The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-07-25
PARKER
AND DAVIS

After along and turbulent w%rangle,
extending through several days and
nights Democratic National con-
vantion assembled in the City of st.
Louis, announced b following tick
ei
$50 President. Alton Brooks Par
ker.fofs New York; for Vice President,
Henry Gassaway Davis, of West Vir-
ginia
The Republicans throughout the
country + greatly pleased with the
Democratic ticket-they realize that
the@Dems.#could hardly have put out
a weakersone. It is heavily handi-
sgcappedson all sides, even from a Dem
ocradc standpoint, and will be easy
Il defeat.
judy Parker was agreed Upon as
sort of compromise the fac
tions they thought he stood for moth
ing In particular, and would pass for
regular Democrat" for whom they
could all vote without regard to what
they were voting for. They were con-
fdent il their own minds that he
would subscribe for any platform
they agreed upon. So they hashed
I'm 81 tcompromfse platform'-leaving
81 ont the financial plank entirely-and
named what they thought was a com
promise ticket. But Elias! What did
Judge Parker 10 when. he read the
platform upon which he was expected
to run? He turned to and flung a
bomb into their camp in the shape OF
~a@te1egram, making known his views
the money question and sSatir@
positiyelySthat if he makes the race
be with the distinct under
that he is a gol! standard
man that he. favors the present sound
money policy, and that he Will not
compromise with the Bran free sill
yer fallacy. 1t was probably the kick
raised by the sound money Democrat
ic against tho "comproiniSe
platform" which cause1 the Judge to
break silence and speaE: bit he has
spoken-for the frs. tinlc-and his
words have fallen like u t~hunderbolf
into the camps of Democracy His ut
~terance has played havoc with all
their Compromise" plans. Bryan
had agreed to be good and help pull
Parker wagon but now he is balk-
ling. howIis going up from the sill
VI people. But Parker is the non1l-
nee, and what can be done? What
s we do to be saved?" is the ques-
stion@that is on the lips of every Dem
ocrat.
Letus turn now to their candidate
Tor Vice President and see h they
have got. Henry G. Davis is a man
Co. ~ rs IuJ,0r, vary tfaU onnn1n have aver
heard. although he was once a Uni
e States Senator. He belongs tc
class Of men VINO go into pol
ltics for pie. He is upwards of eighty
years old and is a notorious political
Prior to the civil war he
was#a Wing, and after the war he
amliated himself with the Republican
party for a few years, but on account
OF his failure to capture the nomina
tion8 to the State Legislature he kick
ed out of the harness and went over
to the Democrats.
Besides being a p~ie-Grabber and pc
Iitical turn-coat, old man Davis is
the Democratic sp%ell-binders
take great pride in cussing outs
millionaire trust magnate and rail
road president. Won't it be funny t.
see them go into the campaign thl!
year and cusS a blue streak in denim
citation of the trusts n the none,
power, and then advise us to vote 10
a rus magnate and money king TO
Vice President? Won that be conslst
zen with a handle to it? And yet tina
is just the game they are going t
play-or, at least, that is the way tn
stars hang at this writing.
Taking both the platform and tn
ticket into consideration, the Dem
have indeed dished up a sorry mess
The Yellow Jacket.