The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-22

Parker as 1t has grown in the two just passed, the State will be carried for him by plurality of votes so large as to inevitably place Connecticut and New Jersey in the Democratic column. And a large Democratic plurality in New York has always been indicative of like result in Indiana. The claim that Roosevelt will win in New York is based on nothing more substantial than the great majorities by which Me- l<iniey carried the State four and eight years ago, and the common knowledge that the Republicans have a perfect organization and an enormous corrup- ton fund. Thinking persons know \ that party lines were obliterated in New l York in those years and that thousands | and tens of thousands of Democrats
 voted for Mckinley who are now actively at work for Parker. Ninety five per cent, of the so-caIled Gold l Democrats" are known to be back in
 the Democratic party.
 The PopuIist Movement.
 The Populist movement in the State | is apparently of little moment. Mir. Bryan's friends, save few radical here and there, are for Parker. including such men as Henry George and Norman E. Mack. It has been proved that the Republican State machine is behind the Watson scheme, and that in some coun- ties four fifths of the signers of Wat sons nomination papers are henchmen of Odell and a large number of them are Odell offlceholders. The registra- ton on the first two of the four days of registration in New York City is very satisfactory to the Democratic mana gers, and is believed to point to q plurality for Parker several thousands larger than Cleveland got in 1892. The registration in upstate cities. also large, and a sa rule in excess of the registration in 1900, is also pleasing to Democrats. Of course, Republicans will say that it indicates increased Re- publican majorities, but the increase is chiefly to be accounted for by the up- rising of Democrats and Independents who have not voted in recent years, and by the growing desire to admin ister stinging rebuke te Odell for his rotten administration of State affairs. The tremendous outpouring of Demo- orats in New York City on Monday night, when Judge Hen tick, Patrick A Collins, Bourke Cochran and others spoke in Madison Square Garden, and the great meeting in Brooklyn on the same evening, both of which were wildly enthusiastic, point unerringly to the most overwhelming Democratic victory ever achieved in the metropolis Tho Herrick and Harrison meetings up the State have been proportionally sig l nificant. In their effort to offset the Madison Square meeting of the Demo- | crats, the Republicans raked and scrap ed New York and nearby places. and brought several thousand uniformed | marchers from Philadelphia, Newark, Trenton, Camden, and from even as far as West Pittsburg.
 Desperate Work of OdeII Machine. That Odell has seen the handwriting
 on the wall is evident from the des- perate attempts he is making to in-
 tlmidate Democratic voters in New York city through his Bureau of State Elections. and from the fact that his henchmen have resorted to the old Quay methods of colonixing negroes in
 strong Republican precincts. Odell had 1000 hired watchers" at the reg tstratfon booths on Friday and Satur- day, and these men had the names of 250,000 citizens. nine-tenths of them Democrats, whom the inspectors were ordered to challenge in case they at- tempted to register. Among these were thousands of Democrats who had | lived in their precincts for years, many | of them prominent citizens, well
 known to everybody in their neighbor- | hoods. The net result of this out | rageous scheme to intimidate voters | was to exclude a few thousand many
 of whom have since obtained mandam- | uses from the courts and will be reg
 istered later. and to create such inten-
 sity of feeling against Odell and all
 of his creatures that Democrats will work the harder for success and many
 disgusted Republicans will help them.
 POstmaster's Son Arrested for COlOnIz- ing.
 l It was fine commentary on this
 gh-handed procedure that while OdeIl
 and his henchmen were directing 1t, l De locratic officials were arresting the
 son of Postmaster Van Cott and a | cashier in the postoffice for corruptly | colonizing negroes in the Assembly District in which the elder Van Cott is the Republican leader, and the young
 CT Van Cott the Republican candidate
 for the Assembly. The latter was re-
 moved from his fat job in the postof-
 flee few months ago, as one of the re- | suits of timid investigation of the l frauds in the New York postal service. Both Van Cott and the cashier have | been held in $2,500 bonds for examina-
 tion. Several of their tools have con
 fessed that they were engaged in a
 scheme to plant" 250 Philadelphia ne- | groes in Van Cott's assembly district,
 who were to vote the Republican tick | ct. As many as ten negroes were put | into one room, and all would have been | registered but for the vigilance of de- | tectives employed by Attorney General Cunneen's office and the Tammany or
 ganization. With all his army of paid
 watchers" in addition, to his hun
 dreds of State inspectors and sleuths,
 Odell has not unearthed a single case
 of fraud or attempted fraud by Demo-
 crats, and the only cases of fraud thus far discovered were of Republican or | igln. There are two more days of reg istration in the city, Friday and Sat-
 urday of this week. Thus far the number of voters registered Is 454,73O.
 which exceeds the number registered | on the first two days in 1900 by up-
 wards of 21.000.
 Business Men for Parker.
 No better indication of a coming av- alanche of Democratic ballots in this city could be had than the rapid en- | rollments of business men in the Dem ocratic clubs, embracing all branches of trade. The Parker and Davis Bus
 mess Mems Association was organized | a week ago, and already 1t is appar-
 ent that it will prove as great a fac
 tor in the election as 1t did in the one of 1892. The coffee exchange cotton
 exchange, printers and bookbinders, l stock exchange, produce exchange. jewellers, metal trades, Washington marketmen, downtown business men,
 wholesale wine and liquor dealers.
 maratime exchange and wool exchange
 have already got into line with clubs.
 and at least a score of other business