The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-13
MIR. JONES GRATIFIED
MONTGOMERY MEMBER OF DEMO-
 CRATIC COMMITTEE TALKS.
He is We'll Pleased With Work of St. Louis Cenvention and Be- ueves Parker and Davis
 VIII Win.

 George W. Jones of Montgomery. Assistant District Attorney of the Lou isyille and Nashville Railroad Com pany, and member of the Democratic State Executive Committee of Ala bama, who returned yesterday morn ing from the eDemocratic National Con- vention at St. Louis. is enthusiastic over the work of the convention.
 Judge Parker is winner" said MT. Jones. He will be overwhelming ly elected. His own strength, Roose- velts weakness, and the harmony of the Democracy combine to insure his election.
 He has shown himself leader of the highest type. He kept the party out of a trap. He had sense enough to know that silence on the monetary question was not golden. But for his famous telegram and the reply of the convention thereto, the Democratic party would have been charged with presenting to the voters of the United States a sound money candidate for President on free silver platform.
 Silence on the money question at the St. Louis convention might have been construed to mean that the party stood for free silver. Why? The last and only recent expressions on the subject by the party in con- vention assembled. at Chicago and at free silver. A failure on the part of the St. Louis convention to take some action amounting to a repeal of the free silver declarations of those previous conventions would have been construed to mean that those free silver declarations still remained a part of the party law. This would have been emphasized by the fact that an effort to insert monetary plank rcpugnant to free silver was defeated in committee at St. Louis. Republicans could have contended with plausibili- ty. that Judge Parker represented a free silver party. Judge Parker was smart enough to see this and 70 speak in time to give an opportunity for the convention to express itself approv- ing or disapproving his monetary views.
 The convention, by the telegram sent to Judge Parker, by more than three-fourths vote, indicated in un- mistakable terms its approval of the sound money views of Judge Parker. Mfr Bryan is great orator and great man. His power in the recent convention was manifest on every hand. However, the sound money, Parker Democrats showed early in the proceedings, in a test vote on the 1lli- nois contest, that they were in abso- lute control. They defeated MT. Bry- an overwhelmingly in that contest; then they at once became magnani- nous and generous victors; they did not seek to humiliate him in subse- quent proceedings, but they made ex- traoidinarily liberal concessions to him, in the matter of the adoption of a platform and otherwise; these con- sessions were made in the interest of harmony, although 1t was in the pow CT of the sound money element to have crushed MT. Bryan and his followers completely.
 When the Parker telegram to MT. Sheehan became public, 1t is evident that MT. Bryan's intention was to take advantage of the situation and pre- vail upon the convention to repudiate | Judge Parker, and, of course, nomi- | nate a candidate of Mir. Bryap's choice. | He got out of sick bed to attempt 1 to stampede the convention. He did 1 to large extent, stampede the gall | leries, but those who did the voting, | were not taken off their feet, as Is I indicated by the decisive majority cast | for sending the telegram to Judge | Parker, the sending of which MT. Bryan resisted with all his wonderful | eloquence.
 By the sending of the telegram, | and by every utterance of Judge Par
 ker. he has demonstrated that he is | a leader of men. second to none that l has appeared before the public dur | ing the past twenty-five years. 'He will be our next President. 'The selection of ex-Senator Davis | for his running mate was pre-eminent- | ly proper. and will add much strength @Nh au | why I applaud Senator Davis's selec- tion' is that it is a recognition of the | South on our national ticket Tt was extremely gratifying to me l to note the prominence of Southern Democrats in the convention. The South was strictly in the front in all the proceedings.
 The South, however, is not respon-
 sible for that feature of the platform calling for an increase of powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission. The conservative Democrats who rep- resented the South in this notable convention, were wise enough to know that to increase the powers of the Interstate Commerce Commission. would inevitably be detrimental to the South, for the reason that the South cannot reasonably hope to have more than one of the five Commissioners on the interstate commerce COUlHfiSsloH The present Commission is composed of a representative from each of the following States: New York, Vermont. Illinois. Iowa and Georgia. The East ern ports are clamoring for an in- crease of the powers of the Inter- state Commerce Commission, for the reason that the Eastern ports claim that New Orleans, Mobile. Pensacola, Savannah, Charleston and other South ern ports are getting more than their fair share of the export business of the country. and that the export busi- ness of the Eastern ports Is not in- creasing in the same proportion as Is the export business of the Southern ports.
 '"The people of the South believe that the interests of the Southern cities can and will be best subserved by al- lowing these matters to be regulated by natural laws of competition be- tween different localities rather than that the whole subject should be turn ed over to a partisan Interstate Com merce Commission. The people of the South will be infinitely safer when the rate adjustments of the South as compared with other sections are pri- marily in the hands of the railroads of the South. subject, of course, to reasonable public control as they now