The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-07-11
DENIS. GAIN IN
DOUBTFUL STATES
Continued From First Page.

In New York and the states near
it, there is a situation similar to that
in Indiana. The difference between
these states and Indiana, so far as the
gold democracy is concerned, is a diff
ference Of degree and not Of kind. In
all of these states, substantially all
of the gold democrats will return to
the democratic party this year and
comparisons of votes, electoral and
popular, in these states must be made
with 1888 and 1892, and not with the
Mckinley years. ~ w.
In other. words, the democratic
party Of 1904 will be sage and
sane" to use the Cleveland phrase,
and none Of the. issues Of 1895 or
and trusts and Roosevelts personality
will be the chief campaign cries of
the democracy and the republican
party must answer them without ref
erence to the Mckinley epoch.
This is the condition Of affairs for
mocracy has been working for several
years. Cleveland began the agitation
in the east. In the west, its leading
form has been the Chicago Chronicle.
The financiers who don't like Roose-
welt took it up when Roosevelt's
evitable, and D. B. Hill and August
Belmont were appointed their agents.
These agents selected Judge Parker
as their candidate, and when Parker
learned, after his nomination at st.
Louis that .ethe national convention
had failed to declare for the gold
standard, he. sent a; itelegram to Gov
ernor Sheehan which this convention
after long debate decided to answer.
Declaration for Gold.
This telegram and answer are tan
J. 10 n q MIA tf0rn1' 6ac1a re tinn for
gold: q This is the view of the silver
men here, as we'll as of the gold men.
Hill and Sheehan do not deny it.
The eastern f1nanciers will now be
amply justihe in financing the demo-
cratic campaign. They will pay no
attention to the old silver and other
middle and far west states, Indiana
excepted, for Roosevelt will carry
them without fail and with increased
majorities. They will focus their at
tention on the states which they must
| have to win.
If, in addition to the solid south,
they can carry New York and the
states adjacent to it, and then get In
diana, they will elect Parker. This is
the philosophy of the Parker nomina-
ton, and the point: from which ms
telegram to Governor Sheehan must
be viewed, ~
49, The question might be asked, why
did the convention decide to send a
reply to the telegram? There was
nothing else for it to do, unless it
wanted to decide the November cleo
ton in the nominating convention.
The silver men in the convention felt
that they had been led into trap and
their opinions were set forth in Bryan's
speech of Saturday night. Many of
the southern states which had voted
for Parker's nomination had similar
feeling. But what were they to do?
Refuse to answer the telegram, offend
Parker, and do fatal damage to their
cause in the impending contest? Not
at all. They voted by a four-ffths
majority to swallow their displeasure
and make the best of the situation.
Bryan has not yet said that he will
support the ticket. He was asked
| yesterday but declined to answer.
This story of the real meaning of
what took place in ST. Louis Saturday
afternoon and night should be read by
all who care to have a true perspective
at the beginning of the campaign
That campaign promises to be very
exciting and the result to be close. 1t
is not my purpose to concede repub-
lican defeat, for I do not believe that
Roosevelt will be defeated, but it is
my purpose to say that the republicans
are not to have any walkover, such as
they had in 1896 and 1905.
w. w .Ternane