action of immedi"
ately starting suit against the beef
trust.
This is the veriest lot of rot. The
beef trust people know they have
nothing to fear from Roosevelt, unless
it is that he will ask them for too
much cash to boost his campaign. The
strike is not one made by the pack
ers-the employers-but by the Ia
borers, the men who get the little
money. and it is made by them
against the IeuuCllOIl III WdScS NC
cause they want enough for their la
Dor to pay for their bread and meat.
The striking meat cutters ask for
arbitration and their demands are
for a uniform minimum scale of Is "
cents an hour for unskilled labor, a
ten hour work day for men and wo-
men of all classes who now average
but 40 hours a week, some falling as
low as IS hours a week, the rein
statement of all who have lost their
positions by the strike, and that the
arbiter must be a practical packing
house workman. There are $1,000
employees affected and 10000 peo-
pie dependent on these. The employ
ers contend that the mems demand
for $1.S5 day for unskilled labor is
unreasonable, that they can employ
these at a dollar a day, and that they
desire to reduce wages from Is 1@
cents on hour to 1712 and Is cents
an hour.
These are both sides of the conten-
ton. The packers want to reduce
wages, the men dHecleu ny II uol |
want it reduced. To offset a coming
storm Roosevelt's friends are shouting
that it is a plan to worry the Presi-
dent. 1t is not. 1t is simply a strike
of men who don't want their pay re-
duced, and it is certain that they
never thought of Roosevelt in the
matter at all.
A baby could hardly be fooled by
such transparent nonsense. The en-
anations from WASHINGTON are of the
freak order and the thing is a canard.
The trusts know they are safe from
Roosevelt, but he and his friends are
anxious to create the impression that
they are hostile to him. 1t won't
work. You can't fool the people.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
WOULDN'T EVEN SEE THEM.

The Colorado strike by the miners
parallels the strike in Pennsylvania.
If the President had the right to in
terfere in that trouble that threatened
Republican prospects in New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut, he has
the right to interfere in Colorado. and
it is his high duty to do SO.
Both sides in Colorado are wrong.
The conduct of the operators is inde-
fensible-much more so than the con-
duct of the Pennsylvania operators.
The conduct of the Colorado strikers
is much worse than that of the
Pennsylvania miners, and those who
used the dynamite for the hellish ex-
plosion deserve to be hung as soon as
they can be tried and the crime can
be traced to them.
But-men and brethren-the spec
tacle of the military, under Rough
Rider Bell, packing trains full of
miners, with their families, without
even the pretense of trial, and dump
ing them on the desert plains of Kan
sas. is one that shocks every lover of
law and justice i'm America. There is
no case at all like it in the annals Of
American Revolution except the Kirk
gang in North Carolina who took men
from their homes without warrant of
law But Kinks gang spared women
and children, and an honest Federal
judge put an end to the anarchy. 1t
seems that in Colorado there is no
will prevent the wholesale deportation
of men by the unrestrained will of a
military despot, military despot the
warm friend of President Roosevelt.
On Monday, having despaired of
securing the restoration of civil law in
Colorado, delegation of Pennsylvania
miners visited President Roosevelt to
present a petition looking to the same
sort of arbitration that the President
set on foot that happily terminated
the coal strike. But the President re-
fused even to see the committee, the
excuse being that orders had been
given that he would see no delegation
that called unless Secretary Cortelyou
sent them.
There was a time when men were
deported from England to "the colo
MES" but that was two centuries ago
With trial by jury guaranteed in the
Constitution, the Colorado deporta-
tons present a situation that reads
more like the doings of the Sixteenth
Century rather than of the Twentieth
Century.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Davis rs n Winner.
CIV. Va.) Register.


The Register knows it voices the
sentiment of the solid Democracy OF
West Virginia in expressing the most
profound appreciation of the high non
or conferred upon their splendid lead
er and foremost Democrat, Hon. Hen
~ G.. Davis. There is no honor sc
great that Mr. Davis would not be
fully worthy of it, no office in the gift
of the American people so high thai
he would not grace it and fill it with
ability and with broad minded states
manship and patriotism.
But-and this is an important con-
sderation-West Virginia Democrats
feel that it is a great sacrifice to give
up to the Democracy of the nation
this splendid leader who would sure
ly have carried their State banner tC
success and redeemed West Virginia
There are other and younger Demo
Gratis who can do this. but it is hard
to give up so able and trusted q lead
err although the cause of the national
Democracy is paramount.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Country to be Congratulated.
Memphis News.

The right man on the right plat
form That is what the nomination
of Judge Alton B Parker for Presi-
dent and the adoption of sound
conservative Democratic platforir
means. Judge Parker was the logf'
cal candidate, and the platform
adopted is the logical declaration o'
principles for him to stand on.
The campaign will be prosecuted upor
well devised plans vigorously and per-
fectly executed. There will be no
stone left unturned to promote the
success of the Democratic candidate
1t will be campaign conducted in e
more systematic way and with more
executive ability than has yet peer
pursued by Democratic managers. Inc
lines will be strictly drawn from TINS
time forward, and there will be nc
cessation of the fight until the pattIe
is lost and won in November The
Democratic party and the country al
large are to be congratulated upon
the nominee and the platform.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
THE ABILITY OF SOUTHERN MEN
NEEDED.

One feature of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention just closed is of
special interest to the South, and 1t
is that in the deliberations of that
great body the superior ability OF
Southern men was clearly demon
strated
In the addresses before the conven-
ton the strong speeches came in the
majority from the delegates who CANT
from the South. In the deliberations
it was the voice and reasoning of the
Southern men which best typified the
statesmen. In short there was praci
teal demonstration at st. Louis thai
the South can offer to the nation men
who are the peers of any in oratory,
in<wisdom, in breadth of thought, and
in wise craftsmanship.
John Sharp Williams and Champ
Clark made distinct impressions on
the country by their utterances, and
the entire Democratic party must ad-
NIT that the impetuous Tillman by
his conservatism, and by his wisdom
displayed at a critical juncture has
proven his right to be a national fig
ure. His remarks in presenting the
Conventions telegram to Parker were
guided by the wiseSt conservatism
and were, to a large degree. the
sued, which prevented an unseeml.
wrangle and the chaos of conflicting
purposes into which the convention
seemed about to pass.
Should the prospective success
which now CLEANS most hopefully be-
fore Democracy be realized. and the
party come again to it's own in No
vember when the country speaks,
there should be ample opportunity for
the practical exposition of the ability
of the Southern man in high govern
ment position When Lamar and
Hoke Smith and Herbert were in the
Cabinet as the representatives of the
South they left their mark upon the
history of the country-a good mark,
truly-and there are many more in
the South who can as readily lead in
the call for wise craftsmanship as did
these
The ability of the South is unques-
toned Pity it is that for so many
years this great country has been de-
prived of the services of men who
would be it's friends: happy is the
thought that with Democratic success
they will no longer be debarred from
taking positions in which their wis
dom and ability fit them for the very
highest duties.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Will Put Him Into Office.
Roanoke (Va.) World.

Roanoke (Va.) World.
Parker's gold standard telegram
was not a bad break at all. but q
stroke of political genius which, ac-
cording to Eastern journals, insures
him the electoral votes of New York
New Jersey and Connecticut, to say
nothing of his. chances in West Vir-
GINA, Illinois and Iowa, which with
the solid South and the votes of united
Democracy in other doubtful States
ought to make his election certain in
November. The Republicans are not
growing over the matter as much now
as they did Saturday night. Second
thought is the saving grace of Ameri-
can politics and the real source of the
moral greatness Of American people
Judge Parker would rather be right
than President, and the people of
this country will not only endorse. his
position, but put him into that office
when the time comes for voting.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

Hon. p. A. Stovall, editor of the
Savannah Press. has introduced Dill
to give Georgia a model and modern
libel law, based upon the principle OF
the North Carolina law. 1t is surpris-
ing that any State should retain the
old law that existed in the days OF
weekly newspapers, hand composition,
and presses that couldn't print over
five hundred papers an hour.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Opportune and Effective.
Detroit (Mich.) Free Press.

Nothing could have been more OPP
perfume, more effective in placing both
the man and the party he has been
chosen to represent squarely before
the country than the action of Judge
Parker in notifying the Democratic
convention of his belief that the gold
standard is firmly and irrevocably es-
ia blished and that should the course
of the party in selecting him as the
head of the ticket be ratified by the
people he would act accordingly
should occasion require. AS a stroke OF
political genius the whole procedure
is scarcely less notable than was Judge
Parker's manly attitude.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
West Virginia in Line.
Roanoke CVa.) World.

With Senator Davis of West Vir-
ginia, the Democratic candidate fo1
ice-president the mountain State
can almost certainly be depended upon
to cast its electoral vote for the ticket
nominated at st. Louis last Sunday
West Virginia is normally a Demo
cratic State, and as Senator Elllins
will hardly put on his war paint to de-
feat his father-in-law; Senator Scott
and his Republican co-laborers will
find it hard work to lift the party in
West Virginia out of the slough OF
despond into which the nomination OF
Senator Davis has thrown it.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Safe. Sane. Courageous.
The Boston Globe.

The prediction made by the Globe
that Judge Parker would prove q
level-headed candidate was promptly
verified. By his telegram to W.
Sheehan the candidate of the Demo,
cratic party showed that he is no.
only safe and sane" but courageous
as well. Silent when proprlety re-
qulres silence, outspoken when duty
demands a frank declaration, such Is
the man whom the Democrats, in Ma.
tional Convention assembled, offer tc
the people of the United States as ar
asplrant for the chair of washington
Jefferson, Jackson and Lincoln.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Good in Every Detail.

montgomery Advertiser.
The convention has given us gooo
man and a good Democrat. 1t mas
given us man in every man quallnec
and fitted for the hioh and important
duties of the position, a man WhC
commands the respect and the conn.
who will make the country gooo
President These are facts beyono
controversy. The platform is one
upon which every Democrat can stano
and fight in harmony and confidence
for the good Of our common coun-
try.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
A Combination to Win.
Bristol (Tenn.). Herald.

BTISIOI KItIIl.J J, T1EIdIU.
Parker and Davis and the st. Louis
platform make a combination which
should easily defeat the output of the
personally conducted Chicago con-
vention, with it's personally advertised
and nominated candidates and it's per-
sonally written platform.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
NOBLE IN DEFEAT.

Major Charles M. Stedman is a
he is of the clear bell metal, the finer
sort Hear him as he writes to a
friend, the editor of one of the State
papers:
"My failure to receive the nomina-
ton does not give me the slightest
trouble. If the convention had deem
ed it consistent with the best interest
of our party and the honor and glory
OF our State to have given me the
nomination 1 should have been graft
fed AS it is, however, 1 am entirely
satisfied 1t is all right with me. If
no greater trouble ever befalls a man
during life than a failure to secure an
office, he should consider himself
blessed. 1 value the success of the
Democratic party far beyond my pri-
vate aspirations, and when the con-
vention acted, the result brought to me
no pain"
"It is all right with me-" That is
what he says and the true spirit of
the man rings out in that one SEN
tence The gallant gentleman spoke
again when he declared that Demo
cratic success is valued more by him
than the qualification of his own pri-
vate aspirations. His defeat for the
Democratic nomination for Governor
left no pain to annoy him.
The State has right to be proud OF
such sons as Major Stedman and every
man in it will applaud his noble eX-
pressions, worthy of him, but revealing
no new trait of character to his
friends, who know him as brave, cour-
ageous, magnanimous, true.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

news the Associated Press has no ri
val. The Associated Press reports of
the National Democratic Convention
splendidly exemplified this. Accurate
graphic, covering every material
point, and above everything else sent
quickly they kept the Associated
Press paper at the head of the pro-
cession.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

w. F. Carter, Esq, of Mt. Airy
speaking of the first political debate
of the year, said: 81 heard the joint
discussion between Hackett and
Blackburn at Dobson July 4th, and
assure you that Dick completely rout-
ed Spencer
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

Some people can never be satisfied
They keep hitting at Hearst. The rea
reason is that they had predicted thai
he would bolt and when he didn
bolt, they got mad. That kidney OF
so-called Democrats would rather see
their petty predictions fulfilled than &c
see the Democrats win a National cleo
ton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Confidence of People Won.
Boston Post.

Judge Parkers telegram to ST.
Louis, which figured in the closing
scene of the convention. places hin,
before the American people in an at
titude that commands admiration.
The confidence of the people is won
at once by this manly, open unequIv-
Ocal declarat ton.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
We Viii Win.
Jackson Wing.

The issues that brought about this
division have been eliminated from
the platform this time by the leaders
representing two factions. ticket has
been nominated and there is nothing
now to do but for every Democrat in
the land to go to work to win and
we will win by great victory next
November.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Predict Election.
Cincinnati Inquirer.

Cincinnati inquirer.
The attitude of the convention
shows that there will be no dissen-
sions in the approaching campaign
and we confidently predict that its
nominee will grow stronger every day
as the canvass progresses, and will be
handsomely elected in November.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

The funny paragraph men after do
ing all kinds of stunts with Prohibl-
zionist Presidential Candidate Swat
lows name are now playing with thai
of Carroll, the tail of the ticket. The
swallow that carols in LIQUID notes is
all right if the liquid is not of the
hilarious kind
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

President Roosevelt is devoting
these days to preparing his letter of
acceptance. After November's cleo
ton day he can take a rest while
Judge Parker prepares the mes
sage to the new Congress.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

So far as they have committed
themselves to the support of any can
didate, most of the independent press
favor Parker. They exert a vast in
fiuence in national campaigns and
their support of Parker is good
omen.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
Meeting of Farmers Alliance.
Especial to News and Observer.

Pittsboro, n. c., July 14.-The
Farmers Alliance held a meeting in
the court house today and the crowd
of thirty-one was addressed by ex-
Congressman Atwater and L. b. Park
er. When asked of Mr.. Atwater if
there was any thing political in the
meeting, he answered most emphati-
cally no.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

The Republicans, claiming to be the
creators of every vestige of prosperity
that comes this way, are also present.
ed with the credit of the reduction of
22h per cent. in the wages of the
workers at the Fall River Cotton
Mills. A 12h per cent. cut has just
been made. Republican hard times
is being enjoyed by the laborers.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

And already Just four hours af-
ter the nomination of Judge Parker
in st. Louis, Mrs. August Herms, OF
Shelbyville, Indiana. became the
mother of a fine boy. She named
him. Parker. Indiana should now dc
the proper thing and name itself Par.
ker by it's ballots
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

1t was Black who made the nomi
cago Encouragement The social
equality President is never so happy
as when the blacks are with him.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

Parker never scratched ticket in
his life" declared his eulogist in the
National Convention. That's record
for party loyalty that all men should
emulate.
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15

Good for the town OF Clinton! 1t
voted yesterday a special school tax.
The good work goes on. With more
schools, North Carolina leads South
ern Statesi
The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-15
MORNING TONIC.
(H. w. Little.)

Willing hands will not remain long
idle, if welded to thoughtful hearts
and observant eyes.