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SAFE SANITY
TO THE BEAREf
Radicals Will Now Assume Con
trol of the Democratic
Party.
LAMENTABLE WEAKNESS
OF JUDGE PARKER
Some of the Results that Will
Flow from the Tidal
Wave.
By W W. Jermane.
Washington, Nov. 9.The "safe and
ane" democracy has been as great a
failure as the Bryan democracy, which
led to defeat in two campaigns. It
has fought the presidential battle of
1904, and lost by a margin that must
carry consternation into the ranks of
its thinking men everywhere.
The effect on the party, as a whole, of
three successive overwhelming defeats
must be disheartening and demoralizing
to a degree hardly appreciable save by
the careful student of politics.
The party is not in nearly as good
condition today as it was after the
Bryan campaigns, for the stimulating
trend toward conservatism set in almost
immediately after the 1900 election,
and progressing steadily, reached its
climax this year at the St. Louis con
vention, whose work it was hopefully
believed would bring about the perma
nent rehabilitation of the party and
make it once more a real factor in na
tional affairs. Now. however, the
drift will be backward toward radical
ism, with Bryan and Hearst as the lead
ers, and this may so discredit the organ
ization as to undo the work of the past
four years, and bring about a fourth
overwhelming republican victory in
1908.
There is nothing in this prospect that
should invite the applause of any ta
triotic citizen, no matter what his "polit
ical affiliations. Broadly speaking, those
states are the best governed that are
the closest politically, and by the same
rule the general government, in the long
run, is best administered when the bal
ance between the two great parties is
most perfectly preserved.
What Dems Hopdd For.
The leaders of the democracy did not
go into the campaign this year expect
ing to win, but they did expect to be
gin a forward movement all along the
Jine. They expected that while Roose
velt would be elected, he would carry a
number of states, republican, by large
pluralities in 1896 and 1900, by such
narrowed margins as to indicate a
waning of republican popularitv, and
that their own candidate would nave a
plurality of the popular vote. Such a
state oi affairs would have put tho
democracy in fine form for the off year
campaign of 1906, and might have
given it the house of representatives in
that year, which would have increased
its momentum, and carried it with high
hopes into the presidential campaign
two years later. Judge Parker, of
course, would have been its candidate,
on the record he would have established
this year.
Radicals in the Saddle.
All these expectations have been
dashed by the tidal wave that has .iust
swept over the country. The democra
cy will now approach' the campaign of
1906 in hardly as good form as it ex
hibited two years ago, and in 1908, as
the result of the contest between the
radicals and the conservatives, about to
be renewed with increased bitterness, it
will be rent and torn in a thousand
pieces. The existing party feuds had
their^orig^in^ eight years ago. A good
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buriecf them out of sight, but his disas
trous defeat will be the signal for their
revival. In the light of the election
results, nothing has' been done this
year to bring about even a semblance
of harmony.
If Parker had done as well as his
friends had planned he would do, New
York, Indiana, West Virginia, Connec
ticut, New Jersey and perhaps other
states of the north, together with sev
eral in the far west, would be found to
day In the democratic columns, the re
publican majority in the electoral col
lege would be small and there would be
a tremendous falling off in the repub
lican popular vote, as compared with
the McKinlev years. This would have
insured conservative leadership in 1908,
left the radicals no excuse for trying
to stir up trouble, and made the outhpok
for victory brighter than it has been
since 1892.
Parker a Weak Personality.
That theae expectations are not to be
realized is due in large part to Judge
Parker himeslf. As a presidential can
didate he has been a colossal failure, a
disappointment to his friends, and his
own strongest opponent. He showed a
woeful lack of even that elementary
information regarding public affairs
which is supposed to be possessed by
the average man, while his easy cred
ulity made him a frequent prey to
democratic enthusiasts peddling unre
liable information. No candidate for
the presidency for many years has so
utterly failed to measure iip to the re
quired presidential standard, and none
save hq has yielded to the pressing
temptations of a desperate situation
and personally tried to besmirch the
reputation of an honorable antagonist.
Last spring the democratic minority in
New York state, which opposed Par
ker 's indorsement by the Albany 'con
vention, charged that he was a man of
mediocre ability, and, further, that he
was not a statesman but a politician
of the Gorman and Hill type. These
charges haye been made good during
the campaign which has just closed.
Another potent factor in the demo
cratic defeat, of course, is the unusually
strong character of the republican can
didate, but Parker might have offset
this in part had he been made of sim
ilar stuff. As it is, his weakness has
been an important element of Roose
velt 's strength in all of the states north
of the Potomac.
Tn addition to the character of the
republican candidate as affecting the
Tesult, is the character of his adminis
tration, which has not only been ap
plauded at home, but has attracted the
attention of the whole world. The
hands now at the government helm are
among the strongest it has ever felt.
Parker was unfortunate in the weak
ness of his cajnpaign managers. Repre
senting a party which has tried to at
tack the republicans for not dealing
more vigorously with the trust ques
tion, his candidacy has been managed
bv men whose trust connections have
given the lie to his every anti-trust as
fiertian and stamped the party as in
sincere.
Standpatters Will Claim Credit.
Tt is feared that the magnitude of
the victory may render it difficult for
the republicans to pay any attention to
tariff revision, reciprocity or any of
the other economic questions which
nave been more or less in the public
thought for several years. The "stand
patters" who have led the republican
forces in many of the northern states
are likely to claim that the victory is
an indorsement of their position. Of
course it is nothing of the sort. Hardly
a man who voted yesterday had the
tariff uppermost in his mind. But this
fhe
V1 will not prevent those elements in the
party which believe in doing nothing I the trusts away from the republican party
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Wednesday "Evening,
from claiming that the Roosevelt vic
tory justifies their position. Landslides
always come about thru the operation
the independent and silent vote. The
oliticians, the men who do the talking
ave nothing to do with them, and can
not foresee them. It is interesting to
recall that Chairman Cortelyou of the
republican national committee, as the
result of the best information he could
gather, did not feel warranted last
Sunday morning in predicting that
Roosevelt would win more than 314
electoral votes.
President Clears the Decks.
The president's statement, made in
his hour of greatest triumph,
that he would not be a candi
date for another term, opens the
way for him to make a great rec
ord during the administration to begin
next March. He has cleared the decKs
for action by this statement. Tlie
democrats will not be able to charge,
as they otherwise would have done,
that his important moves were all made
with a view to the next national con
vention. Thus the new administration,
will have a highly auspicious begin
ning.
Parker-Roosevelt Friendship Broken.
Incidentally, it may be said that Par
ker has forever forfeited the friend
ship of the president. The two men
have known one another intimately for
many years, and their families have
frequently exchanged visits. The pres
ident was much hurt when Parker be
gan to utter the libels about an under
standing between the republican party
and the trusts, by which the trusts, in
return for campaign contributions, were
to have certain high privileges and
immunities at the hands of the Roose
velt administration, and word was car
ried to Parker, with the president's
knowledge and consent, that these state
ments were not true. He was informed
that his callers spoke on the personal
authority of the president, and he was
asked to discontinue that style of cam
iaigqing. His refusal brought forth
president's impassioned, sledge
hammer denial, and forever broke the
friendship of many years. It was ap
parent that Parker was willing to sac
rifice that friendship, if by so doing
he might add to the prospects of dem
ocratic victory, and that he was not
concerned as to whether the charges
were true or false, so long as they prom
ised to make democratic votes.
Federal Corrupt-Practices Act.
One of the results of the charges
against the president and Chairman
Cortelyou by Judge Parker and the
democratic press or Greater New York
will bo an effort to secure the passage
by congress of a federal corrupt-prac
tices act, under which all contribu
tions to presidential campaigns will be
subject to the same scrutiny and pub
licity as are guaranteed by law in many
states. Such a bill, I am reliably in
formed, will not be opposed by the
president or any of the leading men
in the republican party. Their atti
tude toward it, however, will not be
an admission by indirection of the truth
of tho recent charges, but an effort on
their part to raise the great quadren
nial campaigns to higher levels. I am
reliably informed that the president
would have been glad, had there been
such a law in existence at the begin
ning of the campaign of this year.
Hebrew and Roman Catholic Vote.
In closing, I will say that the "silent
vote," about which so much was said
in the heat of the canvass, and the
trend of which was in some quarters re
garded as so uncertain, has been cast
for Roosevelt, as the republican lead
ers said it would be. Two great fac
tors in this vote came from Hebrew and
Roman Catholic quarters. The former
favored the president because of what
his administration has done for the
Hebrews in Russia, and the latter be
cause of the administration's notably
fair and open-handed dealings with the
church in the settlement of the friar
question in the Philippines. Broadly
speaking, both these forces in Ameri
can politics are nominally democratic.
Their liking for Roosevelt will explain
a good deal that otherwise might be
confusing in the study of the urban
vote as cast yesterday.
In New York and in Chicago, for in
stance, the Hebrew and the Catholic
votes are very large. Enough of this
vote in both cities was cast for Roose
velt to give the republican landslide
increased impetus. This statement will
also apply to the New England states
and New York and New Jersey gener
ally, where the urban population is very
large.
In a large way the president's per
sonality has stamped itself upon his
entire administration. The democrats
focused their campaign on that per
sonality, with a result which surely
none of them could have foreseen.
BRYAN AND HEARST
JOIN TOM WATSON
New Party Will Be Formed
Once Out of Ruins of the
Democracy.
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New York Bun Speoial Service.
New York, Nov. 9.As a result of the
overwhelming defeat of Alton B.
Parker, the democratic party will be
reorganized by Thomas E. Watson, can
didate of the people's party for the
presidency. W. J. Bryan ajid W. R.
Hearst. A statement to that effect was
made by Melvin G. Palliser, manager of
Watson's campaign.
I am tickled to death," Pallister
said. The democratic party has gone
to pieces. We expect 15,000 votes for
Watson in the greater city and 25,000
in the state. It is a protest of the peo
ple against this alleged democratic
party.
The result will be a new party..
Bryan, Watson and Hearst will confer
in New York in about a week and take
the first steps. Bryan told me he could
not break away from the party because
he had been crying against those who
had bolted in 1896, but after the defeat
of Parker, which he knew was bound to
come, he could form.a new party."
What Hearst Says.
Mr. Hearst's paper, the American,
says:
Judge Parker is beaten, overwhelmingly
beaten.
The reasons for his defeat are perfectly
plain.
Judge Parker simply failed to inspire
the earnest, the genuinely democratio ele
ments of his own party with confidence.
They did not feel that in voting for him
they would be voting for democratic prin
ciples.
That nomination was procured under
circumstances which discredited it from
the start.
August Belmont and other prominent
promoters of the Parker movement, were
in a position to know all about the feel
ings of certain enormously rich and in
fluential "captains of Industry," and
"kings of finance" toward Roosevelt. To
their broad intellects it seemed that all
that was necessary for democratic suc
cess was to present a candidate whose
sobriety of mind and sedate demeanor
would offer an impressive contrast to the
noisy and swaggering president. Thus
would the support of the disturbed and
incensed "business interests" be secured.
It is surprising that the masses, and
others who do not class themselves with
the masses, viewed the same safe and
conservativeand
program merely as
anto equaln sinister foolish endeavo wi
an dto form a partnership between them
and their natural enemy, the democratio
Party.
Frowns from Party.
When Judge Parker's nomination was
started by the Hills and Belmonts, as
sisted by the kind of politicians who are
willing tewnake any sacrifice of princi
ples for the prospect or success, there was
tremendous rejoicing emong the men and
newspapers which had forfeited all claims
upon the party's confidence.
There came no rejoicing echo from the
millions of democrats who are not poli
ticians, but who are the party.
They felt that their party had been sold
out to the trusts and that the American
people had been deprived of the right to
go to the polls and choose between demo
cratic and republican principles and poli
cies.
The people knew all about the Belmonts
and Ryans and Meyers and McCarrens
knew them for trust millionaires or trust
lackeys and lobbyists.
Judge Parker lost because the real
democracy refused to accept him as a
democrat.
What, stated in its broadest and clear
est terms, Is the lesson of the election?
This:
In order to win the democratic party
must be democratic.
BRYAN MAKES DENIAL
Nebraskan Says He Has Other
organization Plans.
Re-
Lincoln, Neb., Nov. 9.William Jen
nings Bryan today denied that he would
meet William Randolph Hearst and
Thomas E. Watson in New York a week
from now for the purpose of taking
steps toward the organization of a new
party. The statement that he would go
to New York for such a purpose was
made by Melvin G. Palliser, manager of
Watson's campaign. Mr. Bryan says
that he has reorganization plans, but
he intends to stand sponsor for them
himself.
THE NEW YORK PAPERS
National Election Results Sized
Editorially.
New York, Nov.\.Th Times says:
Prosperity, a deep and widespread de
sire for Its continuance, and a feeling
perhaps not less widespread that the dem
ocratic party is not yet "fit to govern,"
are reasons which sufficiently explain the
very remarkable results of the election
held yesterday in this country. The result
is a victory that is not so much republi
can as it is personal to Mr. Roosevelt, a
victory more sweeping and remarkable
even than that of Mr. McKinley in 1898,
and comparable to that of Grant over
Greeley in 1872.
The discussions of the campaign the
search after issues, and the talk about
them, the moral arguments and the ap
peal to prudence and safety, have been
utterly wasted. The result was prede
termined.
The Herald.
The Herald says:
The contest is ended the people have
decided Mr. Roosevelt is elected, and
under the Jeffcrsonian injunction of "Ab-
solute acquiescence in the decisions of the
majority, the vital principle of republics,"
the American people will cheerfully ac
cept the decision. We may expect no end
to expert analysis and theories to ex
plain the result. It was. however, due
to causes that lie near the surface and
which have been fully discussed in our
columnsa lingering distrust of certain
elements in the democratic party, the
failure of its leaders to unite in forcing
an issue on the vital question and, above
all, to the presence of the invincible gen
eral prosperity fighting on the republican
side.
The Tribune.
The Tribune says:
Roosevelt and Fairbanks have secured
at least 314 out of 476 electoral votes,
carrying every state outside the "solid
south," except, possibly, Maryland and
Nevada, by stupendous popular majorities,
which in several instances make even the
McKinley figures of four years ago look
small. The result of yesterday's election
Is an overwhelming and impregnable ver
dict of approval for republican principles
and for the acts of the. Roosevelt ad
ministration.
The Sun.
The Sun says:
The frankly avowed purpose has been
achieved, and It must be admitted that
there never was a particle of dissimula
tion about Theodore Roosevelt. It must
also be admitted that his confidence in
his destiny and unbounded popularity has
been vindicated by one of the most illus
trious personal triumphs in all political
history.
We have had many severe things to say
about Mr. Roosevelt and his administra
tion, and we sincerely regret it. We re
gret far more that there is not one of
them that we can unsay. There has never
been a refutal ov a contradiction of any
thing. It will be happiness inexpressible
if Mr. Roosevelt's own administration,
which we count from today, should itself
furnish a refutation. He has it in him
to be patriotic and a complete president,
to be the president, not of the decayed
and corrupt half of the republican party,
but of tho whole people, of the United
States.
The World.
The World says:
The expected has happened as to the
result of the electionthe unexpected as
to the magnitude of the victory. The re
publican party, called to power in the
political and business chaos of 1896, is
still riding on the flowing tide of success.
Whatever chance there may have been
for the democrats was thrown away at
St. LKuis A party that has been eight
tenths wrong for eight years cannot re
gain public confidence at once by being
even eight-tenths rightparticularly when
on the vital question of honest money it
was set right only under compulsion by Its
nominee.
The extreme and unnecessary statement
in the platform"Protection is robbery"
branding as criminal a policy as old
as our government, hurt the democratic
candidate in the chief doubtful states, all
of which are heavily interested in manu
factures.
Judge Parker *was seriously handi
capped, too, by the national committee's
choice of a chairman.
Undoubtedly, too, the democratic can
didate suffered from the character and
reputation of some of h4s most conspicu
ous supporters in this state. The cam
paign was mismanaged at the start.
As to Mr. Roosevelt:
The World does not and will not abate
one jot of its opposition to all that the
president has stood for most conspicuous- I
ly in this campaign. But it will continue,
to treat him fairly, as it has always done i
in the past.
It can be said of the people's choice of
Mr. Roosevelt, as Disraeli said of the
man who married a second time: "It is a
triumph of hope over experience."
NEW H00S1ER GOYERNOR
EXPOSED TO SMALLPOX
Lafayette, Ind., Nov. 9.J. Frank
Hanly, governor-elect of Indiana, is
confined to his home, having been ex
posed to smallpox Sunday. He does
not care to leave the house till he learns
whether he has contracted the disease.
Robert Potts took dinner with Union
B. Hunt, ex-secretary of state, and
other republican leaders at the Hanly
home Sunday. Potts was broken out
at the time with smallpox in a virulent
form, but the disease had not yet been
diagnosed. Physicians say there may
be no danger, as1
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there was no fever
when Potts was at the Hanly home.
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Japanese Turn Their Attention to
E-taUThe Bombardment
Js Continuous.
Tokio, Nov. g^I is reported that the
Japanese have completely silenced the
forts on Rih-luns and Su-sung moun
tains and that tqev main strength is
now attacking E-"tSe mountain.
St. Petersburg, .NoV. 9.The report
circulated here'that General Stoessel
had been compelled to leave the citadel
of Port Arthur'^nd that with 10,000
men he has taken refuge in the forts
along Tiger's Tail, is denied in official
circles.
Piteous appeals arrive from the
front, asking for. .warm clothing and
fuel.
Chi-fu, Nov. The Japanese con
tinue to bombard Port Arthur, and the
shells are falling so incessantly that the
Russians have practically abandoned
the repair of the works protecting the
harbor.
Citizen volunteers and the police are
now reinforcing the garrisons of the
forts, according to the stories of Chinese
arriving here, sixty of whom left Port
Arthur yesterday, owing to the high
price of food.
So many men were killed on both
sides during the last assault that many
bodies lay unburied for days, and in
some instances dogs which had been
driven from the. town, assuaged their
hunger by eating the dead. In a few
cases where this was seen, the horror
stricken Russian sharpshooters killed
the dogs.
The Ghinese say that the forts on
Golden hill have done practically no
firing for months past, and it is believed
their ammunition has run short.
The 'demolition of the Chinese new
town is almost completed, a thousand
houses having been destroyed for the
valuable firewood they contained. The
town is constantly catching firef and
the majority of the warehouses and
stores belonging 'to foreigners have been
burned to the ground.
RESERVES IN RIOT
Mobilization Tactics Stir People to Vio
lence.
St. Petersburg, Nov. 9.The govern
ment is taking measures to reconcile
the army reserves who are being called
to the colors, including particular pains
to avoid harshness. There are many
causes of complaint, especially the char
acter of the cars, some of which are or
dinary camel cars.
The disorders in connection with the
mobilization have been widespread, no
tably in the provinces of Vitska and
Vilna, and there has been considerable
violence in western Poland, where
troops are reported actually to have
fired on the rioters. Many families of
reserve men in Poland are reported to
be in great distress. The wives are
allowed 10 and the children 5 cents a
day.
JAPANESE HAVE FUNDS
Issue Subscribed
Times Over.
New Bond Three
New York Sun Special Service.
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Tokio, Nov. 9.^Japan has responded
with great enthusiasm, to the govern
ment 's third .issue of. exchequer bonds,
and the new loan' Inas been subscribed
three times, ,over,ff
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HYPNOTIC HOSPITAL
PLANNED IN NEW YORK
New York Sun Speoial Service.
New York, Nov. 9.New York may
have a hypnotic hospital if the Ameri
can Institute for Scientific Research re
ceives the support of wealthy philan
thropists. Connected with it will be a
laboratory where the effect or mental
LIGHT-UD!\
suggestion may be studied scientifical
ly and a dispensary where the poor
may be treated with thought for aches
and pains.
These are some of the plans which
Professor James H. Hyslop and his as
sociates have in mind. Professor Hy
slop holds the charter for the American
Institute of Scientific Research, whiGh
is a society for aiding mental growth
with a view of allaying human suffer
ing and curing mental and moral dis
eases. Investigation of the phases of
spiritism will be merely incidental.
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