The commoner. (Lincoln, Neb.) 1901-1923, October 21, 1904, Page 7, Image 7
, ' pCTOBKK?ljJ.I04. ' v, f: Tt" 9 art The Commoner 'I'u i - .'ufr are jucl jcu j ; . ,-tm Parker Side by. Side With Roosevelt By su dictatorial, tone, amounting to menace, JudgCaParker was dtjven by the New York Wprld into, ihe .spiijliug of the telegram which told the aemo cratic convention, for the first time, and many hourg after Parker had se cured the nomination, that the gold standard - was "irrevocably (ixeu. ' Neither then .nor in any utterance afterwards did hp say that the gold standard was right, until he had been shelled so vigorously by myself and others fpr haying, deserted the free silverites -without, Baying they were wrong, and having gone over to the gold standard without saying it was right Even udge Parker flually realized that the ground was caving under his. feet, and was licerally. driven to firmer footing.! At lag,c he has taken, his place side by 'side with liocaevelt on the most deeply important issue before the people Let it be borne in mind tha Wall street wanted the last congress to issue more bonds; let it be remem bered that the Cleveland democrats want the greenbacks called in and ournt; do not forget that the "end less chain" precedent set by Cleve land stands as a precedent to be fol lowed; recall how easy it is lor the money power to hide their plaiis until the victim is in their trap, and you will begin to realize what terrible dangers still lurk in this money ques tion. "Hocus Pocus , MQpey" and "Frenzied Finance' In Mr. Bryan's book called "The First Battle,'!. he compared the possible effects of the. British gold standard to 'the ruin wrought by an invading army, sweeping, 'the land, with fire and .sword. Mr. tBryan was right The vast increasd in the. world's, stock pf metallic money.r&ad. henonnout; use of credit .monfey, r, which 'universal con fidence keeps afloat, postponed the evil day, btffc it is bound-to come. Let the supply of gold fail, let confidence take wings, let the insolvent banks be suddenly called upon to make good their inflated liabilities, and such a storm 'windbreak over the rtpubllc as has not been known in its history. Our financial system is rotten to the very core What has been aptiy called "Hocus-Pbcus l vmoney" is doing the biggest business ft was ever known to do. What-is entitled 'Frenzied Fi nance" is holding such a carnival as ll never held before. This can not last. The crash will surely come; and those who live to see'tft will feel as though the, world Tvere coming to an end. Would to- God that Mr. Bryan were with me, -in this. The Second Battle. Together we could have won the fight in 189G, but the southern democratic bosses would not .have It so. . Chairman Jones had to drive the allies apart "by brutal insults at- the very opening o the campaign. In 1904, had all the Bryan democrats re fused to be bound by the infamous sellout. to Wall street at St. Louis, and had Mr, Bryan joined forces witn me, we could have won this contest. The temper 61 rthe people is upe tor revolt; and is- getting hotter every day. They only need leaders whom they can trust; The democratic masses "who followed .Bryan are- sick at heart They listen without conviction when Bryan speaks for Parker. Thay want fighters at the- head of' the army, and Parker is no fighter. Roosevelt .stands in the open, and dares Parker, defiantly, almost mock ingly; and Parker meekly stays-.out of the fight?. Jlu-'hls formal letter of acceptance he says that he caktfs. up the glove thfcowny at his feet, declar ing. that heparin revoke- that pension order, No.-78. rButf in the same bteath, he hastens 'toadIt that ttoo&evelfr did precisely what he, Parker, think ought to be done. If elected, he, Par- OjW 7 ker, will at once have congress to do what Roosevelt has already done .Heavens! What a meek warrior is this! "Roosevelt did the" right thing, but not in the right way, ani if you will elect mo president 1 wiii do the same thing in the proper waj! Did any nominee ever seek the presidency on that ldnd of platform before? Some Questions for Parker When is ho going to freo those Phll llplnes? He does not say. Wuat is he going to do to the trusts ? Will he deal drastically with the btanuard Oil trust, which has coddled his poli tical ambition for the last two years? Vyiat will he do to the sugar trust, which his campaign manager, Goiman, represents in tho United Stde sen ate? On tho negro questionwhy nas he been silent? Docs ho condemn Roosevelt for that Booker Wabhing ton lunch? Does he condemn the ap pointment of negroes to office? Why did ho fail to make any reference whatever to that plank in the republi can platform which his running mate, Davis, says created a "race issue?" The solid south is being kicked and cuffed into the support of Parker upon the ground that he differs from Roosevelt on the ncgio question. Before the south i3 dra gooned into voting for tho New Yorker and against her own son, hers in blood and sympathy and deathless de votion, ought not the New -Worker to bo compelled to speak out en this question? Parker Ignores Democratic Deities In his formal letter of acceptance, just made public, it is curious to note that Mr. Parker does not once -mention the name of Jefferson, Jackson or any other great democrat. He makes no reference 'to the titular deities of the democratic party. The man ' to whom he alludes with the greatest .reverence" is William McKinicy, a'Ad the next Is Janifcs G. Blaine. He eulog tzes the tfdlicy of both these states men, and finds fault with Mr. Roose velt because he has not followed their illustrious example. Really Mr. Par ker's peculiar kind of democracy amounts to a riddle! The most Undemocratic portion of Judge Parker's letter is that wherein he eulogizes the policy of James G. Blaine and William McKinicy upon the subject of reciprocity. What is reciprocity but free trade in those raw materials which tne' pro tected manufacturers want? If free trade be such a good thing, why hot let all of us have 'some? If protection bo such excellent medi cine for the ''masses, why not compel the manufacturers to take it, too? In other1 words, why not have a system and stick to it? If protection Is right, it should operate on all Sllke. If free trade is right, then tilt manu facturers should not be the only ones tp get It. - - Judge Parker " pleads for greater favors to the manufacturers. Great God! Are they never going to get enough? Will Not Fight If republican policies are to be over thrown, it must he done by men who boldly declare against them, and who go up against them with a determina tion to defeat them. The way to whip the enemy is to fight it. Tho demo cratic party, has known wha, it was to be held by captains who put the battle cry into plain language so that all could understand where the dif ference was ion vital issues. Such a leader was Jefferson. Such a leader was Andrew Jackson. Such a ieader was Stephen A. Douglas. Such a icador was William J. Bryan. In this, campaign it 'has, no such leader.. To their secret shame and .-disgust, the rank and-, file of the great democratic party sees that their captain will not fight. In spite of party loyalty and a wish to bollovo otherwise they see that Parkor romalns what Bran says he was last April, "An artful dedger," "absolutely unfit for tho presidential nomination." That Mr. Bryan himself supports tho ticket does not clmngo facts nor create satisfaction. Bryan Cannot Sugar-Coat the Pill Tho great party of six and a half million voters sont their lead ib to St. Louis without any instructions to surrender to Wall street. That surren der created a profound discontent which will not down. Mr. Brn him self cannot make that bitter pill pula tablo to tho Bryanites. Tho sell-out was too brazon, too sudden, too com plete. Nobody suspected an earth quake like that. Tho ground openeu, and down into tho yawning chasm lctl all tho principles of tho dc-mocrauc party. These leaders went to St. Louis clothed from head to heel in good JcfTersonlan domocracy. When :)avo Hill, Pat McCarron and August Belmont finished their w.;-k, the democratic bosses were so nearly nude that, had It been a personal matter rather than political, they could have been indicted for "a notorious act of public indecency.' Able statesmen had undressed thomselves in pub.'ic. And now they are furiously angry with mo becauso I am renewing the struggle which they abandoned. They resent the fact that some one else should try to do that which they were not willing to try to do. A Dishonest Cry "Tho people's party is helping the republicans," cry tho democratic load ers. If these leaders had not aban doned their own platform and gavo ovpr to Wall street, we could not have hurt anybody As long as the demo cratic party pretended to bo populist in principle, tho populist party could not do business. Too manj ot our men were,, dupes ot the , fraud. The- moment .the .democratic leaders propped ojir platform, wo soized upon it again, and we began to rehabilitate our own party. S'ell-out? Way, we have surrendered no convictk us; wo have not parted with a sfnglo plank tn our platform. What have wo sold? i'o whom did we sell? IT we had shed our political garments as ', the demo cratic bosses did at St' X-oujs, and Wall street had dictated every line of our new creed and had puj, at the head of our, tjlcket a man who,can not qtato wherein he differs in principle from Mr. Roosevelt, wewoujd have hung our heads every time wp, passed a jnirror to keep frpm lopkf hg- Into the eyes pf renegades to Jeffc jsonlan democracy, ..servile tols of northern corporations. They went to 3t, Louis with principles; they came back with out them; they were clay In the hands ftho Pat McCarrens of Standard Oil, Belmont , pf the Louisville & Nash ville, Gorman of. tho sugar trus The very, first speech of the campaign was in Brooklyn by Senator Btwlcy of Texas, under the auspices of the Stan dard Oil company lobbyist, Pat Mc Carren. The chosen advisers of Mr Parker are the men who led for the trusts and corporations when the tax payers were looted during Cleveland's second administration. From Gorman, who reeks, with the foulest trust leg islation of the last twenty years, to Carlisle, who wrote the sugaj sche dule at the dictation of tnc sugar trust, and Belmont, of tho secret mid night bond deal, down to Oluey, who, in effect advised the too willing Cleve land to lend the United State array to the Pullman Palace Car company in Chicago, -the notorious old jtiand of boodlers are there. What may be ex pected of them if Parker is elected can be guessed by those wMo remember Ue carnival of class-legislation which rendered .forever; Infamous the second administration-of Grover , Cleveland. A Hungry Crowd The leopard can not change his spots, nor tho Ethiopian his skin; that Cleveland crowd is hungry; It nns beca out" a long time. Woo unto tho peo ple when that predatory bend gets thoir clutches upon the government again! What nccrot' pledges have been made to tho Standard Oil? What is lea mo tive for putting half a million dollar into Parker's campaign fund? Are they afraid of Roosevelt, aud not afraid of Parker? What is tho ground of their preference for Parker? The Standard Oil Is not in politic for health or pleasure. It aiways has an axe to grind. What Is the motive this time? Tho Sugar Trust put two hun dred and forty thousand dollars in the Now York campaign alono, when Clovcland ran against Harrison; and all of us know tho sedct pledgee which woro publicly redeemed. Arthur Gorman and John G. Carlislo saw to it that tho tariff measure was so framed that the trust got more out of tho peo ple, by tens of millions, than they had gotten under that "culminating atroc ity of class legislation," tho McKinicy bill. Their senatorial representative, Arthur Gorman, has been placed In open control of tho Parker campaign; he has been the secret director from the beginning what will his clients, the sugar trust, get out of this election, if Parker is successful? Wall streot wants more bonds; tho machinery for getting them Is there, lust where Clovcland left it; the same men who worked Cleveland lor bonds are steering Parker's campaign; what has been promised to Belmont and his confederated corporations. Is tho "end less chain" to bo put in motion again? Voters who do not consider these ques tions do themselves injustice. The Wall street organ, the New York World) compelled Parker to speak out on tho money Question, why should ho not be compelled by tho Hearst pa pers, and other really democratic, pa pers, to speak out upon other questions whore the people have a right to In formation? The Cry of Extravagance, What avails this cry about "extrava gance?" That tho government is run with a reckless disregard of ho mid dle and lower classes who pay most of tho tariff taxes, is known of all mqn. But who believes that either of these "two great parties" Is golnfc to retrench .expenditures? Appropriations for administrations are on tho mcreaso everywhere. With the federal govern ment, there Is no such tning as going backward. Tho "billion dollar congress ' of tho republicans was succcedtd by a Cleveland congress pledged to "rigid economy;" and it was not long before the democratic appropriations reached the billion dollar mark. Harrison re duced public expenditures by a quar ter billion dollars, and Cleveland was not long in adding more than Harrison had taken away. It was the demo cratic congress devoted to "rigid econ omy" which allowed the Chicago expo sition to loot the treasury of millions, timo after time, and which gave to each member of tho house a clerk at one hundred dollars per month. Besides, who could put faith in the pledges of tho party which ha3 so lit tle unity of conviction as the national democracy? What party evor made and broke so many pledges? What party ever changed its ground so often? What other party jver un loaded all of its principle at one quick throw-down, as they did at St. Louis? They elected Cleveland on a free sil ver platform, and called a special ses sion to violate tho contract. They promised to put an end to national banks, and they issued new bonds to keep them in life. Then, wa'en the banlccharters expired, they trailed with, the republicans to give national banks a. new J ease of life, for twenty years. They -promised to relieve tho farmers from, the McKiniey tariff, and they in creased the tax on lumber, nails, horse (Continued on page 1L) si 41 m 31