Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-11
A CRUSHING DEFEAT
Election Returns Show No Amount of
Money Could Buy the Presidency
That People Did Not Believe Parker's
Accusations and Resented Them
Washington Views.

Washington Views.
Washington. Nov. TO- The VIC
tory of Theodore Roosevelt, of New
York, for president and Charles War
rem Fairbanks, of Indiana, for vice
president OF the United States was
the most sweeping and conclusive ever
cept that of Grant and Wilson in 1872.
They carried every northern state, in
Guiding Maryland and Nevada.
On the other hand the defeat of the
democratic party was the most crush
ing and disastrous reverse 1t has ever
sustained. Parker, the widely heralded
redeemer of the ancient faith, the
candidate with the judicial poise and
conservative mind. actually ran behind
Bryan in New York, mdiara. Illinois
and a dozen other states where his
managers once fondly hoped he might
win. His race in New York city was
such revelation of utter weakness
that the democrats of that Tammany
stronghold will not recover from the
Instead of phenomenal majority of
100000 or even 100000 which was con-
servatively allotted to him by Leader
Murphy at the last minute, he actually
got less than 10000 in New York city.
While the judge was maintaining this
calamitously snail-liike pace In what
should have been his best territory
Roosevelt was smashing all election
records in the upstate counties. He
ran ahead of McKinley's 1900 vote
everywhere north of the Bronx, with
the result that the empire state yields
a Roosevelt majority of nearly 100000.
Judge Parker's malicious accusa-
lions of blackmail and eNtortlon,
which he made against the president
and Chairman Cortelyou, until the pres
ident defied him to produce proof IN
substantiatiou, reacted on the head OF
their author with crushing force.
It probably never will be known what
effect this democratic episode had in
shaping the days result. The vote of
New York, where the affair attracted
acute attention from all classes of Cit
liens. especially in the greater city,
where the newspapers We'd with each
other in magnifying and exaggerating
the Importance of Parker's words,
would indicate clearly to the unpreju-
diced mind that the failure of the judge
to "make good" was a great misfor-
tune to him.
Believed Parker Erred.
Upon no other hypothesis can the
slump OF the democratic
vote in the greater city be accounted
for The president called upon Par
ker for proof, in q ringing, manly APP
peal that betrayed such a conscious
ness of the extravaganza of Parker's
that when the judge failed
to make good the people We're bound
to believe that he had uttered a delfb-
crate falsehood. Assuming the accur-
acy of this hypothesis, the rebuke
which the country has delivered to
Parker and the organization that sus-
.ained him in his unprecedented per-
'ormances on the platform cannot be
1t proves conclus-
yely that a candidate for the office of
president, no more than the humblest
,annp followers, can voluntarily trans
END the decencies Of life without
,ringinng upon his head punishment at
NICE swift and stern.
Parker has paid the penalty for his
,rief plunge into the arena Of political
and it is not an exagseration
O say that it is the severest penalty
yer paid by a candidate for president
If the United States.
Presidency Can't Be Bought.
1t was pointed out at the white
louse today by several distinguished
,uests of the president, that the re-
urns disclosed beyond dispute that no
mount of money contributed by trusts
n other corporate interests could have
purchased such tremendous victory
IS was achieved by President Roose-
-elt. This view of the result was sta
ed to the president by Postmaster /
General Wynne and met his hearty
pproval He said that the time new
r existed In the United States when
was possible to buy the election of
president and added that the paonle
we're always willing to resnond enth,,-
iastically an7 patrioticanv to what
hey believed to be patriotic Conduct
n the part of their servants in Office +
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