Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-08
HIS TABLE OF VOTES
IF HE SLIPS UP ON SOME STATES
THERE ARE OTHERS.
Judge Parker's Speech Of Acceptance
is Being Looked Forward to
With Great Interest,

Representative Champ Clark of Missouri,
who was chairman of the democratic ma
tlOnal convention and by virtue of that Of
nee Will act act chairman of the committee to
notify Judge Parker, stopped over In WASH
lngton a few hours on his way to Esopus.
He cheered the local democratic heart by
some mighty confident and optimistic talk
about the political prospect
According to Mr.. Clarks calculations, the
democrats are due to carry the presidency,
hands down; he figures on 253 electoral
votes, fourteen more than necessary to
elect. Mr.. Clarks table gives the demo-
Gratis these states:
Solid south. 151; New York 39 New Jer-
sey IL; Maryland, s; West Virginia, I; Con-
necticut, Z; Delaware. 3; Indiana, 10; Colo
rado, 3; Montana, 3; Nevada. 3; total, 253.
If He Should Slip Up.
or course If he should slip up on Indiana,
that alone would spoil his table, and leave
him one short of his majority. If he should
miss 1t as to New York he would be away
Off his course and against a strong head
wind, but Mr.. Clark does not admit there
is danger of losing New York He admits
that it might be possible to lose Indiana.
but says that there would still be Wiscon-
sin to run to for 13 votes, Idaho for g. Utah
for 3, and maybe Illinois for 81 which
would be total of 46 with which to make
up deficiencies.
But when Mr.. Clark gets down to rock
bottom figures his table shows a majority
of one. and that with the inclusion of three
states which the opposition regards as alb
solutely rOck-ribbed republican, namely. In
diana New Jersey and Connecticut with a
total of "a votes, and three states which the
opposition think are more likely republican
than democratic, namely, Colorado, Mon
taha and Delaware with II votes.
Mr.. Clark did not give his democratic
friends in Washington any definite assur-
ance of democratic prospects. but spoke in
a general way of the outlook; democratic
success seemed to him to be lin the air.
there were labor troubles in Colorado and
Illinois, factional fights in Wisconsin that
ought to hurt the republicans, and he found
a general underlined feeling that the demo-
Gratis would win. AT least, he hoped so.
New York the Center of Interest.
New York will be the center of political
interest this week. Judge Parker is to be
notified next Wednesday of his nomination,
and his speech in response is being looked
forward to with great interest by politi-
clans in both camps Mr. Daniel Lamont
is expected to take some action in regard
to his suggested candidacy for the guber-
material nomination the democratic
ticket. The row between Tammany and
McCarren of Brooklyn may be settled by
the mediation of the national managers,
and the democratic campaign is expected
to take new impetus.
All the politicians are awaiting with
keen interest the Parker speech of accept
ance. They say that he is off the bench
now, and fairly in the political campa ign
so he must talk and, moreover, must say
something to the point. They will not be
satisfied with generaliZations, insinuations
or differences. They are clamoring for
downright declarations. What about the
tariff? What about the trusts the Philip
pines, labor and all the subjects in which
the voters are concerned?
To Set Pace on Tariff Question.
1t is assumed that he will explain his
gold telegram and the reason for DELAYING
sending it until after his nomination was
clinched, but they want him to go farther
and set the pace on the question of tariff
revision. That is the tender point at pres
ent with the democrats, and they are very
solicitous that their candidate shall ham
die that question to good advantage
1t is said that some of the southern
statesmen who have visited Esopus recent
ly advised Judge Parker very earnestly to
draw the line sharply between tariff revi-
sion and tendency toward free trade. The
same advice has gone to him from Senator
Gorman, who wants the party's attitude on
the tariff question to conform to the Marv-
land plank, which in it's susceptibilitv Of
broad construction could easily be warned
INTO pretty fair prOtectionist argument
Inc plank of the democratic national con-
Vention on the tariff question was wide
enough to enable the candidate to do some
active sdestepping if he chose It start
ed out with the declaration that I'VE de-
nounce protection as a robbery of the many
to enrich the few" The free-trade element
In the party have since been throwing up
their hats with loud huZzas and claiming
that the plank meant free trade, for If pro-
lection was robbery, surely it ought to be
abolished.
But in the next clause the moderate tarin
men were given sop: I'VE favor a tariff
limited to the needs, of the government,
economically administered" There nrot
ton was to be used to rob the many just
sufficiently to get enough mon J.
nomically administer the government.
The Revision Clause.
little further along the tariff revision
lists were given plank which they can con-
strue to their own satisfaction. 1t was:
I'VE favor a revision and gradual reduction
of the tariff by the friends of the masses
and for the common veal, and not the
friends of it's abuses, its extortons and Its
determinations, keeping in view the uti-
mate ends of equality of burdens and
equality of opportunities and the constitu-
tional purpose of raising a revenue by taxa
ton, to wit, the support of the federal gov
ernment In all Its virility and integrity, but
in simplicity"
Judge Parker will have these declarations
before him in defining his view of the tarifr,
but will have some conflicting advice. Mr.
Champ Clark, who is to notify him, and
who will have first say" is a notorious
free trader. He would smash the tariff,
plumb. He would demolish the system
from turret to foundation stone,' to quote
his own language, and would raze every
custom house that fronts either ocean
That's Mr.. Clark's idea of revision. Then
there is Mr.. Bourke Cochran, who has been
talking with Judge Parker; he stands for
Mr.. Clark's ideas to the limit Against
these advisers thp of the in
dustrial east. who have been whispering
moderate revision advice in.o his ear so
the politicians are looking anxiously for his
declaration.