Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-18
PARKER ASTOUNOED
At Information by His Com
mittee Chairman.
THE BEST ESTIMATE
LEAVES EIGHT SHORT OF ENOUGH
TO ELECT.
Nothing but Political Revolution Can
Save the Ticket-Cause
Of Apathy.
THE BEST ESTIMATE

The democratic candidate for President
has been advised within the past few days
by the chairman of the democratic national
committee that the inside estimate of the
probable electoral vote gives Judge Parker
2OS or thirty-one short of a majority; that
a liberal estimate of further possibilities
brings the total up to only 231. still
leaving eight votes necessary to be OBJ
tained.
This the statement made to a Star
reporter today by democrat OF promi-
nence who recently visited Esopus and who
came south again very much discouraged
at the outlook represented by the ma
tional managers. The inference left to
be drawn by the head of the party was that
only political revolution save the
ticket. The information did not go to the
extent of disclosing that the democratic
managers saw signs of such revolution.
The Best Estimate.
The POS votes which the chairman of the
national committee is alleged TO have
promised Judge Parker comprised the solid
south. Isl: New York, 80; West Virginia, Z.
Nevada, 3, and Maryland, s. There was
possibility of increasing this by the addi-
ton of New Jersey T.: Connecticut. I, and
Rhode Island. 4. making total of 231, and
still leaving eight short
The foregoing was said to be the best
estimate the democratic managers could
make for their candidate. 1t will be OBJ
served that it includes New Jersey and
Connecticut. which the republicans deem
absolutely safe republican states. and that
1t takes in New York, which the republicans
do not by any means concede.
The democratic managers. 1t is alleged.
were forced to admit that nothing short of
hRh i,to
democratic column Indiana. Wisconsin, IL
hnois, Nebraska and some of the mountain
states could accomplish the election of
Judge Parker
Accounts for Apathy.
1t was intimated to The Star reporter by
the man who brought the foregoing infor-
nation to town that the recent condition OF
apathy around national headquarters which
was so marked as to call forth protests
from the New York World and severe
comment from other democratic newspa-
pers of the metropolis. might be accounted
for on the score of the apparent unfavora-
bic prospect. as shown by the national
chairmans figures.
1T appears to me-" said The Stars in
formane, that the attitude of the mana
gers in New York is one Of waiting for
something to happen; they are keeping the
&,
are looking for an undefnable undercurrent
of democratic strength which they think is
latent in the country and liable to be mani
tested at any moment
Judge Parker Astounded
Judge Parker was astounded at the cold
blooded exposition of the situation present
ed by his national managers. He had been
fiattered by some of the enthusiastic WIS.,
itors from the interior who represented to
him that the whole west was afiame with
democratic sentiment. that Illinois, Michi-
gan, Indiana and Kansas were good fight
ing ground. and that Nebraska, Colorado
and Montana were safely democratic. Mr.
Champ Clark had filled the judges mind
with a similar impression, and he could
hardly believe his ears when he told
by men at the head of his campaign COM
mittee that the normal chances not only
were against him. but that 1t would be
practically a political miracle If he were
elected
The most significant feature of the esti-
mate given by the national managers to
their leaders the complete elimination
from the calculation of Indiana and Illi-
nois. Virtually, II was conceding those
states to the opposition. great many
democrats In these parts are cherishing the
hope that Indiana and Illinois will yet
the ticket and they may be interested to
learn from the foregoing that according to
the account of The Stars informant, those
states are out of it,