Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-19
DEMOCRATIC PRESS AND THE PREsi.
DENCY.

There is notable lack of unity of
expression by the democratic press in
consideration of presidential possible
ties The division between the free sill
Yer and gold standard wings of the
party is quite as apparent and irrecon-
Bryan, Hearst and Cleveland, the three
most discussed candidates for demo-
cratic favor are being assailed and de-
tended in babel of criticism. reproof
and praise.
The press comment is at once harsh
and pleasing according to the views of
the eavesdropper. Hearst is enough to
sink any cause and damn any party
observes the New York Evening Post,
m independent paper with democratic
leanings; and the New York Times
calls his boom IA menace and peril
The movement Is synonymous with
evil, thinks the Norfork Landmark,
and the Macon Telegraph says: "Mr.
Hearst will not be nominated this year
unless the gods make mad the demo-
cratic party for the purpose of destroy
ing 1t, which God forbid!' There is no
chance OF his being nominated for
the delegates from a single southern
Othte will vote for him when the con-
vention meets at st. Louis says the
Charleston News and Courier and 1t
adds that we are sure that he would
be defeated If he should be nominated"
The Columbia State ifdicules the idea
that South Carolina favors him; and
the Savannah News 1inds difficulty in
seeing chow Mr.. Hearst could expect to
have much support anywhere" Peo-
pie must certainly draw the line at
Hearst" exclaims the Savannah Press;
and the Athens Ga, Banner would
look at his nomination as "a calamity
20 the democratic party" It would be
nothing less than party suicide" de-
clares the Atlanta Journal. The Allan
ssHes,rst is the peoples candidate The
people are for him everywhere, because
he is always and everywhere for the
people
The Houston Post suggests sat-
lrcally that Mr.. Cleveland might
take Senator Hanna's place in the Re-
publican party, and 1t predicts that If
the democratic party nominates HAM,
Z the south will cease to be solid,' and
Dixon's line would go republican for
the first time The Omaha World
Herald cannot imagine the democratic
voters undertaking the gigantic effort
sincerely 10 support the half-baked re-
publican policies of Grover Cleveland
and the Norfolk Virginian- Pilot declar-
es that "Cleveland's election would be
the worst defeat the democracy has
sustained since it named Horace Greel-
ey. for lin the case Of Greeley IT stul-
tifiei itself by naming a republican and
going to defeat" while If 1t should
name and elect Cleveland it would
doubly stultify itself by putting a re-
publican in the White house"
Z Charles F. Murphy, the leader Of
Tammany Hall, says that he favors Mr..
Cleveland, but the Brooklyn Eagle sus-
poets that he is merely saying this as
a mask" and that he really favors Mr..
Hearst The Louisville Coulder-Jour-
nal thinks that Mr.. Murphy is masking
a boom for Mayor Mcclellan, which
will be sprung at the right moment.
The New York Times and World. the
Brooklyn Eagle. Harper's Weekly. the
Chicago Chronicle, the Houston Chron-
icle. the Nashville American. and a
number of other papers favor Mr..
Cleveland