The San Francisco call., 1904-11-06
PARKER MAKES EVAS|VE
ANSWER To R0OSEVELT'S
SCATH|NC DENUNC|AT TON
CLAIMS Former Sbeech
Confirmed No Criticism
Of The PIeszaezzk

NEW YORK. Nov. 5.-Judge Par
ker, in a speech made at q reception
rendered him by the Kings County
Democratic Club in Brooklyn tonight,
asserted that the issue whether the
trusts can purchase the election" had
not been met by President Roosevelt
in his reply to Judge Parker's speech.
After stating what his position had
been in that speech, Judge Parker said
that he had made no criticism of the
President, but that he had simply
called attention to notorious and
offensive situation" The Judge said
attention had been called to the rela-
tions which might exist between
Chairman Cortelyou and the trusts by
reason of Mr.. Cortelyou's former po-
sition as Secretary of the Department
of Commerce and Labor, should have
said:
L will Join Parker in an effort to
protect the ballot of the honest citi-
zen from being overridden by merchan-
disc ballots
The assertion was made by Judge
Parker that his charge that contribu-
tions had been received by Chairman
Cortelyou from the trusts was. not de-
MED by the Presidents statement The
claration with a statement directed to
the President personally to the effect
that he (Parker) had issued a request
that no money for campaign purposes
should be received, directly or Indirect
ly. from any trust; that he rather
would be defeated than to be fettered
in an effort to accomplish reforms that
were sorely needed. He charged the
President with refusing to cooperate
in the checking of the monstrous evil.
Judge Parker closed that part of his
address directed to the President with
this sentence:
II regret to say to you that it then
seemed apparent to me, Mr.. President
that you regarded the election of more
Importance than the checking of this
evil"
TEXT OF THE REPLY.
Judge Parker said in part:
1.-The main purpose of my address to-
night is to call attention to the fact
that in his strange. belated reply to my
speech of twelve days ago, the Presi-
dent has not met the issue created
since the platforms were adopted,
namely: Can the trusts purchase the
election? Whatever results may follow
from his address, the campaign fund
can not be interfered with. 1t has been
raised
Here the speaker quoted at great
length a speech of October "a, in
which he first raised the issue. He
continued:
"You have learned from its reading
that the purpose of that address was
to warn the people against the cor
rupting of the electorate by tariff
bred trusts and other monopolies. 1t
contained no criticism of the Presi-
dent. 1t simply called attention to a
notorious and offensive situation-a
situation which presented to my mind
the greatest of the moral issues of the
campaign; yes, of many campaigns.
If he had said on the day after the
delivery of my address, after the con-
sultation about it which he and SEN
ator Knox had: Yes, never thought
of it before. but Parker is right.
Why would a trust bring money
out Of it's treasury, money belonging
to its stockholders, consisting of
women and children, as we'll as men
of both parties, unless its purpose is
to get something in return, something
which its officers regard as more than
an equivalent for the money taken out
of the treasury? Now, he is right, and
/ am going to stop it. Perhaps the
national committee cannot pay back