The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1904-05-04
HEARST MEN WANT To BE DELE
GATES,

|
GATES.
The Augusta Chronicle is of the
! opinion that some Georgians who are
seeking to be delegates to the ST. Louis
! Convention are Hearst men. and that
! finding they have no chance of being
| selected as members of the delegation
! as Hearst men are asking to be select
| ed on personal grounds. 1t may be
/ that if they are active enough they
| will succeed in their effort. Still, there
are so many who want to be delegates
| who are not friendly to the candidacy
! of Mr.. Hearst and have never regard
| ed him with favor, that it is doubtful
if there will be place for a man who
is known to have favored Mr.. Hearsts
| nomination.
1t is a fact, however. If we are right
ly informed that in some counties the
friends of Judge Parker haven't been
as active as they ought to have been.
They have permitted little squads of
court house politicians to select the
delegates to the state convention, al
though they had the power to send
Parker men. 1t is probable That while
the Georgia delegation to st. Louis
will not be instructed it will be requir-
ed to vote as a unit. In that event, il
one or two Hearst men should succeed
in getting on the delegation, they
wouldn't be able to help Mr.. Hearst.
Their votes would be counted with
the votes of the majority.
At present there doesn't seem to be
any probability that Mr.. Hearst will
have much of following in the st.
Louis Convention. Thus far he has
twenty-four delegates instructed for
him, and there isn't much prospect
that many more will be SO instructed.
If he goes into the convention with $50
delegates he will have more than is
now conceded to him.
1t is true he defeated the Harrison
faction in Chicago on Monday, and
thereby gained a good many delegates
to the Illinois State Convention, but
the Democrats of the state are gener-
ally against him, and he will not be
able to control the convention in that
SldNEs lIu6bus lIOin PttOtht lAtaA1d-
tions, he will get very few delegates in
the Middle West and it is doubtful II
he will get any in the South. The
fact that John Sharp Williams of Mis-
sissippi, the leader of the minority of
the House. has come out so strongly
for Judge Parker, makes it pretty GER
tain that all Of the delegations from
the Southern States will be for Parker.
Mr.. Williams says that he personally
favors Parker because he comes from
the right state and the right section"
And he believes that the Democratic
party would stand better chance of
winning with him than with any other
candidate, because he would come
nearer to uniting the party than any
other. I'VE may not" says Mr.. Will
liams. "be united on everything that
has occurred or upon every political is
sue, but about things that are now is
sues, having become such by applica-
ton of fundamental Democratic doc
trine to present actions and condi-
tions, we are united"
NJ uOuOL lhcIt VIII DN CliNi 70 W AA"NC
a platform adopted that will not be
acceptable to Judge Parker and there
will be attempts to sidetrack him.
Therefore Georgia should send to the
National Convention a delegation that
will not only stand by him and insist
upon a platform that will command the
support of Democrats generally. but
that will make Georgia's influence felt
in making both the platform and the
ticket. AS Georgia is the Empire State
of the South she should be prepared to
take a leading part in the convention.