Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1904 — Seceding from the Democracy. [ARTICLE]

Seceding from the Democracy.

J. H. Timberlake of the Steubenville district of Ohio, who received the Democratic nomination for congress a few weeks ago, has Just declined the candidacy and refuses to support Parker According to Mr. Timberlake, Parker is an “agent of the trusts,” and therefore he, as a consistent Democrat, cannot give his vote for the St. Louis candidate. Mr. Timberlake will support Roosevelt in the canvass of 1904. Mr. Bryan thinks that Judge Parker missed an opportunity to show his courage when his managers promulgated the New York state Democratic platform, which was a meaningless string of platitudes. But Mr. Bryan mutt not forget that at time the strategic moment for a courageous ooup had not yet arrived.