The daily Alaskan., 1904-07-29
THE POLITICAL OUTLOOK

There can be no opposition but that the outlook for the success of the demo- cratic party in the United States is bet ter now than it has been since the sub sidepce of the reaction which followed tbs great republican victory of lS9t' though it is not now so bright as to necessarily discourage republicans There was a time between the hrSt election of Mckinley and the beginning of the campaign of 1900 that the tenure of republican control seemed uncertain In 1898, the majority of that party in the house of representatives was re- duced to about dozen. But the era oi prosperity had become fixture before the beginning of the presidential cam paign four years ago, and the American people had become convinced that it would be unwise to change the none tary standard. When the democrats, therefore, incorporated the demand for the free coinage of silver in the plat form at Kansas City, the battle was as good as lost before it began.
 The reaction set in again after the republican victory of 1900, but it was not so marked as was that which had followed the previous presidential cleo ton, This was largely que to the fact that the people had become fixed in the belief that the welfare of the business interests of the country demanded that the gold standard should remain as a permanent feature in the fiscal policy of the nation, and there existed a doubt as to the position the opposition to the par.y in power would assume on that question. As it was, the reaction was such that the state of New York elect ed a republican governor two years ago by a plurality of less than 5000.
 The definite position in which the democratic party has been placed by the St. Louis convention and by Judge Parker, its nominee for the presidency, on the question of the monetary stand ard has had the effect of uniting all those who oppose the policies of the Roosevelt administration, and the pros poets are that the returns from the election next November will tell the tale of another decided reaction against the dominant party that will be all the more pronounced because of the delay in it's inception. However, the indica. tions are that the reaction will not be sufficient to defeat the election of Pres ident Roosevelt. It will be granted that the chances of democratic success are more than even in the states of New York, West Virginia Maryland and Delaware, which voted for McKiu- ley four years ago. It is also well with in the possibilities that Judge Parker will carry New Jersey, Connecticut and Rhode Island, though the chances in all three states are as strongly theother way now as are his chances for success in the group of states first named. If the democrats could carry all these doubtful states and hold those states that Bryan carried in 1900 they would win with five or six votes in the cleo toral college to spare, but it is almOst certain that the republicans will carry some of the western states that voted for Bryan at the las: election, and it is possible that all of them, Colorado, Ida ho, Montana and Nevada, will give Roosevelt majorities-
 Success for Judge Parker without one at least of the great middle west eru states is improbable, and it seems unlikely that he will be ably to carry a single state between the Alleghauies and the Mississippi and north cf the Ohio.