The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1912-06-21
DEMOCRATS ARRIVING AT
BALTIMORE ARE CONFIDENT
Under circumstances FormIdsbIy Fav-
orabIe to the Party, Democrats Meet
in Few Days to Nominate Next
President-Everything Ready.
tBy Walter Cain,

Special to The Net1s.
Baltimore, Md, June 21-The one
pronounced result of Chicago's pow
WOW, its one chiefest blessing to the
Nation is the elimination or eradica-
tion of the steam roller and the abol-
ishment for a long while of under
hand methods in our presidential con-
test. The machine is junk and from
this time on all cards must be dealt
in the open and played above the
table. Already much progress had
been made in that helpful direction,
under the caustic criticism and CON
vincing fire of the democratic party.
The sole place of lodgment was In
the republican party. That party now.
too, must come clean. 1t must wash
its hands of the CRIME Of its past
and show fair play in place. The
campaign for publicity in primary con-
tests as well as in general elections
has fought winning fight and here
after, II there's money spent 1t must
be spent in the broad open OF tha.
peoples scrutiny. The Mark Hann4
and George Cortelyou era has passed.
Expenditures of millions on favored
candidates will no longer be condoned.
Conscriptions from corporation funds
have been made illegal. Privilege can
no longer boldly buy robbers licenses
In the garish market OF politics. Al
delegateship to national convention
is not any more a financial asset. To
be the employer and overlord of thons-
ands OF voters does not constitute
vivid ownership Of their manhood.
The knout Of bossism has become 4
rotten twine and carries no terrors
In nearly every state the secret bal
lot obtains. This means the eman-
cipation OF the man who wants To
vote his real sentimens whether they
agree with the interests OF cormoran-
tic capital or not. Bossism in politics
is discredited profession. So rap
idly has come the shift that the an
powerful Hanna of 1896 and 1900
would today be the ruin Of any cause
with which his name might be asso-
ciated. Lorimer's contest has drag
ged down into obscurity nearly every
senator who dared stand with him IN
his struggle for the fruit Of his very
malodorous election to the highest
parliamentary branch of the govern
ment- Cox OF Ohio two years ago.
pointed his finger of approval to o
candidate for the republican nomina-
tion for governor of the big Western
state and the convention chose him:
in November, when the peoples
innings came the nominee was
buried by his democratic on
ponent under sod 100000 ballots deem.
Pensore. the mighty successor Of the
criminal Quay, has been driven from
power In Pennsylvania and after the
expiration of his present term In the
Senate will be known to our public
life no more forever Massachusetts
mas oy the power OF enlarged senti-
ment worked a recall upon Senator
Murrp Crane and he too is gasping in
mortuary convulsions. Barnes Of
New York, kinsman and in way
political heir of the great boss Of ante
bellum times, Thurlow Weed, and i'm
mediate successor in nefarious auto
cracy to the unlamented Platt, must
be eliminated from the politics Of
New York State before the Republican
party can ever dare to hope to make
successful appeal TO the voters Of the
state New of Indiana arrived too
late to benefit from the methods %
much to his taste and should have
lived in the era when blocks Of five''
constituted a deciding argument and
the people needed the call OF masters.
They are "derelicts, In lauguaee
nautical, wreckage upon the hIxh
seas Of changed conditions. A broad
line Of demarkation has been drawn
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