Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1904-10-12
MERCHANTS FAVOR PARKER
hey Like Democratic Candidate Be-
cause He Is Conservative and
Fine American.

Telling evidence of the rapid drift of
business men to Judge Parker is fur
lished by the New York Herald's care
hui poll of the New York Produce ex-
/ change. In that organization there is
reputed large preponderance Of re-
publican members, and during tho
Bryan campaigns their support was
powerfully directed to Mckinley, al
though the organization as such took
40 part in the campo gn. Whereas
che exchange voted almost solidly for
Mckinley and Roosevelt at the last
election, the Herald's poll shows that
about one to every four and one-half
will swing this year from the republic
can to the democratic ticket" Six
hundred and sixty-five members have
replied to the Herald's inquiries as to
their voting intentions; out of which
number 141 who voted for Mckinley
in 1900 announce their determination to
vote for Judge Parker. The exchange
has some 5000 members, and it is, of
course, impossible to tell from these
data how "a majority of its members
| will vote in coming elections. but, as
the Herald observes, these Straws
show which way the wind blows"
In a critical hour of national life,
when the dangerous imperial site
trend and revolutionary innovations OF
the administration threaten the stabIl-
ity of government an eminently sane,
safe and conservative candidate cannot
but appeal to the business community.
The ST. Louis Republic wisely OBJ
serves that if the perilous policies of
Mr. Roosevelt should find popular in
dorsement in November and be carried
further to their reasonable and prob
able conclusion, the business interests
of the country will suffer grave dis
turbance. and the consciousness of this
fact by those interests is powerful in
Huence for Judge Parker.
The accessions to Judge Parker's
strength are not marked by loud huZ-
zas and torchlight professions. 1t is
reason which is at work for Judge Par
ker; it is business prudence and fore
sight, and the result is achieved quietly.
becoming public only when, as in this
instance, special inquiry is made.
In the republican press the assertions
from the Roosevelt standard are reflect
ed by constant efforts to allay fear, and
we find the frequently repeated state
ment that there is no menace to
business in this campaign" Mr.. Roose-
welt is the menace to business" which
occasions the alarm and prompts the eff
fort. A presidents riotous ambition to
create great world power" and to
achieve crowded hour of glorious life
for himself and to emblaZon his fame
on history cannot result otherwise than
in the constant disturbance of business,
not to say disaster. When international
entanglements and war clouds darken
the horizon, business is the instant suf-
ferer. Securities depreciate and enter
prise falters.
Business men do not care to see a
president of this great commercial ma
ton strut along the danger line of in
ternational complications They do not
care to see him flourish the big stick
and shout across the hemispheres
They cannot bu. prefer the democratic
candidate because of his judicial tenn
permanent, sound judgment and safe rea-
soning-a man of quiet dignity ard SUBJ
stantial parts, of great strength Of char
acter, unafraid to be conservative when
conservatism is right: man with due
regard for the spirit of our institutions,
for tradition. for precedent. for accept
ed principles, for law and. above all
things else, for constitution
I'VE stand by the republican par
ty," says Senator Fairbanks, because
the republican party stands by u.s.
That is the motto of the great protected
trusts that are robhing the people The
republican party is their best friend and
the only friend they need in their busi-
ness.-Rochester Union. -
Poker phrases are common in
this campaign, but the one has not
been coined yet which will express the
feeling of the New York republicans.
who, In trying to fill a gubernatorial
hand, drew forth Elihu Root. and
caught Tim Woodruff = Washington
Post