The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1904-07-28

gives punishment for crime its great
est weight: it is the effect 1t will have
by way of restraining others. and law
less and disorderly strikers may well
| take the lesson to heart and take warn
! ing from the fate of others.
A FAIR AND LIBERAL OPPONENT.
| The New York Commercial is not at
| all in sympathy with some of Its Re-
| publican brethren concerning that now
| famous telegram of Judge Parker.
without any ground upon which to
base such a charge, and with the hope
| of weakening the admitted strength
| of the Democratic ticket, there have
| been reams of paper wasted in the
effort to mislead the public as to the
facts and circumstances In connection
| with the. telegram and the action of
the convention. That The Commercial
is not in sympathy with that kind of
| campaigning this extract proves:
And by this The Commercial is not
to be understood as in any measure
acquiescing in its correspondents opin-
ion that the Democratic party has been
"tricked" into the right path. There
is every evidence that Judge Parker's
telegram was complete surprise to
the convention, and to nobody any
more than his personal sponsors who
had been diligently promoting his cam
dilacy. And the federation and care
with which the reply to II was framed
and adopted present the strongest kind
of testimony that from the vast ma
jority of the assembled delegates the
devil Of fifty-cent dollars had already
been cast out if, indeed, the most of
them were not gold Democrats. any
way. 1t is only the most prejudiced
among violently partisan Republicans
who affect to believe that the Park
err telegram was part and parcel of
cutand-dried program to trick the
Democracy into the right path; and 1t
is almost inconceivable that anybody
honestly believes that Judge Parker
would be a party to such plan.
That is straight. truthful and lib
eral. People who know most of Judge
Parker have not believed that he
would be n party to what would have
been a very small piece of political
| trickery, but the object of the Repub-
licans is plain enough. They know
that. whether rightfully or wrongful
! ly, there is strong feeling in certain
Democratic quarters against David b.
Hill. 1t may be prejudice or it may be
we'll grounded. but it exists. at all
events Naturally, then. If 1t could be
shown that the sending of that tele-
gram was only carrying out prev
iously arranged trick agreed on by
Hill and Parker, it would inevitably
weaken the latter among Democrats
who do not endorse all Hills methods.
The Commercial speaks in very plain
terms of the class of Republicans who
would make such a charge, and we
agree with it that Intelligent people
d. not believe it.
And, speaking of The Commercial we
note that it takes some of its brethren
very sharply to task for their efforts
| to ring the money issue into the cam
paign. 1t asserts that such efforts
would be laughable If they were not
really a serious matter" Then it de-
livers this warning:
To the Republican party the great
| body of the BUSINESS public is under
deep obligation for the valiant fight
| tina; 1t has twice made for sound mon
| ey and the maintenance of the nation S
| financial honor. But to keep up the
| pretcnse of such fight now, when
| there is no enemy of the old sort in
| sight, would be rs mischevious as 1t
would be ridiculous. Its folly would
| lie alike in the unnecessary disturb
| anCe of a business Sjuatiou That Is emil
| nently satisfactory on the Threshold
| of a quadI ennial campaign and in the
| forfeiture of popular confidence that
it would entail. The business public
! especially would never forgive the Re-
! publican party should its management
| permit 1t t. pursue such a course
| such intention.
Now, while we insist that the Com
mercial is claiming entirely too much
when it so positively assumes that the
Republicans are entitled to great
| credit for making the hight which was
| really forced on them, We will let that
pass. The important point is that our
contemporary sees, as all other intelli-
| gent Republicans must see, that an at
| tempt to create a money issue between
| the two parties will not only be entire
| ly without excuse, but will neCessari-
| ly be hurtful to the business interests
! of the party in which all parties are
concerned. 1t is refreshing to find a
straight Republican paper showing
such fairness and liberality.