Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-03-31
THE CIRCUS IN FULL BLAST.

h0rdiu prOc0euS 10 administer Well
merited rebuke to certain Georgians
of more or less prominence who fed
from the ranks of democracy four years
ago and enlisted nnder the banner of
that nondescript, Grover Cleveland,
himself renegade and party wrecker
1t is this class of gentry who are now
very busy organizing Parker clubs, or
1.-The Parker Club of Georgia -
Editor Mcintosh exposes the hypoc-
risy of this gang. the Cleveland
Guards" under new banner, in the
following editorial which the Times
Recorder endorses heartily:
ga number of gentlemen of more or
less prominence met in Atlanta on
Saturday and organized what they de.
cided should be known as The Par
ker Democratic Club of Georgia
This appears to have been a political
meeting to which invitations had been
sent out, and when the select company
gathered they went into secret session,
closing the doors even to the newspa-
per reporters.
Sunday mornings Atlanta Consti-
tuition and Journal both publish re.
ports of what was done at this meet
ing, but as the newspapers reporters
were excluded. only what the leaders
wanted the people to know was given
out. The editorial staff of the Jour
nal was represented in the select gath
sring, and that papers report is there
| fore more in detail than that of the
Constitution, but the two reports give
identical lists of the gentlemen present
and do not differ materially as to
what was done. We publish the Con-
stitution's report in today's Herald
because it Is the shorter of the two and
consumes less space. We publish it
because we want all the people down
here in Southwest Georgia to know
who was there and what was done.
Running over the list of the names
of those who figured in this Parker
Club meeting recalls the times and
political scenes of 1896 and 1900. 1t
looks like an organ za'ion of the
CIevelandites! And when we know
that State Parker Club was organ
lied IN Atlanta urder respectable
Democratic auspices about two weeks
ago, officers elected and committeeman
appointed from different parts of the
state-when we know this, and then
look at the personnel of this Saturday
meeting to organize The Parker
Democratic Club of Georgia. we
cau't keep down the suspicion that 1t
is Clevelandites masquerading.
Unfortunately for the Democratic
party, we have IN Georgia a con in
gent, including the editors of some
of our prominent daily news.
papers, and all those, so far as our
observation extends, who were ap-
pointed to Office under President
Cleveland's administration, who seem
TO think that Cleveland is the only
man who can ever be or ought to be
elected president by the Democrats
again. AND THIS IN THE FACE OF THE
FACT THAT He BOLTED THE PARTY IN
1896 AND HAS CONTINUED TO BE A
SULKER AND PARTY APOSTATEi
''These Clevelandites are welded to
their idol and will not give him up,
even after he has himself publicly de
clared that he IS not, and does not
! want to be, candidate again for the
Democratic nomination.
"And these are the men who have
organized this second or preferred
stock Parker Club for the state of
Georgia. Look over the list and see
If it isn't so! How many men who
have gone before the people of the
state and been elected to official posi-
ton during the past eight years-men,
in other words, who have been sue
cessful party leaders during the last
eight years, or since the blight of
Cleveland1sm afflicted the Democratic
party-are reported among those who
figured in this select Parker Club?
E, L. Brown, who got to be chairman
of the convention that nominated
Governor Gambler and thereby became
chairman Of the State Democratic
Executive Committee-alI due to his
being pet of Governor Candler-was
there.
''And there were few there who
have been elected from their counties
to the legislature; but there was not a
man there who has been elected to
state Office during the past eight years
But there were some there who have
sought high official position and been
turned down by the people.
CLARK Howell wasn't there, because
he says he was not invited and did
not know anything about the meeting,
but he isithe Georgia member of the
National Democratic Committee, and
for this reason alone, perhaps, 1t &C.
cured to the assembled body of self
elect that 1t would not do to ignore
him; so they put him down as one of
the v1ce.preside at-large. Happy
thought, wasn't il? But Clark says
this thing of organizing another or
second Parker Club for the state at
large looks like child's play, and that
he will not have anything to do with
it. Clark is In politics himself and
doesn't want to get into any row,
even with the Clevelandites, or he
might express himself more emphati-
cally and say kwhat he thinks and
we all knoyheknows.