Americus Times Recorder

GAME OF POLITICS

Following Plan That Nominated Parker.

PRACTICAL AGENTS AT WORK NOW

Trying To Awaken An Enthusiasm For the Rich Young New Yorker--

Association With Hearst Has Injured Him With Straight Democrats.

NEW YORK, Sept. 20. (Special)--The sudden prominence which has been given to Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler, Lieutenant-Governor of New York, as a candidate for the Democratic Presidential nomination, is the result of an organized effort on the part of Mr. Chanler's friends under the management, it is understood, of his brother, William Astor Chanler, to duplicate the game of politics which resulted in the nomination of Judge Alton B. Parker.

Agents At Work.

The Chanler movement is not financed and managed by the same men who handled the Parker boom from its infancy, though some of the workers in that campaign are understood to be employed in this. The Chanler organization has been very carefully considered and promoted, and is understood to be very heavily financed. Special agents adopting practical methods have been sent to various sections of the country to promote the organization, and many of the interviews indorsing the boom have been arranged for in advance, and their spontaneity and accord has not been accidental.

The attempt is being made by the Chanler organization to duplicate in practically every feature the plan of campaign for the Parker boom. This plan has been so closely adhered to, however, that its full purpose is disclosed at the outset, the method of procedure being thoroughly understood, and the impression among politicians is that the game is one that can not be successfully played a second time.

Hearst Association Hurts Him.

Chanler is regarded as a clever and capable young man, but his association with Mr. Hearst and the Municipal League idea is not expected to advance his interests, and a good many Democrats question his having attained the proportion of a Presidential candidate. The propaganda in his interest is well supported, but is so obviously planned and manipulated in a cold-blooded, practical fashion as to rob it of all elements of enthusiasm, while the suggestion that the campaign is being made in antagonism to Bryan invokes the resentment of Bryan's people.

Many strong Democrats who do not desire the nomination of Mr. Bryan feel that it would be folly to try to nominate a candidate in open antagonism to the Bryan element. It is regarded as extremely doubtful whether Mr. Bryan could be defeated for the nomination on an issue of Bryan and anti-Bryan. The Nebraskan comes nearer controlling the situation than does any other man, and it is regarded as largely in his own hands to determine whether or not he will be the candidate. It is very generally believed among Democrats that if Mr. Bryan should make a determined fight for the nomination he could not be defeated in the convention, though his election might be extremely doubtful.