The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-03-09
IS
 FOR PARKER The Tennessee Senator's
 Views.
 s- |FLATLY AGAINST HEARST Democrats in Congress Barn. estly Oppose Him.
FLATLY AGAINST HEARST
Thinks Tammany Leader Murphy's Use of the Name of Cleveland is Merely the Playing
 of ward Politics.
Adyertiser Bureau,

Colorado Building, Wasnington March &
 The signal compliment EFom his party Is likely to be paid to Senator Carmack or having the Democracy of his State elect him to lead the delegation of the stats to the st. Louis Convention. Al- ready every member of the Tennessee delegation in Congress has asked him to accede to the wishes of sEe party in the State as well as to the expressed wish of many prominent Democrats outside of Tennessee.
 Today. for home reading. but which Is likely to be of general interest, Senator Carmack gave out a statement of hls view of the situation with regards to the choice of q ticket at St. Louis His at tention had been called to sundry tiem- onstrattons in Tennessee boosting the boom of William R. Hearst
 T understand" said the Senator. MT. Hearst has formidable following in Ten. nessee and other Southern States. This is due largely to the fact that our people are looking 10 New York for candidate, and 1t seems to them that it is a question between Cleveland ana Hearst. Now. [ say frankly that l am opposed to the nomination of Hearst
 Hearst Not the Man.
 T think his candidacy. 8or reasons that I need not elaborate. would be fatally un- fortunate for the Democratic party l think it Is my duty to say so That be- iieve is the opinion of every Democratic Senator ard of nearly every Democratic Representative in Copgress
 T do not see why Mr. Bryan can be for Hearst There would seem to be some thing peculiarly absurd in the idea of reafiirming the Kansas City platform, which declared imperialism to be tho paramount issue. and then putting on that platform man as rank Fan imperi- alist as Root or Roosevelt"
 The Democratic patty epnllnued Mr. Carmack. "must mgise its h2ht in f1e next campaign for fhe old, consefvativc traditions of the republic. 1t cannot at- ford to begin such a fight by violating one of tine most salutafy unwritten prohi- bitions of the constitution. The Demo cratic party must not be the first party in this country to despise the example of Washington. which even the Republi- can party. as with Grant. was compelled to respect"
 Having eliminated both Cleveland and Hearst, the Tennessee Senator says that in using the name of MT. Cleveland, Tam many Leader Murphy Is but playing a game of New York ward politics to the cost of the National Democracy and with the result of emboldening the Hearst propagandlsts.
 Parker Strongest Candidate.
 'Tt has seemed to me- the Senator concludes. ''that Judge Parker would be the strongest candidate. One of the chiefest objections urged against him Is really one of the strongest arguments in his favor-that Is, that his public career has been on the bench and not in active politics. The most important question is that. of putting in the White House a man of sound mind. candidate of judi cial temper. with a deep reverence for law, and that conservative spirit, that respect for precedent and traditions. which is characteristic of the judicial mind, will present a vivid contrast to our headlong President with his mis- chievous propensities for lawless conduct
 T know enough of Judge Parker to know that he is & great lawyer and great judge; that his record as a Demo crat Is straight and everybody in New York. Democrat or mugwump, admits that his character for integrity Is above reproach. I am not tied to Judge Par ker. I never saw him in my life. and have had no conference or correspond ence with his friends with respect to his candidacy. I am looking at It simply from the standpoint of the best interest of the Democratic party. Let somebody show me a better man and I am willing to take him. R. H. Watkins.