The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-10-21
MAIN ISSUE AT STAKE
lT IS NOT THE PERSONALITY OF
THE CANDIDATES.

Great Question Il whether q Republic
can or De m ocr tic ,Ad ministration
Shall cond uct the Affairs Of Govern.
ment Opposition IL Neither Safe
= Nor Sane.
Although the Republican party well
comes a comparison Of the character
aud personality of its candidates with
those Of the candidates OF the ST. Louis
convention, it prefers to urge the cleo
ton Of Roosevelt and Fairbanks as fit
ting representatives and instruments OF
the party's policies and lntentions.
II it were true, which it Is not. that
there is anything in the career Of Judge
Alton B. Parker to justify the conten-
ton that he would make a "saner and
safer" President than Theodore Roose-
welt, the fact would remain, that. tied
up with the Democratic party. a Moses
with the modern equipment Of a Glad
stone, could not insure as safe and sane
a government as the Republican party
has administered under President ROose-
welt.
1t is not pretended that Judge Parker
possesses any superiority Of statecraft,
SudTdClSr OF cA pcT1Sntc " OEOSCI SlCNt
land. In fact, he has been accepted by
tIe conservative elements Of DemOcrac!
az a disappointing alternative for the
ponderous oracle OF Buzzards Bay, and
b. has only been accepted by the radical
or Bryan element Of the party. because
he had demonstrates the lack OF Cleve-
lands safety and sanity by voting for
free silver in 1896 and 1900
Tn ithaca %uyn ~ thu nrNNf IS cnm-
plete that there is nothing in Judge
Packers convictions, character or con-
science to promise anything better, should
he be elected, than 4 weak. vacillating
and reactionary Democratic administra-
ton.
Worse thar this. whatever may be
Thought OF Judge Parker's personal char
acter and ability, he stands before the
world as the presidential creation Of
David B. Hill, aud his chief associates
and advisers since his nomination have
been Hill, bill" Sheehan, Pat" Nc
Carren, Charlie" Murphy and others
of the Manhattan brand Of Tammany
statesmen for revenue only.
"Mr.-Facing-Bo Both Ways"
Nothing in his campaign utterances
has suggested that Judge Parker pos
o'SStS any VI III olSIh hLCAADbtro "
leadership that bind parties to the will
OF a strong. conservative, conscientious
chief. On the contrary he has earned
the %sobriguet, bestowed upon him by
Speaker Cannon, Of 'Mr.-Faoing- Both
Ways"
Therefore a vote for the safe and
sane Parker and his octogenarian mate
is only to be Justified by trust in the
Safptv and SanIfu of tina ma rty whose
nominees they are.
For forty years-barrins the two
Cleveland ntervals-the Democracy has
been excluded from power, because the
American people have mistrusted its
safety, it's sincerity and its sanity. Dur
ing all that period it has embraced with
ia its ranks nearly all the elements of
discomfort, discord and reaction that are
the signs and proofs Of hopeless politi-
cal stagnancy and decay.
AS a party it threw every impediment
within it's reach in the way Of the ener-
getic prosecution Of the war for the
preservation of the Union.
That the reader may understand that
the Democratic leopard has not changed
its spots in forty years it may be re-
called that on July 2, 1864, the Demo
cratic members Of Congress put forth
an address to the people Of the United
States in which, according to George
William Curtis in Harper's Monthly,
President Lincoln was charged with the
engrossment of power; with military in
reference in elections: with the crea-
ton OF bogus States; with illegally rails
ing troops; with unnecessary and hateful
subscriptions: with the payment of ex-
0rbitant bounties; with employing col0red
troops on an equality with white soldiers;
with setting up a false and ruinous fnan-
cial system; with placing us in peril Of
foreign interference; with endeavoring to
corrupt the race by amalgamation with
negroes"
In August of that sane year. August
Belmont, whose son is now pulling wires
hehipd the "Sphinx Of Esopus," as tenn
p0rary chairman of the Democratic Ma
tiopal Convention, said that -four years
OF misrule By . sectional, fanatical and
corrupt party had brought our country
to the verge Of ruin. The past and pres
emit are sufficient warnings of the dis
astrous consequences which would befall
US il Mr.. Lncoln's reelection should be
made possible by our want Of patriotism
aud unity"
6eymour's Sentiments.
Horatio Seymour, ia his speech "a
permanent chairman Of the same con-
v~ention, inveighed bitterly against Lin.
coins administration and the Republican
party, saying; ''They were animated by
intolerance and fanaticism, and blinded
by an ignorance Of the spirit Of u in
situations, the character Of our people
and the condition of our land" "Step by
STEP" be continued, 'they have marched
ON to results from which at the outset
they would have shr,ink with horror;
and even nov when war has desolated
our land. has laid it, heavy burdens upon
Tabor. and when bankruptcy and ruin
overhang US, they will not have the union
restored except upon conditions unknown
10 the Constitution" He concluded by
demanding The restoration Of the Union
through the unconditional surrender Of
the principle of national self-preserva.
ton and "the full recognition OF the
rights of the States demanded by the
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