The Fairmont West Virginian. (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1904-1914, 1904-08-20
Ai(IlAR
GIVES Up
ALL HOPE
HaiRnAM TOLD PARKER THAT
sSsEsHaSzN SHOW FOR ELEc-
Z JUDGE is As
FOUNDED.
nEMocRATIc PRESIDENTIAL ChH
pIDATEz HAD BEEN LISTENING
sss5s CHAMP CLARk-lET-
;;ssss; IN NGECAMPAIGN LAG.

DEDbTEEHADz BEEN LIS IENiNG
CHAMP cLARk-LET-
ING CAMPAIGN LAG:
washington correspondence in ye7
ferdayts Pittsburg Gazette.1
Democratic National Chairman sTas
sgsrt has notified Judge Parker that as
ahe 81 sifuafion now stands he has nc
show whatever to be elected Mr.
5I2arkerswas Informed that conserva.
I've estimate OF the electoral votes
# thai he would receive places the mum
Scr at 26s, which is 81 short Of enough
10 elect.
The mostQliberal estimate possible.
including states that could scarceiy-
8e considered anything better than
doubtful, gives Parker but 231 votes,
TO the figures OF Chairman Taggart.
3gs The above statement was made here
today by a prominent Democrat who
recently went to Esopus for talk,
with the presidential candidate. aus
came away from New York very much
discouraged at the outlook. He stated
that the report made to Judge Parker
ss: by the managers of his campaign made
IF pIain#that only by a political revo-
! luton could the Judge hope to win
This would not be SO bad if there were
any signs of an approaching revolu-
Eion; but instead of that, the most
prominent feature OF the Democratic
campaign UP to date has been its stu
s:pendons inactivity.
The 20S votes which the chairman
of the National Committee is alleged
to have promised Judge Parker COM
pHsed the solid South, Isl; New York,
z3s;; West Virginia, q; Nevada, 3, and
Maryland, 8. There was possibility OF
Increasing this by the addition of New
Jersey, 12; Connecticut, Z, and Rhode
Island, 4,making a total of 231, and
still leaving s short.
Judge Parker Astounded.
~ This was said to be the best esti-
mate for their candidate. 1t will be
observed that it includes New Jersey
and Connecticut which the Republi-
cans deem absolutely safe Republican
States, and that it takes in New York,
which the Republicans do not by any
means concede.
The Democratic managers, it is al
legged were forced to admit that moth
ing short Of a landslide which would
carry into the Democratic column IN
diana, Wisconsin, Illinois, Nebraska
and some of the mountain States could
accomplish the election of Judge
Parker.
IN Judge Parker was astounded at the
cold blooded exposition of the situa-
ton presented by his national manas-
,ers He had been fattered by some of
the enthusiastic visitors from the in
teriorswho represented to him that the
whole West was aflame with Demo
cratic sentiment; that Illinois, Michi-
gan Indiana and Kansas were good t
fighting ground and that Nebraska, r
Colorado and Montana were safely Z
Democratic. g
Champ Clark had filed the Judges n
mind with a similar impression. and n
he8cou1d hardly believe his ears when Ii
he5was told by men at the head of his F
campaign committee that the normal o
chances not only were against him. a
but that it would be practically po- p
iitical miracle if he were elected. The ! a
most ignificant feature of the esti,
mate given by the national managers
to their leaders was the complete elm
ination from the caluculation of In tc
diana and Illinois. Virtually it was o.
Honceding those States to the op- H
position re
The Hopeless Situation. c:
According to the opinion of the men al
Shos brought these reports from the "
East 1t has been the hopelessness OF B
shss situation that has kept the Ma ol
.i6naI Committee from starting the re
sampaign going. and has induced the w
inactivity that has called forth such
protest from leading Demo
:rats and newspapers of that. faith ir
Ill over the country. He stated that J.
ie thought the managers were waiting =
or something to turn up, some demon OF
iration that would give impetus to la
movement to arouse enthusiasm and m
tart the ball rolling.
Secretary Taft said at the White ar
House to-day that he viii shortly leave m
or New England to make some politi.4 5pr
al speeches. He VIII ak in Mont II
lslier, It, Aug. &c, and at oneSor two fir