The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-24

1 self is more conservative. He has abso- l lutely nothing to do with the Tanimany | fights, or with the bickerings of such poli- | ticianE as dill and Murphy, and now that l he Is formally before the country as . l candidate for the Presidential nonina- l ton he Is going, at least, to see that | misguided supporters who are paying as much attention to selfish interests as to | his, if not more. do not injure his chances
 in his own State. He has all along been
 in favor of placating Tammany. believe ing that no harm and. perhaps, soma good. could result from such c course. , and it was undoubtedly due to his in- fuence that Tammany man was made | one of the ''big four without any con- | ditions whatever.
 Two things will contribute to Judgs Parker's success in carrying New York. if. assuming that he will be nom~ mated, he does carry it. The frst will be his own strength at home and the second will be the unpopularfty of th0
 man, also a New Yorker. who will op- pose. For 1t cannot be denied that MT. Roosevelt is unpopular in his own State. not only among the politicians.
 but among the people as we'll. | They're sson to" Roosevelt. The whole State is "on to" him. to | use phrase which is expressive if not elegant. They know that, contrary tu
 the impression which prevails else~
 where in the country, he was entirely
 willing to be the tail to the Mckinley
 kite in 1900. It Is true that Platt wan-
 ted him put in the second place on the
 ticket in order to eliminate him from New York politics. but Roosevelt was
 not averse to accepting the honor. { make this statement on the authority | Of an Albany man who is so close ta | Governor Odell that a mention of the position he occupies might cause ems
 barrassment This man said thas Roosevelt pretended to be coy and dfs- tant when the matter of the vice presto | denttaI nomination was first suEgestS ed, and that for the time being he was left severely alone.
 Platt, however, improved the first | opportunity to let Roosevelt hear a rumor to the effect that unless he sie-
 nified his willingness to go on the ticket, B. B. odeil would be put on fn- stead. Thereupon Roosevelt asked odeiI
 to come to Albany and see him. odeii. Knowing what was coming. declined. Roosevelt persisted, but the present. Governor was unmoved. and finally Roosevelt arranged to meet Odell in New York city. It was while the rough rider was passing through the metrop- oils on his way to Oyster Bay He was in hurry, he said. so he asked odell to ride to the ferry with him. During the drive he asked odell If 1t was true that he was willing to accept the vice presidential nomination..
 A Willing Victim.
 Well" replied the other. ssft fo6ka as if will have no choice. The powers that be say that the second man on the ticket must come from this State, and 1t seems that I am the only one available" z sAs4
 Thereupon, so the story goes, Rocse- welt beat around the bush awhile ana finally asked odeli to do nothing more about 1t until you hear from me-"
 odell didn't, and it was only a very few days later that both he and Platt were given to understand that Gover- nor Roosevelt was willing to be Vice President Roosevelt The rest is his-t tory
 It is such things as this that make. the people of New York State distrusS the man who is now President. The, things he has done since he succeeded Mckinley have tended only to in- crease and accentuate this feeling to. ward him. They realize that in prac. tically everything he Is the direct op- posite of Alton B. Parker, whom thew know to be safe, sane. conservativa and Independent. There will undoubt- edly bo defections from the Repubii, oen ranks on this account, and the ins dicattons are that the whole of the States big independent vote will. gd mated.
 Senator McCarren told me the otFerd day at Albany that Parlxer's majority1 would not be less than 75, 900, and thoseI who have been watching the coursa or this gentlemen from Brooklyn red gently. know that he would not uaakd an assertion of this kind were he nos jump. Tl
 Parker Sure of New York.
 Other Democratic leaders are equaIl " sanguine. some of them even god Ing go far as to predict that the Dem% ocratic majority in the State withJ Parker at the head of the ticket wiIll DO twice as large as the figure menA tioned by McCarren. A
 everywhere one hears things which5 lnoicate that the general public bed ieves this is Democracy's year. Lastt night I asked Walter WelIman, thel famous correspondent, what hel thought the result would be in Newl York State were Parker to be pftte6l against Roosevelt. I'll take a five dol-I lar bet on either side of the question. 's he replied And this meant much, for NetIInan IS Republican, and one who IS close to the President at that
 The President himself Is feeling any. thing but well satisfied as to the result in November. There can be no doubt on that score The fact Is shown in a dozen different ways. It is indicated by his sud- Gen retirement, his silence and his stren- uous endeavors to attract votes by such methods as the recent pension order. which evea some of his best friends ad- init was a colossal mistake. He has felt for some time past that Judge Parker would be his opponent in the coming campaign. and he knows what that Teens.
 He sees 1aily evidences of the return of Democracy to safe and sane condi- ton. He says that the minority party la throwing overheard its jonahs and be- coming a dangerous menace to Republt- can success, as was pointed out by Sena- to- Platt of New York in a recent speech.
 Democrats Getting Together.
 He realizes that the party is getting together. He has doubtless read news- paper articles which show that practi- cally all clements of the party, save such stubborn and misguided men as Bryan and such silly fellows as William R. Hearst. are working this year not for their own little ambitions. but for the success of the high and broad principles of the party as whole. And, above all, he appreciates the fact that the people are tired of Rooseveltism and Republi-