The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1904-07-15
BARKER TELEGRAM LOSES VOTES
ONLY WHERE ROOSEVELT
is SUPREME.
New York, Indiana and Similar STATES
Made the Fighting Ground OF
Yore.

have been put up job" but it had
that appearance. and Bryan, IN his
first speech to the convention Satur-
day night, said that was what he
Thought it. | refer to the message
from Judge Parker, in which he SAID
he was unalterably for the gold stand
ard and would act accordingly if elect
ed.
The resolutions committee of the
convention had defeated the curren-
CIV question for sixteen hours, finally
agreeing, in the interest of harmony,
not to mention it in the platform. On
this compromise all factions of the
party stood and the platform was
adopted by unanimous vote.
When word reached the east that
there had been a platform agreement,
the leaders of the gold democrats,
whose favor must be secured IN order
to give the democracy standing in
this campaign, were furious. They
deIuged St Louis with kilograms. and
apparently there was a heavy rain
fan of them at Esopus-o on the Hud-
son also.
The net effect of the Parker mes
sage and the answer the convention
sent thereto, is to commit the demo-
cratic party to the gold standard.
Support In East.
SO far as Parker is concerned per-
sonally, that telegram has insured him
the support of the gold democratic
forces in the states where they are
strongest. namely: New York, New
Jersey Connecticut. Rhode Island,
Delaware, West Virginia. Maryland
and Indiana. 1t has lost him support
in all the states west of the MISSISSIPPI
pi, whele silver was strongest, but
that loss will not change a single cleo
tOral vote, for Roosevelt will carry
those states anyway. The Parker tel
egram Will simply increase the Roose-
welt pluralities in the west.
AS illustrating the effect the tele-
gram viii have in gold democratic
states, l cite the Indiana situation. 1t
is in this state that the campaign in
the middle west will be conferred. 1t
was doubtful state until silver be-
came the issue; but. beginning with
and since 1896, it has gone republican
by steadily increasing majorites I'M
til ii touched highwater mark with
Mckinley in 1900, giving him a major
ity of almost $4,000. A number of the
leading gold democrats of indianapolis
were in St Louis last week. They
were greatly disappointed When the
platform compromise was announced
and said that compromise would give
Indiana to Roosevelt. But after the
Parker telegram had been received
and answered, they recovered their
smiles and good humor and said Indi-
ana would go for Parker One of these
gold democrats, an indianapolis man
worth many Millions who voted for
Mckinley both times, openly an
nounced last night in the lobby of the
Planters that he would give $4,000 to
the democratic campaign fund this
year now that the Parker kilograms
had committed the party to the gold
standard. The strength of the gold
democratic vote in Indiana is rough
ly estimated at 10000. Give that vote
to Parker and the republican ma ioritv
OF Indiana again drops to less than
10000, making the state doubtful.
In New York and the states near it.
there is situation similar to that in
Indiana. The difference between these
states and Indiana. so far as the gold
democracy is concerned. is a differ
ence 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
NolhpallSohS OF votes, electoral and
popular in these states must be made
for the purpose of all 1904 estimates.
with 1888 and 1892. and not with the
Mckinley years
In other words. the democratic
party of 1904 will be sage and sane
40 use the Cleveland phrase. and none
OF the issues of 1895 or 1900 will be
paramount. The tariff and trusts and
RooseNelts personality will be the
chief campaign cries of the democracy
and the republican party must answe,
them without reference to the McKin.
ley epoch.
This is the condition of affairs TO,