The Savannah morning news., 1904-07-15
REPUBLICAys ALARMED.

1t is evident that the Republican
| leaders are by no means as confident
! of success as they were before Judge
Parker sent his famous gold STANDARD
| dispatch to the st. Louis convention.
Reports from Oyster Bay state that at
a conference between the President,
Senator Fairbanks and Mr.. Cortelyou
at Sycamore HILL the summer resi-
dence of the President. on Tuesday,
the conclusion was reached that inn
mediate steps would have to be taken
to counterfeit the effect of the Parker
| dispatch, and that all through the cam
paign the aim should be to impress
upon the voters that the dispatch in
no respect changed the position of the
Democratic party on the money ques-
ton.
A dispatch from Oyster Bay to the
! Brooklyn Eagle states that there is a
general belief in that place that
the Republicans will set up the claim
that the Parker telegram was arranged
beforehand by Judge Parker, Mr.. Hill
and Mr.. Sheehan, on the assumption
that they couldn't get a straightout
gold plank in the Democratic plat
form"
About all of the Republican papers,
even those which gave judge Parker
unstinted praise for his dispatch, are
now hedging, and insinuating that
Judge Parker and Mr.. Hill played a
great political game, played it brilliant
ly and won. They are taking the po-
sition that the money question should
be kept in the foreground, because,
notwithstanding the fact that the Dem
ocratic National Convention approved
Judge Parker's gold standard views, the
Democratic platform is silent on the
money question.
There is no doubt that never before
was political party deprived so neat
ly of one of the chief things on which
it depended for success as the Repub-
lican party was deprived of it's ad-
vantage on the money question by
Judge Parker's dispatch. The Repub-
leans felt sure that the Democrats
would never get together on that ques-
ton, and, although the money question
is no longer a political issue, there is
no doubt they intended to insist
throughout the campaign that the
Democratic party couldn't be trusted
to maintain the gold standard. Now
that they have been deprived of that
advantage they realize that business
men all over the country, being afraid
to trust the erratic Mr.. Roosevelt, will
flock to the standard of Judge Parker.
The position that the Republican
leaders are taking, namely, that the
Parker dispatch was a part of
shrewd political game, is, of course, alb
surd. There was no understanding be-
tween Judge Parker, Mr.. Sheehan and
Mr. Hill that Judge Parker should send
a dispatch to Mr.. Sheehan at st. Louis,
asking that it be stated to the con-
venton that he was gold standard
man in the event that Mr.. Hill failed
to get a declaration in favor of that
standard in the platform. 1t would
have required a much brighter man
than either Judge Parker, Mr.. Hill or
Mr.. Sheehan has shown himself to be
TO nave planned JnlHB ike ludt'
They are all able men, but they
haven't the foresight attributed to
them by those who are saying the
Parker dispatch was a part of a brill
liant political game.
The truth undoubtedly is just as
Judge Parker states it. He didn't want
1t to appear that he had been nomi-
mated through a misunderstanding of
his position on the gold standard ques-
ton or any other question, and when
he saw there was a chance that it
would be said that he had maintained
silence because he thought he couldn't
get the nomination if his position on
the money question were known he
FASTENED to send the dispat ch to Mr..
Sheehan which has been the subject of
so much comment and which had been
commended wherever the English lam
guage is spoken.
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