The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-07
THOMAS H. CLARK WRITES
 OF CAMP PAIGN IN THE EAST

that shows the progress that millions of negroes ase making at the south and concluding by asking IT It is uh- fair to beg that these essentially kindly relations should not be disturbed. l am persuaded this is after all the most effective appeal to make. It Is tne stronger because 1t Is making itseil felt to the conservative mind or the North.
 Let me add I have looked at the ne- rro at the North, curiously, of course, hui with~a curiosity keenly aroused He is no such happy creature here as he Is with us. If he Is. he does not look 1t. In the main they look driven. care- worn and oppressed as If the prob lem of existence was a heavy tax upon their minds. | can easily believe in the greater rush of life here, and with the really stronger prejudices against him on the part of the whites. he must feel oftentimes like hunted thing. When was saying as much as I have just said to Col Francis c. Caffey, now of New York. he demurred to taking their lives in Northern cities as altogether fair types of what they accomplish here; they should be looked at more broadly. I might have said that they do not go to the country in the North; they flock to the bigger cities. I did not say this. I said I had studied the race in St. Lawrence County on the Canadian border. What did you find there7" To confess the truth, I didn't see but one negro there and he had his head stuck through a piece of can-' vass and the farmers at a county fair were engaged in thtowing baseballs at that head. three baseballs for a nickel. Even this one had a sorrowful coun Stxl l,,t., tentment you would observe on a Cuff fees face who had achieved like ca reer at county fairs at the South.
 Your readers will be less interested in hearing the race question discussed than something from the seat of war. Of course I can speak only in a most general way, not that I have been the recipient of condolences that compel me to put strict guard on my pen. The most confidential talk I have had with any of the prominent people has been with Judge Parker himself, and if I cared to repeat what he told me. it would make no sensation; far frfom it. I may interject here. though, that he impressed me as a man of wholly genuine quality, unaffected, but shrewd, of more than ordinary ability and in every way capable of discharging the duties of the office he has been named to fill. It must be apparent to Demo- crats everywhere that his manner of laying a coristraining hand upon dis putants and factions in the Party prove he Is a master craftsman on the purely managerial side of politics. This was exemplified in a striking way at the New York State Convention. and the outcome, a general love feast and a unanimous nomination of Judge Her rick for Governor. It would be diffi- cult to exaggerate the strength of the Democratic position in New York State at this time. Nothing but gross care lessness could lose 1t and there will be no carelessness. gross or little, for there is an extremely able pilot at the helm. According to the calculations here, Herrick will be stronger than Parker, but that is due to the foul stench of Odellism In State affairs.
 say foul stench" deliberately. Ore has to knock about the State fully lo realize with what utter shamelessness Odell has perverted every agency of government he could control to the one end of making money for himself.
 Ordinarily as New York goes, accord . ing to a familiar classification. so goes Connecticut and New Jersey. The Democrats are very confident of elect ing Charles c. Black. their candidate for Governor, In New Jersey, and most of them are confident of Parker's suc- cess there. have been quoted in The Advertiser as saying the New Jersey Democratic rallies have been unprece-