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ROOSEVELT THEIR CHOICE Form3r Silverites and Democrats Decline to Sup port Parker for President. ALL PREFER PROSPERITY TO PARALYSIS Views of D. C. Tillotson, Late Chairman of the National Silver Republican Party —Rea sons Given by Others. Many Democrats will rote for Roose Mh and Fairbanks this fall. A large ■amber have publicly announced their dhange of faith, but others have sim ply said to their friends that they pre fer the known and tried Roosevelt to tbe hesitating, evasive and untried Parker. The names of some of these Men, including Oscar Straus, John A. McCall, Major Johu Bryne, Patrick Xgan, Richard Price Morgan and Eu gene A. Philbin, have already been print ed. Among those not heretofore noted •re: Ernest Orawfort, Judge W. M. Chandler, Dr. George H. Carpenter, Wil liam McLain, W. E. Williams, John Dnnis, William D. Harrison, John T. Doyle, Charles P. BJauey aud Daniel Buchan nan. From Baxter Springs, Kas., comes flie information of wholesale desertions •n the part of Bryan Democrats, and the forecasters predict that Cherokee, srbidh gave Bryan 1,800 majority in 3896, will go solidly for the Republican ticket. Prominent among the Demo crats who have announced their inten tion of supporting President Roosevelt •re: T. H. Goodwin, mine owner; E. IW. Dow. president telephone system; Samuel J. Crawford, former governor of Kansas; James H. Chubb, former mem ber fusion legislature; J. C. Haskett, dry goods merchant; Samuel Binns, hay dealer; Edward Hodgkins, retired mer chant; D. Orr’Chubb, politician; W. S. Baxter, editor and C. E. Collins, poli-1 tfeian. son, chairman of the county committee, Mr. Orawfort says, among other tlungs: “Yon will consider my relations with the Democratic party severed because that political organization has ceased to be the declared exponent of govern mental policies and economic principles whose ultimate triumph is deemed more essential than the inauguration of any particular political regime. The final decision to cast my vote for Theo dore Roosevelt is not a hasty conclu sion. I canceire the political duty of a young man is first to his country; and secoudly to that party whose policies applied to governmental affairs will con duce to industrial satisfaction, promote national commercial expansion, and assure the constitutional operation of law regardless of wealth, color or sta tion." Mr. Crawfort asserts that he did not vote for the indorsement of Judge Parker at the Albany convention, and that fol lowing the Democratic nominee’s sensa tional telegram to the St. Loais con vention Judge Parker's letter of accept ance was a keen disappointment. An American, Mat a Demscrst, Judge Walter M. Chandler, a life long Democrat of New York, has an nounced his intention of voting for Roasevelt and Fairbanks. In stating bis position Judge Chandler says that it took him eight years to reach “the lofty plane ef moral courage and patri otic resolve te be an American and not a Democrat." He purposes also to per manently remain in the Republican party, preferring to follow the “dictates of reason and not of impulse." **I sup ported the Democratic ticket In 1900.” said Judge Chandler, “on the single is sue of the rrtentkm or non-retention of the Philippine islands. I now regard the Philippine question as a closed in 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 ized and demoralized, Democrats have forgotten or have at least abandoned the manly and enlightened methods of polemic warfare that made illustrious and forever memorable the days of Doug las and Lincoln.” Bad of Silver Republican Party. An important accession to the Repub lican ranks is D. C. Tillotson, of Te peka, Kas., chairman of the national committee of the Silver Republican party in 1900. In a letter to J. W. Babcock, chairman of the Republican Congres sional Committee, Mr. Tillotson says that the Silver Republicans are satis fied that the Roosevelt administration tried to do its duty with the people, and for that reason he and his friends will1 support it. This statement is of im portance because the Silver Republicans voted for Bryan iu 1896 and 1000. and it is believed all will now return to the tegular party organization. In a letter to Representative Babbeoek, chairman of file Republican Congressional Commit tee, Mr. Tillotson says: “Present conditions ma-ke any further i attempt to maintain a silver party or-1 ganization a mere farce and with chang «d conditions come changed political re lations. “It appears to me that the Demo cratic party has forfeited its claim upon mil voters except such as vote the ticket from tradition. Indeed, the only Demo crat who in a generation has stood for •n idea is constrained to admit that the candidate of his party is the beneficiary •f a fraud practiced upon the convention ' (which nominated him. “The Democratic party, through its attitude and the attitude of its candi dates, admits that Che Republican party Is right on the money question. It ad aaits that the Republican party has per fected the legislation needed for con trolling the trusts and monopolies, a per fection that the Republican party itself has never claimed. It admits that, if successful, nothing in the way of tariff legislation can be effected except such wa may; be approved by the Republican party, yet it seeks to make tariff tink ering an issue. * “It condemns the acquisition of the light to build the Panama canal, but •aya ratify the act by keeping the goods. It sympathizes with the Filipinos, but fails to recognize that the acquisition of these islands was ratified by the people In 1900. Does Not Like Davis. Dr. George H. Carpenter, of Ridgely, W. Va., who two years ago was prom inently mentioned as a Democratic can didate for Congress, has declared him self in favor of Roosevelt and Fairbanks. He has also stated that he will not sup port John J. Cornwell for governor of West Virginia. In announcing his re nunciation of the Democratic nominees Dr. Carpenter said: “I see nothing in the Democratic ticket or platform to at tract my vote. Judge Parker has acted for a class of Democrats in whom I have no faith. He is unknown. The men who recommended him are distrusted. West Virginia is the worst corporation ridden State in the Union, and the in fluence of Parker’s running mate has been the chief cause in making it eo.” After Seventy Years. William McLain, of Ottumwa, la., who says he has been voting the Demo cratic ticket for seventy years, has an nounced his intention of supporting Pres ident Roosevelt. In making this rtate ment Mr. McLain says that the Presi dent has demonstrated that he is a safe and capable man to have at the head of the government, and that he believes in letting well enough akme. Mr. McLain is 96 years old and cast his first Presi dentiai vote for Andrew Jackson. Parker Too Uncertain. W. E. Williams, of Boouville, Ind„ who has been active in Democratic coun cils heretofore, will use his influence in support of the Republican national tick et. In declaring his intentions Mr. Wil liams places the welfare of himself and his neighbors above a party name after this fashion: “There has been an in crease of 100 per cent in the 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 $6 to $10 an acre. Now the same farms bring $20 an acre. Parker is an uncertain quantity. The Democrats have no issue, but It is inevitable they would tinker with the tariff and bring about business stagnation.” Union Labor Men Renounce Dem ocracy. John Bnnis and William D. Harrison, of 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 at the St. Lonis convention,” said Mr. Harrison. “Be sides, it has nominated a man who has never placed himself on record om any question before the people. No one knows where he stands, and I cannot see how any one who has been a con sistent Democrat for the last fifteen years can support Judge Parker.” “It presents us with a candidate whose political virtues are of the nega-1 tire sort. He claims that the hody politic is sick and as a remedy proposes four years of paralysis. If this attitude is in good faith it would appear that there is no good reason for supporting the party or its candidate, •f in bad faith then there is every rea son for not supporting them. “With no definite programme to ad vocate and no settled policy of govern ment to assert the opposition is devoting Its energies to an attack upon President (Roosevelt. His opponents are compell ad to admit that he is a maa of virilityt •f high moral purpose in both civil and afllcial life and one that does not evade afflciai responsibility. “While there are many honest and ■{Right citizens among his opponents yet the fact remains that the President’s vigorous and aggressive execution of his afflce has led the manipulator of preda tory wealth, the professional agitator and the political grafter to make com mon cause against him. These are thor anghly convinced that the President is mat safe, but legitimate and vested rights Rave no cause of complaint. “The voter has to choose between one ar the other of the eandidates of the lAocninant parties or throw his vote away M a mere protest by rating for some third party candidate. It appears to me that the President is entitled to a wote of confidence, and above all party conaiderations the election of President Boosevelt is required as a vindication of Boral courage and official integrity in tha government of men—a vindication Bit of the candidate, but of the Ameri can people.” Parkor’a Letter a Disappointment* Ernest Grawfort, of Jamestown, N. iT., Democratic county committeeman end delegate to the Democratic State convention which instructed for Judge Parker, has severed all connections with the Democratic party and has declared Ms intention of voting for President Soocevelt. Ia a letter to Whiter Ed Bathulisttc for Roosevelt. John T. Doyle, of Stockton, Oal., who has held a number of high offices under Democratic rule, w enthusiastically sup porting Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Mr. Doyle asserts he it no longer able to support the platform of the Democratic party. City councilman, member of the board of police and fire commission and member of the board of managers of the Stockton State Hospital for the In sane are some of the offices which Mr. Doyle 'has filled. Boosevolt Is Progressive. Charles P. Blanoy, of the legal firm of Keating & Wolradt, of New Tork, in reply to Che appeals of the Lawyers’ Constitutional Club in behalf of Judge Parker, gives -the following reasons for his support of President Roosevelt: “President Roosevelt appeals favor ably to me because his administration has given to the country a progressive and liberal management of its affairs. Through its agency the United States 'has received the valuable privileges re lating to the construction of the Panama canal, privileges which would not, and could not, 'have been acquired but for the firm and determined position quickly taken by the President. Furthermore, the present method of dealing with the Philippine question seems to me to be the only practical solution of that difficult problem.” Wisconsin Man Changes. Daniel Buchanan, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., one of the leading and best known Democrats in Northern Wisconsin, has bolted Parker and Davis and announced his purpose of supporting Roosevelt and Fairbanks. At one time he was a can didate for Congress on the Democratic ticket and took an active part in poli tics. At the recent Republican county convention Mr. Buchanan was elected a delegate to the Congressional convention. ONLY ONE ISSUE LEFT. It I* the'Office*, and the Democrat* Will Never Abandon It. There is one issue the Democrats have not and never will abandon—the of fices. With a light heart and an easy conscience they are willing to swallow the gold standard, to enter a nolle prosse as to the "tariff robbery,” to con struct the Panama Canal and to post pone 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 w gone. Editor Pulitzer ia writing page upon page of open letters in the New York VVerld, which prints them because he owns it, te prove that Theodore Roosevelt and he alone is the issue. "The paramount issue of this campaign,” the editor writes, addressing himself di rect to the President, "is not as you would have it. free trade or free silver, but YOC YOURSELF — Theodore Roosevelt. This issue inforced upon the country by your unusual temperament and talent—your owi strong, able, am bitiotis, resourceful, militant, passionate personality, your versatile and surpris ing genius.” If this were not meant to be alarm ing ft wonld fittingly describe one side of the personality of the Republican standard bearer worthy of being print 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 of the head of the Republican ticket. Mr. Pulitzer cannot find that the possession of any of the impulsive and willful traits he has at 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 to the President than the way in which he has been singled out by Mr. Pulitzer as the one engrossing, overshadowing‘issue of tha campaign. Now, why does Mr. Pulitzer wish to get rid of a President of such known aad approved qualities to make way for the untested and unexperienced master of Rosemount? The answer is plain—THE OFFICES. Mr. Pulitzer ia a Democrat—a trans planted Missouri Democrat. He knows that the national Democracy is Tery hungry and very thirsty and that it is weary of feeding upon the husks that fall to the share of the opposition party at Washington. So long as Mr. Roosevelt is in the White House Mr. Puiitzer knows that every office, outsude of the classified service, will go to a Republican, provid ed there is no Democrat so much better qualified for it that to ignore his claims would create a national scandal. What Mr. Pulitzer ami the Democracy want is that the only touchstone of fit ness for federal offices shall be the fray ed maxim of David B. Hill, *'I am a Democrat.” Upon this issue he has no misgivings as to the "firm and irrevoca ble” convictions of the Sphinx of Esopus. I» Judge Parker’s eyes the author of the maxim "To the victors belong the spoils” was the greatest statesman, not except ing Boss Tweed, New York has ever produced. And Mr. Pulitzer believes that a Democratic mummy of the Marcy school in the White House would not permit any question of fitness to inter fere between the faithful and the fed eral pay roll. At present the sturdy, robust repub licanism of Theodore Roosevelt stands between the Democracy and the offices. How to remove this stumbling block in the path of the lean and hungry wan iicrers of 1896 and 19bu is the supreme, the only issue left to the Democracy. If a national election could be decid ed by the voters wanting a job, irre spective of their fitness for it, the De mocracy under the leadership Mr. Pulitzer would be invincible. ADVI8ER8 OF CANDIDATES. Treat Magnates with Parker and statesmen with Rooeevelt. Twe old saws—"Birds ef a feather Sock together" and "Men are known by the company they keep”—are applicable to the present campaign. Here are some of the men who stand close te the two presidential candidates, and are known •s their political advisers; For Parker—August Belmont, Wall street magnate; George Foster Peabody, ditto; David B. Hill, of unsavory polit ical record; Cord Meyer, of the sugar trust; Patrick McCarren, legislative agent ef the Standard OH Company; John B. MacDonald, Belmont's "handy man.” For Roosevelt—Elihu Root, farmer Secretary of War; John Hay, Secretary of State; William H. Moody, Attorney General; William H. Taft, Secretary of War; George B. Certelyou, former Sec retary ef Commerce and Labor; Joseph G. Cannon, Speaker of the House of Representatives. We are mere fortnaate than aar ep poaeats, wha naw appeal for conll denea oa the grenndt which lone express aad eome eeek to have confi dentially anderetood, that, If triamph ant, they may be treated to prove falae to every prlaciple which la the laet eight years they have laid dowa aa vital) aad ta leave nndletarbed those very acta ef admlaletratloa because ef whieh they ask that the administra tive Itself be driven from power,— PrwMeat BeeeeveU. “SIZING UP” A. B. PARKER Democratic Candidate Began His Career as a “Boss.” A PROTEGE OF DAVID B. HILL “Practical Politician,” Who Is Now Surrounded and Supported by Tam* many Hall Leaders—Brief Glance at His Political Record. Ever since that July day when the Democratic National Convention of 11MJ4 adjourned, after nominating for Pres ident of the United States Alton B. I Parker, of New York, the people of the country have been trying to find out something about the man for whom they are asked to vote early next November. It has been hard work. Outside of the State of New York Alton B. Park er was practically unknown before the meeting of the Democratic convention at St. Louis. He still remains, to the vast majority of voters throughout the coun try, unknown, ercept by his name and place of residence, with such additional light as has been thrown upon him by newspaper portraits. In the matter of supplying pictures of Judge Parker, his home, his wife, children, grandchildren, son-in-law and other relations there has been no stint. 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 Mr. Parker has present ed that bland, open and somewhat pa tronizing front with which mankind faces the world when it is striving to “look pleasant” and at the same time keep some infant prodigy still under the process of photography. To be sure, the voters have seen pic tures of Mr. Parker galore, and pictures of his house and of his family. They have been told that he was. when nomi nated, a judge, high up on the beach of the State of New York, aud “the rest is silence.” It is true that Mr. Parker, when notified of his nomination, pro nounced a “speech of acceptance,” but that proved such a merry-go-round of flat and meaningless words as fairly stunned the unterrified in their lairs. It gave no inkling as to what kind of a man the Democratic nominee might be, except that he possesses the not uncom mon faculty of talking a great deal and saying nothing. ^earchinar 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 Executive. “It seems like a sort o’ ’unsight and unseen’ game.” said an old Illinois farm er. “I guess we’d bettor not trade, this time!” There remained and remains for the awakened gaze of the American people the record of Mr. Parker’s life, so much of it as has beeu in the public eye. With 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. lie grew up in Ulster county, and began the practice of law there as a young man. From the beginning he was known as a politician of the kind which gains ends rather as a manager than as a candidate. In plain language, he was a “County Boss” iu the Demo cratic fold. While a very youug man he directed a campaign for Judge Shoon maker, in whose office he had studied law. Encouraged by his success iu this effort he sought for himself the post of Surrogate, as the Probate Judge is call ed in New 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 Tam many. and in the country districts not one whit behind Tammauy iu zeal, cuu niug and unscrupulousness. Favored by Hill. Says a recent writer, speaking of this period af Judge Parker’s life: “Politics In New York Is hard and Iron bound; It Is without sentiment, and has no principle save the principle of success. This is as true of country as of town, as true of the cornfields as of Tammany Hall. Victory is the only virtue, defeat the only crime—in New York. Judge Parker knew these things; he saw no visitors, courted no dreams, lapsed into no trances. Pa tiently. practically, he added one man to another, and the two to somebody else, un til the result of his additions was the con trol of the county of Ulster.” The steady success of Judge Parker, his even, business methods, cold and bloodless in calculation and results, at tracted the attention and the favor of David Bennett Hill. In 1885, when Mr. Hill was about to make his first can vass for the governorship of New York, he chose for the practical manager of his campaign Judge Parker. Thus at the age of thirty-three years Judge Park er became Hill’s political manager. He elected his man. Mr. Hill, early in his administration as Governor, rewarded his faithful man ager by appointing him to the Supreme Bench ef the State of New York. Judge Parker has, practically speaking, occu pied the Supreme or the Court of Ap peals bench ever since. There is Judge Parker’s public record. A practical politician, a manager of campaigns, a discovery and protege of David Bennett Hill! And now, at the end of this plain, un varnished 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 of inspiration, enthusi asm, patriotism, or even one word sug gesting a broad and generous apprecia tion of public needs and public interests, small or great, in all the years during which Judge Parker has “handled” local campaigns. His Counselors. 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 fellow 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 Tammany! “Bine-Eyed Billy Sheehan” is Judge Parker’s friend and neighbor at Rosemount. To him Parker nddressed his famous telegram at the St. Louis convention. Daily Judge Parker -s sur rounded by the Sheehans, O'Briens and the McDonalds of Tammany. There is no hiding from an argus-eyed people, and the best proof of Judge Parker’s lack of knowledge of the American people is that he does not know that his associa tion with Tammany will not be excused or condoned by them. In New York, he possibly argues, Tammany is endur ed. with restiveness, it is true, but still endured. Outside of New York this is not true, but Judge Parker does not know the true temper of the American people outside of New York. How should be! The “Enigma of Esopns” is no longer an enigma. Put forth by the cunning hand of 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 mystery. A look at his record, a glance at his political associates and friend», and the tableau dissolves amidst the choking smoke of the flash-light. PARKER WON’T GO TO FAIR. Esopus, N. Y., Sept. 2, 1004.—“It is now announced that Mr. Parker haw changed his mind, in regard to his trip to the Fair at St. Louis, and in all prob ability he will not leave Iloeemont again during the campaign.”—Press Dispatch. Dear! Dear! What can the matter be? Dear! Dear! What can the matter lie? Dear! Dear! What can the matter be? Parker won’t go to the fair! He promised to travel across the wide prairies. He promised So let loose some old-time vagaries. He wanted to ride on the Pike dromeda ries! But now he won’t go to the fair! Dear! Dear! What can the matter be! Parker won't go to the fair! ne said that for once he would set forth and travel. Would brave all the dangers of dust and gravel. He said ail the mysteries he would un ravel. But now he won’t go to the fair! Dear! Dear! What can 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 bim shut up in the gloaming? St. Louis is waiting—’her beer glasses foaming. But Parker won’t go to the fair! Dear! Dear! What can the matter be! Oh, dear! What can the matter be! Dear’ Dear! What can the matter be! Parker can’t go to the fair! AWKWARD QUESTIONS. Demtcrat* Objact to Answering Fi nancial Interrogatories. When the "‘gold” message of Alton B. Parker reached the Democratic conven tion at St. Louis William J. Bryan sug gested that the currency views of Mr. Parker ought to be more explicitly de fined in some detail, and that the con vention therefore should prepare a list of questions connected with various phases of the currency issue for the can didate to answer, but Master of Cere monies Williams rushed to Parker’s de fense with the statement that the can didate should not be asked to answer *‘A LOT OF FOOLISH QUESTIONS.” 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 stockhold ers or to the general public, until the Republican party remedied matters by passing a law compelling publicity, and especially established the Bureau of Commerce and Labor to secure it. Mr. Bryan, all the Democrats in the convention at St. Louis, and in fact all American voters of whatever political belief, had a perfect right to expect de tailed and explicit publicity from Candi date Parker of his views on government al financial policies, so that they could know whether or not, or to what extent his views were their views. But this publicity was denied them, because the mauagers of the convention deemed it of 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 the voters of the country from possible misunderstanding as to financial views which might not bear the limelight of public discussion. The managers of a corporation con ducted on unsound lines are always apt to consider as “foolish” questions, which, if answered, might result in an expose. And it is the same way with the Demo cratic mauagers, who think their only safe policy on the currency question is to refuse to give information as to what their policy really is. The Vermont Landslide. Chairman Bullard of the Vermont Democratic State committee said, the night before the election: “We feel that if the figure (of the Republican plural ity* is below 25,000 this year it is a sure indication that the national election will go Democratic.” Well, the Democratic manager himself made the estimate. He conuted the chances of the Democratic party In the present campaign as might be indicated by the September vote in his own (State. Representing his party, he made the estimate and the result has been appall ing—for the Democrats—the Republican plurality being 31,500. There has been a Republican landslide of abont one fourth over the normal vote in the State of Vermont. A low wage scale Is not consistent with the most wholesome development of the country and of its people. The consideration of the pending measure, as Mr. Blaine said of the Chinese ex clusion act, connects its:lf intimately and insepernbly with the labor ques tion.—Seuator Fairbanks in t^s Senate, Jan uary 11, 1898. I believe emphatically in organized labor. 1 believe in organization of wage earners. Organization is one of the laws of our social and economic development at this time.—From Roosevelt’s speech to Locomotive Firemen at Chattanooga, Teuu., Sept. 8, 1902. PARKER EXCORIATED I THOMAS E. WATSON’S RECENT SPEECH TO SOUTHERNERS. « . Raisins of the Negro Question by Democrats Denounced as Hypocrisy— Roosevelt Preferred to Hill's Candi date Wbs Is Itessed by Wall Street. Thomas H. Watson. Populist candi date for the Presideiwy. in a speech at Atlanta, Ga.. on Wept. 1, declared that the Democratic attack ori President Roosevelt for the latter’s alleged friend liness to the negro vow a pice if l»-ni orratic hypocrisy and he chili-uged Parker to indicate his own p.» »;i the race issue. On this point Mr. W it son said: The South should demand to k now the facta about Parker. Mow doc* he - ) upon this alleged question? Is b < - . , . at all different fro* that of Knout f If no. ia what reaped? Th* S < demand explicit reply to the follow ■ questions before It votes for him up » the assumption that he differs from Ko.*w* velt on the negro question: 1. Would you refuse to cut at the same table with Booker Washington? 2. Would you refuse to appoint negroes to office la the South* 3. If elected will yon refus* to receive on terras of equality at the White II- - * such negroes as Bishop Turner. Rook « WnshlngtOB. and T. Thomas Ko-tune? 4. Do you approve the mix. ! school* of New York. Inaugurated under Grover • >v-. land—in whieh social equality is practical ly made a Mutter nf compulsion? 5. If such schools —wherein Macfc . hff dren and white children an* edu-'-i' si to gether are a good thing for your State of New York, would they be . g | thing for Georgia and South Carollua; If not, why aot? Negro Cry la Hypocrisy. Taking np the discussion of the nesr"» question, as far a* ita bearing on the present national campaign is concern !. Mr. Wataoa said that the Democratic national loaders hare prostituted the name of Democrat and are demanding that" they shall he followed blindly in spite of the fact that they hive re nounced every principle of Democracy. Asking. “Will the real Democrats follow the name rather than the principle?” he continued: In the South we are told we must inbuilt to the surrender to \Ti»ll street because <>f “the nigger.” What a blessed thing it Is for Democratic leaders that they always have “the nigger” to fall hack on. For thirty years they have been doing busi ness on "the Bigger,” ami to-day he Is their only stock is trade. Note the hypocrisy of it. lit their na tional platform of 18T2 they solemnly pro tested their allegiance to the doctrine nt “equality," regardless of race or color# and pledged themselves to maintain the emancipation sad the enfranchisement of the blacks. In 1876 at St. Louis, Henry Watterson being chairman of the convention, they solemnly declared their devotion to the constitutional amendments growing out of the civil war. In 1886. la 1884, in 1883. the uatlona) conventions of the Democratic party re aff.med these declarations on the uegny question, and thus stood pledged to opje-sd any reopening of the questions settled by the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fifteenth amendments. Yet after all these formal pledges we are now browbeaten and In timidated by Democratic leaders, who say we must indorse their capitulation to Bel mont. David B. Hill, and Pat McOarreo because of "the nigger.” Negro Powerless in Politics. “What caa the Southern uegro do?“ asked Mr. Watsoa. “He has been dis franchised 1b nearly every Southern State excepting Georgia; and iu Georgia they do not dare disfranchise him. be cause Democracy in Georgia cannot 1m» maintained by the white vote.” He con tinued: Therefore, the cry that we are In dangr* from “the nigger” is the most hypocriti cal that unscrupulous leadership could in vent. Grant. Sherman, and Sheridan, with all their armies, could not revise the law of nature in the prostrate South. The white man is master—wherever Is* plants his fost the world over. I?o you tell me that Roosevelt can do against the recuperated South what Thad Stevens could not do agnlust the exhausted South? Roosevelt could not do it even If he would. The Democratic leaders who talk this stuff, and the editors who write It, laugh and wink at one another as they pass, they know what a humbug it ail Is. and how it is being used to make the people forget, or condone, the inglorious surrender to Wall street which they made at St. Louis. In the West Virginia Democratic con. volition, the State of the Democratic nomi nee for Vice President, the “white suprem acy” resolution was voted down, and on Aug. 1, 1904, Parker himself. In writing to the negro, James A. Rosa, addressed him as “My dear sir,” lust as thougU Ross had heea n white man. Surrender to Wall Street. Turning to other issues, Mr. Watson said the Democratic leaders bad sur rendered to Wall street because, as Sen ator John W. Daniels, of Virgiuia, put it, they vrere “tired of being in the minority.** He continued: Not afraid of Roosevelt's militarism? No, Not afraid %t Knusrrplt'a nlcgerisin? No. All that la fudge and subterfuge, "lired of being in the minority,” then* was the milk in the cocon nut. Not tired of being tu the wrong? So. He did not even pretend that he hud i«*cti in the wrong. Simply because they have been in the minority they are ready to drop the principles which they swore fop eight years were right, and to adopt those which even now they do not dare say are right. Great God! what an attitude fnn the leaders of a great national party. If I could become politically tipsy enough f • vote for Parker, on the platform of 1 >!. as constructed by Parker himself, I > *uld take oae more drink—a small ©no rt that—and vote for the other twin, P osevelt. Give me the original every t ne, rather than the blurred. Indistinct copy. Give me the genuine article, ratio* t>..ia the spurious substitute. What Han Parker Done? Mr. Watson then paid his respects Ch Candidate Parker personally. He asked: Why shonld Georgians support Parker, ©f New York. rather than a reflow Georgian? What do you know of Parkev? M hat has he tone that was notable? Wlmt he saii that was nttHyctruUi?? What has he ever written that st.-unued him with Individuality? David B. Hill declared at Sr. Louis that he had heea iatimate with rhrkot foe thirty years, and that he did not know how Parker stood on tho money question Was thin statement true? If so. Parker is the meet negative public man on the American continent. Was the statement false? If so, David B. Hilt la the boldest liar betvreea the two oceans. Think od a man living on Intimate terms with Alex ander H. Stevens and Ab© Lincoln fbs thirty years and not kuewing how he stood on the greatest political questions of tho day? The populist leader declared than the people could aet secure reforms in the Democratic party when it is “besse4 by the same eki Wall street crowd which debauched Cleveland’s second adminis tration.” He declared that at St Louis all the worthless empty honors had been given te southern Democrats, who in re turn denounced Bryan and helped to “knife the Jeffersonians.” New, “be cause Dave Hill allowed Jehu Sharp Williams te have a chairmanship” thu whole South must he “driven under tho lash of party discipline away from the gospel of our fathers aad into political slavery te the Hamiltonians of New Verb/*
