Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-08-15
CAMPAIGN ORATORY
SPEllBiNDiNG IN UNLIMITED
QUANTITIES TO REPLACE
TONS OF LITERATURE.
New York, Indiana and West Virginia
the Prizes on Which Presi.
.s.
deney Depends.
PARKER MAY TAKE THE STUMP

New York. Aug. 15.--I.iterature will
play a very small part in the coming
presidential campaign, if the present
plans of the managers of both great
parties are carried out
The coming battle is to BE- fought
out on the stump. Tom .Taggart. tha
chairman of the Democratic uatioual
committee, and Geo B. Cortelyou,
chairman Of the Republican national
committee, are agreed that spellbind.
ing is much more effective than send.
ing out bales of political literature
Ii has been officially stated that
President Roosevelt will make no
campaign speeches. Judge Parker,
however, now that he is footloose. will
probably make a trip west and speak
in half a dozen Of the principal cites.
Nothing definite has been arranged SO
far, and all will depend upon the ad-
vice of his political counselors.
Fhe headTuartcrS of the national
committee will be running in full
swing next week Several vanloads
of furniture We're taken into the Cen
tury building on Thirty-fourth street,
just west of Fifth avenue today. The
| ceremonies attending the notification
| % Henry G. Davis, the vice presiden.
| tial nominee this week. will necessi-
tate the absence of Chairman Tag
gart, but al the end of the coming
week everything will be in readiness
for a whirlWind campaign.
It has core to the ears Of the Demo-
cratic managers that the Republicans
are to concentrate all their efforts In
! carrying New York, Indiana and West
Virginia 1t is conceded that without
New York Parker would have very
little hope of election
Governor Odell, who is also chair.
man Of the state committee, is fearful
that the loss of the Empire State
"oUiN cieA't hiso pollIICdl dDIDitlOHS lOT
all time.
The goyernOr-chairman, accordingly,
has given notice that none but Rennb-
licans Of the highest standing shall
be named for congress this year He
is also anxious to cOnciliate the Platt
Republicans by permitting them to-
have their own way in nominating fer
the legislature men of their own choos-
ing.
Chairman Cortelyou has his doubts
as to Odell's ability to retrieve New
York, and is directing his efforts 20
Connecticut. New Jersey, West yir.
ginia and Indiana. The influence ex-
erted by New York in the neighhorirg
states of New Jersey and Connecticut
is alarming to the Republican inan-
ayers. In 1892 Mr. Cleveland carried
Connecticut by a majority of 5,37O, yet
four years later Mckinley carried it
by 53,545.
New Jersey, like Connecticut, has a
habit of following the lead of New
York. 1t was carried by Tilden, Han
cock and Cleveland. The electoral
,, vote of New Jersey was given to Cleve-
| land three times, his plurality in 1892
being 1874 Yet Mckinley carried
1t four years later by the enormous
plurality of 1852. Robert Davis.
chairman of the Hudson county Demo-
cratic committee, sends word to ma
tional headquarters that his county.
which is ordinarily Democratic by
about 5000, will give Judge Parker not
less than 10000 next fall.
AS to the chances of West Virginia.
it may be said that the state was reg
ularly Democratic from 1875 to 1892.
Mr.. McKinley's pluralities in 1886 and
1900 were 11,4s7 and 21,o22, respect
lively. The hopes of the Republican
managers to carry the state this year
are based on the statement that H.are'