The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-04-01
|CLEARINl OF ATMOSPHERE }! FactioyS Are Uniting on Y Parker. REBUKE TO W. R. HEARST Ignorance and InsOlence the
 Editors Characteristics. Horror of the Hearst-Bryan Combina- tiop Causes Unbought and Un-
 bryable Democrats to Unite
 on Alton B. Parker.
Advertiser Bureau, Colorado Building,

The Democratic atmosphere has been clearing wonderfully within the past week. The real masters of party politics here who are refiecting the intense desire of the people generally to be rid of Roose- veltism on the one hand and radicaIism under the guise of Democracy on the other. are coming to see the light of vic tory looming definitely.
 The most satisfactory evidence that all Is well has been coming from New York within the past two days. Messages and tokens have come from all parts of the State to Democrats here from Democrats in New York of all shades and factions, giving assurance of sanguine hope in-the prospective choice of New York for Judge Parker. as the presidential nominee. The old Cleveland men and the leading men who Loyalty stood by Bryan are going together on the Parker platform. and 1t seems foregone conclusion that the Democracy. of the Empire State are making ready for a grand militant triumph.
 Hearst the Cause.
 Undoubtedly the chief moving provok- ing cause of this is the candidacy of Will liam R. Hearst. Even the great inde- pendent element of New York Is plainly active in aiding to save the Democracy from prostitution. The connivance of Will Ham J. Bryan with Hearst, or at least his permitting his appeal along moral lines to be linked with the Hearst move- ment, has amazed all those one time Bry- an men who had believed him sincere enough to be a martyr to any. cause in which he had faith.
 Bryan has eliminated everybody but Hearst. and yet Hearst. in his editorial coimuns. has opposed every issue that haa x.ar yr1nY nt i'm ha v,atx, notably the gold standard and imperial ism, which the Hearst papers have advo- cated.
 The New York Evening Post tonight has this editorial:
 Judge Parker win not be tempted to interpret the marked turning of Demo- crats all over the country to him, which as all can see, makes ms nomination at St. Louis highly probable, as a personal compliment. It is not magnetic leader ship which draws all eyes to him. not popular qualities. not oratory, nor enthu- siasm, nor even a skillful political or sanization. but chiefly the anxiety of his party to find a deliveter.
 Ignorance and Insolence.
 An unprecedented combination of ig- norance and insolence. of wealthy vice and reckless agitation. had been formed to steal a march on decent Democrats and capture the Presidential nomination before they woke up. It is the growing horror of this Bryan-Hearst conspiracy which has led the unbought members oi the party to look so eagerly to Judge Parker. He has appeared to them availa. ble; he has stood for that dignity and honor of the party which Hearst and Bryan would drag in the gutter: and with his own State now united in his support honest Democrats everywhere are think ing of him as the best man with whom to beat off the degraded corruptioniGts seeking to buy and prostitute the Demo. cracy.
 Tt is already a great triumph for de- cency. for the Hearst candidacy Is oh- viously falling back into the ooze where 1t was spawned. A few delegates, bought like cattle in advance. are declaring fol him here and there. but in general his while the cry of indignant Democrats is rising throughout the land, in the face of his bribes, thy money perish with thee.'
 The South Stands Firm.
 Tt is greatly to the credit of the South that it has refused to defle itself with Hearst. As politician, 1t looks upon him as joke; as a man, with unspeak- able bathing. With no candidate of
 
 Northern Democrats to give them lead CT, and now that Judge Parker Is ap. parently the indicated man. the South is Hooking to him with great unanimity It is not SO much that they are drawn to Parker, as they are driven from Hearst.
 "The San Francisco Star gives us the verdict of the vicinage upon Hearst and his campaign. Promising that his nomi- nation would necessarily make of the canvass one long outpouring of obscene literature, it explains the headway his hired agents have been able to make as due either to the power and size O. his displeasure of Hearst's multifarious newspapers.
 Humiliating Evidence.
 ''Humiiating evidence of the latter has been given in Eastern States Both the Governor of Massa chusetts Republican n) and the Governor of Rhode Island (Dem- ocraO cringed before Hearst on the oc- casion of his recent newspaper invasion of Boston. But this will soon mass. The man is now going stark mad in the vuI- garity of his self elf-advertisement through his own newspapers that a reaction is bound to set in. By his own political ruin. his blaring oracle of the press may lose prestige. Even the ignorant and minimizing may cease to care for jour. hdiS WiiCH tNlsl onLN 10 make their owner notorious. As Voltaire said Q: Rabelais, there is such thing as filth producing ennui.
 No one familiar with conditions in New England, for example, can say that the Hearst movement there stands for real Democratic sentiment The most that 1t signifies is that Democrats fac tionists have taken Hearsts money to compass private and local purposes. They would accept the devils to the same end That is the explanation of the Hearst furry in Hartford. Conn. after the recent Democratic primaries. It was dissipated when the subsequent town convention rejected Hearst induce ment with derlsion
 Patronage the Object.
 Like tactics are observable in New Haven. New London, and other pla es lin Connecticut, as also in Massachusetts cities. and the so-called Hearst faction which triuunnhed recently in Rhode Is-