The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-08-10
MIR. LAMONT SAYS
ANY GOOD DEMOCRAT COULD
 WIN.
FavOrs Either Goodyear or JerOme-Is Confident that Democrats Will
 Elect National Ticket.

AIleEICdA
 Daniel s. Lamont tonight declared positively that he Is not candidate aor the Governorsnip.
 Any good man Wno should happen to De the nominee on the Democratic ucket, ne saId, will De eiecteu. l anl Tor Goooyear.
 lie IS d man every faction should unite on," he continued. He Is clean, ne IS aDIe and he Is popular. The par ty could not ma d better candidate. mean that he represents all that Is Democratic, and l sincerely trust that | the leaders will close their still hunts and centre on him"
 But" 1t was suggested, "the story | at Esopus is that you have been agreed | upon"
 | Judge Parker has even so much as ap- preached the subject to me. l have not seen Judge Parker in months nor | have I had so much as a syllable of a | political sentence from him by letter l or by word from one of his friends. nor from Senator Hill either on such a | subject. Moreover" and the former Secretary | of War showed his old-time spirit of declaration. mo one must involve Judge | Parker in a controversy involving the | State ticket or in local issues. His hands are off 1t, if I mistake not. He ought not to take any part in l the pending contest, which will end at l the next State Convention. and he will | not, for he Is a man of sense and of
 discretion. nor should his friends politi- cally or otherwise seek to have him say anything for or against the candi-
 dacy ot any man who Is a Democrat. | The party is not poor in Gub"rna . | torial material! It possesses dozens l of men big enough and broad enoue Il | and strong enough to defeat any nomI l.
 nee the Republicans may put forward,
 whether that nominee be MT. Root, Mir. | Odell. MT Higgins. MT. Woodruff. or I hA hnNE nh hf dtEner fNf Ia.
 the wisdom of the party to give us L | man for Governor to run with Judge
 Parker who. instead of detracting | from the strength of the ticket. will add to IL.
 | T have two such men In mind. On" | Is Goodyear, another is Jerome. | Suppose you should nave been of | fered the nomination? | We mustn't suppose that Really. | I am not a candidate. To tell you the
 truth, 1 have not given the matter seri.
 ous thought. In New York some of the
 newspaper boys have printed things | about me that were kindly meant. Many | of them are my friends. and am proud | of it. You see, 1 once was a reporter
 myself, and I know all ot them. Some
 times itch for an assignment again, | but have said the rumors of my can l didacy are rumors only. They have no foundation in fact" But if there should be demand 1 for your nomination."
 
 went on. at no time. however. saying he was doing anything to prevent the
 further use of his name in this con | neCtion.
 He continued: q see MT. Goodycac Is being criticised because he did not | support the ticket in 1S96 and in 1900 l All such talk should cease. The party will neeu number of men to assist | 1t this year who did as Mir. Goodyear says he did. We must not look back
 ward. If the State is not clean, we should make 1t clean.
 New York Is going Democratic; there seems no doubt of 1t. 1 am ds sure of such result as I ever was of anything before it really happened. All Democrats who fell outside tue ranks eight years ago have come back and the tendency of the independents vote all is toward Parker.
 And speaking of Judge Parker, what d great big man he is. l have known him all my life. We were born Tn bouses in sight of each other and We grew up together. our ages being three months apart. He will make the ideal candidate. and he may be depended on 10 do the right thing at the right time ana ne is as sure to be President as he lives
 But We must not permit ourselves tu slacken in interest or enthusiasm. Over confidence sometimes is futaI am happy to see Mir Bryan preaching the doctrine, gratihed, but not surprisCG to know Mir Cleveland is onthuaiastic All We need now is State ticket that Is clean. forCeful and Democratic and the rest will be easy"
 He said of the District Attorney: Tt might not hurt to have man of the Folk type on the ticket IT seems to me that Jerome would fill such n bIiI I have never met him hut have heard many kind things said about him. and know he Is strong with the people"
 When Judge Jer9mr wns told over the telephone ot his hor,n at TakevilIa Conn. tonight what Colonel Lamont had said in his interview. Jerome re, piled:
 Lamont Is n good r,ar. a,, for him because he "a n strong nd on hon. est man. It would give rrn pleasure to support him. He must not get out of the way"