The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-02-12
Sentiment No Longer With
 the Nebraskan.
Parker Seems to Be the Favorite for the Presidential Nomination, While the Friends of cleve-
 land Are Legion.

Brooklyn Eagle. sends his paper the fol. lowing from Memphis, Tenn. under to- days date: -.4s- v
 In Tennessee the Chairman of the Dcm- ocratic State Committee is out for Chief Judge Parker for President, following the lead of Senator Carnock. the orig inal Parker man of the South. The forcefcl Democratic leaders, the Dem- ocratic business men. the Cleveland and Bryan factionaiists of the past, all ap- pear to consider the New York jurist a particularly available candidate. It is too early to say that the Tennessee Democ- racy has made up its mind what it shall do at St. Louis. but it may safely be said that Mir. Parker has a long lea0 Tn tue race. The chairman of the State Committee, Frank M. Thompson, puts the case in this way:
 am for Parker, It is not necessary to reafiirm the Kansas City platform. The scheme of human wisdom was not exhausted in 1t and doubtless there will be men at St. Louis able to write a platform without being either hampered or bothered by the Kansas City platform. am not in favor of any one man doni- mating the convention" h'
 It is the intention of the Tennessee Dem- ocrdts to send a delegation of their best HIGH to Ot. lOulS tO NOtC WAtu thC ANOh NaA and South for platform and a candi- dlto best adapted to the party require mcn;s in the doubtful Northern States. It Is worthy of note that the delegation will probably contain Democrats favor s.hle to Parker, olney, Gray. German and Cleveland, but none favorable to the re- a.!irmaiion of the Kansas City platform. It !s worthy of note also that there Is a strong Gle. eland sentiment in the State.
 Tho (icve.dnd sentiment, and the argu- rients underlying 1t, were characteristic ally expressed today by. Mir. W. J. Craw- ford, the President of The Memphis Com mcrcial Appeal Company and one of tine stanch Southern old-school Democrats w',o did not abandon the Democracy in 1,36 although strongly opposed to free silver and to the party ascendancy of Mir. Bryan. MT. Crawford wished 1t under stood that his remarks expressed his own personal views as distinguished from the LL inions expressed by The Commercial Appeal as a newspaper. The Commer- cfal-Appeal' has, however, repudiated MT. Bryan in an editorial endorsing the views of the South taken in this correspond Snce of The Brooklyn Eagle: -,s
 MT. Crawford said. in response to ques- tiona:
 ,'Mr. Cleveland should be nominated. He SHOulu nave d AuhiihS hAuSS AAOAAA SAAo west. Mir. Francis, of Missouri. is the right type of a man to run for Vice Fl esident with Mir. Cleveland. I see no use in beating about the bush in regard 10 Democratic issues, or Democratic can didates The issues of the day are the tariff, Federal taxation and trusts. Mfr. Cleveland Is the man. No other issues supersede these in national importance. No other man can so surely. be elected on them.
 .'Mr. Cleveland has no clements of weakness as a candidate. He would get the Democratic electoral vote of the South. He would inevitably, with MT. Roosevelt as the Republican nominee. snIit inc Republican vote of the North, and carry the States of New York, New Jersey. Connecticut, Rhode Island. Eel aware. Maryland. and Indiana, We are not foolish enough to suppose that any radical Democrat, or any Democrat, who ia unknown to the country, or who does ,,ot it into the plain requirements of the nolitical situation in the country, could do this. It is because Mir. Cleveland IS known as the one great living exponent of those fundamental principles or con seryatism and stability In government that he should be the candidate, ana that he would carry the North.
 CT do not believe MT. Cleveland would refuse to run. He would probably re- f,se if his candidacy was a mere proposi- lion of politics, but 1t Is not: 1t Is a national emergency which, calls for his services. The Democratic party should po ahead and nominate him. without ask in0 his consent and in notifying him or his nomination, it should say:. We have. royn,nated you because the country re- cuires your services and because the Democratic party desires to restore the country to the basis of safety and soli- darity which you once gave It as Presi- dent request so preferred Tor sacri- flee so plainly demanded by political con- ditions could not fail to impress him.
 "Mr. Bryan is not a factor at all. He ia not A Democrat. He has never been a Democrat. He would exterminate the trusts by destroying the business of the country. He would prevent a business house, incorporated in one State. from carving on business in other States. If he found a bug in the house he would tear down the house. I am not de- fender of the trust system in any of it's illegal or oppressive aspects, but l am business man, and do not consider MT. Bryan's prescription for business sound or Democratic. The South cannot he influenced by him. His power In Southern poiluSS anu AA A'@e'A
 is gone. ,.,
 "There should be no hesitation in nomi- hating MT. Cleveland on Mir. Bryan's ac- count. There should be no uneasiness in the Democratic centers of the North over the South's relationships to MT Bryan. The silver issue is dead, It was that issue which brought MT. Bryan to the front. All the hope which the Southern Democracy has of winning Is predicated on the extinction of Bryanism The South is unalterably opposed to the eaf1rmation of the Kansas City platform. The South knows that the Democratic marty cannot be successful so long as 1t goes before the country on those issues. There is no issue of expansiont That issue is dead. To argue against expansion is ! to argue against the commercial develop ment of the South. It was not until Japan began to manufacture cotton goods that the price of cotton began to climb. Of what use is 1t then to tell the South that we don't want cotton mills at ManilaT'
 Tennessee subscribed to the free silver doctrine in 1896 on the quantitative | theory. The Tennessee Democrats now | adequate supply of gold has rendered the quantitative theory abortiye as applied to the gold standard and the coinage oi silver. They are also fully alive to the fact that the Republican party of the State. which number 99.S9S votes in 1882 the year of Mir. Cleveland's last election grew to 14S,793 votes in 1896 and came within 14.S74 votes of giving the Tennes. see electoral vote to William Mckinley | In 1900. 1S 401 Democratic voters who voted | for Mir Bryan in 1896 did not go to the