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Show wiSott Sure Cain in Members of Coogress. Parker Tojegram Fails to Win Over Gold Standard Democrats. Republicans More Than Confident of Success in Approaching Campaign. WASHINGTON. July 31. "The Democrats Dem-ocrats have the Ideal ticket of negation," nega-tion," said a Republican leader of the Middle West today. He Is on his way to New York for consultation with Chairman Cortelyou. Continuing, he said: "The Democratic nominee for President Presi-dent Is a man whose only public utterances utter-ances were delivered from the bench where he could safely expound his views without affecting his political prospects. The opinions of his running mate on public questions ceased to be of interest considerably more than a decade ago, when he was retired to private pri-vate life by the Republicans of West Virginia, His resurrection may not hurt his party unless he should decide to say things in the campaign rather than let his money talk. Davis to Keep Mum, Too. "I am informed that he will be amenable to that brand of 'reason' that Hill favors, whlrh Is Mint Vwitli hl nnn- dldates for President and Vice-President shall refrain absolutely from indulging in-dulging In any really positive declarations declara-tions regarding the principles of the Democratic party. "The nomination of Parker and Davis Da-vis will not increase in the slightest the chances of Democratic gains in my Slate or Indiana, or any other State of that section of the country. The Parker Par-ker telegram, which was counted on to cause a stampede among the gold Democrats Dem-ocrats In their efforts to return to the Democratic fold, has fallen flat. The Democrats who left their party in 1S3G because of the sliver craze have begun to feel much at home In their new associations. asso-ciations. "A large proportion of them have been acting with the Republican party since 1900 and will remain faithful to their allegiance. They point out that the failure of the Democrats at St. Louis to Insert a money plank In their platform was a reaffirmation of the Kansas City money declaration, for ihe reason that there was no specific repudiation re-pudiation of the recognized financial creed of the party. They regard It as a cowardly subterfuge, participated in and ratified by the practically unanimous unani-mous vote of the convention in its adoption adop-tion of the platform. Telegram Made No Change. "Parker's telegram, they insist, could not affect the official declaration of the party, which left the money question substantially where It was when they left tho party. The committee on resolutions, reso-lutions, by the overwhelming vote of 35 to 15, sufficiently demonstrated to all Intelligent voters, they say. that the rank and file of the Democratic party still have a decided weakness for free silver, and lt is futile to expect that any one man can be stronger than the entire en-tire party and compel that party to bow to his will. "I not only believe that Indiana and other States of the Middle West are absolutely ab-solutely safe for Roosevelt and Fairbanks, Fair-banks, but that the Republican delegations delega-tions in Congress will be Increased. The Middle West will be found true to its Republican affiliations next November, and I say this because it is based on an accurate" knowledge of the political situation as it exists in that section." |