The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-30

ocrat in 1894; Robert M Morse. we1l
 known lawyer. who has been a con-
 spicuous figure on the anti-imperialist
 platform denouncing the Republican
 policies; James J. storrow, of the bank
 ing firm of Lee. Higginson & Co, and
 Richard Henry Dana, civil service re-
 former.
 Nor has any enthusiasm been aroused
 for the Democratic Presidential can-
 didate among the rank and file of the
 party. Immediately after the St. Louis Convention the State Committee start ed out to organize Parker and Davis clubs throughout the State, but nothing has ever been heard from this since. The Democratic State Committee Is ap- parently devoting It's energies to the Douglas gubernatorial campaign, and no fault Is being found with those Dem- ocrats who indicate their intention of voting for Roosevelt and Douglas. Labor For Roosevelt. That Roosevelt will get a large labor vote--that is, a larger slice of 1t than usually falls to Republican can- didates--is admitted by Democratfo leaders, who seem to be concentrating their energies to bring Governor Bates as near defeat as possible on account of his veto of the so-called a.overtimeH bill. a measure which the min opera~ tives fought to get through the Les- islature. The governments decision in favor of the independent tobacco makers in the Tobacco Trust case ia
 stated today by labor leaders to hava made him many friends among the ci- gar makers unions.
 Leading Democratic politicians in Boston declare that the stories of an Irish Democratic defection to Roose- welt are laregly moonshine. and they affect to belittie the talk one hears on this phase of the campaign. It ia probably true that the Irish Democrats who are within the immediate sphere of influence of the City Hall organi- zation will remain loyal and vote fos Parker solely because he is a Demo- crat. but that there are thousands of others whom the party leaders cannot always hold was proved In 1896, when
 Mckinley carried Boston by 10000. All of these circumstances being given due weight, 1t would be re- markable achievement should Judgea Parker's vote equal that boiled for | Grover Cleveland in lS92--1T6 ,000-- notwithstanding the natural increase | in the voting population since then. Probably 17o.00o would be conceded by competent judges favorable estimate of the Parker vote, considering that Bryan polled 156,O00 four years agos that many gold Democrats will vote flor Parker who did not vote for Bryan
 and that, on the other hand, cer- | tain number of Democrats who voted
 for Bryan and new voters of Demo-
 cratic prociivities will vote for Roose- welt If Parker and Roosevelt should
 have 420.000 votes to divide between
 them, Roosevelt would thus have 25o,-
 900, and a plurality of S0,00O, or about McKinley's.
 The Democratic campaign, so far as stump speaking has been concerned | has been confined largely to two ar three Congressional districts in the
 eastern part of the State, and the speaking, advertising and work of the | campaign has been devoted more to l pushing Mir. Douglass candidacy for Governor than Judge Parker's candi- racy for President. The Republicans. | on the other hand, have been running | the campaign for Roosevelt, and only incidentally for Bates the Governor
 being left exclusively to deal with | State issues.
 MT. Douglas, in his published ad- dresses. has had little. if anything. to say about the labor question, and has made his personal appeal from the | standpoint of a successful shoe manu- l facturer to the business element. Ills | lieutenants, however, have been assid-
 uously cultivating the labor unions. ana tnOuSdn0s OI piAcaTuB ana OtneE literature have been sent out to the
 labor men through the malls. while a
 personal representative of the candt-
 date who Is prominent in the labor | movement, has made numerous visits | to factory cities and pleaded the Doug las cause to the unions, obtaining in
 several instances enthusiastic indorse- ments of Mir. Douglass candidacy. MT. Douglas has hoped to get both l a large business mans vote and large
 labor vote. It looks as if he would
 certainly get the latter. But Republi- can business men who might have been | attracted to his candidacy had the Re- publican State Convention turned down
 the Chamber of Commerce petition for
 Canadian reciprocity seem to be quite well satisfied with the action taken by the Conventions; consequently reci- | procity has been removed from the
 campaign as an issue in which there Is
 any keen interest.
 PENNSYLVANIA.