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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/*