New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-03
Mr.. PARKER'S EVASI0NS.
Things He Might Haze Said. but
Didn't.

Judge Parker made two speeches in this city
last night. He did not find it possible. how
ever, to say where he stood with regard to
the constitutional rights of the negro which
are denied in the region where he expects to
get most of his electoral votes. He has not
changed since last year. when THE New York
Evening Post" speaking of him. declared that
a who acted as he has acted was not fit
to be President next year any year.
Judge Parker dares to charge that President
Roosevelt is trying to buy his election. He
has not answered the charge found i'll the col
umns of his supporter. The New-York
Evening Post" that in 1885 to elect David b.
Hill Governor he, while judge, levied on con
| tractors for funds, and that the contractors
We're reimbursed for taking up $4,000 of notes
made by Alton 3. Parker and others by an
aqueduct contract ON bid $4,000 above the
lowest The taxpayers of New-YOrk We're de-
frauded out of $4,000 TO meet Judge Parker's
campaign obligations, and Mayor Grace and
Commissioner Squire testified that they were
asked to vote for this steal in order that the
HilParker notes might be paid. When speak
ing of corrupt campaign funds Judge Parker
carefully avoids this transaction.
With a powerful group of trust promoters
manipulators and agents behind him. such as
Belmont McCarren, Meyer and Sheehan, Judge
Parker accuses Theodore Roosevelt of a cor
rupt alliance with the trusts and pleads for an
honest election. untainted by the wrongful use
of money. In the last week of the campaign
he is speaking every day. but he has not found
time or courage to deny the explicit statement
Of his supporter, THE New-York Herald. last
Monday that Judge Parker has had men at
work in these States Ullinois and Ohio con-
tinuously for two months. They have reported
to him that the Democrats have been collecting
money and that they will pour into Indiana.
New-Jersey and Connecticut hundreds Of thou
sands of dollars for use on Election Day"
These men are declared to have reported di-
rectIy to Judge Parker. He knows therefore,
whether "The Herads" charge that he is try
ing to buy the election in States called doubt
full is true or false. Which is it, Judge Par
ker: You know. An answer from somebody
else will not be satisfactory. Your confidential
friend. David b. Hill, stole the State of New
York few years ago Are you hoping and
contriving to buy Indiana. New-JerSey and
Connecticut? A friend. not foe. declares you
are.
On Friday October 81. Judge Parker. pub
liCly addressing 4 company Of visitors at ESQ
pus said that administrative orders had been
issued "fOrbidding government officers from
making public any statement of estimates on
which future appropriations are based; that
we are not able to state" how much the ma
tfonaI Treasury had been running behind since
the first sixty days of the fiscal year. but that
II was safe 10 assume there had been mo
Improvement"
The facts are that such administrative orders
bave not been given. that department. esti-
mates have been published usual, that the
Treasury Department issues a daily bulletin
showing the revenues and expenditures for the
day. for the current month and for the cur
rent year and that they show notable i'm
provement. Judge Parkers accusation did not
relate to a trivial matter. If true, it would
have been damning
Judge Parker has known for weeks that
the accusation is utterly false. Since he
made it he has delivered half dozen public
speeches. But he has not bad the common
decency 10 withdraw the charge offer a
word of apology.
Judge Parker is the man who was recently
acclaimed. in the first violent fever of hope
that he would win n moral hero. incapable
of deceit or evasion, and who is still posing
as such a man. Caught in the act of gross
Justification he converts original ignorance into
| lasting dlshonOr..