The independent. [volume] (Lincoln, Neb.) 1902-1907, 1904-03-10

ideas. as the only sure and certain
way of placing the Washington gov
eminent under the control OF the DEM
ocracy. He said:
1.-THE main anxiety being for sue
cess. platforms or men are merely in
cldents. The business world they say
is against Roosevelt and that it be-
hooves the democracy to play to win
and to that end it should Dlacate the
strong business Interests of the east,
which have always admired and sup
ported Cleveland and who now fear
and iistrust Roosevelt and are only
too anxious to support Cleveland or
a man with his stamp of 0. K.
German has no noticeable follow
ing and his apparent weakness in his
own state has injured any chances he
might have had Judge Parker is lit
tie known and that only by newspaper
talk. No one has ever met him, and
they say as politician or statesman
he is an unknown quantity. He cam
not be placed. They say he has never
any political topic and for that rea-
son alone they cannot see how he is
eligible as a candidate in such CAM.
paign as is before us. All agree in
speaking of him as an able lawyer
and clean and just jurist, but insist
that the candidate must be more than
a merely able lawyer-he must be a
man of known political principles.
William r. Hearst has sentiment
for him which, though strong in most
places, lacks intelligent and practical
leadership, yet he is the only man
who is making an organized band
wagon campaign for delegates.
I'm Indiana, National Committee
man Taggart says he knows the man
who will be nominated; ami privately
says that man Is Grover Cleveland.
Investigation and conversation with
Indiana leaders tends to confirm the
at st. Louis for Cleveland. Kentucky
is under Governor Beckham's absolute
control and the friendship of Beck
ham and Bryan places Kentucky with
out anything other than the fruitless
opposition of the Louisville Courier
Journals editor, with and for any
thing Bryan desires.
Nebraska may have Bryan oppo-
sition, but it confines Itself TO SUBJ
cellar politics. its delegates will reg
lister the will Of its democratic idol
In conversation with Iowa democrats
1t is learned That Hearst has taken
into his camp the Bryan leaders of
that state, with National Committee
man Walsh at their head, and will
likely have Iowa's delegation at the
national convention. Though this
would appear to be true it is also a
fact that the Iowa democrats want
| above all things to win the election
and if after they get to the convention
it appears Hearst cannot be nomi-
mated they say they will be for any
man New York says can carry the
election. Kansas says there is moth
ing the matter with it, that crops are
good and the circulating medium is
| in evidence, but they want the post
Offices and that If New York has a
man who can turn the rascals out
he can have its delegates
SIN Missouri the ordinary democrat
| is really d IONcf Ol DTydu anu Ills
politics, but as Missouri is the New
York of the southwest. its affairs are
Influenced by the same sentiment, and
for that reason its delegation to the
national convention will not reflect
the views Of the plain democrat, but
that of the business element, which
] with Rolla Wells, a gold democrat, as
its candidate for mayor, changed St
Louis from republican to demo
cratic city The railroad and mercan-
tile interests hate Roosevelt and want
Cleveland democrat and look to New
York to produce him.
In Illinois one finds some amateur
booms like the one for Congressman
Williams of that state, who claims
now eight or ten delegates, but they
are all on paper, and the noisy Hearst
Chicago American boom which il is
difficult to reduce to a tangible guam
tity of any serious proportions. The
sentiment or desires of the Harrison
or Hopkins crowd seems to be unfg.
urable on the surface. They maintain
a secretive attitude and act as though
they were Micawbers. But one famil.
lar with pnlifieiauo and THAR ~, AZ n ,ds