The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-03

said he. because they saw no chance
TO beat him. Now they are changing
.helr minds. | heard them talking
mat way last evening ON the platform
at Madison Square Garden
As Observed by Ex-senator Lindsay.
EX-Secretary John G.. Carlisle. who
II taking quite an active part in poll
TICS again, refused to comment on
the situation. His former colleague
III the Senate from Kentucky. Judge
william Lindsay, who, like him. has
been an eminent Gold Democrat, and
IS now head of big New York law
affn, is only watching the struggle.
i like Judge Parker, intend to vote
Tor nm, and want to see him PreSl-
dent. said ex-senator Lindsay to-day
in his capacious law office. With many
shelves of legal volumes all about
There is no question of the drift to
him in recent days 1t is very de-
cided. The only question is whether
there is time enough to overcome the
great Republican opposition.
There can be no doubt of the very
keen interest in Parker's campaign
mong the plain people. That fact was
forced upon me last evening at the
Madison Square meeting, which | at
tended. 1t was a truly remarkable
spectacle. While | am taking no hand
in the campaign. | do hear what rep
resentatiVe men of the city are saying.
I know they are interested in ParkerS
candidacy, and that Gold Democrats
are working with might and main 10
carry this state. +,
the city is claimed by Democrats TO
forecast very large Democratic
vote" continued the ex-senator But
there is a heavy increase of registra-
tion nm the State Republicans claim
tba+ means they will be able to offset
+ho democratic increase in the city.
IT come from State where the
democratic majority is generally
etahle. and profess no special knoWl-
edge about indications in close state
I;1ra this However, | have an idea
that Republicans may be mistaken
about that upstate increase. Thefe
were many Democrats so out Of sym
nathy with the Bryan campaigns that
thev have neither voted nor taken
rart in politics since 1896. They are
coming out to vote this year. The IN
creased registration in the rural coun-
tics NAV largely represent these votes.
Word From Inter Mountain States.
A Democratic story was told this
afternoon from another view point IN
q subway train going downtown. 1t
was by Nat Ward Fitzgerald, of Wash
inpton State but erstWhile OF WASH
ington City, as we'll as of West var
ginia, where he was once nominee
for governor. He has been IN turn
Populist and Bryanite, ana during the
last two months has stumped Wash
inaton Idaho. Montana and Colorado.
Being affluent and of commanding
presence. he has been brought East
as a sort Of utility orator, and mas
made a total to date of over 100
speeches.
1.-THE Democratic party is thorough
w united everywhere ! have been,
said he. Il have felt all along that
Parker would be elected and | heart
ilv believe it now. He will not carry
the Pacific Coast. but he will have
ma jorities in the inter-mountaln
States"
An intellectual Cooking stranger
from Colorado, who occupied an adj
iacent seat, and said he had been visit
ing a sister holding professorship at
Wellesley Colley, differed with that es-
innate as TO his own State. colorado
will not re-elect Peabody" said he,
but | think it may so for Roosevelt.
"The State is more doubtful on the
national ticket" resumed Mr.. Fitz-
gerald, than two or three others in
that region
Perry Carson After Iammany Negroes.
Looming up grandly on the deck OF
the Pennsylvania Railroad ferry at
seven o'clock this morning was "Col.
Perry Carson, of Washington Citys
own Blaine inVincibles. The old
white hat of the negro leader could
be seen through the fog, the entire
length of the vessel. He had a word
on politics, but it was entirely Repub-
lican. The managers have brought
him over to help keep the New York
negroes in line and this is not his first
trip on that mission.
II never saw the negro vote so
sOlidly arrayed before" said Col.
Perry. 1T surprises me. You know
there are some six hundred Tammany
negroes--creature that Tammany
generally controls. In this campaign
they are all for Roosevelt" he OBJ
served, smiling with satisfaction over
that knowledge.