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Show II Parker nnd the- West are not ac quainted, but th West knows tho lte-publlcan lte-publlcan candidate fur President very u'ell. Indeed, i Democrats tell us that Parker will bo I elected, but they also told us In two campaigns that Bryan Juet could not be defeated. Fooling that a worthy man should bo the Democratic noniln.ee- for Governor, the Hon, Jim Moyjf has decided to take the nomination himself. Did you appreciate the kindness of the weather bureau In providing: com- fprtable temperature that did not rise I above 03 degrees yesterday? i ' Why should St. Petersburg doubt tho latest news from the front, when It bears the evidence of reliability, by-reporting by-reporting a Japanese victory? Great caro has boon taken In ihoos-ing ihoos-ing directors of the Young Men's Democratic Dem-ocratic club, so as to keep Immature youths under forty off the board. Senator Gorman has been offered the Democratic chairmanship because he is regarded as one of the shrewdest of politicians, and he has shown that lie is by declining it. These would indeed be unhappy days for the Republican party If Democrats could elect Parker by merely taking a pencil and a sheet of paper and giving him a majority of the electoral votes. Drug store proprietors cannot see R why any one should complain because street drinking fountains arc di3abld, when there are such handsome soda fountains In perfect operation near at Hj hand. Vwill Mr. Royiance protest In a !ra-tornal !ra-tornal manner against allowing Mr. 1 Moyle to again become the hading Ejemoeratlc victim, or will tho Provo statesman selfishly withdraw from H the f If Mr. Pecry brings back from New York a generous share of the money given by Wall street to the Parker fund, no Democratlo orator will "be so ungentlemanly as to make his, cus-tomary cus-tomary remarks about the trust octo- The claim that the Democracy Is now a. "compact, fighting organization" Is Well borne out by tho attacks Bryon and other leaders are making upon the H: party platform and nominees. It ly n Hl' lighting organization much like that of 'the Kilkenny cats. 1 Cleveland was not nominated by the Democrats for President, but Cleve-landl&m Cleve-landl&m dominated their National con-i con-i ventlon, and the man of his choice was named. and yet, the Democrats would Hl fain have the country forget the fear- ful ClevelancLtlmes of 1892 nnd the suc-cicdlng suc-cicdlng years of hlr term. The Democrats have nominally shak-, en off the control of tho Popullsto over their party; and yet, the sold plank was struck out of the proponed Demo-cratlc Demo-cratlc platform, by a vote o 35 to 15. ( It took tho autocratic voice of one, manipulated by Hill and Sheehun, to restore that plank, so far as tho dlcta-tlon dlcta-tlon of one could do eo. And tlio Pop-Hl Pop-Hl ! ullsts mostly acquieKce. nqmltially. H! The country is now assured that the Hj Democratic party haa regained its. I - status; that it lo now "saf and owe." Hj 'But -syho gives" this assurance? In the West it is Bryan, Champ Clark, and the , other "insane" leadora of the- past; in , ( ' the South it la Carmack, Tillman, nnd f ail the other irreconcllables, who have fl heen the lendors of the Insanity eo much i oomplajned of. And what is their teatl- Hj1 mony worth? H I" ' . ' . ' Senator Vest Is dying, after a long Hj 1 I qnd distinguished public service. Ho 'J . was born in Frankfort, Kentucky, De- 1 cember 6, 1830, and graduated In letters j and law in schools in that Slate. Tn l 18s3 he removed to Missouri, and cn- gaged in the practice of law. He Hj i , receded without his State doing so, and ! r "was a wild-cat member of the Confed- , t crate Congress, serving In the House Hj ' two yearn and in the Senate one year, Hj All this while his Stato was Ktlll in j. the Union, He succeeded James j1 i Shlelds in the U. S. Senate in 1879. and !,f( was re-elected in 1855, 1S30 and 18D7, When the term for which he was last elected was drawing to a close, he declined, de-clined, to be a candidate for TO-clcction, his health being hopeless, and retired from public llfft on March 4, 1903. Mr. Vest was i keen partisan, an able man, and of a kindly, courteous disposition. Ho had a. multitude of htaumli friends, and. will ba much mourned. |
