DIXIE IS WAITING. Statesmen Hope the Presi dential Bolt Will Strike. Many Think His Advice to Poli ticians of North Carolina May Have Been Adroitly Given to Head Off Hearst?Rising Tide of New 1 Yorker's Popularity Alarms Con servative Wing of Democracy Some of the Available Timber. Ail Dixieland in glistening with lightning rods since Judge AltoD B. Darker declared that the South ought to asset t its dotni nancy in the affairs of the Demo cracy and name a Southern man for President iu 1908. The party's latest defeated candidate has, of course, uot on ly taken himself out of the next race, but he has barred every other Northern Democrat from j the sweep-stakes event which he, j as the probable spokesman for j powerful iiuaucial interests, is es . saying to arrange for the next 1 Presidential campaign. The favorite sou game in Presi-1 dential politics is an ol l one, and one at which the South can play as adroitly as the best of them. Hence if there is anything j more than the mere expression J of personal wish or opinion back i of Judge Parker's North Carolina | speech, it is not at all improb-1 able that far-reaching efforts ( will be made to send to the next j Democratic national convention delegations from a half dozen or more Southern States instructed respectively for favorite sons. Iu the sort of scramble that this condition would produce the ultra conservative forces could more easily control, perhaps, than they could should the can didacies of Mr. Hearst and Mr Bryan have been the controlling factors in various State cam paigns for delegates. In point of fact, it is strongly suspected that Judge Parker's real motive in urging the nomination of a Southerner is to complicate the situation for both the Xebrask an and the New Yorker-Californ ian. Undoubtedly his main pur pose is to appeal to what is generally regarded by hie type of politician as the conservatism of the South against the rising tide of radicalism that seems to be sweeping swiftly toward Mr Hearst, with Mr. Bryan as the almost certain compromise in the event of Mr. Hearst's failure to win the prize for which he J strove in 1904. HEAltST AND BRYAN SEEM RIVALS. I In this connection it seems I pertinent to state that there does , not appear to be any sort of< understanding between Messrs. Hearst and Bryan bearing on j the leadership of their party in 1908. On the contrary, the signs j ] are multiplying that they are ri vals for the glittering trophy, j This of itself constitutes a factor of great interest in tbe Presiden tial equation, not only as it af fects Presidential politics in gen eral, for it goes without saying that if Mr. Hearst shall develop dangerous strength the conser vative forces, irrespective of nominal party affiliations, would j be compelled to conjure with Bryan's name and popularity as the last desperate device for reading on iiearst. stranger jf things have happened to our!, politics than William .Jennings , Rryan being turned to by the "'sane and sound" elements for ;, rescue from what they regard as > t an actual menace. There does not any longer seem : to be the least doubt that Mr. . Hearst will contest the Held for > the governorship next fall. In- ^ deed, his candidacy for that nom-1 ination already is well advanced | r It is remembered with what scornful remarks his acceptance e of the Municipal Ownership par- f: ty's nomination for mayor of j Greater New York was greeted g by the old-line politicians all ov- ^ er the country last October. It v is also remembered with what a , shudder the "sane and sound" c elements of the metropolis view- , ed his chances of election two v weeks before the close of that g memorable campaign, to say nothing of their dread when on the night of election it appeared t forseve.al hours that he had t triumphed at the polls. Hearst's popularity great. ? e If anything das happened since s then to diminish Hearst's , strength with the masses in .New c fork Pity or State or elsewhere, t it is no. of record. Wherefore, b suppose William Randolph d Hearst is elected governor of the Empire State next November, how, then, will go Presidential politics for the succeeding two T years? There are, of course, p mmerous statesmen of both parties on Capitol Hill who shut their eyes aud refuse to "sup-1 pose" any such thiti^r, but the.v did this for a considerable period titer Hearst entered the race for mayor of Greater New York, am! some even refused to open their eyes until the completed return from Brooklyn showed that Hearst had swept that ancient stronghold of "conservatism." These facts are recited merely because they emphasize the prob able truth of thedeclaration that in his attempt to stir up assert ive sectionalism in the national Bemocracy .Judge Parker is un dertaking thus early to curb the growth of Hearst sentiment. MANY STATESMEN WIL,UNO. Aside from the flattering unc tion that a host of statesmen at the South have taken to their souls that Judge Parker's sug gestion points to each of them as the most available material, it cannot be claimed that his North Carolina speech has had much effect. It has, of course, started among the Democrats in Cougress what the Hon. Champ Clark would call in his choicest Missouri lingo, -'a mighty jower mg," but, curiously enough, it lias not beeu takeu very serious ly yet. While it is admitted that the Held is large and the material abundant for giving force to Judge Parker's contention, still it ie not acknowledged that the! time is ripe for the nomination! of a Southerner bv either party. Careful students i f Ameri :au poli tics are inclined to the belief that in the course of time and devel-! opment of politics the Ilepubli cans are more likely to choose a Southerner as their standard bearer than are the Democrats. It is undeniable that the genuine article of protectionism is grow-; ing in the South while it is wan ing in the North. Therefore, if protectionism is ingrained in Re publicanism, it would seem that the strength of that fiscal doctrine eventually will be trans-! ferred from the North to the j South, and with it will go, of course, the Republican cause. To be sure, the negro will be there to distract political thought, but the fact that, gen erally speaking, the Southern Re-' publican, even of Northern birth, is quite as indifferent to what the sentimentalism of far New Eng land insists hysterically is the | negro's "rights" shows that the i negro question is, after all, racial j and not sectional in the larger | sense, and that after a while the black man will have to look out j for himself without being any! sort of au "issue" in national politics. Heis scarcely that now, so swift has been the change in national thought and opinion. SURVEY OF SOUTHERN FIELD. However, since Judge Parker has provided a fresh topic for Presidential slate-makers to fig ure on, a survey is beine made of the Southern field for avail able material. The two men in Congress most generally discuss ed in this relation are the Sena- ( tors from Texas, Mr. Culberson and Mr. Railey. All that is against either of them, from this ( fiew-point, is geography. They represent in their personality the ;haracter, capacity, and achieve neuts of the New Suuth. Their ">tate ty pines more exactly than j' my other part of the country J ] :he ability of the sons of the Old i 1 ?South to develop the latest i vealth in natural resources and j ] renerally to keep step with the j narch of post-bellum progress:1 or Texas is to the Old South | ust what Iowa, Kansas, and , md that tier of States is to Old j r?vailing drift of affairs politi- \ al, and which might so appeal t o the public imagination as to s :ive great strength to his candi- J acy. A PRODUCT OF TENNESSEE. Then, too, Governor Folk is a f 'ennessee rather than a Missouri i roduct, having lived in the lat- t ?er State onl.v a few years before lie smashed the machine and rode in triumph from boodle prosecu tions in St. Louis to the guber natorial mansion at Jefferson City. It is too early yet to say how Folk's candidacy would suit the ?nrposes or the peace of mind of tie Hon. William Joel Stone, the nost potent personal factor in the Missouri Democracy, but it s uot inconceivable that the Senator could be induced to view vith restraining composure a movement to give the Missouri delegation to the governor, pro cided the Senate was not the real objective either of Folk or some factional friend of Folk TheD, too, there is former Governor David Rowland Fran cis, who possibly may have to be consulted by any President mak ers who go out. to Missouri look ing foi material. Francis is a utuckimi by birth, and was transplanted to Missouri at an early pge lie has been a man of large affairs for almost a genera tion, knows tbe art of securing popularirv is a past master in the trade of money-making, stands high with the conserva tive elements iu all parts of the couutrv, and is popular witn the masses. Should he grapple with Governor Folk for the delega tion, it is not improbable that tbe adroit Senator Stone would step iu about the time they were both worn out with the struggle aud calmly walk away with the prize in such shape that he could make suitable disposition of it in the national convention. t HA.Ml* 1'l.AUk IN RUNNING. The Hon. Champ Clark ban given it our in hie characteristic way that he is willing to take the nomination if it comes down to its being forced upon him. Thus the prospects favor quite a merry mix-up in Missouri if the Parker suggestion is to cut any j considerable figure in Democrat ic national politics. Other Southerners who are be ing talked aboutareJohnSharpe Williams, of Mississippi; Sena tors Bacon and Clay and Messrs. Hoke Smith and Clark Howell, of Georgia; Senator Rayner, of Maryland; Senator Carmack, of Tennessee; (provided he is re ^"ted to the Senate); Senators i iv rman and Simmons of North Carolina; Governor Beckham, of Kentucky; President Woodrow Wilson, of Princeton, a Virgin ian; and President Alderman, of the University of Virginia, who stirred up the bile of the Hon. Joseph W. Bailey last summer by declaring that the South was no longer sending great men to Congress. Meantime, the eve of every President-maker, Demociat as well as Republican, Judge Parker and all the rest, protrudes to ward the White House whenever the leadership of either party for j 11)08 is discussed. What is in the head of the occupant of that j gray old mansion? That is the J question the President-makers j ask in bated breath whenever j they talk earnestly to one an-1 other. 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"It occurred to me as 1 crosstd the portals that the gallery wo e | a strangely deserted look, it was the first time 1 had ever becu there, and 1 felt somewhat like an interloper, but 1 remembered j that Tom Pence, my reportoria) i fr.eud, had told me to cast aside my Tar Heel bashfuluess and boldly euter. So, although I failed to uote the presence of a siugle humau being, 1 kept right on, and marching down to the reporters' seats, took a chair, thinkiug somebody would come along presently who would en lighten me us to Pence "The (1 >or of the House was almosi a< deserted as where 1 sat, and faking it for granted that the s .ions had adjourned, ! ligbttd a perfeclo and begau to ruminate over in 'ideate that ha 1 occurred in that historic cham ber. Only tour or tive persons were visible from my perch. "Between [tuffs of smoke, 1 kept wondering what in the thun der k?pt I'ence, and just as I was on the puiDt of vamoosing, a blue-coated individual took me firmly by the shoulder and asked me if 1 didn't know it was against the rules to be smoking up there. ? _ju *? ? - - * ?* tie was polite but positive, I told him I didn't want to break any rules, but 1 didn't know it was wrong to smoke when the House was uot in session. '"Thunder and lightning!' said the blue-coat; 'don't you see that a member is making a speech. Would he be doing that if the House had adjourned?' This was a revelation, and, begging par don, 1 hurried out of the gallery. I wondered afterward what the statesman could have been dis cussing, and wht n 1 leamed he was advocating thecuttingdowu ol Southern representation in Congress I thought his subject might have had something to do with theslimness of his audience." ?Washington Post. 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