The Springfield herald., 1904-09-23

Many democrats VIII Note LOT lSDoSe'
sclt and Fairbanks this fall A large
number have publicly announced their
change VI faith, but others have SIM
ply said to their friends that they pre-
fer the known and tried Roosevelt to
the hesitnting, evasive and untEied
Parker. The names of some of these
men, including Oscar Straus, John A.
Mccall, Major John Bryne, Patrick
Esan, Richard Price Morgan and Eu.
gene \. philbn. have already been print
ed. Among those not heretofore noted
are: Ernest Crawfort. Judge w. NJ.
Chandler, Dr. George II. Carpenter, Will.
liam McLain. W. f. Williams. John
Ennis, William ID. Harrison, John L.
Doyle, Charles T. Blaney and Daniel
Buchanan.
From Baxter Springs, Kas., comes
the information of wholesale desertions
on the part of Bryan Democrats, and
the forecastcrs predict that Cherokee.
which gave Bryan 1.SOO majority in
1896. will go solidly for the Republican
ticket. Prominent among the Demo
Gratis who have announced their inten-
tion of supporting President Roosevelt
are: I. II. Goodwin. mine owner; F..
w. Dow, president telephone system;
Samuel ]. Crawford, former governor of
Kansas; James II. Chubb. former mem-
her fusion legislature; J. G. Haskett.
dry goods merchant: Samuel Binns hay
dealer; Edward Hodgkins. retired mer-
chant: D. Orr Chubb. politician: w. s.
Baxter, editor and G. e. Collins, poll
tican..
Eud Of silver Republican Party.
An important accession TO the Rep,b-
lican ranks is d. c. Tillotson, Of To-
peka. Kas., chairman of the national
committee of the Silver Republican party
in 1900. In letter to ]. w. Babcock
chairman Of the Republican Congress
sional Committee. Mr.. Tillotson says
that the Silver Republicans are salts
fed that the Roosevelt administration
tried to do its duty with the people, and
for that reason he and his friends will
support it. This statement is of i'm
portance because the Silver Republicans
voted for Bryan in 1896 and 1900, and
1t is believed all will now return to the
regular party organization. In letter
to Representative Babbcock. chairman Of
the Republican Congressional Commit.
tee, Mr.. Tillotson says:
present conditions make any further
attempt to maintain silver party or.
ganization a mere farce and with chang
ed conditions come changed political re-
lations.
ut appears to me chat the Demo
cratic party has forfeited its claim upon
all voters except such as vote the ticket
from tradition. Indeed, the only Demo
crat who in a generation has stood for
an idea is constrained to admit that tho
candidate of his party is the beneficiary
OF a fraud practiced upon the convention
which nominated him.
The Democratic party, through its
attitude and the attitude of its candi.
dates. admits that the Republican party
is right on the money question. 1t ad.
mits that the Republican party has per.
fected the legislation needed for con.
trolling the trusts and monopolies per.
fection that the Republican party itself
has never claimed. 1t admits that, il
successful, nothing in the wny of tariff
legislation can be effected except such
as may be approved by the Republican
party, yet it seeks to make tariff tink.
erinX an issue.
"It condemns the acquisition of the
right to build the Panama canal, but
says ratify the act by keeping the goods.
1t sympathizes with the Filipinos. but
fails to recognize that the acquisition OF
these islands was ratified by the people
in 1900.
at presents us with candidate whose
political virtues are of the mega
tive sort. He claims that the
body polite is sick and as a remedy
proposes four years of paralysis. II
this attitude is in good faith it would
appear that there is no good reason for
supporting the party or its candidate,
il in bad faith then there is every rea-
son for not supporting them.
with no definite programme to ad-
vocate and no settled policy OF govern
'ment to assert the opposition is devotins
its energies to an attack upon President
Roosevelt His opponents are compell-
ed to admit that he is man of virility.
of high moral purpose in both civil and
Official life and one that does not evade
official responsibility.
while there are many honest and
upright citizens among his opponents
yet the fact remains that the Presidents
vigorous and aggressive execution of his
office has led the manipulation of preda-
tory wealth, the professional agitator
and the political CRATER to make com
mon cause against him. These are thor
oughly convinced that the President is
not safe. but legitimate and vested rights
have no cause of complaint.
'The voter has to choose between one
or the other of the candidates of the
dominant parties or throw his vote away
as a mere protest by voting for some
third party candidate. 1t appears to
me that the President is entitled to
vote OF confidence, and above all party
considerations the election of President
Roosevelt is required as vindication OF
moral courage and official integrity in
the government of men-a vindication
not of the candidate. but of the Amer-
can people,"
Parker's Letter . Dis =, ppoir meut.
ErrSst Crawfort, of jamestown, N.
Y, Democratic county committeeman
and delegate to the Democratic State
convention which instructed for Judge
Parker, hns severed all connections with
the Democratic party and has declared
his intention of voting for President
Roosevelt. In a letter to Walter Ed
son, chairman of the county committee,
Mr.. Crawfort says among other things:
You will consider my relations with
the Democratic party severed because
that political organization has ceased
t. be the declared exponent of govern
mental policies and economic principles
whose ultimate triumph is deemed
more essential than the inauguration
of nny particular political regime. The
final decision to cast my vote for Theo-