Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-08-11
THE SUMS SENSATION
ITS DECLARATION FOR ROOSE-
WELT THIS MORNING.
It's Probable Effect on the Republican
Ticket in New York
State.

To democratic politicians one of the most
interesting features of Judge Parker s
speech of acceptance was his announce
ment that he would not be a candidate for
a second term. That statement opens up
the next presidential candidacy campaign
at once, it is held and brings Bryan again
to the front.
Mr.. Bryan has served notice that imme-
diately after the election, whatever the
outcome, he will start his campaign for re-
organization of the democratic party, along
the radical lines which he sketched in his
editorial in his newspaper immediate
after the nomina ton of Judge Parker.
The presidential field for 1908 is now
open, as a result of Judge Parkers abne-
cation of further honors at the hands of
his party, and whether he is elected or not
prospective candidates will begin to lay
their wires If he leads his party to de-
feat will not Bryan be encouraged in his
efforts at reorganization" politicians are
asking, and will he not have a ground of
complaint against the conservatives?
Two Figures at st. Louis.
There were two figures in the st. Louis
convention, Judge Parker and William ].
Bryan, and both came out with prestige in
their respective fields. If Judge Parker is
eclipsed against his will in November, or
IL he remains in the public eye, only to be
eclipsed voluntarily four years hence, the
politicians will be looking for Bryan to
again forge to the front.
The conservative element of the democ-
racy is to have it's full fling within the next
three months; the platform is not offensive
to them, their candidate is conservative
and smild as possible. and they have a
chance now to see what conservatism along
democratic lines can do against conserva-
tism along republican lines.
Many democrats think that Bryan has in
view the marshatng and organizing of all
the socalistic elements of the country, in
cluding the populists, four years hence,
and that with Judge Parker out of the race
Bryan will be the central figure in demo-
cratic politics in the meantime.
Some of the democrats who discuss the
no-second-term announcement are inclined
to be doubtful Of his being able to live up
to 1t, If he were elected. They recall that
Mr. Cleveland early In his official life, pro-
nounced similar sentiments. but took three
nominations at the hands of his party, and,
in the opinion of some, came mighty near
taking another one this summer.
The Suns Sensation.
1t is no exaggeration to say that the Gee
ing, fiatfooted for Roosevelt and Fairbanks,
created profound sensation in administra-
ton and official circles. Naturally all the
republican officials were pleased. The Suns
editorial, which is printed elsewhere in The
Star. not only supports the republican na-
tional ticket, but is very savage in ats de-
nunciation of the democratic platform and
policies.
The Sun has been one of the most Wig
orOus opponents of President Roosevelt for
many months. 1t is hardly to be supposed
that the President was Indifferent to that
opposition, although he never openly
fiinched under the frequent severe arraign-
ments of the paper. When the Sun a day
or two ago declared editorially that moth
ing short of political revolution could
elect the democratic ticket, it was expec ed
that the paper was contemplating a let-up
on the head of the republican ticket, but
today's editorial went so far as to be a
genuine surprise.
Throughout official circles today the Suns s
stand was the absorbing topic of CONVEX
sation. Republicans who are conversant
with New York politics ventured the opin-
ion that 1t would have good effect upon the
republican ticket in New York state, and
some even went SO far as to say that it vir-
tually chnched the independent vote in New
York for the republican, ticket.