The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-12
A POST MoRTEM.
Mx. Thes. H. Clarke Attempts 10 Ex-
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plain Way the khtscnt Ds
 Washington, Nov. 1o.-(special cor. respondence .)-I have been nurranso @ at ell the morning by friends. who would hail me a squaIc away ana az vance filled with laughter at the signt of me. Democrats as well as Hepup- :
 leans girded good naturedY t, aey
 ken q contract to elect Judge Parker.
 The deeper feeling of the Democrats was that the result had been so oyer. whelning that 1t was best 10 @ Iooh hsst s
 our knees awhile before we begun to attempt an explanation. what IS the
 recently for the express purpose of seeing the stairway landing where Burchard's famous Rum. Romanism greatest difiiculty in locating. the spot. The first man I approached had never heard of the incident. He kindly re- ferred me to an old habitue seated in wss yne sI, Sorne ana 'Gis agpproaehe8 the clerks desk. The first clerk po-- ltely asked another clerk If he had ever heard of Blaine's receiving an ad- whore Blaine stood on that occasion. Ignorance, total, complete. I set out Tor. myself to explore and stopping ser wants. walters and guests at every turp z thdly IouHu u IldH WHO plohcbScu tc
 know where this political function was held and he conducted me to the place mention this experience, or course, just to secure peg on which not defeat Elaine, nor did Conkling.
 nor did the rain in Northern New York.
 Hiains was beaten by the failure of a suficient number of people to vote for sIsn, atm do win Tor him a majority in the
 So also. it is idle to look for any one specific cause for the disaster that has overtaken Judge Parker and the Dem- of suggestions looking to find one good phenomenai victory. The one most freqnently ventured is that Parker's him. This seems to me individually to be fpreposterous The President an- grily denied something that Judge Parker had never charged. He did ance between the Republican party and the protected interests of the country. nor that these interests were support ing his candidacy with mony. That gain. nobody believed for there was absolutely no occasion for such a com pact. Judge Parker while not charg- ing an actual bargain, did charge an port the Republican ticket. We may count on being remembered to Our ad- vantage for It." This has always been tne case. alweys will be the ease and the Democratic candidate was merely using his vantage ground as the spokesman of a great party to fix the attention of the country upon an evil condition. Certainly nothing that ' charge was made led me to think the candidate had made a mistake. He rather ar2used indignation that thing go revofting should be true and ] think halnAH hirnsa1f hx,h
 MT. Bryan is taken to task in some quarters. My own respect for Bryan never very great 1t is true, has beep dargely enhanced during this campaign him credit for having done his level best for the ticket and having sub. stanttally helped wherever he went.
 Ine Nationai Committee can not with any dereiiction. The delicate question of the selection of a Chairman was was handled with great skill after cer- bad tain western and Southern members own. The Committee worked hard and intelligently and they had the sa- SSaeious S assistance of Judge Parker. trim, less divided by factions or more narmonious. What In the name of consG,enGe' she1SS' then, then was the matter?
 widespread satisfactlon with the exist ing order in business. There were spots spots here and there at the North rested but in the main the country was to change. The second cause was inc distrust with many voters of what The New York Sun described with caustic hatred as the Huns that staIEed in the rear of the Democratic Party" the IonE-haired dreamers afflicted with all manner of financial vagaries. These h leanings doubted the proprietv 6f gfV4ng the whole Democratic party a chance to compound a legislative broth. financial or otherwise.
 Thirdly. but with no excessive em- phasis, Roosevelt's personal popularity. He has alarmed conservatives, but he mas won upon the younger generation. senator Lodge frankly allows there Is and he boldly avows the American peo- pie like the quality. infer from Fuesday's result that they. do.
 What of the future? One of the have met here said to me the night of the election: The Democratic party is is d dead and done for" confessed y1ew yaw no r1a F1eason n.m to take so gloomy buried many parties and it f"1s may yst yet directly from the people it Is not like " to Iose constant inspiration of some kind by contact with the people. Mir, Bryan unquestionably has a great op- portunity before him. He Is general iy acclaimed here as the real con1inE leader and possible nominee. Know ing how swiftly events march with us It seems to me to be talking fatu- ously In trying to decide such rnomen- tous matters so far ip advance. One thing is clear. there is a solemn re- sponsioility put upon the South by the outcome on November 8. Our people our statesmen must walk discreetIv and keep clear heads. Storms of somS sort are likely to blow