The Montgomery advertiser., 1906-03-21
PARKER'S SPEECH
PRoVOKEs MUCH DISCUSSION AT
 WASHINGTON.
Iselleved That He Is Trying to Head on Hearst BOOm--The Two GeOr- gia Senators Agree
 With Hina.

Washington Spec ecial to Now York Sun. By the process of elimination all out line of form and substance has been given to that heretofore etheral thing, the Bailey Presidential boom," by the address of Judge Parker Fridaypight at Charlotte, \. C. Southern men in CcnEross have be en discussing wheth- CT, if the party is to go south of Ma son and~Dixon's line for candidate in 1908. Joseph Bailey Is not the most available man. While no one. has as yet posed as the father of the Bailey boom and nearly every one believes that 1t is too early to talk of candt- dates vet, upon the hypothesis that the South will accept the suggestion of Judge Parker, attention is generally di- rected to the junior Senator from Texas.
 A majority of the Southern Senators and Representatives in Washington however. do not indorse the jtterances of Judge Parker, as they interpret them, While thsre are some who be- lieye that the South, delivering the bulk of Democratic electoral votes, should take the Teins and dictate the candidate, a much larger number he- lieve that such a course would be un- WlSG aL lnlb UT any OhhpN hibANs NH~S believe that to do this would raise the cry of seotionalism. and perhaps justly so Instead, they contend that section aljsm so far disappeared, commercially and socially, should be wiped out po- litIcaIly, and that the South should have the right recognized to come in upon an equality with every other sec tion of the country, and If 1t has a candidate, or more than one. available Aa1 fn their names to the Democrats of the nation and to tIte Dem ocratio National Convention for consideration.
 Tn other words, the point which they make is that the fact that a man IS from the South should not. as 1t has done for forty years, bar him as mat ter of expediency from receiving the nomination for President but that the Party should be free, as 1t was before sectionaIism became an issue, to go to any quarter of the country for It's can didates.
 "This view is shared by the conserva- tive men of the Party in Congress, not only from the South, but from the North az well, There are some who attribute an ulterior motive to Judge Parker's suggestion, and intimate that perhaps his purpose was to forestall the Hearst movement by arousing en- thusiasm in the South for Southern man. Others believe that he sought to prevent the South committing ttselt 10 Bryan for there Is a large conttng- ent among Democrats in Congress who declare that if the Democratic National Convention were to be held tomorrow William J. Bryan would be nominated third time. They eliminate Judge Parker entirely as a leader, and regard Bryan as unquestionably the head of the Party. Not all of these are radical Bryan men. either, and they are men who realize how futile such course would be, but appreciate the fact that Bryan has a tighter grip upon the party today than any other man
 Generally speaking, however Demo- crsts do not impIgn Judge Parker motives in this way, but think he was honest and sincere in his remarks, and that he not only paid q high compli- ment to tho South and it's statesmen but that he took this means of express ing his gratitude for the manner In which the South remained loyal to him In the late campaign. In connection with tho discussion of a Southern man | for President, 1t Is pointed out that q assure. even if it were small one was made in the ice of ultra a-conserv, 1 atism when, at the last Democratic National Convention, the name of Sen ator crockrell. of Mis- souri, was placed before that body. It was the first time since the war that the name of a Con federate soldier or Southern man wal voted upon at Democratic Convention Not since the days of Calhoun, has the South had candidate for the nom nation for the presidency. How fai whatever Confederate influence there may have been in Congress since the war, has disappeared Is illustrated by the fact that there are only ten men in the present House who served in th6 1 Confederate ranks.
 Democratic Senators, as a rule, de- 1 clined to discuss the expressions ol i Judge Parker. Senator Tillman sug- | gested 1t was not an issue of immedl- ate importance. and Senator Patterson ! of Colorado, said he had formed an | orI~'c~ on reading Judge Parker's
 and like a talesman. asked
 ed for that reason.
 Clay of Georgia, said: This
 year for the Democratic
 feet a nominee for President
 two years more before the
 Is made. The fact that a
 In the South, provided h,
 cessary qualifications. shoult
 lify his aspirations for the
 The DemocTatic Party
 on issues. if 1t wins at all