The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-07-24
SAM JONES DISCUSSES NATIONAL
POLITICS AND POLITICIANS.

Writing about the political situation
to the Atlanta Journal, Sam Jones
says:
Since my letter from Chicago last
week, l have been through the States
of Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, Kentucky
and Tennessee. l am aStoniShed al
the enthusiasm manifested by the peo-
pie over the nomination of Parker and
Davis on the Democratic ticket There
is certainly life in the old party as
well as in the old land yet. have
asked in the last few years: Can these
Dry bones live again? There is some
thing like a resurrection of the Demo
cratic party, and she comes forth III
Lew life, and new dress and new
i.gure. With new principles that COM
InenG themselves to the lntelllgent
and patriotic of our country.
In Yankee Doodle l find the interest,"
as intense as in the South In the
last two national races the enthusiasm
of the Democratic party was IN the
candidate and not so much in the peo-
ule, but now it is in both. The lines
are draws, the issues made, and the
LATHE will soon begin. OF course when
we settle down to solid facts and lay
side enthusiasm and come to facts
and figures, the Republican party
KNOWS tnaI IL tie DcHlOCTdtS can car
Nv New York and Indiana that victory
will be with the Democrats. OF course
this is counting Maryland and Vir-
sinia, which will, perhaps, certainly so
Democratic by reason of the influence
Of ex-senator Davis, the Vice-Presi-
Dental candidate. Parker is as strong
in New York as Roosevelt, and Tag
bart, the chairman of the national
Democratic campaign committee, is
stronger, perhaps, in Indiana than
Fairbanks in his personality. Judge
l'arker's telegram to the st. Louis con-
Nention hit that crowd like a bolt of
lightning from a clear sky, but it also
lit a keynote, which sounds forth the
integrity and manliness of the Demo-
cratic nominee for President. Judge
Parker had been as silent as a mum
my, but when he did speak he shook
this country like an earthquake. He
IS a strong man. But all in all Bryan
is the strongest and greatest PERSONAL
" in America. Before a popular au-
dience he stands without a peer. In
the convention of his party with two
thirds of the delegates against him
straight and square, no man could
stand with him before that conven-
ton. Whether they agreed with him
and voted with him or not, they were
swayed by his personality and moved
by his oratory. If Bryan is dead, he is
the biggest, finest, strongest, sassiest
corpse that ever laid before the eyes
of man. OF course what he will do
and what he will say will cut large
figure in the coming campaign. He
mighty near has hydrophobia when
you mention gold in his presence, but
he said; 1T is a god of war or a god
of gold. OF the two evils, / will take
the lesser, the god of gold" No man,
who stood before the convention had
q 1.-THE of his power owe rthe conven-
ton, but before committees he failed
to carry his points A man that could
take up that Kansas City platform
before that convention, and say he ap-
proved it all and championed 1t all.
and after saying it, get an audience
with that crowd and carry them by
the sweep of his oratory as he did is
certainly a master of any kind of an
assembly. l admire the man. | hon
or him for his power and his sincerity,
but at the same time his party has
much to fear if he does not come into
complete harmony in his efforts to
help bring victory to it. But we shall
see what we feel.
| shall not vote for Roosevelt or
Parker either. l am for the Prohibi-
ton ticket. | mighty near lost my re-
spect for Them but they still have my
confidence, and shall have my vote, be-
cause they are for everything that is
against whiskcy, and against every
thing that is for whiskey, while the
Democrats and Republicans are for
wniskey against everything, and
against everything that is against
whiskey. But l shall sit on the fence.
and watch the procession as it moves.
Personally, l am for Parker, for l be-
lieve more in the fitness of candidates
than / do in the platforms they an
nounce. Judge Parker has every quail
fication. seemingly, of a most splendid
President. President Roosevelt has
many qualifications that commend
him, and many that will condemn him
before the eyes of many men. 1t
seems now like a sane Democracy had
charge of the situation, and proposed
to run it on sane principles, with sane
candidates.
They say Wall street is for Parker
If that is SO, then Teddy's pie counter
won't cut much figure in the cam
raign. for John D. Rockefeller's line
is a longer pie counter than Teddys
and has better pies on the counter
and / believe the fellow these days
with the biggest, longest pie counter
and the best pie will hold the balance
of power that will elect him to most
anything from Pi esident down. The
average fellows do love pie and love
to stand close to the pie counter