West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1904-04-28
HEARST AND PARKER.
The Action Of the New York Democracy
and Probable Result.

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Convention last week in endorsing
Judge Parker and instructing for
him has been the chief topic of poll
teal conversation. There are di-
yergent opinions as to the effect of
this action on the respective candi-
dacies of Parker and Hearst. Many
of the rampant Parker men are
pleased at this action, and say that
1t practically settles the matter and
assures the nomination of Parker.
On the other hand, the friends OF
the Hon. William Randolph Hearst
say that this action on the part Of
the Democrats controlled by Hill,
will have exactly the opposite effect
expected by the friends of Judge
Parker. They claim that this is a
case of tail wagging the dog. In
other words, the upstate end of the
Democratic party in the State of
New York which is utterly power
less in an election, that end of the
State always giving an overwhelm-
ing Republican majority, has dict
ated to the only Democratic end of
the State, the City of New Yoik
and its environs. The delegates
from Greater New York simply ask
ed to be allowed to 60 to the con-
vention uninstructed and to be al
lowed to make the best nomina-
ton in the interest of toe party
which the exigencies of the situa-
ton at that time demanded. They
claimed that there are many things
that can happen between now and
the 9th of next July, and that the
hands of the great New York De-
mocracy should not be tied when
the country needs it to put the eter-
nal kibosh on the Republican party
and the criminal trusts and the pre-
datory wealth. of the country that is
now debating the legislation of the
Country, State and National.
The appeals of the New York
City Democracy were unwilling, and
the Hill controlled delegates of the
Republican end of the State walked
over them rough shod and mana
cled them to one candidate, and
that candidate, undoubtedly a good
man and clean man, but one who
is endorsed by August Belmont and
Grover Cleveland and David b.
Hill and the entire gang who left
the Democratic party in its hour of
need. A man who says nothing
himself, but one who is endorsed
by such men as those named above,
certainly must have given to them
his confidence and his position on
the questions agitating the people
of the country evidently suits them
down to the ground. If they do so,
then they should not suit the great
mass of the common people of the
country, for those men represent
all there is to the rapac;ty of riches
and the lust for loot among the
criminal trusts and the special pri-
vilege grabbers of this great coun-
try. 1t is the consensus of opinion
among the leading western and
southern Democrats that If Judge
Parker is defeated for the nominal
ton he may attribute it to the COM
pany he keeps for they utterly re-
pudiaie the kind of Democracy for
which Hill, Belmont, and Cleveland
stand, and look upon their activity
in Democratic politics at this time
as an attempt to Republicanize the
Democratic party, and they say
that there is not room in this coun-
try for two Republican parties and
will have none of it in theirs.
Another thing that has caused
unfavorable comment in connection
with that New York State Conven-
ton is the platform adopted as the
expression of Democratic faith and
an enunciation of Democratic prin-
ciples. II is the very kind of
convention controlled by Hills and
Belmonts of New York politics. 1t
is a good platform for the Demo
cratic party to stand on il its pur-
pose is to avoid giving cause for
alarm to the intrenched special in.
terests which now have possession
of the Federal Government. But
as a message from the Democratic
party of tue State of New York TO
the Democratic party Of the nation,
il is an sbsurdity. II was an effort to
present declaration of principles
which should avoid the calamity Of
offending the trusts and and II was
distinct success. II will fool no
man who knows what true Demo.
cray means and what It stands for.
The so-called Democratic conven.
ton IN the State Of New York will,
in the opinion Of some Of the
shrewdest members Of the Demo
cratic party react against the can
didacy Of Judge Parker and rebound
to the benefit Of the man whose