The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-10-05
OUTLOOK BRIGHT.
The Democrats Are More Hopeful
Than Ever Before.
SOME ENCOURAGING FACTORS.

Than Ever Before.
SOME ENCOURAGING FACTORS
An Assurance that the Party vii
Garry New York, an Inspira-
tion to the Party in the
Doubtful States.
A dispatch from washington to the
Charleston Post says hope is very
high in the Democratic camp. II
there has ever been time when Dem
ocrats have been inclined to get to-
gether with mighty pull to capture
both the Presidency and the House Of
Rapresentat it is the present.
There have been periods OF deep de-.
Spondency on the part OF many OF the
leading Democrats, but now generally
they are looking for success and feel
ing that the hand of fate is with them.
The cause Of all this feeling Of con
# e1ce is twofold. One relates to the
harmonious condition in which the
Democratic party finds itself in the
State of New York, and the other in
the general satisfaction Of the party
with the letter of acceptance Of Judge
Parker. Hope in New York means
hope over the entire country, and to
have the party everywhere looking to-
ward Judge Parker as man worthy
to be the leader is regarded by Demo
Gratis as an indication Of campaign
of enthusiasm and success.
Very generally politicians have
been saying that Judge Parker was
never so strong as at the time Of his
nomination. Democrats in repeating
this statement have inferentially ad-
nitted that their candidates lost
strength ever since the adjournment
OF the convention. Until recently
many of them believed it. They felt
that their hopes of a candidate who
would call cut strong support all over
the country among Democrats and in
dependents were fading away. When
the Democracy Of New York State
was embroiled in bitter ac.ional
fights prior to and during the first
days of the Saratoga convention they
we're still more discouraged, because
if New York was to be lost through
party dissenticns they could hope for
nothing from the country at large.
They recognized the fact that with
out New York they could do nothing,
while the Republicans had a fighting
chance, even though they should lose
that State. New York, the key to
the situation, seemed to be fading
from the list of possible Democratic
States.
But with the healing Of ali the
sores of diScontent and with the spirit
Of conciliation that inspired the
Democratic bosses at Saratoga the
Dea o:rats have gained new hope.
The eff CT OF this hope in respect to
New York State is reflected all over
the country. While factional fights
were threatening to sap the vitality
of the Democracy in New York State
the Democrats in Indiana, West Vlr-
ginia, New Jersey, Connecticut,
Rhode Island and of other States Of
the West felt that there would belittle
use for them to carry these States ex-
cept for tie State tickets. They feel
that they could not win without New
York, and their hope for New York
was very slight. But with the har-
monious conditions that have been
brought about in New York has come
revival of interest in the campaign
on the part Of Democratic leaders all
over the country that has aStonished
the men who are managing the ma
tional campaign.
Many Democrats feel that success
for the party is almost sure thing.
They believe that the only require
nent for carrying the election is to
get out their vote and to bring out
the independent vote that they regard
as quite surely to be for Parker. There
have been many evidences in the last
f~w days to the effect that in all the
doubtful States Democrats have been
so encouraged by the outlook In New
York that they are putting forth un-
usual Efforts to carry their own States.
Another cause for Democratic ac-
tivity is the enc uragement many OF
them have had in the fact that Judge
Parker himself is regarded as entitlt d
TO the credit for bringing about bar
mony within the Democracy 10 New
York. Confidence in the P litical
sagacity and the general ability as
leader Of Judge Parker is greater to-
day among Democrats than ever be-
:o:e. Tney lcok upon him as capable
Of leading the party to victory. They
believe he will do it, and they are
showing their own interest in many
ways.
Judge Parker's latter OF acceptance
is also regarded as a strong document
universally among Democrats. Some
Of them at first feared t1at he had
made a pol t;cal mistake ii bringing
f,rWard the pension issue in the way
be did, but after considecati they
have conclud d that he was entirely
right on that question, not only as a
matter IF law, but also as matter OF
political policy. They claim that the
members Of the Grand Aarmy OF the
Republic would vastly prefer legisla.
ton 10 an executive order giving then
) an old age pension. They believe the
Grand Army will very largely support
the position taken by Judge Parker OF
j this i'm ortant matter.
, It IS understood that the natlona
committee in New York, which has
largely been engaged in Strengthening
| out the factlonal contentious ID thai
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