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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-
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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
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