The Birmingham age-herald., 1904-07-16
DAVIS WILL MIN IN WEST VIRGINIA Cannot be Beaten in His
 Home State IS CALLED "GRAND OLD MANI Republican Organs Are Sore Because They Have Been Robbed of Many
 Issues as Campaign
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BY WAL EhoON D LELEI.
 Washington, July 15.-lSpt teial)-E. H. Menly, the well known Louisville sales man, is in Washington, having spent the days following the nomination of Parker and Davis in different part of the state of West Virginia. If the result of the election depends upon the electoral vote of West Virginia, says MT. Menly, the democratic ticket will win hands down. The sentiment for Mir. Davis through all sections of the state is very pronounced. and the republicans feel that they are nobly beaten in the states. l stopped off at Wheeling where the republican con- vention met, the night Davis was nomi- mated. A bulletin announcing the result was read to big crowd of republican delegates and on all sides expressions were heard to the effect that the demo- crats had done the very best possible thing Many of the deleTates told me that Davis could hardly be beaten.
 The nomination of Dawson, the repub- lican gubernatorial candidate, was bitterly contested. and he cannot poll anything like the full vote of his party. I com slider West Virginia safely democratic.'
 Is Wonderful Old Man.
 Talk about wonderful old man. said John Sharp Williams of Mississippi the other night, senator LAWS, our HoIhitite for vice-president, is just that"
 Tn the long session of the committee on resolutions. lasting more than twelve hours. Senator Davis was with us con- stantly and seemed to be untiring. About Il o'clock in the morning 1t was abso- lutely necessary for me to go out and get a cup of coffee and bite to eat Senator Davis was sitting near me and 1 invited him to come along telling him that he must be fatigued.
 " Not bit, replied the next vice pres ident. You young men cannot stand these affairs as well as men CT my age. You have to have rest. I can get along for some time yet without it.
 And so he didi Jed 1fr. Williams. s'He did not miss q word of the debate in the committee"
 Republican Organs Sore.
 The republican organs are feeling very sore over the conventions answer to Judge Parker's telegram, completely rob ping them, as it does of the only issue upon which they can win to a certainty the ground has been cut from under their feet. and they are compelled to discuss live issues.
 The New York Tribune, however, insists that there is still danger of silver and to prove it the Tribune goes to work and quotes extracts from speeches made by democrats six and eight years ago, when the financial question was an issue. As a democrat suggested today, 'ofhe repub- lican party won the elections of 6S, '72 and 80 by keeping up the war issue and waving the bloody shirt The grand old party Is smart and knows good thing when 1t gets hold of it.
 Of course it wants to fight the cam paign this year on the issues of 1896 and 1900 It would be dead easy for them. Parker's telegram and the convention's 8 answer however, settles the question. The republican party cannot get an intel lgent audience in the United States to listen to it's orators discuss silver. What the people of the United States want to hear about now, is live issues, something the republican party shows itself to be afraid of by continually harping upon the financial question. 1t is understood here that President Roosevelt will, in furtherance of the scheme to fight out the election on the defunct money issue devote considerable attention to it in his letter of acceptance in the hope of draw ing attention from other matters. Until the action of the St. Louis convention. it is reliably reported that the President had only a slight reference to the finan- cial question in his letter, simply stating that the subject had been settled and giving the republican party credit for it.
 May Limit Attendance.
 There is one thing that seems to appeal to the delegates who attended the St. Louis convention and that is, the proposi- ton to limit the attendance of national conventions.s Much of the enthusiasm would of course be lost, but the advan- tages to be gained are so manifest as to make statement super1uous. The matter will be seriously considered before the arrangements are perfected for the next convention.
 The absurdity of holding national con- ventions in the midst of a noisy and turbulent mob. has become so apparent that a change may be hoped for. A body composed of 1000 is too large and unwieldly for any intelligent action but when it is surrounded by a miscellaneous mob of 1900 persons in room so large that a speaker cannot be heard, the only way to make progress is to blindly adopt committee reports. Sucn a thing as deed the mob will not permit any man to speak if he does not jibe in what the sentiment of the politicians by whom the galleries are packed.
 Bryan Should Work in Nebraska.
 'If MT. Bryan wants to render the democratic party service. said prom inent democrat "he will take the stump in Nebraska and carry his state for Parker and Davis. Mir Bryan has a wonderful influence in Nebraska, and I believe with hard, energetic work he can redeem the state"
 New Revenue Ruling. In response to request for decision by International Revenue Collector Franks, the commissioner of international revenue hold that cases of whiskey bot tied in bond should be entered by whole sale liquor dealers when received or sent out by them, and that case of distilled spirits bottled in bond is regarded as a package. the possession and identity of which should be capable of being traced. The commissioner also holds that physi- clan who furnishes patients with distilled spirits, wine or malt liquors to which no drug or medicinal ingredient has been added involves himself in special tax lia- bility under the international revenue laws.
 ss Kyle Takes Oath.
 1 Judge Osceola Kyle of Decatur, Ala, who was appointed by President Roose- welt upon the recommendation of Booker T. Washington one of the judges of the Panama canal zone today took the oath of office. Kyle is the second democrat