The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1904-09-22
Parker Warns Editors.

IdTACT " arms
Judge Alton B. Parker, in address
ing the Democratic editors who visited
Rosemount, sounded a warming of dam
ger to the federal government and ad-
monished the editors to eliminate fac
tional differences and unite in-harmony
for the success Of the party and sal
vation of the government.
In beginning his address Judge Par
ker said:
'The leaders who have made thor
oughfare through history down which IN
all the centuries their fame will march
with giant strides have all been men
who, though unmoved by hasty express
sion Of the hurried judgment Of the peo-
pie, were yet guided in all their public
acts by the knowledge of what the de-
liberate and mature judgment Of the
people would be-"
Referring to one single feature OF the
Republican platform, he said:
That platform opens with declara-
ton of that party's many years of con-
troll of government, coupled with the as
sertion that it has displayed high ca
pacity for rule and government, which
has been made even more conspicuous
by the incapacity and infirmity of pur-
pose shown by its opponents"
Judge Parker said a comparison with
the Cleveland administration would
''show that under Democratic control the
administrative purity Of the fathers was
observed in the conduct of the govern
ment, that no one of its departments
was permeated as of late with corrup-
ton rivaling the days Of the star route
fraud, that successful effort was made
to check the growth of expenditures"
In referring to Republican extrava-
gance Judge Parker said: "There is an
inevitable result to such extravaganza.
Instead of a surplus in the annual re-
ceipts of about $S0,OO0,0OO, which the
present executive found on assuming
control, there is now a deficit to be found
there of S42,O0O.O0O.
"Extravagance is running riot In fed
eral. State and municipal governments
in spite of the well-directed effort of
some excellent officials. The indebted
ness of the municipal governments Is
steadily piling up, bond issues are in
creasingly frequent and the people have
not the satisfaction in many instances
of full equivalent in Improvements for
the money expended. And the federal
government is leading in the race of
great expenditures"
Touching on dissensions In the party,
Judge Parker said: Among so many
patriotic and intelligent men it is inev-
liable that divergence Of opinion as to
minor questions and differences of view
as to the correctness of the disposition
Of dead issues should be found. The
party is concededly united to-day as to
every vital article of faith which can
reasonably enter into the pending can
vass.
Our adversaries are intrenched, in
full possession of every department Of
the government, and it is mistaken pol
icy that would drive away voters who
would help to oust them. All men who
have attained any degree of prominence
have their friends, and the exercise Of
ordinary prudence forbids the alienation
of allies who are willing and anxious to
assist
''The result in Vermont Tuesday ad-
minished us. and there can be no harm
in giving voice to the admonition-tha
harmonious cooperation of all and the
elimination of personal, factional and
unimportant differences involving no sur
render Of principle, are essential to sue
cess"