Middletown transcript., 1904-05-28
IT MAY BE-
A DARK HORSE
Parker. German and Hearst are
Tangled Up-an Unknown
May Get the Nomination
UNRESTRICTED In SOUTH

WASHINGTON, May 23d.-Now for the
entry of the clark horse" and the 'fav'
orite sons' for bursh in the great Dem
ocratic national handicap. The gossips
agree that Parker, German and Hearst
have got SO badly tangled up that neither
can get anywhere and the convention will
have to turn to some one else.
Chairman James X. Jones of the Dem
ocratic national committee said, before
he left town last Saturday, that it looked
to him now as il it would be dark horse;
for the life Of him, however, he could moi
guess the identity. He thought it would
be some one who has not even been dis.
cussed.
Leader Murphy OF Tammany Hail is
known to entertain the belief that it will
be dark horse. He classes Mr.. Cleve-
land in that field, however, and has not
given up the idea that the party may
turn 10 Cleveland as a last resort. He
has colt of his own, now in the dark.
horse paddock, in the person of Mayor
Mcclellan.
South Expecting Dark Horse
The southern Democrats are giving
every indication Of expecting the dark
horse to appear They are Withholding
instructions for Judge Parker SO as to be
free to act when the dark horse looms up.
Mr.. Murphy is encouraging them in that
attitude and James NJ. Guffey, the Dem
ocratic boss OF Pennsylvania, is also on
that tack.
Mr.. Bryan has not flushed a candidate
from North Carolina, Texas or Arkansas
for at least four week, and the Democrats
here are looking for him to trot out his
real favorite soon. Will he wear the
Hearst colors? they are asking. Can it
be possible that Mr.. Bryan himself-oh,
no, nobody really believes that possible
Warwick is his role, they think.
Tom Johnson Talks About Folk
Tom L. JOIN III of Ohio talks about
Folk of Missouri. That, perhaps, is be-
cause other Democrats in Ohio are talk
ing about Colonel James Kilbourne Of
Columbus, and it would be terrible
blow to Mr.. johnson to have any Demo-
crat in Ohio take rank over himself.
There is nothing on the plum tree for
Mr.. johnson. and, naturally, he does not
want any one else in Ohio to get some.
thing.
Colonel Kilbourne is not an impossi-
bility, by any means He is known to
Democrats in the central states and the
southern delegates expect to have to take
some nothern man. Anyhow, Colonel
Kilbourne is as well known to the south
erners as Judge Parker The idea Of
making inroads on the Republicans in
Ohio is likely to prove tempting to the
southerners. If the Ohio state conven-
ton should instruct for Colonel Kilbonrne
he would have to be accounted for at St.
Louis.
Mr.. Folk OF Missouri will be talked
about more and more from this time on.
Those Democrats who want to make a
specially in the campaign of taxing the
Republicans with graft" and corruption
think it-might not be bad idea to run
Mr.. Folk as the exponent of that plank
of their platform.
Psttison Talked About
Robert E. Pattison of Pennsylvania is
being talked about. He comes up every
four years, but as Pennsylvania is prob
ably the most hopeless state in the union.
for the Democrats, his name does not at.
tract much attention.
In every direction the Democrats are
looking for their dark horse. Meanwhile,
Judge Parker's friends are quiescent,
taking the ground that it would be wiser
not to push his campaign any harder, but
to await development at st. Louis and
let the sentiment develop in the conven-
ton.
They think that the Cleveland boom
will be launched and that the southern
delegates will become disguised and fall
back Immediately into the Parker Column.
The Parker boom has no central head,
but exists in desultory sort of fashion
in many sections. Some of the judges
best friends wish that Mr. Hill would
stay away from st. Louis, for his pres
ence and active participation will serve
to ALLEVIATE votes, they claim.