The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1904-03-13
Brooklyn Eagles Political Expert
Saws State ut First. However,
Will support COckrell.
LEADERS WANT HARMONY.
Desire but Slightly Modified Plat.
form. Will Not Stand for
CleveIand's Nomination
and Are Against
Hearst.
The Republic Bureau.
rs Time. RUilfinE

las Times Building.
New York. March 1S.-Thc Brooklyn
Eagle. friendly to Judge Parker. publishes
the following dispatch from its stan CORE
s~poudent, Mr.. flaming, who is now in Mis-
s6uri:
St. Louis, No. March l2.-The Demo
cratic leaders of Missouri are committed
to the candidacy OF Senator +. NJ. Cock
rell for President. They agreed upon that
course at an informal meeting in Moberly
some time ago, and unless some unforeseen
complications grow out of the fight for
the ~gubcrnatorial nomination there will be
an instructed delegation for him. The
wisdom of this Endorsement of a ia
favorite son is conclusively demonstrated
by existing divisions in the State
Democracy. which would certainly other
wise impair the influence of Missouri in
the National Convention.
Senator Cockrell is a very popular
Democrat in Missouri. He is aloof from
factions, has seen much service in Wash
ington. and is the oracle of Democracy in
his home State. The leaders have only
obeyed the wishes OF the voters in pro-
posing him for preferment in National
politics.
Missouri Democrats do not Xpect Mr..
COckTBH 10 pc nominated. LOT lltS DGlSNt
the presidential candidate will be selected
from a Northern State, in order that their
party may offer the most direct and tell
ing opposition to Republicanism in North-
eTn States, which are not invariably Re
publican. They desire. however, to have
an important influence in the Resolutions
of the convention and in the
making up of the national ticket, and they
believe that Senator Cockrell's candidacy
will assure 1t to them. AS the Democratic
judgment OF Missouri is summarized by
the leaders Of greatest influence. IT IS
p~ronouncedly in favor of a platform SINH
lar to that of 1870, and a candidate WEo
will not offend the Democracy of the West,
which carried the responsibility of the
Bryan campaign in that year and in 1885.
are understood TO be Senator Cock
reiIs views.
Missouri was one of the strongest of the
silver States during the Bryan a~scenden-
tanned since 1872 was the 5S,I27 of MI.
Bryan in 1895, and Mr.. Bryan ran $50
ahead of the candidate for Governor in
iteration of sentiment here since 1900, as
there has been In the States. of the East
and Middle West and South Some OF
the leaders lean toward a moderate con-
servatism. Some of the Democratic bust
ness men of st. Louis and Kansas City
are ~outspokenly favorable to the noml-
nation of Mr.. Cleveland. The country
voters, n the rank and file in the cities
are declared by competent judges to be
as uncompromisingly radical as they were
when the State went wild over Bryan IN
his two campaigns for the presidency.
POSITION ON PLATFORM.
The Bryan fight at st. Loui is going to
be on the platform, which a majority vote
will adopt. The Missouri Democracy will
probably be with Mr. Bryan and Mr..
Hearst on any propositions which they
submit against the conservative East and
South.
1t is not to be assumed from this, how
Nyar that MiGantYri mav land in the Hearst
column II opportunities are lacking for the
nomination of Mr.. Cockrell. Neither the
leaders nor voters are in favor OF
Mr.. Hearst's nomination. and the leaders
have the machinery OF the party too well
in hand to release 1t Gnder the pressure
Of any outside campaign TO lake it from
them. Efforts made by the Hearst man
a gers in that direction have been to all p
entirely unsuccessful.
II the Missouri delegation withdraw
Cockrelfs name in the convention
as It may manifest itself toward MIR;
Bryan and oward Chief Judge Parker OF
York. If the platform Is a reafnrIna-
ton of the Kansas City announcement;
is very apt. according to good
Judges here, to lead the convention into a
for Mr.. Bryan, believing that
who could be named. II, on the other
hand. the platform is conservative Rlthout
friction-breeding features. the missouri
delegation will probably vote sohdty io III
lie AloLAllAldAAOAA Va -
the Missouri leaders who Will express
on the subject declare 1hsI
the State will not, under any cIrcH
stances. vote for Mr.. Clevelands nomlnd,
ton. Ii is. nevertheless, generally agreed
that IL Mr.. Cleveland were TO be nominaieu
would carry the state by a sdle pru-
In Mr.. Cleveland's threa caml-
paIgns hie pluralities were: 1884, SS,NS' 1889
25,7is: 1892. 41,4sO.
CONGRBSSMEN.
Af;ssouri's congressional delegation IS
of two Democratic Senators,
Mr. CockrelI and Ex-Governor William J.
stone, National Committeeman. and NJ
teen Democratic and one Republican Rep
reSentative-
The Democratic Representatives include
A. Dc Almond, ". s. Cowherd, u.
w Shackelford and Champ Clark. These
,nntusI Cancellation between the radical
and conservative branches OF the Democ-
racy, on the ground that continued separa-
ton will make the campaign hopeLess az
.adicaism. their views meet squarely
of the Parker managers in New
York from the standpoint OF conservatism.
Governor Dockery. former state Chair-
man Seibert. Secretary of State Cook;
,Rothwell and three principal
for the Democratic nominal
ton for Governor. James A. Reed OF
Kansas City. Circuit Attorney joseph w.
Folk of this city and Harry B. Halves,
leg der Of the st LOUIS lily .DeIlOCIdCg- |
In this condition of affairs II is seen that
conservative chances In Missouri are more
or less bound up in the Parker candidacy.
will not consent to the nominal
tjon of MFR. Cleveland or Mr.. Olney or
hudson Harmon or Judge Gray. or any
other man who left the Democracy in
1896. or who is now associated In the pro-
conservative propaganda. the aim of
is to override Mr.. Bryan and crush
the life out of Democratic radicalism. It
was upon the knowledge that Judge Par
ker was regular in the Bryan campaigns,
mon the assumption that he desires. |
above all other considerations of 4 party
nature. to be a unifyine force in Democ- |
racy at this crisis. that the Missouri DEM
ocrats concede his availability.
ADVISING PARKER.
1t is said in st. Louis that the Parker
in New York are, in some es-
sentiaI respects, following the advice of
Missouri leaders in the handling of the
Judges campaign. The New York jurist |
Is criticised in varying degrees by the
Democrats of other Southern States be-
.suse he has not taken a stand upon some
which he considers important In or
" leadership in the party His Missouri
friends not only fail to c~riticise him for
his silence, but they applaud him for it
Judge Missouri advocates want |
lis candidacy to be presented at st.
|ouis as a means of compromise be-
ween the extreme of Organism and the
of Clevelandism. They are firm
lot heal the old wounds of the party can
lope Ia be elected. They believe that If
Parker is named he will exert his /
un powers to bring about harmony; that /