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micAj?j?irojRir i can ticket. It says that Mickey would A NEW SUBJECT. . 3 ammmmnmi EDNESD .. .. ourtt : :. )KATED ." ; resto jlled the Platte county ention pms6ed a recolm ROOSEVELT THEIR CHOICE Fornhr 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 trill rote for Roose velt and Fairbanks this falL A large cumber bare publicly announced their change of faith, but others have sim ply said to their friends that they pre fer the known and tried Roosevelt to the hesitating, evasive and untried Parker. The names of some of these men. including Oscar Straus, John A. McOell, Major John Bryne, Patrick Egao, Richard Price Morgan and Eu gene A. Bhilbin, 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 Ennis. William D. Harrison, John T. Doyle, Charles P. Biauey and Daniel Bucbannan. From Baxter Springs. Kas., comes (he information of wholesale desertions on the part of Bryan Democrats, and the forecaster predict that Cherokee, m-blch gave Bryan 1.800 majority in 1890. will so solidly for the Republican ticket. Prominent among the Demo crats who have announced their inten tioaot supporting President Roosevelt re:" T. II. Goodwin, mine owner; E. W. Dow. president telephone system: Samuel J. Crawford, former governor of Kansas; James H. Chubb, former mem ler fusion legislature; J. C. Haskett. dry goods merchant; Samuel Binns, hay dealer; Edward Uodgkins. retired mer chant: D. Orr Chubb, politician: W. S. Baxter, editor and C. E. Collins, poli tician. Kad of Sllvsr Republican Party. An important accession to the Repub lican ranks is D. C. Tillotson, of To peka. Kas.. chairman of the national committee of the Silver Republican party In 11)00. In a letter to J. W. Babcock, chairman of the Republican Congres sional Committee. Mr. Tiuotson says Chat the Silver Republicans are satis fied that the Roosevelt administration Cried to do its duty with the people, and for that reason he and his friends will support it. This statement is of im portance because the Silver Republicans Toted for Bryan in 1S9G and 1900. and It is believed all will now return to the regular party organization. In a letter Co Representative Babbcock, chairman of Che Republican Congressional Commit Cee. Mr. Tillotson says: "Present conditions make any further Attempt to maintain a silver party or ganization a mere farce and with chang ed conditions come changed political re lations. "It appears to me that the Demo cratic party -has forfeited its claim upon 11 voters except such as vote the ticket from tradition. Indeed, the only Demo crat who in a generation lias 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 the Republican party Is right on the money question. It ad mits 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 as may be approved by the Republican party, yet it seeks to make tariff tink ering an issue. "It condemns the acquisition of the right to build the Panama canal, but says ratify the aet by keeping the gooifs. It sympathizes with the Filipinos, but fails to recognize that the acquisition of these islands was ratified bv the people In W00. It presents us with a candidate whose political virtues are of the nega tive sort. He claims that tho bod politic is sick and as a remedy proposes four years of paralysis. If this attitude is in good faith it would appe.it that there is no. good reason for supporting the party or its candidate. if 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 ed to admit that he is a man of virility. of high moral purpose in both civil and official life and one that docs not evade etlicia! responsibility. "While there are many honest and upright citizens among his opponents ' yet the fact remains that the President's , vigorous and aggressive execution of his otlire hat led the manipulator of preda-! tory wealth, the professional agitator ' and the political grafter to make com- niou cause against him. These are tlior- ouahly .'ouv:uced that the President : ' not safe, but legitimate and vested right have ::u cauo of complaint. I "T:ie voter has to ehooe between one or r.i other of the candidates of the ' don-iant parties or throw his vote away ! as .. mere protest bv voting for -ome ' 7JI.-7; parry candidate, it appears t in. that the Preident is entitled f a t)-.c of confidence, and above all party insider itious the election of President Roosevelt is repaired as a vindication of ' c.ioral courage ami orticial integrity in i the government of men a vindication not of the candidate, but of the Ameri can people." Parker's Letter a Disappointment Ernest Crawfort. of Jamestown. N. Y Ienucratii oomitv wn?orTwn-t and ielegate to the Democratic State I con'ntion which instructed for Judge j Pewer. has severed all connections with tr Democratic party and has declared hi intention of voting for President Boosevelt. In a letter to Walter Ed- that m repsblicam togidfttvre passed a new rereaae law, rater which a xe- .!.!..- son, chairman of the county committee, Mr. Crawfort says, among other things: "You 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 conceive the political duty of a young man is first to his country; and secondly 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 sot 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. Louis con vention Judge Parker's letter of accept "" was a keen disappointment. An American, Not a Democrat. Judge Walter M. Chandler, a life long Democrat of New York, has an nounced his intention of voting for Roosevelt and Fairbanks. In stating his position Judge Chandler says that it took him eight years to reach "the lofty plane of moral courage and patri otic resolve to 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 retention 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. Democrat 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." Does Not Llkt 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 so." After Sevent j Tears. William McLain, of Ottumwa, la.. who says lie has been voting the Demo cratic ticket tor seventy "years, has an nounced his iLtention of supporting Pres ident Roosevelt. In making this state 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 lotting well enough alone. Mr. McLain is fG years old and cast his first Presi dential vote for Andrew Jackson. Parker Too Uncertain. W. E. William;, of Boonville, 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 place the welfare of himself and his ncighliors above a party name after this fashion: "There has been an in crease of 100 per cent in the value of lands in arrick county in the last eight years. It used to be while Cleve land was President that lands sold for from ?0 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 Ennis 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. Louis convention." said Mr. Harrison. "Bc sidos. it has nominated a man who has never placed himself on record on auy question btre the people. No one k:i"vs where lie stand, and I cannot sec now any one wuo nas neen a con--Nto-it Democrat for the last fifteen years can support Judge Parker." Kathtttiastic for Ronevslt. John T. Doyle, of Stockton. Cal.. who has held a number of high offices under Democratic rule, is enthusiastically sup porting Roosevelt and Fairbanks. Mr. Doyle asserts he is no longer able to supp?c 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. Roosevelt Is Progressive. Charles P. Blaney, of the legal firm of Keating & Wolradt, of New York, in reply to the appeals of the Lawyers' tweea two ot bis acquaintance, me two gm Uemea who are represented to resemble each other so much are Bev. Halsey of the Presbrte- ; Constitutional Club in behalf of Judge j Parker, gives the following reasons for lus support of President Roosevelt: j "President Roosevelt appeals favor i 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, nave bean 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 Chance. Daniel Buchanan, of Chippewa Falls, Wis., one of the lending 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 on 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 Is theOfflces, and the Democrats Wilt 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 is gone. Editor Pulitzer is writing pags upon page of open letters in the New York World, which prints them because he owns it. to 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 YOU YOURSELF Theodore Roosevelt. This issue in forced upon the country by your unusual temperament and talent your own strong, able, am bitious, resourceful, militant, passionate personality, your versatile and surpris ing genius." If this were not meant to be alarm ing it would fittingly describe one side of the personality of the Republican standard bearer worthy of being print ed in naming type aud 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 Co the President than the way in which he has been singled out by Mr. Pulitzer as the one engrossing, overshadowing issue of the campaign. Now, why does Mr. Pulitzer wish to get rid of a President of such known and approved qualities to make way for the untested and unexperienced master of Rosemount? The answer is plain TnE OFFICES. Mr. Pulitzer is a Democrat a trans planted Missouri Democrat. He knows that the national Democracy is very hungry and very thirsty and that it is weary of feeding upon the husks that fall to the share of the opposition party at Washington. So long as Mr. Roosevelt is in the White House Mr. Pulitzer knows that every office, outside 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 and the Democracy want is that the only touchstone of fit ness for federal offices shall be the fray- ed maxim or uaviu u. mil. "l am a Democrat." Upon this issue he has no misgivings as to She "firm and irrevoca ble" convictions of the Sphinx of Esopus. In Judge Parker's eyes the author of the maxim "To the victors belong the spoils" was the greatest statesman, not except ing Boss Tweed, Xew 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 derers of 1SIH. and MOv 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 of Mr. Pulitzer would be invincible. ADVISERS OF CANDIDATEa Trnst Maanates with Parker Statesmen with Roosevelt. and Two old saws "Birds of a feather flock together" and "Men are known by the company they keep" are applicable to the present campaign. Here are some of the men who stand close to the two presidential candidates, and are known as their political advisers: For Parker August Belmont. Wall street magnate; George Foster Peabody. ditto; David 0. Hill, of unsavory polit ical record: Cord Meyer, of the sugar trut: Patrick McCarren. legislative agent of the Standard Oil Company; John B. MacDonald, Belmont's "handy man." For Roosevelt Elihti Root, former Secretary of War: John Hay. Secretary of State; William II. Moody. Attor.-.ey General: William H. Taft. Secretary of War: George D. Cortelyou. former Sec retary of Commerce and Labor: Joseph G. Cannon. Speaker of the House of Representatives. We are more fortunate than o:ir op ponents, who now appe.il for cosiS dence on the ground, which soma express and notne seek to have cant) dentially anderstood, that, if trinmph aat, they may be trnta to prove fates to every principle which in the last eight years they Slave laid down aa vital and to leave undisturbed taote very acts of administration becauss of which they ask that the administra tion itself be driven front power. rreiltJeat Roosevelt. uersiuuu. uwi, may be frosted to prove false to every principle which In the "SIZING UP" A. B. PARKER p.-,----,;- Ptnd'tAn Ranan j OenlOCrailC bailHItiaiO Degall His Career as a "Boss." A PROTEGE OF DAVID B. HILL Practical Politicln," Whe b Now Sarroanded and Supported ky Taa ataay Hall Leaders Brief Glance at His Political Record. Ever since that July day when the Democratic National Convention of 1001 adjourned, after nominating for Pres ident of the United States Alton B. 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, except 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 iufant prodigy still under the procoss 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 bench of the State of Now York, and "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 fiat and meaningless words as fairly stunned the uuterritied in their lairs. It gave no inkling us 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. Searching- 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 better not trade, this timer 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 been 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. He 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" in the Demo cratic fold. While a very young man he directed a campaign for Judge Shoon maker, in whose office he had studied law. Encouraged by his success in this effort he sought for himself the post of Surrogate, as the Probate Judge is call ed in New Y'ork 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 Tammany in zeal, cun ning and unscrupulousness. Favored bv Hill. Says a recent writer, speaking of this period of Judge Parker's life: To!!t!cs In New York Is hard anil Iron bound; it Is '.vitliotit .sentiment, anil has no principle save the principle of secce.--. This lit as true of country as of town. :.s true of the corntlelds m of Tammany Hall. Victory I the only virtue, defeat the only crime In New York. Judge l'arker knew these things: he saw no visitors, courted no dreams, lapsed Into no trances, l'a tiently. practiially. he added one man to another, and the two to somebody else, un til the result of his addition's was the con trol of the county of Ulster." The steady success of Judge Tarkcr. his even, business methods, cold an 1 bloodless in calculation and results, at tracted the attention and the favor of David Bennett Hill. In 1SS3, 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 l'ark er became Hill's political manager. lie elected his man. Mr. Hill, early in his administration as Governor, rewarded a:s faithful man ager by appointin g him to the Supreme ' e of New York. Judge Bench of She State l'arker has. practically speaking, occu pied tho 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 Hilll And now, at the end of this plain, un- varniahoil tale, it rnmains to lie imtiil that from beginning to end there is not set down in all the pages devoted t Judge l'arker and his candidacy one single utterance of inspiration, enthusi asm, patriotism, or even one word sug gesting a broad and generous appreeii- tioa of public needs and public interests. small or great, in all the years during whick Judge Parker has "handled" local campaigns. His Counselors. Next to a man's acts, judged by hi avowed motives, there is no safer gui-ia to bis character ami his mental qualities than his choice of associates and fe!Iow workers. Turning from the meager tale of Judge Parker's iolitical life to hii political .counselors and intimates, whom do we find? Two forces: ..v. t. . ..-v. , tae wuou smuttier ihjmhj w& iw &- merican public for progressive ad vancement, liberty and humanity. I Tammany! "Blue-Eyed Billy Sheehan" t is Judge Parker's friend and neighbor ! at Rosemount. To him Parker addressed ; his famous telegram at the St. Louhs . convention. Daily Judge Parker is sur- ' rounded by the Shechans. O'Briens and I tue McDonalds of Tammany. There is ! I no hiding from an srgus-eyed peop'e. and j the lest proof of Judge Parker's lack of knowledge of the American people is that h does not know that his associa tion with Tammany will not lie excused or condoned by them. In New York, he possibly argues. Tammany is eudur ed. with restiveness, it is true, but still endured. Outside of New Y'ork this is not true, but Judge l'arker does not know the true temper of the American people outside of New York. How should be! The "Enigma of Esopus" 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 friends, and the tableau dissolves amidst the choking smoke of the flash-light. PARKER WON'T GO TO FAIR. Esopus, N. Y.. Sept. 2, 1904. "It is now announced that Mr. Parker has changed his mind, in regard to his trip to the Fair at St. Louis, and in all prob ability he will not .leave Rosemont again during the campaign." Press Dispatch. Dear! Dear! What can the matter be? Dear! Dear! What can the matter be? Dear! Dear! What can the aiattcr be? Parker won't go to the fair! II promised to travel across the wide prairies. He promised to let loose some old-time vagaries. He wanted to ride on the Pike dromeda ries! But now be wont go to the fair! Dear! Dear! What can the matter be! Parker won't go to the fair! Ho said that for once he would set forth and travel. Would brave all the dangers of dust aud gravel. He said all 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 him 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 50 to the fair! AWKWARD QUESTIONS. Dsnscrats Object to Aaawtrlng Fi nancial .Inter rogatories. When the "gold" message of .Afiton 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 isiie 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, ami in fact all American voters of whatever poetical 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 t!:is publicity was denied them, because the managers 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 proteet 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 duct oil on unsound linos are always apt to consider as "foolish" questions, which, if answered, might result in an expose. Ami it is the same way with the Demo cratic managers, 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 Vrrmont Democratic State committee said, the night before the election: "We feel that if the figure (of the Republican plural ity) is below 2.".)00 this year it is a Slire indication that the national election W!I - Democratic-." Well, the Democratic manager himself made the estimate. lie counted the chances of the Democratic party in ih? presot't campaign as might be indicated by the September vote in his own .State. Representing his p.-.rty. he made the estimate and the result hn b?ou appall ing for the Df-inocjvtp- the inlilican pluraliry being .'il..'!,-!). There has Leon :l R-Ph!ic.5n landslide of al nit ipse- ' fr 1 ""' r.v ft r t ir T"?in I "fit. the State of Vermont. A low w.ik nrnlc in not ennaintent with the mot wholcaonic development of the country nnd of itn people. The consideration of tho pending measure, as Mr. lllaine aiiid of the Chincne ex clusion act, connects it If intimately j and inaepcrauly witn Uv labor quca tinu. Seualor Firbaaks la t e Seuate, Jn ury 11, IS-. I believe emphatically in organized labor. I believe in organization of wage earners. Organization in one of tint laws j of our social and economic development j at this time. From iCouseveltV speech . T ....Aiimtiv. t."tf.. ..... ... (!........, . Teim., Sept. S, 1UITJ. BU nunuuig a..o. mm and a host Of Other improvessents. We hare in onr precinct at the PARKER EXCORIATED THOMAS E. WATSON'S RECENT SPEECH TO SOUTHERNERS. Raisins of the Negro Question ojr Democrats Denounced as Hypocrisy Roosevelt Preferred to Hi if Candi date Who Is Hossed by Wall Street. Thomas E. Watson. Populist candi date for the PresidtMtry. in a speech, at Atlanta. Ga.. on Sept. 1. declared that the Democratic attack on President Roo-Kvclt.for the latter's alleged friend liness to the negro was a piece of Dem ocratic hypocrisy aud he challenged Parker to indicate his own position oa the race issue. On this point Mr. Wat son said: The South should demand to know tie facts about l'arker. How does he stand upon thh) alleged question? Is h'.t position at all different from that of Koosevflt? If so. In what respect? The South stiottM demand explicit reply to the followhar questions Iwfore It votes for him upon the assumption that he differs from Roose velt 011 the negro question: 1. Would you refuse to cat at the same tabic with Hooker Washington 2. Would you refine to appoint negroes to office in the South? 3. If elected will jrou refuse to receive en terms of-equality at the White House such negroes as Ilishop Turner. Roo&r Washington, and T. Thomas Fortune? 4. Do you approve the mixed schools of New York. Inaugurated uuib-r Iroer Cleve land iu which social t-qiialitr Is practical ly made a matter of eotiiti!!oii? 3. If such schools whcn-Iti Mack chil dren and white children are educated to getherare a good thing for yeur uatlv State of New York, would they he a gooTl thing for Georgia and South Caroliua? If not, why not? Negro Cry Is Hypocrisy. Taking up the discussion of the uegro question, as far as its bearing on the present national campaign is concerned. Mr. Watson said that the Democratic national leaders have prostituted the name of Democrat and are demanding that they shall be followed blindly 1:1 spite of the fact that they have re nounced every principle of Democracy. Asking. "Will the real Democrats follow the name rather than the principle?" he continued: la the South we nre told we must submit to the surrender to Wall street liccuuse of "the nisger." What n Mess.M thins.- It ! for lHMiioeratlc leaders that tlu-y always have "the uiacer" to fall Imek "on. Kor thirty years they have leen doing hazi ness on "the nigger." and to-day he li thIr only stock In trade. Note the hypocrisy of It. Iu their na tional ilatform of 1572 they solemnly pro tested their ailegiaiice t the doctrine of "equality." regardless of race or eofer. ami pledged themselves to maintain tUe emancipation uud the cnfraio-hisciaent of the blacks. In 1S7 at St. Louis. Henry Wattcrsna being cbulriimn of the convention, thvy solemnly declared their devotion to th-j coiistitutitmal aiueuilmei.ts rowing out of the civil war. In 1SS0. Iu 1SS1. in lSss. the national conventions of the Democratic party r attini"d these declarations on the negro quektlon. and thus stood p!Mgcd to rppov any reopening of the questions settled l the thirteenth, fourteenth, and Ufteemh amendment a. Yet after all time formal pledged we are now browbeaten and In timidated by Democratic leaders, who say we must indorse their capitulation to It?I mont. David IS. Hill, and Tat McCarren because or "the nigger. Nejjro Powerless in Politics. "What can the Southern negro do?" nskod Mr. Watson. "He has been dis franchised in nearly every Southern State excepting Georgia: and In Georg-i they do not dare disfranchise him. be cause Democracy in Georgia cannot be maintained by the white vote." He con tinued: Therefore, the cry that we are Iu danger from "the nlirger" Is the most hypocriti cal that uiiKcrupaloai Iemlent'ilp could In vent. Cram. Sherman, ami Sheridan, with all their armies, could not revise the taw of nature In the prostrate South. The white man Is master -wherever he plants Ids foot the world over. D yon tell me that Roosevelt can do asalatt the recuperated South what Thad Stevens could not do against the exhausted Si-i:tTi 15ooeve!t i-otiM nut do It even If b nwiM. The Democratic leader.-, who talk this utiiu". and the editors who write It. lausli ami M'iiiK at oiw another as thev pa-;, they know what a humbug It all "is. and how It Is being used In make the people forget, or condone, the Inglorious surrender to Wall street which they made at St. Louis. Iu the West Virginia Democratic con vention, the State of the Democratic nomi nee for Vice I'resldent. the "white suprem acy" resolution was voted down, and on Aug. 1, luoi, l'arker himself, in writing to the negro. Jataes A. Koss, addrccd him ns "My dear sir." jti-U its thieiga ICess had been a white man. Surrender to Wult Street. Turning to other issues. Mr. Watson said the Democratic lmdor had sur rendered to Wall street because, as Sen ator John W. Daniels, of Virginia, put it. they were "tired of being h i!;e minority." lie continued: Not nfmld f Roosevelt's militarism? ?. N"t afraid of Roosevelt's 'lUicerlsra? ". AH that Is finite ami su!tterfnu'. "Tired of being In the minority," there was the milk in the cocoamit. Not tired of being iu the wroicr' Ni. He did i.ot even pretend tii.it he had been lit the wrong. Simply becaase thy lime been In the minority they are readv to drop the piluclptcs which "they swore r.r eight years were risht. and to'adopt Jho; wtileh even how they do not dare r.y ar rlL'I.t. ("ireat Oini: what an attltuib; for the leaders of a great national party. If I could become politically tipsy enough to vote for l'arker. on the platform of l!hU. us constructed by l'arker himself. I would take one more drink a .small mo nt that- and vote for the other twin. RooseeIt. Give me the original cverv time, rather than the blurred. Indistinct copy. Give me the genuine article, rather than the spurious substitute. What Hun Parker Doner Mr. Watson then paid his respects to Candidate Parker personally. lie asked: Why should Georgians support l'arker. of New York, rather than a Mi.ov I'corglan? What do yon know nf l'arker? What Ikib he done that was notable? What has he ever said that wa niem..r.tMe? What has lid ever written that stampul him with Individuality? I mid It. Hill declared at St. Loa: that he had been Intimate with l'arker for tliiity years, and that he did imt kiiou i.o l'arker stood oil the money ii:r-:I..n. Was this statement true'; if n. Iirk r Is the inobt I'egative public man 01: t'.: American continent. Was the statement faiS-eV If so, David R. Hill i- the bi.:Ict liar between the two oceans. TI.Ik!. if innn in ins 011 intimate :nw with Ab-x- auibr II. Mevens and Abe Lincoln f..r thirty years and not knowing how he on tae gieateat political intentions of day? Tho populist leader declared th.ir: peopl'j could not seen re reforms in ,1 :ie Democratic party when it is "housed by the same old Wall street crowd wh:c?i debauched Cleveland' second admin:-.- t ration Ho declared tli.it at St. I.:::s j all tho worthless emrity honors had be:: L'iven, to southern Democrats, who in re turn denounced Ilryan and helped j,; "iti.ife the Jeffersonians." Now. 'be cause Dave Hill allowed John Sharp Williams to have a chairmanship" the whole South must lie "driven under the lush of party discipline away from tin? gospel of our father? and into political j slavery to the Hamiltouians of TVew I YiMk." 1 ir. .k. Okt. n V.I ,..V fa anliBlHl Ih. t ..aaUisd voters of the State of Nebraska, fori pre-teS&2EISI'$2ttZ&'& mk .reel 6 A. ad. Nat her functions wit and I am once mm woll - 1... vi: 1-.-.
