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Show CAMPAIGN SIDELIGHTS. A correspondent of the New York Tribune evidently evi-dently does not believe very much in Judge Parker Par-ker or his chances of success; ho says that had Parker's managers in St. Louis been frank and honest, had they explained just what Judge Parker's Par-ker's position was on all national issues, especially money, he believes that he would easily have been nominated and would have had the cordial support i of all factions of the Democratic party. But when he kept a dead silence until after he was nominated nomi-nated and then fired his dispatch, after the delegates dele-gates were tired out and wanted to go home, and there was no probability that the vote could be reconsidered, it had a most dishonorable look. Again, his continued use of the phrase "safe and sound" is a direct insult to all Democrats who voted for Mr. Bryan, and the correspondent believes be-lieves that Mr. Parker will hear from that on election elec-tion day. He does not believe that Parker will receive within 1,500,000 as many votes as Bryan received in either of his campaigns, and that -Roosevelt will have the largest majority, both popular pop-ular and electoral, than any president ever elected. It certainly is strange that the eastern goldbug press continue to taunt the men who believed in and who still believe In silver as standard money. The assumption of a lot of sophomore editors who never studied at all the science of money, who know nothing of the effect on the country when real money is increased or decreased; their lordly assumption and their insolent tone which Beems to say "wisdom will die with us," would be a little hard to bear if we didn't all understand just how much there Is in that crowd and on what grounds they assume their superior wisdom |