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if : ROOSEVELT THEIR CHOICE
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, Former Silverites and Democrats Decline to Sup-
, port Parker for President.
AU PREFER PROSPERITY TO PARALYSIS
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# Views of D. C. Tillotson , Late Chairman of the
{ . . National Silver Republican Party - Reasons -
sons . Given by Others.
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,
any Democrats will Tote for Rn03e- .
velt and Fairbanks ! ' this fall. A large
.amber have publicly nnnounced their
ehanie or faith , but others have simply -
ply said to their friends that they prefer -
fer the known and tried Roosevelt ro
the ' hesitating : ; , evasive Md untried
: Parker. The names : or some or these
men , including Oscar Straus , John A.
DicOall , Major John Bryce , Patrick
.Jgan , Richard Price Morgan and Eu-
cene .A. . P.hilbin , have already been print-
ed. Among those not heretofore noted
are : Ernest Orawfort , Judge W. 31.
Chandler , Dr. George H. Carpenter , Wil-
.am 'IcLtin ' : , W. E. Williams , John
: Ennis , Wmiam D. Harrison , John T.
Doyle , Charles P. Blaney and Daniel
' EtK'hannan.
From Baxter Springs , Kas" , comes
+ the information ot wholesale desertions
en the part or Bryan Democrats , and
, . the forecasters predict that Oherokee ,
; ' 'Rhfoh gave Bryan 1,800 majority in
. ; ! 896 , will go solidly for the , Republican
. .
i ticket. Prominent among the Demo-
t vats who have announced , their intention -
, ' " tion ot supporting President Roosevelt
" are : T. H. Goodwin , mine owner ; E.
I IW. Dow , president telephone system ;
kmuel J. Crawford , former governor or
il I
f" . : ; Kansas ; James H. Chubb , former mem-
hr fusion legislature ; J. C. Haske-tt ,
! dry goods merchant ; Samuel Bums , hay
dealer ; Edward Hoogkin1 , retired mer-
chant ; D. Orr Chubb , politician ; W. S.
: Baxter , editor and C. E. Collins , poli-
-
.
End of Silver Republican Party.
An important accession .to the Repub-
.nn ranks is D. C. Tillotson , or Topeka
leka ! , Iias . , chairman or the national
committee ot the Silver Republican party
In 1000. In a letter to J. W. Babcock ,
chairman ot the publican Congres-
lIIonal ! Committee , Mr. Tillotson says
' that the Silver RepublicAns are satis-
ded that the Roosevelt administration
tried to do its duty with the people , and
'or that reason : l : and his friends will
support it. Tk , statement is of im-
IPOrtance because the Silver Republicans
Toted for Bryan in 18DG and moo , and
It is believed all will now return to the
regular party organization. In a letter
to Representative llabbrock , chairman of
the Republican Congressional : Committee -
tee , Mr . 'illotson says :
"Present conditions make any further
attempt to maintain , a silver party or-
f canization a merle erce and with chang-
oed conditions cow changed political re-
lations.
.
"It appears 1:0 : me that the Demo-
IttRtic party , has forfeited its claim upon
all voters except such ns vote the ticket
from tratIition. Indeed , the only Dem-
Brat who in a generation has stood for
an idea is constrained to admit that the
candidate or his party' is the beneficiary
.r a fraud practiced upon the convention
which nominated him.
"The Democratic party , through its
attitude' and the attitude of its candi-
dates : , admits that the Republican part
II right ' on the money question. It ad-
mits that the Republican party has per-
Ifected the legislation needed for con-
trolling the trusts and monopolies , a per-
section that the Republican : party itself
has never claimed. It admits that , if
successful , nothing in the way or tariff
! legislation can be effected except such
B1I may be approved by the Republican
'arty , yet it seeks to make tariff tink-
ying an issue.
"It condemns the acquisition of the
light to build the Panama canal , but
taps : ratify the act by keeping the oods.
! t sympathizes with the Filipinos , but
fails'to recognize that the acquisition of
these islands was ratified by the people
III 1900.
"It presents us with n candidate whose
m political virtues arc of the nega-
the sort. He claims that the
body politic. is sick and as a remedy
proposes four years or paralysis. It
this attitude i9 in good faith it would
appear that there is nC good reason for
.upporting the part or its candidate ,
It in bad faith then there is every rea-
lIOn for not supporting them.
1 "With no definite progrnmme to ad-
Tocate : and no settled policy of g-overn-
mint to assert the opposition is devoting
lu energies to an attack upon President
iRoosevelt. His opponents arc compelled -
ed to admit that : he is 0. man or virility ,
a .f high moral purpose tin both civil and
IDmcial life and one that does not evade
.mcial responsibility.
"While there are many honest and
upright citizens among his opponents
yet the fact remains that the President's
vigorous and : aggressive execution or his
IDtnce has led the manipulator of preda-
tory wealth , the professional agitator
4 + and the political grafter to make com-
Son cause against him. These are thor-
agbly convinced that the President is
toot safe , but legitimate and vested right
have no cause of complaint.
t
'The voter has to choose between one
i ntr the other of the candidates ot thE !
dominant parties or throw his vote away
as a mere protest by Toting for some
third party candidate. It appears to
me that the President is entitled to a
TOte of confidence , and above all part I
considerations the election of President
: Roosevelt is required as n vindication of
moral courage and official integrity in
the government of men-a vindication
aot or the candidate , but of the Ameri-
un people. "
Parkor' Letter a Disonpointment.
Ernest Grawfort , or Jamestown , N.
iI' , Democratic county committeeman
land delegate to the Democratic State
t'onvention which instructed ' for Judge ;
Parker , has severed all connections with
the Democratic part and has declared
his intention or voting for President
Roosevelt In e. letter to Walter E4-
SOB , chairman of the county committee ,
Mr. Ora\vtort says , among other thing :
"You will consider my relations with
the Democratic party severed because
that political organisation has ceased
ta .be the declared exponent ot governmental -
mental policies and economic principles
whose ultimate < : : triumph is deemed
more essential than the inauguration
or any particular political regime. The
final decision ! " to cast my vote for Theo-
dore HooleTelt is not 11 hasty conclu-
sion. I conceive the political duty of n
young ; man is first to his country ; and
secondly to that party whose policies
applied to governmental affairs : mil con-
duce to industrial I satisfaction , Promote
national commercial expansion , and
assure the constitutional operation of
law regardless ; of wealth , color or s 1l-
.tion. "
Mr. Crawrort asserts that be did not
Tote for the indoorsement of Judge Parker
at the Albany convention , and that following -
loving the Democratic nominee's sensa - .
rtional telegram to the 6t. Louis convention .
vention Judge Parker's letter of necept-
ance wall :1 keen disappointment.
An American , Not a Democrat.
Judge Walter U. : Chandler , a lifelong -
long Democrat of New York , has announced -
nounced his intention of Toting for
Roosevelt und Fnirbmks. In stating
his position Judge Chandler says that
it took him eight years to reach "the
lofty plane or moral courage and patHetic -
otic resolve to 'be an AmeriCAn and not
a D mocrlt. " He purposes also to permanently -
mmentIy : remain in the Republican
party : , preferring to follow the "dictat
ot reason and not ot impulse. " "I supported -
ported the Democratic ticket in 1000 , "
said Judge Chandler , "on the single is-
sue or the retention or non-retention or
the Philippine islands. I now regard
the Philippine question DS n. closed incident -
'cident ' ; on every other cardinal : issue of
the present campaign I am in hearty ac-
cord with the Republican party. Des-
titute of living issues , wanting in
righteous civic motives , totally disorgan-
zed : and demoralized , Democrats have
forgotten or haTe at least abandoned
the manly and enlightened methods of
polemic warfare that made illustrious
and forever memorable the days of Doug-
las and Lincoln. "
Does Not Like Da.'s. Lawyers'I
Dr. George H. Carpenter , of Ridgely ,
W. Ya. , who two years ago was prom-
inently mentioned as a Democratic can-
didate for Congress , Ihas declared him =
self in favor of Roosevelt and l 'airb nks.
He has also stated that he will not sup-
port John J. Cornwell for governor or
West Yirg-ini:1. : In announcing his renunciation
nunciation ot the Democratic nominees
Dr. Carpenter said : "I see nothing in
the Democratic ticket or platform to at-
tract my Tote Judge Parker has acted
for 11 class ot Democrats in whom I have .
no raith. He is unknown. The mm.
who recommended him are istrusted.
West Virginia is the worst corporation-
ridden State in the Union , and the influence -
fluence ot Furker's running mate : bas
been the chief cause in making ; it 60. "
After Seventy 'Years.
William \IcL:1in : : : , of Ottumwa , la. ,
who says he has been voting the Demo-
cratic ticket for seventy years , , has announced -
nounced his intention of supporting Pres-
itIcnt Roosevelt. In making this state-
ment Mr. McLail1 : says that the Presi-
dent has demonstrnted that he is a safe
and capable man , to have at the head ot
the government , and that he believes in
letting well enough alone. \Ir. : : \ IcLain
is 96 > years : old and cast . 'bis first Presi-
dential Tote for Andrew Jackson.
Parker Too Uncertain.
W. E. Williams , or Boonyille , Ind. ,
who has been active in Democratic coun-
cils heretofore , will use his influence in
support ot the Republican national tick-
et. In declaring his intentions Mr. Wil-
liams places the welfare or himself and
his neighbors above a party name after
this fashion : "Thcre has been en increase -
crease or 100 per cent in tile value of
lands in Warrick county in the last
eight years It used to be while Cleve-
land was : President that lands sold for
from $ G to $10 an acre. Now the same
farms bring $ ? 0 an acrc. Parker is an
.
uncertain quantit The Democrats : han
no issue , but it is inevitable they would
tinker with the tariff and bring about
business stagnation. "
Union Labor Men Renounce Dem-
oeracy.
John Ennis and William D. Harrison ,
or Stamford , Conn. , who have for years
been prominent in Democratic politics
and active in union labor politics , have
renounced Parker and Davis and will
support Roosevelt and Fairbanks. 'The
Democratic party repudiated every truly
Democratic principle nt the 8t. Louis
convention , " said Mr. Harr ! ; on. "Be-
sides , it has nominated (1 man who has
never placed himself ! ' : on record on anT
question before the people. Xo one
knows where he stands , and I cannot
see how anyone who has been n con-
sistent Democrat for the last fifteen
years can support Judge Parker. "
E.thn.lftstlc for Rooseve1t
John T. Doyle , of Stockton , Oal. , who
has held a Dumber ot : hih ; offices ender
Democratic rule , is enthusiastically sup-
porting Roosevelt and J'airbanks. Mr.
Doyle asserts he .is . no longer able to
support the platform or the Democratic
, party. City councilman , member of the
board ot police and fire commission and
member or the board of managers or
the Stockton State Hospital for the In-
I sane are some of the offices which Mr.
Doyle 'has ' fille .
: Roosevelt . Prtureslh"e
.
Charles P. Blane , of the legal : firm
of Keating & Wolrsdt , of New York ,
In reply to the appeals of the LawYirs'
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I Constitutional Club in behalf or Jude
Parker , gives the following reasons for
I hIs support of President Roosevelt :
"President Roosevelt appeals ' favorably -
ably to me because his administration
has given to the country a progressive
and liberal management ot its affairs.
, Through ; its agency the United States
' has received the valuable privileges relating -
l:1ting : to the construction ot the Panama
canal privileges which would not , and
'
could not , , have been acquired but for
the firm and determined position quckly !
taken by the President. Furthermore ,
the present method of dealing with the
Philippine question seems to me ro be
the only practical solution ot that :
difficult problem. "
" Ilconaln Man Chnu c" .
Daniel Buchanan , or Chippewa Falls ,
Wis. , one ot the leading . and best known
Democrats in Northern Wisconsin : , has
bolted Parker and Davis and announced ,
his purpose of supporting Uooseveit and
F'airbanks. At one time Jle was a can-
didate for Congress on the Democratic
ticket and took nn active part in poli-
tics. At the recent Republican county
convention Mr. Buchanan was elected a
delegate to the Congressional conyention.
ONLY ONE ISSUE LEFT
Xt : I. the'Ufficoa , and the Democrats
Will Never Abandon It.
There is one issue the Democrats have
not antI never will abandon-the ot-
fices. With a light heart and an easy
swallow
conscience they are willing to
the gold standard , to enter a nolle prosse
&s to the "tariff robbery , " to con-
struct the Panama Canal and to post-
pose independence for the Philippines
until the Filipinos have donned clothes ,
but the officeS-these they must have or
the last excuse for their party's exist-
ence is gone.
Editor Pulitzer Is writing page ' upon
page ot open letters in the hew York
World , which prints them because
110 owns it , to prove that Theodore
Roosevelt and .he alone is the issue.
'The paramount issue of this campaign ' , "
the editor writes , addressing himself li-
I'ect to the President , "is not as you
would diave it , free trade or : free silver ,
but YOU YOURSELF - Theodore
Roosevek. This issue intorce upon the
country by your unusual temperament
and talent-your own strong , able , am-
bitious , resourceful , militant , passionate
personality , your versatile and surpris-
lug genius. "
It this were not meant to be alarm-
ing It would fittingly describe one side
ot the personality or the Republican
standard bearer worthy ot being printed .
ed in flaming type and posted at every
cross roads in the country. Add to it
the unquestioned attributes of honesty ,
courage and patriotism , and you have
the true measure or the head or the
Republican ticket. Mr. Pulitzer cannot
had that the possession of any or the
impulsive and willful traits he , has attributed -
tributed to the President has led him
into . hasty , arbitrary or ill-considered
acts , or into any policy inimical to the
public welfare or that has not been
fully justified by the event.
No higher tribute could be paid ttfP.he
President than the way in which he was
been singled out by ) Ir. Pulitzer as the
one engrossingovershadowing issue of
the campah
Now , why does Mr. Pulitzer wish to
get rid or a President of such known
and approved qualities to make wad : for
the untested and unexperienced in j er
of Rosemount ? - -
The answer is plain-THE OFFICES.
Mr . Pulitzer is Democrat-a
a - transplanted -
planted Missouri Democrat. He knows
that the national Democracy is very
hungry and very thirsty and that it is
weary of feeding upon the , husks that
fall to the share or the opposition party
at Washin-ton. ;
So long as Mr. Roosevelt is in the
White House Mr. Pulitzer knows that
every office , outside or the classified
service , will go to a Republican , provided -
ed there is no Democrat ( so much better
qualified for it that to ignore his claims
would create a national scandal.
\ \ hat Mr. Pulitzer and the Democracy
want is that the only touchstone or fit-
ness for federal offices shaH be the fray-
ed maxim of David B. Hill , "I am a
DemGCrat. " Upon tills issue he has no
misgivings ns to the "firm and irrevo-ea-
ble" convictions ot the Sphinx of sopm ; .
In Judge Parker's eyes the author of the
maxim : "To the victors belong the spoils"
was the greatest statesman , not except-
ing Boss Tweed , Now York has ever
producetI. And Mr. Pulitzer believes
that a Democratic mummy or the Marcy
school in the White House would Dot
permit any question of fitness to inter-
fere between the faithful and the federal -
eral pay roll.
At present the sturdy , robust repub-
licanism or Theodore Roosevelt stands
between the Democracy and the offices.
How to remove this stumbling block in
the path ot the lean and hungry wan-
dercrs of lSDG and lDOIJ is the supreme ,
the only issue left to the DemocracY'
It a national election could be decided -
ed b.r the voters wanting a job , irre-
spective ot their fitness for it , the Democracy -
mocracy under the leadership of Mr.
Pulitzer would be invincible.
ADVISERS OF CANDIDATES
Trust ) Iagnates with Parker aad
Statesmen with Roo.evelt.
Two old saws-"Birds of a. feather
flock together" and "Men are known by
the company they keep"-are applicable
to the present campaign. Here are some
ot the men who stand close to the two
presidential candidates , and are known
as their polItical advisers :
For Parker-\ugust Belmont , Wall
street magnate ; George Foster Peabody ,
ditto ; David . B. Hill , of unsavory polit-
ical record ; Cord Meyer , ot the sugar
trust ; Patrick McCuren , legislative
agent of the Standard Oil Company ;
John B. MacDonald , Belmont's "hand , .
man. "
For Roosevelt-Elihll Root , former
Secretary ot War ; John Hay , Secretary
or State ; William H. Moody , Attorney
General ; William H. Tart , Secretary of
War : ; George B. Cortelyou , former Secretary -
1'etnry or Commerce md Labor ; Joseph
G. Cannon Speaker ot the House or
Uepresentatives.
We are more fortunate than oar OJ-
ptlneate , who new appeal for confi-
dents on the grennd , which some
express a.d .0Me seek to have confi-
dcntlal1yunderatood , that , if triumphant -
ant , they tray be trusted to prove false
t8 tnary : principle which in the leat
eight years they : kava laid d.wn as
vital alld to leavs undisturbed those
very : acts tlf adml.lstrnUon because of
which they ask that the admlnl.tra-
tien itself be driven fr.m owor-
Pr1sldenRooleyelt. .
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"SIZING i l UP" A. B. PARKER
Democratic Candidate Began
. His Career as a iiBoss. "
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A PRO EGE OF DAVID B. HILL
"Practical Politician , " Who Is Now
Surrounded and Supported by Tammany -
many flail Leaders- rief lance
at His Political Record.
Ever since that July day when tIle
Democratic National Convention of 1901
adjourned , after nominating for Pres-
hlent ot the United States Alton B.
Parker , ot New York , the people ot the
country have been trying to find out
something ; about the man for whom they
are asked to vote early next Xo\"emhe
It has been hard work. Outside of
the State ot New York Alton B. Parker -
er was practically unknown before the
m e ngor the Democratic convention at
St. Louis. lIe still remains , to the vast
majority or voters throughout the coun-
try , unknown , except by his name and
place or residence , with such adilitiuiial
light as has been thrown upon him by
newspaper portraits.
In the matter or supplying pictures
or Judge Parker his home , his wife ,
children , grandchildren , son-in-law antI
other relations there has been no stnt.
The country has gazed its fill upon news
paper cuts representing Judge Parker ,
trimmed , so to speak , with various and ]
assorted young relations , and in all of
these pictures Ir. . Parker has present-
ed that bland , open and somewhat patronizing .
tronizin front with which mankind
races the world when it is stri"ingto
"look : pleasant" and at the same time .
keep some infant prodigy still under the
process or photogrnphy.
To be sure , the voters haTe seen pic-
tures or Mr. Parker galore , and pictures :
of his house and of this family. They
have been told that he was , when nomi-
nated , a judge , .high up on the bench ot
the -State or New York and "the rest
.
silence. . " It is true that Mr. Parker ,
when notified of his nomination , pro
nounced a "speech ot acceptance , " but
that proved such a merry-go-round of
flat and meaningless words as fairly
stunned the unterrified in their lairs. It
gaTe no inkling as to what kind or a
man the Democratic nominee might be ,
except that be , possesses the not uncom-
mon faculty : ot talking a great deal mid
saying nothing-
Eearchln the Record.
And so the American people sat down
and studied , by such means as they had
at hand , the man who asks their votes (
for the office of Chief Executi\"e.
"It seems like a sort 0' 'Ilnsiht ; and
unseen' game , " said an old Illinois farm-
er. "I guess 'We'd better not trade , this
time ! "
There remained and remains for the
awakened gaze ot the American people
the record ot 1Ir. Parker's life , so much
of it as has been .in the public eye. Wit
his private life let it be said , once for
all , there is no reproach.
Alton B. Parker was born at Cort-
land , New York , in the neighborhood
where he now lives , more than fifty
.
years ago. He grew up in Ulster county ,
and began the practice or law there as
n. young man. From the beginning he
was known as a politician ot the kind
which gains ends rather as a manager
than as a candidate. In plain language ,
he was a "County Bss" ( in the Demo-
cratic foM. While a very young man
.he directed a campaign for Judge Shoon-
maker , in whose office he had studied
law Encouraged by his success in this
effort he sought for himself the post ot
Surrogate ; , as the Probate Judge is called -
ed in Now York State. He was elected ,
and held the office for many years.
In this office Judge Parker continued
his silent and underground activities in
politics of the New York variety ; a
variety in cities exemplified by Tammany -
many ; and in the country districts not
one whit behind Tammany in zeal , cun-
ning and unscrupulousness.
Favored by Bill.
Says a recent writer , speaking or this
period of Judge Parker's liCe : .
"Politics In New York Is haul and Iron-
bound ; It Is wIthout sentiment , and has
no principle saTe the principle ot success.
This Is ns true ot country fiS ot town as
true ot the cornfields fiS of Tammany Hall.
Victory Is the only virtue defeat the only
crime-In New York. Judge Parker knew .
these things ; he saw no visitor ! : , courted
no dreams , : aosed Into no trances. l'a-
tlently , practically , he added one man to
another , and the two to somebody else , un- .
tl1 the result ot his additions was the con- :
trol ot the county ot Ulster. "
Th steady success of Judge Parker ,
his even , business methods , cold and
bloodless in calculation and results attracted -
tracted the attention and the favor ot
David Bennett Hill. In 188 ; , when Ir.
Hill was about to make his first canvass -
can-I
Tass for the governorship of New York ,
he chose for the practical manager of I
his campaign Judge Parker. Thus at
the age ot thirty-three years Judge Park-
er became Hill's political manag-er. He
elected his man.
Mr. Hill , early in his administration
as Governor , rewarded his faithful man-
ager by appointing , him to the Supreme i I
Bench or the State ot New York. Judge
Parker has , practically speaking , occu-
pied the Supreme or the Court or Ap-
peals beach ever since.
There i5 Judge Parker's public record.
A practical .politician , a. manager ot
campaigns , a discovery and protege or
David Bennett Hill !
And now , 11t the end of this plain , unvarnished -
Tarnished tale , it remains to be noted
that from beginning to end there is not
set down in all the pages devoted to
Judge Parker and his candidacy one
single utterance or inspiration , enthusi-
ism , patriotism , or even one word sug-
gl'sting a broad and generous appreciation -
tion ot public needs and public interests ,
small or great , in nIl the years during
which Judge Parker has "handled" local
campaigns. I
His COllnsclors.
Next to a man's acts , judged by his '
avowed motives , there is no safer guide
to his character and his mental qualities
than his choice of associates and felloR'
workers. Turning from the meager tale
of Judge Parker's political life to his
political counselors and intimates , whom
do we find ?
" , Two forces : David Bennett Hill and
f
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T Tamman ! "Blue-End Billy Sheehan"
i- ; Judge ' Parker friend and neighbor I
I . : at P..osemount. To him Parker addressed
, his famous telegram ; at the St. Louis :
com'eutiou. Daily Judge ; Parker IS surf -
i f rounded by the Shel'hans , O'Brien ; ; nUll
I I the McDonalds of Tamman There is
no hiding from an arueed ; , peoplE : ' . and (
the best proof ot Judge Porkers lack
or knowlede of the American people is
that he does not know that his association -
tion with Tammany will not he excused
or condoned by them. In New York ,
he possibly argues , Tammany is endur-
ed with restiveness . it is true but still
endlU'etl. Outside of New York this is
not true , but Judge Parker floes not
know the true temper or the American
people outside or New York. How
should be =
The "Enigma ot E-.opus" is no loner ;
an enigma. Put forth by the cunning ;
hand ot David B. Hill . supported by
the restrained savagery of Tammany , the
astute politician and campaign ; manager
of Ulster County posed , for a few days , "
wrapped about in his judicial robes as
in a garment of veneration and myster
A. look nt his record , a glance at his
political associates and friends , and the
tableau dissolves amidst the choking
smoke ot the flash-light.
PARKER WON'T GO TO FAIR
Esopus , N. Y. , Sept. 2 , l004.-"It Is
now announced that Mr. Parker has
changed his mind : , hI regard to his trip
to the Fair at St. Louis , and in all prob-
ability he will not leave IWsemOllt again
during : the campaign.-Press Disxmtcl1.
Dear ! Dear ! What can ! the matter be ?
Dear ! Dear ! What can the matter be ?
De tr ! Dear ! What can : the matter be ?
Parker won't go to the fair !
He promised to travel across the wide
prairies ,
lie promised to let loose ! Some old-time
vagaries ,
He wanted to ride on the Pike dromedaries -
ries !
But now he won't go to the fair !
Dear ! Dear : ! What cnn the matter be !
Parker won ' go to the fair !
Ire said that for once he would set forth
and trayel }
Would brave all the dangers of dust and
gravel ,
He said all the mysteries he would unravel -
ravel ,
Bat now he won't go to the fair !
Dear ! Dear ! What cnn the matter be !
Parker won't go to the fair !
.
Why won't . the big bosses let Parker go
roaming ?
And why do they keep him shut up in
the gloaming ?
St. Louis is walting--her beer glasses
foaming , .
But Parker 'Won't goo to the fair !
Dear ! Dear ! What cnn the matter be !
Oh , dear = What can , the matter be !
Dear ! Dear ! What can the matter be !
I Parker can't go to the fair !
AWKWARD QUESTIONS.
Dcrnocrnts Object to An"werln " , Financial .
nancial Interrogatories
When the "gold" message ot Alton n.
Parker reached the Democratic convention -
tion at St. Louis William J. Bryan s lg-
gested that the currency views of ) Ir.
Parker ought to be more explicitly de-
fined in some detail , and that the con-
yention therefore should prepare a list
of questions connected with various
phases of the currency issue for the can-
didate to answer , but Master ot Cere- ;
monies Williams rushed to Parker's de- I
fense with the statement that the can-
didate should not be asked to answer "A
LOT OF FOOLISH QUESTIO S. "
This was the same "public be d---d"
attitude that arrogant corporations used
to take in refusing to answer questions
of pertinent interest to their stockholders -
ers or to the general public , until the
Republican party remedied matters by
passing a law compelling publicity , antI
especially established .the Bureau or
Commerce and Labor to secure it.
) Ir. Bryan , all the Democrats in the
convention nt St. Louis , and in fact nil
American voters ot whatever poetical
belief , had a perfect right : to expect detailed -
tailed and explicit publicity from Candidate -
date Parker ot his views on governmental -
al financial policies , so that they could
know whether or not , or to what extent
his views were their Tiews. But this
them because the
publicity was denied ,
managers ot the convention deemed it ot
more importance to protect their candi-
date from questions which he would not
want to answer for fear of making a
"break : ' than to protect time voters ot the
country from possible misunderstanding
as to financial views which might not
hear the limelight of public discussion.
The managers of a corporation con-
ducte on unsound lines are always apt to
consider as "foolish" questions , which ,
it answered , might result in nn expose.
And it is the same way with the Demo-
cratic managers , who think their only
safe policy on the currency question is
bm refuse to give information as ro what
their policy really is.
The Vermont Laud"Ude.
Chairman Bullard of the Vermont
Democratic State committee said , the
night before the election : 'Ve feel that
if the figure ( or the Republican plural-
ity ) is below 25,000 this year it is n
sue indication that the national election
I will go DemGCratic. "
Well , the Democratic manager himself
made the estimate. He counted the
chances or the Democratic party in the
present campaign as might be indicated
by the September vote in his own State.
Representing his party , .be made the
estimate and the result has been appall-
ing-tor the Democrat - - - the Republican
plurality being 31,500. There has been
a Republican landslide or about one-
fourth over the normal Tote in the State
of Yermont.
A low ware scale lit Dot consistent
with the most wholesome development
oC the country and ot It . . people. The
consideration of the pending measure ,
al 1Ir. Blaine sold of the Chinese exclusion -
clusion Act , connects Itself intimately :
and inseparably with the labor ques-
tlo.-Senator Fairbanks In tt.a Senate Jan-
u..ry 11 , 188.
I believe emphatically in organized
labor. I believe in organization of wage
earners. Organization is one of the laws
of our social and-economic development
at this time.-From Reese elt's speech
to Locomotive Firemen at Chattanooga ,
Tenn. , Sept. S , 19& . .
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PARKER EXCORIATED
THOMAS E. WATSON.S RECENT
SPEECH TO SOUTHERNERS.
. -
Raieinget the Negro Question by :
Democrats Denounced as Ifypocrisy-
Roosevelt Preferred to Hill's Candidate -
date Who IIS flossed by " Wall Street.
Thomas H. Watson , Populist candi-
date for the Presitlery , in a speech at
Atlanta . Ga. , on Sept. 1 , declared that
the Democratic attack on President
Roosevelt for the latter's alleged ; friendliness .
liness ! ' to the negro was a pieee ot Dem-
ocratic hypocrisy : and he challenged
Parker to indicate his own position on
the race is : > ue. On this point Mr.Vat -
son said :
The South should demand to know the
facts about I'urer. ) how does he stand
upon this alleged ; question ? Is his position
nt all different front that ot ItooseTelt ?
Ir 80 , In what respect ! The South should
demand explicit ; reply to the following
questions before It Totes for him upon
the assumption that he differs from Roose-
Yt'lt on the nero question :
1. Would you refuse tit eat nt the same
table with Hooker Wnshlngton' !
. "oold you : refuse to appoint negroes !
to office In the South !
3. Ir elected will you refuse to receive
ou terms gf equality at the White House
such negroes as Bishop Turner. . Booker
Washington ; : , and ' 1' . 'I'homns Fortune ?
4. Deveu - approve the mixed : schools or
New York , inaugurated under Grover Clen
lall11-ln m which social equality Is practically -
ly made a matter Itt compulsion ?
3. Ir such schoolwherein black children .
dren and white children are educated to'
ether-llre : J.toot / ! thing for your native
fate of New York , would they bo a good
thing fr Georgia and South Carolina : It
not , why not ?
Negro Cry : Is Irypocrl :
Taking up the discussion : ot the negro
question , ay : far as ! its bearing : on the
present nAtional campaign is concernod.
Mr. Watson said that the Democratic <
national leaders : have prostituted the
name or Democrat and are demanding
that they ShAll be followed blindly in
spite or the fact that they have renounced -
nounced every principle ot Democracy.
Asking . "wm the real Democrats follow
the name rather than the principle ? " '
he continual :
In the South we 3m told we must submit
to the surrender to 'Vall street because ot
"the nigger. ; " What a blessed thing It 111
for Democratic leaders : that they always
have "tbe nigger" to fan hack on. For
thirty years : they have been dolwjC bush
ness on "the 1I1/er. ! " and t-tay he Is their
only stock In trule.
Note the hypocrisy or It. In their pa- .
tlonal platform uf 18j they solemllly prO
tested their allegiance to the doctrine ot
"equalty , " regardless ot l.1 or color
and pledged themselves to malntalu the
emancipation and the enfranchisement of
the blacki
II 186 at St" Louis , Ienr 'Vaterol
bell ; chairman .f the convention , they
solemnly declared their devotion to the
constitutional amendments growing out of
the civil \'ar.
In 1880 , I. 18 , In 188 , the national
conventions of the Democratic party re-
par }
anlned these declarations , emi the lerC
question , and thus stood plldet to oppose '
any reopening ot the questions settled by
the thlrteentb , fourteenth and fifteenth
amendments. Yet after all these feral
pledges we are now browbeaten and ! n-
timid : Ml by Democratic leaders . who say !
we m c indorse their capitulation to Bel-
mont ; livid B. 11111 , and Pat IcCarreG
because ot "the nlger. "
Negro Powerless in Politics. .
'Vhat can the Southern negro do ? "
asked 3Ir . Watson. "lie has been - disfranchised -
franchised in nearly every Southern
Stat excepting Georgia ; and in Georgia t
they d ot dare disfranchise him , be-
can emocracy in Georgia cannot be
man L ained by the white vote. " He con- 1
tinned :
Therefore , the cry that tre arc In ! dmef
from "the nl ger" Is the most hypocritical -
cal that unscrupulous leadership could in-
.ent. Grant Sherman. and Sheridan , \ia
all their armies , could not revise the law
of nature In the prostrate South.
The white mal Is master-wherever be
plants his foot the world o"er. Do you
tell me that Roosevelt cnn do against the .
recuperated South what Thad Stevens
could not do aalns the exhausted South ? y
Roosevelt could not to It even If he would. l
The Democratic leader who talk this
tl13 /
stuff , and the editors who write It , laugh
and wink at sue another as they pass , ,
they know what : humbug It all is . and 3
how It Is being used to make the people
forget , or condone , the
fortet inglorious surrender .
to Wall street which they made at St.
Louis
In the West Virginia Democratic con-
ventlon , the Stat ot the DenlcraUc nomi-
nee for Vice President , the "white supreme
acy" resolution was Toted down , and 01
Aug. 1 , lOt Parker himself : , II writing -
to the nerC , James A. Boss , addressed r
, him as "My dear sir , " just ns though y
Ross had been a white man. ; +
Surrender to Walt Street. " .
' . Turning tc other issues , ) [ r. Watson !
said the Democratic leaders had surrendered -
rendered to Wall street because , as Senator - i
ator John W. Daniels , of Virginia , put U
it . they were "tired or being in tie i
minorit , . . " He continued :
Not afraid ot Roosevelt's militarism ? u
1'0. Not afraid ot Hoosevelt's nlerlsm' a
No. Al that i fudge and subterfuke
sulerute.
" 'Ired ot being In the minority , " there
was the milk In the cocoanut. m
Not tired ot beln In .
being the wrong ? No
! :
He did not even pretend that he hat been
In the wren . Simply because they tiara
been In the ; minority they are rely to 5
drop the principles which they swore for j
eight years were rht. ant to ' adopt thee ,
which even now they do not 'dare say are
1'1ht. Great God : what an attitude foe 1 '
the leaders or I great national party.
I I could become politically tipsy enough
h vote for Parker 00 the platform ;
1.04. lS constructed by Parker himself I
t . ould take one more drink-a , unal ! one } p
rt that-and Tote for the other twin 1' ,
J nosevelt. Give ml the original every ;
t : ne , rather than the blurred. indistinct r
C "py. Give me tae genuine article , rather
tal the spu1'leu3 ubstltute. '
What Hal Parker Done ? 1
: Ir. Wat ( then pd his rcpect to 1
Candidate Parker
nke personally. He asked :
Why houl' Georgians support l'arker
of New York rather snpprt I fellow
Georgian ! What do Ton know or Parker ?
What has le done that was notable ? What
has he ever said that
eer wa memorable '
What has he ever writtea that stamped f
him with ladhldualty ? stampe f
David B. Hill declared nt St. rlnl
that he had ? been 'ntfnate with Parker for + 1
thirty years , and that he did net kl4\
hoW Parker stood as the money quetion
'
Was this . statement true ? I so , Parker
I the most negative ! public man ou the
AmerIcan c.ntlnent. Was the : ttement I , , _
false I S. . David n. Di I the boldest j
liar between the two occans ThInk of " ,
j
a man living .I intimate terms with Alexander . I t
ander H. Stevens and Abc r.lncolu for r ,
thirty years and Kot knowing how he stood i
on the greatest poltcl questions of the i :
day ! a I
d3
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The populist leader declared than the L
people could not secure retormt in the
Democratic part when it is "bossed i ,
by the same old Wall street crowd which r
debauched CleTeland's second adminis- ,
tration. " He declared that at St. Luis )
all the worthless empty honors had been
given to southern Democrats , who in re-
turn denounces Bryan and helped to
"knite the Jeffersonians. " Now , "be-
cause . DaTe Hill allowed John Sharp
Williams to have : chairmanship" the
whole South must b "driven under the
lash of party discipline away from the '
gospel or .ur fathers and into political a ;
slaver t tAe HmiItonians ot Net *
York. "