The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-08-13

The ways of latter day Democracy are
mysterious and past finding out. says the
San Francisco Call. In New York the ia
vorite for the ~gubernatorial nomination
is Mr.. Dan Lamont, vice president of the
Northern Paciis, and one of the active
parties to the railroad merger, which the
the suit brought at the Instance of Pres-
Ident Roosevelt. In Minnesota the par
tvs str INCEST candidate for the govern
orship is Mr.. J. ]. Hill, president of the
Great Northern and the author of the
same railroad merger. which he and Mr..
J. p. Morgan effected.
The Republican governor of Minnesota.
Mr.. Van Zant, organized the seven
states that were stricken in their inter.
ests by the merger to resist 1t by The ap-
plicati n of state laws. Mr.. Hill has un-
told millions at his command, as has Mr..
Lamont, and they would both spend lib
orally to secure a popular Endorsement
of the railroad trust, and rebuke. at the
same time, President Roosevelt and
G vernon Van Zant. All of these plans
are laid and hopes entertained by the
party that has been making antitrust
agitation a prominent factor in politics.
Whether Lamont and Hill are nominal
ed or not. the movement for them is in
dicative of their friendship and support
Of Judge Parker. 1t remains to be seen
whether the people will indorse the trust
idea by falling in behind its opponents.
widespread feeling as the combination In
one trust, one management and one pol
Icy of three competing r ads-the Bur-
lington. Northern Pacific and Great
Northern. The prompt action of the
President In enforcing the law saved the
transportation interests Of a vast popu-
lau@n and an enormous productive area.
Will the people rebuke him for 1t? That
remains to be seen.
The muddling of the muddle is fur.ner
assisted by Mr.. Eliot Danforth, who APP
pears with a statement affirming that
man. an usurper. who may ruin the coun-
try any morning Def re breakfast. In
the same article Mr.. Danforth lauds the
honor and the safety of Judge Parker.
and files a bin of particulars. In his he
says hat when Parker was nominated
for chief Judge in 1897 the Gold .Jemo-
Gratis of New York started a movement
to formally indorse him. Thereupon Mr..
Parker to his friends that his
honor would not permit him to accep,
such Endorsement without making his po-
sition known, and that he would prepare
supporter of Mr.. Bryan's views and voted
for him In 1896! If the Gold Democrats,
informed of this, chose then to indorse
him. his honor would permit him to ac-
cept 1t!
Mr.. Danforth puts this out as evidence
of the sensitive nature of the judges
honor. But h happened to l--- quail
ity of the Judge since 1897? Following
the dictates Of h nor as he saw them In
1897. he should have sent his gold stand
ard telegram to the st. Louis convention
before his nomination and not after. Is
there one kind of h nor at stake In a
nomination for chief justice and another
in a nomination for the presidency? Mr..
Danforth has succeeded in prov ng thar
In 1896 Judge Parker was for free silver
and against sound m ney and the COLO
standard. That he held the same posi-
tion in 1900 there Is no doubt. Just wnen
did the scales fall from his eyes, and at
what spot ON the road from Esopus TO
Wolfert's r ost. causing him to see the
true faith about money. Why did he .
tain all the joy Ct his conversion in his
own breast until after he was nominated
and the convention could rot back cut?
This money muddle is a fit companion
piece to the trust middle which k
into the sympathy and activities of the
party the red-handed trust leaders OF the
country.
II there were ever a time In the his