New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-04
BIG FROST FOR Parker.
Little Enthusiasm at Bridgeport
Judge against Standing Pat.
rBr TELEGRAPH TO TIE rRIBuNr.l


Haven and Hartford. where speeches were sched-
uled to be given. The Connecticut committee TO
escort the Judge consisted of 4. Heaton Robert
son, candidate for Governor: General Henry A.
Bishop. candidate for Lieutenant Governor; J.
Howard Morse and William Kennedy, Congress
candidates. Daniel NJ. Morgan, Treasury Off
cial in the last Cleveland administration The
Judges personal escort consisted Of his brother,
Frederick H. Parker. Mr.. McCausland, his sec
Rotary. and George T. Parker. head of the ma
tional committees literary bureau.
The run TO Bridgeport convinced the more
experienced campaigners in Judge Parker's es-
cort that there is such thing this year as
stampeding the masses for the Democratic
standard bearers. Judge Parker's itinerary had
been properly advertised along the route The
Democratic newspapers had for days in advance
been urging the faithful TO turn out and do
honor to the new Moses. 1t did not WORK
There something the matter.
After hours the train pulled into STAN
ford under a very slow Roadway. Not more
than two hundred and fifty men, women and
children the platform There was a
yoIley of cheers when the judge was recognized
the platform. and a shivering fox terrier
erouched against the station doorway pricked up
his ears. wagged his tail to the judge and said
well as a dog could: This is cold day for
both of US. amt it, judge?" The Stamford
perience was duplicated at South Norwalk,
where the crowd contained large number Of
school children. AT either place the judge
bowed his acknowledgements to the crowd from
the platform.
TRIED TO WORK Up ENTHUSIASM,
The cad surprise of the day. both to General
Henry A Bishop and to Judge Parker. was at
Bridgeport The train got there at II :3S. There
a good sized crowd at the station General
Bishop is the Democratic candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor. He and his friends had tried to
work up some enthusiasm General Bishop is
well liked in Bridgeport, and his friends knew
he was anxious to give the judge a good time.
General Bishop drove the judge to the house of
DR.. Virgil Gibney. where a delightful surprise
awaited the judge. His mother and his brother
in-lsw and sister, Mr.. and Mrs. James A Miles,
Of Derby. were there to greet him. Mrs. Parker
besIned on her big boy and the Judge acted as
If he didn't care whether school kept or not.
The luncheon over in time 10 allow the
judge TO get 20 the armory by ITO o'clock.
Candor compelled the admission from Bridgeport
Democrats that the armory affair a political
frost-not one of the kind that lends a bracing
element to the atmosphere. but a right down
marrow chilling time. sufficient freeze the
rfnd on a pumpkin and make turnips think that
the ground they were in was frozen cement.
The weather ideal in Bridgeport to-day
When Bryan was in Bridgeport four years ago
the factories closed and a throng Of FIVE thou
sand people clanored for admission to the ar
nory. There is room in the armory for three
thousand people. Bryan talked to 1920. At
ten minutes 70 ! o'clock less than fo,r hundred
people were on the main floor and oAIy thirty
three in the gallery. by actual count When the
band and Judge Parkers carriage came along
tbs srmory began I'LL up. When the judge
began speaking the armory contained about
thirteen hundred people. One-third of the ar
unoccupied. The gallery two-thrds full.
One-thtrd of the seats the platform were
filled. General Bishop introduced the candidate.
who cheered hfty-hve seconds by the watch
Judge Parker's speech not suited TO the
hardy factory composing two-thirds Of the
audience.
NOT INTERESTED IN WATTS AND WILL
IAMS.
They did not seem interested in James Watts
or Roger Williams The Judge talked over their
heads His remarks We're as follows:
shall only detain you for a few minutes at this.
State ~ WITH few words Of greeting to The many
friends whose devotion and parta.ity have brought
which may httingly be dealt with in a few words
You carry on your useful work and pass your lives
In our later days the claim is often made; not
only by practical men. but by students OF economic
history, that rapid industrial progress is the
development
theory assumes that, whatever our ancestors , olo
IN the way OF building Up institutions and INDUS
now become dependent upon the machine, and
must be content TO remain so hereafter. -
ma chinery may have done. II has been devised.
created and adapted by mans ingenuity, has beer;
perfected by human patience and industry, and
that II must operated by men Of mind and bone
and muscle. Nobody will presume 10 deny that IT
has become an important factor In industry put II
IS merely incident. an auxiliary. Ia truth Ia
nothing Of what we call modern progress has there
been SO much Of exaggeretion that which re-
lates to the machine. This s due entirely to the
assumption that II j. something N ano OF lSe en-
human body. We have thrown il the segis OF
the law and for the reason that We recognized
human thrift. every kind of protection which So
ciety could devise has been given to IT,
Still, the fact remains that 1t has been the man
behind the machine who has enabled the great
shelter. more food. more comfortable clothing ana
% % ENJOY not TT for the lew but for all
During the last few years an entirely new doc
ever else we have done in the world. whatever
human imperfections may still exist so lar as
absoiste persecton The phrase standing pat
used denote this idea. may not be elegant but
IL time permitted TO inquire what this country and
the world would have oesn IT, az oT ancestors
rad thought of this doctrine and had accepted IT,
WATT REF USED TO STAND PAT"
u might. f.. instance. have been used two hun
dred and aIty There was much in that idea
snd ia the resulting system OF Cove hinent which
ws ers ent forth to battle either Idea or
for defence. had great fascina ton Tor many minds.
even Of glory. 10 modern historical study
4 great many people IN me s"ria ,s lnst
siiperauous: even thought q danEl GUS. but
ne , 10 progress by reason or his thought and
action. So, too. many people and great interests
might have been satisfied II the word mao kept 70
---------