The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-27
NEW YORK NOT
EASY FOR PARKER
Watson, Bryan and Hearst Influ-
ence Will Not Help the
Judge Much.
BRYAN DEMOCRATS
TURN TO ROOSEVELT
Situation Improves for Republi-
ans-Adjoi States Seem
Safe for Roosevelt.
BY w, w, Jermane.

BY W. w. Jermane.
New York, Aug. 27.-The World Is
going over this city with f1ne-tooth
comb, in q hunt for gold democrats
who say they will vote for Parker, and
when it finds one, it makes as much
fuss as the father of the prodigal son
when that son returned. 1t interviews
him at length, and usually caps the
interview with editorial mention. But
the World is saying nothing about the
thousands, perhaps tens of thousands,
of up-to-date populists and Bryan
democrats who this year will vote for
either Tom Watson or Roosevelt. These
men cannot stomach Parker, and they
are saying so in such numbers as to
give some Of the more thoughtful
democratic managers cause for I'M
easiness. It was not by accident that
Tom Watson was brought all the way
from his rural home in Georgia to
Cooper Union, in New York, to make
his speech accepting the popul1st
nomination for governor. Somebody
hired the hall, paid his. railroad fare,
and took care Of all the numerous
incidental expenses connected with the
affair. All that Watson did was to
make his speech, and in cold type it is
a singing arraignment of the demo-
cratic party for its failure to stand
pat" and "stay put" He doesn't say
very complimentary things about the
republican party, but he does give 1t
the credit Of consistency and Of being
able to do things On the whole, the
speech gives the republican party de-
cidedly the better of the argument,
and leaves no populist or Bryan demo-
crat an excuse for voting against
Roosevelt, provided his leanings are
In that direction.
It isn't by accident that the New
nd
thin democratic paper in New York
which was supporting Bryan when the
World, now the particular champion
of Parker, was supporting Mckinley,
Is calling attention to the Watson adj
dress In type SO black that it can be
read at more than arms length. The
Journal owner is far from being salts
fed with the way the democratic party
has behaved itself this year, and his
support of the Parker ticket will not
be Of a character that will do Roose-
welt any particular harm. In a word,
the populists and Bryan democrats
of New York, of whom there are per-
haps $4,000, in the opinion of experts,
or probably more than enough to con-
troll the balance Of power, are being
encouraged to vote for Roosevelt. For
every gold democrat brought back into
the fold by the World, it is said there
are ten populists and Bryanites who
will stay out.
Bryan's attitude Of lukewarnness
toward Parker makes 1t all the easier
to make the appeal just referred to.
1t Is true that Bryan Is supporting
Parker, but it Is a support which will
not mean much when it comes to
wants Is to be regular during this
campaign. He expects Parker will be
defeated, in fact wants him defeated,
and will lay his own plans to control
the party for the radical element In
1908. In this work he has the SYM
pathy Of w. r. Hearst. Together
they make quite a team, and the dem
ooratic donkey will have a hard time
pulling against them this year.
Republican Situation Improves.
Had the election come within q
week or two after the ST. Louis con.
vention, it Is generally believed that
Parker would have carried it, by 6
wide margin. but with the lapse OF
time there has come the inevitable re.
action. When 1t is said that the state
is now looked upon as being very
close, which means a probable plural.
ity Of not more than 10000 either
way, it will be understood that the re-
publican outlook has greatly i'm
proved.
New York would have to go FOL
Parker by from 7b, 600 to 100000, per
Connecticut, which the democrats
must also carry if they would win. A
close result in New York, even tho 1
were in Parker's favor, would proba
named would be for Roosevelt and
Is this feature of the situation which
is now particularly encouraging to re
publicans.
Murphy Carren Feud.
IN,
other hopeful sign for the republicans
There has been a truce patched UP
and the announcement is made tina
the two rivals will carry their dis
agreement into the primary contest
which will eliminate August 80, an,
abide by the result there obtained
Meanwhile, Senator Bowling, Tam
many man, has been made a membe
Of the state executive committee
under McCarren as chairman, and /
to have charge of the work Of organic
ing in Greater New York. Murph,
says, in return for the Bowling ap
pointment, that he will get out the full
party vote. That means only the or
ganization vote. 1t is now believe,
that the primaries will not settle tn
will make another appeal this time t
the state convention, and that no com
promise ground can possibly b
reached.
Senator McCarren for many year
has been the undisputeG leader of tn
Brooklyn democracy, a. sort of kin
of Long Island. When Murphy wa
made the leader of Tammany, follow
ing the urban consolidate n which j
known as Greater New York, he con
ceived the plan of extending the juris
diction of Tammany beyond Manhat
tan island to which 1t had previousl
been limited, so as to embrac
Brooklyn, the Bronx and the othe
communities which help make up tn
greater city To this plan McCarre
objected, holding that such a con
solidation would make him merely
Tammany subordinate, and depriv
him of any real voice in the manage
ment of the Brooklyn organization.
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