New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-02
WHAT JUDGE PARKER rs PROVING


Having resolved to disregard his deliberate
conviction that a Presidential candidate can
not take the stump with propriety, Judge Par
ker is now engaged in proving that so far as
he himself is concerned, his belief is well
founded. With the single exception Of his
friend Judge HerTick no Democratic orator in
this campaign has stopped 10 quite so low a
level Of indecency as that from which the
Democratic candidate begged for votes on Mon
day evening at the Madison Square Garden.
Beginning his speech with the statement that
1t would be little more than a greeting from a
candidate to his supporters, the man who
few weeks ago was circulating a autographed
depreciation Of personalities proceeded 10 accuse
Theodore Roosevelt Of seeking to make a cor
rupt bargain for the Presidency. We have
doubt that the Democratic censors Of campaign
literature, who know the minds and execute
the orders Of Hill, McCarren, Meyer, Belmont,
Sheehan and the rest had cheerfully approved
that piece Of blackguardism, but we do not be-
leve for a moment that it was pleasing TO a
majority of those to whom II was delivered
from the candidates lips
Many, if not most, OF Judge Parkers sup
porters in that great audience would have been
glad to hear, instead OF that malignant calumny,
q manly acknowledgment of the grave offence
which he has committed in repeating the false
hoods with which he has been stuffed by fools
and knaves. He told his hearers that he had
taken into review the questions before the COun-
try largely in judicial way" Some of them,
at Least, must have itched to ask him if it is
the judicial way to accept the unsupported
statement of q single BIASED witness as the
truth and on that basis assail the honor Of such
men as the past and present Governors of the
Philippines.
Judge Parker proclaimed the national need
of patriotisn, devotion to principle and high
moral ideals He would have been followed
with intense interest if he had gone on to ex
plain how he illustrated those qualities when
he twice voted for a fraudulent monetary sys-
tenn and everlasting national dishonor, forbade
the slightest hint at ST. Louis Of a change Of
views on his part until he had secured the
nomination and then claimed credit for prov
ing that he had swindled the convention.
Judge Parker revived recollectlons Of former
Presidential campaigns in which he took part.
For the sake Of truth 1t is to be regretted that
he made no mention of the year in which cor
ruption at the polls gave him the office of Sur
rogate or Of the campaign which he managed
for David 3. HILL for which he was rewarded
with judicial promotion, and which in due time
enabled that head devil" to steal the State Of
New-York. 1t would have been peculiarly in
teresting TO hear Judge Parker tell how, fol
lowing that crime his intimacy with Hill grew
so close that he chose him above all others TO
conduct his canvass for the Presidential nomi-
nation and how deep his sense Of personal
gratitude and obligation must always be.
These are some Of the topics on which Judge
Parker will not touch in his speeches this week.
He is too busily employed in showing to what
depths Of improperly a Presidential candi-
date may descend when he takes the stump in
his own behalf.