New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-09
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From The New-York Evening Post OF July IL, 1904.
real appeared above the American horizon
q yelled candidate; but at intensely dramatic
moment the curtain IVES dropped and ne was RTysn
hao Jeered at him as an Interrogation PONY; p
spear-whch pierced Organism to the heart when
me judge wrote his astounding. his exhiaIattii9,
courage was never before seen in Presldenid,a l
about the man who would rather be right than Pc
rresident expires That man actually exists p Iss
put away the Presidency unless it offered to
mn on terms squaring with his own @ onds
that Europe rubbed its eyes. A man had risen.
Nothing fine is known to our political annals
1et the act was simply one of stralghttor ware
man before he was commissioner, SO Parker was
BUT his one he an @ but w sp pe
ne quietly acted as an honorable gentleman. H gu,
professional polticians An honest man saying in
plain language that he declined Presidential
and and his honor were ciearedEwhy incredible! The
dof De Sobav at s h ous
believe it genuine till verified. Hills first cry was
Peak: A man had stood forth. A mystery Sen,
at9r Beveridge had snseringly called him the real
6o S 6G not yet any more than In BuKes cy
crawl and sneak and compromise, when along
comes an unknown man with clear gray eye ana
their machnations. and leaves them covered with
gravtatiQn drawing the whole world again.
Judge Parker's calmly heroic act burst star
and so triumphant in execution. and was such an
OUerPoweTing revelation of character that we may
Trought 1t drove the last nail into the eoffi1 OF
it establish the gold standard beyond caviI or
dispute The business world at last emerges from
let the tariff and taxation and Imperialism be dis
cuseu; IN no event does the stabiilty OF our nIl-
has removed the last doubt Try as the Repqbli-
the road.
and magically changed the whole aspect Of the
campaign. 1t has transformed detection into the
that is RPewn into ycon 5he f m
spiked and its ammunition hurled into Esopus
Creek. The plan OF campaign over which II was
FLOATING. it already has to abandon. To talk one
be to Excite derision And how about that other
fond charge that Parker is Hills man? Who
rolled in the dust at St Louis and ask thai
thews Of the man who openly discounted d. him
Let no Republican orator who does not wish to
SANDER that Judge Parker viii be dominated by
H and note too the sPiSsndd, guarantee we
could so nobly defy pressure would stand i'm
We suspect that the Republicans win not here
after be so eager to challenge comparison of per-
are not the only ones in whom civic courage may
on the banks Of the Hudson than on San Juan Hill.
Woe to the Republican orator who ventures rhe-
tb ebfSn fn Is 'e am Who
takes counsel only of his own courage. who puts
which set the country ringng?" The answer would
kerr" Honor bright. you LADDERS OF Theodore
Roosevelt, can you point to an act in his public
career which shows anything experimenting the
moral courage displayed by Judge Parker on Sat
urdaY?
Such an exhibition Of sheer manhood makes all
parties kin. Republicans know man when they
see him. and thousands OF them are to-day APP
plauding the Democrat OF whom they were prepar-
ing to speak slightingly. Judge Parker has in
spired, multitudes who had thought that nothing
In politics could cause them to become enthusiastic
again Everywhere one encounters the thrill We
q leader Already 1T
plain that the kindlng hope and zeal put into
to be renewed under the inspiration of Judge Par;
his party is marvellously heartened, the Republi
correspondingly dismayed. But it is, after all.
the personal aspect OF Judge Parkers magnificent
act that we wish most to emphasize to-day. He
has given fresh hope to America. Democratic gov
eminent a fairer face for the discovery or
such civic virtue his held in reserve for the day
of great need. Judge Parker has removed re
proach not only from his party. but from his coun
try. Too many We're saying of the United States,
Disraeli did Of France, that IT had its Chasse-
pot and it's mitrailleuse but "of that third engine
called man, 1t did not single specimen"
To-day point to the towering that
England and salutes him. modest and I'M
pretentious and simply brave that his fellow
countrymen rejoicing in him in a
ttonal possession.