The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1904-10-24
H0KE SMITH FOR
JUDGE PARKER
Former Secretary of the In
terror Declares His Be-
lief That the Demo-
Gratis Will Win.
THINKS NEW JERSEY SAFE
Labor Vote Likely to Turn the
Scale in Many Western
States Hard Work
Necessary.
THINKS NEW JERSEY SAFE

NEW YORK, Oct. %, 1904. -Hoke
Smith. Secretary of the Interior under
Grover Clevelands administration, has
taken the stump for Parker and Davis,
and while on his way to speak in some
of the doubtful States in the West.
stopped over in New York to tell Judge
Parker that he would be the next Presi-
dent of the United States
Il am very much surprised" said Mr.
Smith, ION finding in New York from an
article of Henry Clews in a magazine
that what Mr.. Roosevelt called the
wealthy criminal classes are all for
Judge Parker. | presume from that he
represents the wealthy criminal class
that is not criminal. This impudent
hypocrisy of the Republicans and the
attempt to deceive the plain people of
the country is in keeping with their at
! titude on every national question. |
|
have not the slightest doubt in my mind
that the electoral vote in the great State
of New York will be cast for the. jurist
and not. for <the jingo, and that the.
people will take the sword out of the
White House and put the Constitution
back. / know THAT not a trust, monop-
oily, railroad or illegal corporation or
combination of wealth win assist Judge
Parker in this election, and that every
one of them will aid and abet this
ambitious and aspiring imitatof of
Emperor William to go back into the
White House and turn the ship of State
into warship, to be sailed in a reckless
way for the next four years. There is
good deal said about the betting odds.
Since have been in New York especial
" | have had it pointed out to me that
the betting was now more in favor of
Roosevelt than it had been at any
stage of the campaign. Betting odds
cannot delude anybody Every time we
have elected a Democratic President,
and that is only twice in forty years,
the betting odds were against us fully
as much as they are now.
Il think that the estimate which has
just been made by some of the Democrat
ic leaders here that we will haye 256 ell
ectoral votes, or more than seventeen
more than necessary to elect our candi-
dates, is very accurate one. There is
of course no question of the 151 votes of
the Solid South / think that the claim
of the Republicans that they will carry
New Jersey by 1900 is ridiculous.
consider that the conditions in New Jer-
sey are rife for Democratic triumph.
Then the labor vote should carry for us
the States of Colorado, Wyoming, Mon
tana and Idaho. And little Nebraska
should cast its electorate vote for the
Democrats this year. Maryland is as
safe as old Virginia, and West Virginia
will fall in line, too. Certainly New
York's thirts-nine votes win be for Par
ker, and as goes the Empire State so will
go Indiana. Even as astute a man as
Elihu Root in a speech Thursday night
admitted that the Republicans might as
well give up hope of carrying New York
for their Gubernatorial candidate.
think that Democratic landslide will be
witnessed in the Empire State this elec-
tion. | am not very familiar with the
conditions in Connecticut, but the Demo-
cratic candidate for Governor, Judge
Robertson, declares that the chances of
carrying the Nutmeg State for Parker
and Davis are excellent Delaware
ought to be ours on account of the Re
publican squabble because of the meth
DDS of Addicks. AS for Wisconsin, it is
difficult to say. but i believe that there is
even more Republican trouble in that
State than appears in the reports which
come from there about the Ia Follette-
Stalwart controversy.
1.-The National Committee has done
everything in its power to paeify both
elements, but the La Toilette managers
want more than perfunctory recognition.
They have insisted upon having an apol-
ogy for the action Of the Chicago con-
vention for throwing out the IaEoliete
Delegates and seating their antagonists.
the representatives of The staIwart fac
tion. The National committees according
70 AR. Cortelyou, does not have II apol.