The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-04-21
POLITICAL GOSSIP
Growth of Parker Boom Watch
ed With Interest.
His Nomination Would Be Felt
in Kansas.
MANY FOR HEARST.
Conceded That He Would BE
Strongest Candidate.
His Defeat Would Dishearten
Many Kansans.

The action of the New York Dem0-
cratic convention in instructing for
Judge Parker for president will I'M
doubtedly give new life to the Parker
boom. The action of the Democrats of
New York has been awaited by Demo-
Gratis all over the country and will
doubtless have considerable bearing
on the result of the Democratic nation
al convention at St. Louis on July 6.
Heretofore 1.-The field" has been
against Hearst. At first the candidacy
of the millionaire newspaper man was
looked upon as joke, but it assumed
serious proportions. 1t finally got to
the point where the Cleveland Demo-
Gratis had to actively fight him, and if
New York had sent an uninstructed
delegation to st. Louis Hearst would
have stood good chance to secure the
nomination. AS it is his chances are
materially lessened, although Parker
may draw considerable fire from other
candidates that has heretofore been di
rected at HeaSt.
The nomination of Parker will make
much harder shedding for the Demo-
Gratis of Kansas than would Hearst's
nomination-that is, for the Democrat
ic ticket With Hearst as the Demo-
cratic nominee for president there
p1ete fusion between the POpulistS and
Democrats in Kansas, and Hearst would
therefore add much strength to the
Democratic state ticket. With Parker
as the presidential nominee fusion will
not be so certain and there will doubt
less be a considerable number of Pop
u1istS who will not vote for Parker
and their detection from the national
ticket would also injure all down the
line. Since Grover Cleveland has en-
dOrsed Parker, the latter is looked up
on as representing the Cleveland wing
of the party, and the Populists will
ut Ecx hi 70 n
landism.
It is probable. however. that Par
ker is the strongest candidate the
Democrats can nominate in the mat
ter of securing electoral votes. That
is, he can come nearer an election
than anv other man. for there is
possibility that he might carry New
York and some of the other close
states, which Hearst probably would
not carry, while Hearst would stand
little show against Roosevelt in the
West 1t is this that makes Parker
strong candidate for the nomina-
ton.
If Parker is nominated the fusion
Democrats and PopulistS may have
some trouble in ironing, out the diff
ferences between the parties and in
Populists especially. Whether they
are successful will probably depend
upon the situation in Kansas along
about the first of August The action
of the Kansas Democrats at st. Louis
may also have some bearing upon the
Democrats. If the Kansas delegation,
or a considerable part of it, seems to
be for Hearst in good faith the POpu-
lists may take it is an evidence of
good faith and consent to fusion upon
a state ticket.
Colonel D. R. Anthony is of the
unanimous opinion that the State
Election Board should be impeached.
J. B. Dykes of Smith county from
the Populist party and his announce
ment that he will support the Re
publicans, Major a. M. Harvey says
he expects a continuous performance
from DR.. Dykes along this line all
summer He expects Dykes to do his
boiling stunt two or three times, like
Little Eva in the Uncle Tom shows,
encored.
you watch and see if I am not
right about it," said Major Harvey to-
day. Dykes will leave the Populists
and join the Republicans off and on
all summer He has already made his
first bolt expecting some other fell
lows to follow him, but they are not
doing It He may try it again along
during the SUMNER can't say for
sure, but he will bolt over again after
our August convention all right"
Mike Sutton of Dodge City. formerly
one of the big Republican leaders of
Kansas, but who is now on the retired
list is quoted as making the following
prediction:
1.-The people are tired of graft The
issue of 1908 will not be money or
tariff but graft, and Joseph Folk of
Missouri will be elected president on
that issue. The people are honest and
will make graft the issue in spite of
holder and professional politician the
people are Independent and few will
be bound by party ties
The Southwestern Grain and Flour
Dealer urges the Democrats to nom
mate Senator Harry Mcmillan of OF
tawa county and David Overmyer of
Topeka for railroad commissioners.
Mcmillan insists that he does not want
to run for railroad commissioner but
prefers to run for his old place in the
senate, but he might be drafted"
Douglas Tribune: J. R. Burton is
not the only public man whose private
character and public life is blurred
with vice and wrong doing. The state
or the nation suffers disgrace and hui
initiation every time such a man in a
high position is exposed. The public
should see to it that men with rotten
characters are not exalted with public
honors.
The Lawrence Journal thinks that
some of the men who are mentioned
for Burton's place in the United States
senate are like the relative of the i'm
mortal Uncle Chester ThomasAthey
Couldn't be elected if they wasn't no
body runnin' agin en-
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