The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-13
LABOR VOTE FOR
PARKER.
Montana Workmen's Pledge
Likely to Be Ratified
by Those Of Other
Western States
CONGRESSMAN cLATT0Ns OPINION
Member From Alabama
Speaks Confidently of the
Prospects OF the Dem-
ocratic Ticket.
CONGRESSMAN CLAYT0N'S OPINION

|
gresham Henry b. Clayton, of Ala
| bama, who is also member of the Nation
al Democratic Committee from that
State, has just returned from an exten-
sive trip through the East He had pre-
yiously been in the West and is therefore
eminently qualified to speak of the politi-
cal conditions of the country. He said:
i regard New York as certain for Judge
Herrick for Governor, and Judge Parker
for President. We will undoubtedly
carry West Virginia, Maryland, Della
have splendid fighting chance in Indi-
ana, and l think that we will carry
enough of the mountain States to make
,Parkg's election reasonably sure. The
contest is probably close, but looks none
the less certain for that reason. The
peculiar difficulties which seem to attend
it are due in large measure to the last
Congressional apportionment which was.
their old winning combination of the
Democratic Eastern States, including
New York with the Democratic South I
have been in receipt recently of some ex-
eellent information from the Rocky
Mountain States, and l believe that we
shall have good news this fall from
nearly all Of them. The Republicans are
getting very boastful of West Virginia,
but believe that the State will be ear
ried for Parker and Dayis. The very
best of reports are daily coming from
that State. The organization is much
stronger there than it has been at any
time and the Vice-Presidential candidate
and Senators German and Raynor have
matters well in hand. We have now
little overt three weeks from now until
the great question will be decided, and |
think that there is vastly more unity
among the Democrats than among the
Republicans in the pivotal States like
Wisconsin for instance, which we will
probably have as margin. 1t seems to
me that we ought to win Wisconsin.
There is the worst kind of bitterness
there, the kind that generally does the
knife act Even if they do for appear
ances sake get together during the last
two weeks of the campaign the harm has
undoubtedly been done, and with the
Democrats having such popular State
ticket to help the National ticket along
those twelve electoral votes ought to be
ours as sort of surplus.
.aTo my mind there is no question as to
how the laboring vote is going this year.
Roosevelt will get very little of it. The
decision of the labor party in Montana
the other day to support Parker to a
| man and urging all other laboring men
to do the same is an indication of how
the sentiment really is. That means the
labor vote in Nevada and Colorado and
probably in many of the other states.
This action was taken Voluntarily No
bid was made for the vote by the Demo-
crats. The labor party did not want
Roosevelt. They had become convinced
that he would do nothing to help them
He had been tried and found wanting,
| they argued, but they We're the sort of
men who would not take up Judge Par
ker until they found how he would prob
ably stand on the labor question. They
did not try to exact any pledge, but care
fully examined his record. They soon
discovered that he had rendered many
decisions while sitting as chief Judge of
the Court of Appeals on matters of in
terest to laboring men and the decisions
had been in their favor and were always
just. This was enough.
sThey are now engaged III sending out
appeals to allied organizations all over
the country to do as they have done aud
vote for the man who will deal as fairly
BY them as Roosevelt does by the trusts.
Already this has had Its effect. Now the
news comes from Pittshurg that organ-
lied labor there has decided 10 cut away
from the Republican party. 1t ssasted
IN the Smoky City with the Building
Trades Council. An appeal has III turn
been issued BIZ thcni aadeey3sa d all
workmeu asking them y xcte for Parker.
They feel Just as the mon who soll III
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