The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-04
Political Chat.

Mr.. w. r. Odell declines to be n
candidate for Congress because his
business affairs engross his time
walter Wellman, the newspaper
correspondent estimates that Hearsts
campaign has so far cost him 1900
600, and that he will not have over
100 votes i'm the convention.
Mr.. Cord Meyers accession to the
chairmanship of the State Democratic
Committee seems to be q sort of noti-
hcation that Hill is not to dominate
Judge Parker, nor even the manage
ment of the party in this State.-NeW
York Evening Post
Here is what Station Agent Hall of
Esopus, says of Judge Parker: Il
know the Judge we'll | take off my
hat to him as the highest type of an
American. He is no CRATER. He buys
his ticket at my window just like
everybody else. l don't think he ever
saw a pass in his life. He pays for
every telegram and every package
right on the nail. I'd hate to offer to
do something for him for nothing.
Judge Parker is not built that way"
His neighbors say that but two Re-
publicans in a township of 5000 will
vote against him if he is nominated
Castor county will hold its conven-
ton on Saturday. The primaries were
held last Saturday and resulted in the
nomination of Mr. O. f. Mason for
State Senator and MessrS. White and
Richardson for the House. Sheriff
Armstrong was renominated. The
fight for Register of Deeds is between
AL 20, ID
tween Shuford and Battey for Treas
urer. No action was taken as to Gov
ernor or other State officers. 1t will
be determined on Saturday whether
the delegations will go to the State
convention uninStructed. Senator Ma
son is an able lawyer and has served
in both the House and Senate with
ability. Representative White has
also served previously with great &C
ceptability.
Some time back the Cleveiandite pa
pers were advocating the instructing
of delegations for Parker. Now they
are advocating uninStructed delega-
tons. 1t occurs to us that the present
situation presents the opportunity for
the South to assert itself. We have
in our State a man of presidential
calibre AS Mr.. Bryan has said, Judge
Clark is the equal of any American i'll
ability and character. Besides, he is
an orthodox Democrat whose views on
public questions are well known. Let
North Carolina instruct for Judge
Clark. Virginia joined us in voting
for him for Nice-PreSident as far
back as eight years ago. IL nominated,
he would stand as good a chance of
election as any orthodox Democrat
and far better chance than any per-
son yet spoken of.
Here's "Savoyard's" latest: Judge
Parker will give President Roosevelt
| a race. He is .asjudge, not a soldier.
If he were president. Congress would
| be left free to make the laws. it
would not be brilliant. nor a siren
uouS administration. There would be
| none of it that would remind us of
| Richelieu, or Bismarck. or STAFFORD,
| or Disraell. 1t would just jog along as
| in old Monroe's time. and as though a
sedate man like John Sherman or
| Thomas t. Bayard were president.
The monopoly features of the tariff
| would be got rid of. the cost of living
| would be reduced. trusts would no lon
| ser sell abroad cheaper than they sold
! at home, the corner grocery would no
! longer rob the savings bank of its
weekly deposit Democracy would
again be in power and responsible to
| the people," $50
From all the talk at Tammany Hall
today, it appears that the breach be-
| tween Murphy and the Parker man
| ayers has been Widened, and that
| Tammany will engage in an active, ii
| secret warfare against Parker from
this time till the National Convention
assemblies. Murphy is bound by in
structions to vote for Parker, but there
/ is nothing to prevent him from car
rying out a plan which was discussed
| freely at Tammany Hall today name
| ly, to convey to the Democratic lead
| ers of other States the information
I that Tammany has accepted Parker
| under compulSion; that David b. Hill
| is the head and front of the Parker
movement, and that Parker's nominal
| tiof. would result in a Democratic split
| in this State which would give its cleo
! toral votes to the Republican ticket
| New York Evening Post.
There is a world of sense in the
statement of John Sharpe Williams
that the Democrats have better
chance of winning this year because
the Republicans are afraid to do any
thing. He says: 1.-THE Republican
party has hitherto been frequently
mistaken, out Nearly oil" pOlu hiiN
brave Now it has become party of
passvity, of postponement, of evasion
and negation-in a word, party of
'standpatters.' 1t has been on the de-
fensive for three months in the House
of Representatives. 1t is on the de-
fensive now before the country and
in the press Issues that it has
lodged are bristling all around.
1.-THE Democratic general orders are
Close ranks, eyes front, forward,
march, The Republican general or
ders are directly the contrary-'Get
behind the past, avoid anything pres
ent, remain concealed from the enc
my's fire. That is it's attitude"
So far as we recall no one has been
mentioned who wants to run against
Hon. w. w. Kitchin in this district
i'm other words he will have clear
This is as it should be. In the first
field for the Democratic nomination.
place a member of Congress is of
little value until he has served at least
three terms and hardly then. The
policy in North Carolina has been to
Dust a man after few years, just
when he is in position to be useful,