The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1904-09-08
AT ESOPUS.
Delegates to Democratic Confer
ence Call on Judge Parker.
A NIGHT OF SPEECHMAKlNG.

Henry Watterson at the Waldorf Asto-
ria Tells His Fellow seribes What He
Would Not Do If He Were Repub-
Iican.
New York, Sept. S.--Five hundred
i Democratic editors from all parts of
the United States who had come here
TO attend the editorial congress at the
Waldorf Astoria have gone to Esopus
to visit Judge Parker. They left the
Grand Central station by special train
for Rhinebeck, where the visitors will
board a steamer to cross the river to
Esopus. At Rosemount, Judge Par
kers home, an address on behalf OF the
editors win be delivered by Charles w.
Knapp, editor of the st. Louis Repub-
lie. Judge Parker is expected to deliv-
er an important speech in reply to this.
After the Rosemount reception the
visitors will leave at o'clock for the
city by steamer, on which luncheon
will be served.
The congress of editors ut the Wal
dorf-Astoria, which took the form of
banquet, was d notable event. sylvia
mus B. Johnson, Washington CORE
spondent Of the Cincinnati Enquirer,
acted as POSTMASTER, and there were
six responses to toasts. These speech
es will be used as campaign documents
by the national committee
Henry Watterson took for his sub
liect, IF Were a Republican, Clark
| Howell spoke on Democratic Success
/ the Surest Guarantee Of National Uni
4 ty, Herman Ridder told why the IN
dependents Are Supporting Parker
and Andrew Mclean, editor Of the
Brooklyn Citizen, discussed seThe De-
mocracy of the Empire State
Willis j Abbott, editor of the De
troit United States Daily, and John b.
Stoll editor Of the South Bend Times,
also responded to toasts.
Henry Watterson's Address.
Mr.. Watterson's speech was In part
as follows
Parker, the jurist, means peace with all
| nations, entangling alliances with none
/ Roosevelt, the war lord, means complica-
tions abroad and corruptions at home
designed to prolong single party dynas-
~ and to perpetuate its favorites and
/ agents In power. Every economic ques-
I ton must pause before an issue SO tram
/ scendent.
In venturing to discuss it tonight
4 though surrounded by members OF my
own party and profession, may ! not take
4 suppostitious standpoint and declare
Z that IN MI n nntt Ita..5, md
about the headwaters Of Bitter creek
4 there are Democrats who insist that /
am not much better-I would vote for
i Parker and Davis and against Roosevelt
and Fairbanks. Being only a plain
American. who loves his country and
clings to its institutions, I mean to do
l this anyhow ] shall do IL because Il
seems to me the upright thing to do. the
enlightened thing to do the prudent and
honest thing to do.
Inevitably the personality. the charae-
acter and performances Of Theodore
Roosevelt occupy the foremost place in
the public mind They will constitute the
chief horn OF the peoples dilemma IN the
coming campaign They are. as ii were
the beginning and the end Of the chapter
| Yet because we propose to discuss the
president and TO hold him TO Just
measure Of accountability we are accused
OF abusing him. ! would not, for my part
utter an unkind or discourteous word
admit that he is as sweet q gentleman as
ever scuttled ship or cut a throat In
deed very much that kind OF gentle
man, for hosting the black flag over the
south, has he not scuttled the ship Of
civil service reform and cut the throat Of
reciprocity
Has he ever obeyed the law in case It
stood IN the way Of his humor from the
time when over the acquitting report Of
his own commission he removed a state S
attorney from the Office to which the peo-
pie had elected him here In the city and
county of New York to the time when,
by scratch Of his pen, he usurped the
power of congress and added many mil
lions Of outlay to the pension rolls? Is
he not responsible for the fy BY nighs
theatrical combination miscailed the re-
public Of Panama. Was his treatment OF
Miles and Schley the act OF a wise or con-
siderate president2 Was his promotion
Of Wood just either to the army or the
people?
Does not his whole career. illustrated
by his writings, his sayings and his do
ings-his needless criticisms. his spec
tacular explorations, his broken promises
reveal to us a sell wilied adventurer
upon the high seas Of public life. having
no rudder or compass except his own an-
bition, no principle or rule OF conduct
save that OF decking the machine with
the fiounces and furbelows of civic right |
eousness, while violating the spirit and |
sacrificing the aetualities Of the civil |
service by a line OF partisan appoint |
ments to Office never surpassed during |
the worst times Of the spoils system he |
has SO stigmatized and exemplined? Was /
Jackson, whose ignorance ne rebukes |
more personal and autoeratic than he Is |
himself? Was Grant whom in life he |
persistently antagonized, more indiffer- |
ent to the admonitions OF public sentt- |
ment? And II we have seen such things |
In the green leaf what may we not ex- |
peet 10 see In the brown? If elected pres
ident In 1904, why not again in 1908? The /
tradition broken, what may not be the |
possibilities in 1922
As q Republican / would take no such /
risks as an American / shall not