The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-24
GERMANS, FOR PARKER
NEW YORK MOVEMENT SPREADS
 OVER COUNTRY.
Nothing Like It in Politics in Years Distrust of Roosevelt and Op-
 position to His Imperiai- tstic Notions.

New York, Oct. 23.-(Special. )--One entire floor of the Century Building in this city is given over to Herman Rid der and a large staff of assistant man. agers and clerks who have general oversight of the campaign of the Ger man-American Parker Union." This organization came into existence short Iy after Judge Parker made his speech accepting the Democratic nomination for the Presidency, and has grown steadily and rapidly until now 1t em- braces many vigorous Parker Unions in New York, Connecticut. Indiana, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Illinois, Colorado and other States. Herman Ridder Is the editor and proprietor of The New York Staats Zeitung, the foremost Ger man American newspaper in America, which was owned and managed for many years by the late Oswald Otten- dorfer. Mir Ridder is a man of great executive ability and unceasing energy. The Staats Zeitung, under his manage ment, has maintained the reputation established for 1t by Mr. Ottendorfer as a public Journal of courage, inde- pendence and the highest civic ideals. At the head of the staff of editorial writers stands George von Skal, jour nalist of more than national reputation, for his name is as well known and his learning and ability are as much appre- ciated in Germany as they are Tn hls country.
 The staats Zeitung supported Samuel J. Tilden for the Presidency in 1878 and it's work in that campaign had much to do with MT. Tilden's great triumph in New York, New Jersey. Indiana and Connecticut, States which have large German populations and in which The Staats Zeitung is widely read. It was a factor in the election of Grover Cleveland in 1884 and again in 1892. This year it is doing yeomans 8 service for Parker and Davis and the New York Democratic State and Congressional tickets.
 Why German-bOrn Citizens are for
 Parker.
 Americans of German birth and de- scent compose one of the most stable and desirable clements of our popula- tion This Is true of the great number of German American farmers in the West and of the millions of German American business men and working men in the commercial and Industrial centres the country over. The average German American is an independent voter in National and State affairs. He casts his ballot for the party which, In his judgment. Is the more likely to pre- serve our democratic institutions and to continue democratic practices. the benefits of which he sought when he emigrated from the Fatherland,
 To his everlasting credit it may be said that he loves the land of his birth and rejoices in it's growing prosperity and ever increasing power. much of which he attributes to the progress which has been made there toward en- frightened Constitutional Government. But your average German American is a true Democrat in the broadest sense of the word. He seeks above all things freedom from the burden of militarism, an oppression fully understood by him. since it was to escape it that, in many cases. at least, he left the old country. He seeks the liberty to attend to his legitimate business-and he rarely is found engaged in any other-without unnecessary interference on the part of the Government, and he is ever an op- ponent of excessive taxation, whether direct or indirect. He Is opposed to sumptuary legislation, in other words, to meddlesome interference with the proper personal liberty of the citizen. He believes in fair competition. in the policy of Tive and let live" and hence trusts and other monopolies in restraint of trade find no favor in his eyes. If
 
 pansion proper under its form of gov ernment and necessary to it's material development, tho German American says well and good" but we draw the line against that entering wedge of inn perialism in Free America. We want none of 1t here, and we will vote and work against it and against those who stand sponsors for it.
 What German-Americnns are Doing for
 
 The most eminent German American in the United States today Is Carl Schurz, one of the exiles of AS, who escaped to this country along with many other German patriots. to avoid the wrath of the imperialistic govern ment against whose expressions he had rebelled MT Schurz, like large ma jority of his countrymen domiciled in the United States. believed in the gold standard of money, and so long as the financial question was the paramount" issue in the national politics he acted with the Republican party. In 1900 he first protested against the im- perialistic drift of government as exem- plifed in the new record of the Republi- can party and in 1904 he renews and emphasizes that protest, as it is exem- plified both in the policies of that party and in the personality of It's candidate