Virginia citizen. (Irvington, Va.) 1891-1921, 1904-10-21
PARKER OR ROOSEVELT.
Some support Which is n Burden
TO the Republicans.

10 the Republicans.
EDITOR PosT-It is with trepida-
ton that l seek your columns in ad-
vocacy of the election of Parker and
Davis, confronted as / am, by those
celebrated apostates, Bynum, Strauss
and Pat Egan; and those lightning
change journalistic artists, the New
York Sun and Chicago Chronicle,
who tell US that the Rough Rider is
the whole thing in this political
tourney.
Hardly have the words Of the ex-
statesman from Troy, who sent his
laundry home by mail under the con-
gressional franking privilege Crank
5. Biack), proclaiming the Roose-
veltian millennium, been uttered,
than Root (the greatest Secretary of
War we ever had, says Roosevelt)
comes along and gushes ali over
Fairbanks (has he resigned, as did
Parker?) and tells him he is bound to
win, for that noble old Roman,
Henry G. Davis, is very much older.
Gould Root, nonpareil, hoping to
help Goyernor-Chairman Odell out
of his rut in New York, say SO little
in favor of Fairbanks that he had to
seek refuge behind Henry G. Davis
age? Let me ask Eli. Has this tall
white pine of the Wabash any
greater lease on life than those stall
wart, vigorous men, Thomas A.
Hendricks and Garret A. Hobart?
The powder of Root, Black, and
thirteen-pounder Cannon-the siege
gun of abuse-flashed in the pan
and frizzled out, but another Indian
ian, Hemenway by name, fills the
breach, and informs US the chairman
of the Democratic National Com.
mittee, Thomas L. Taggart, is only
Liliputian in Fairbanks State and
"don't cut no ice at ALL" the farm
ers are sleeping on beds of roses; the
protective tariff, minus Mckinley
reciprocity, bas increased the price
of eggs, corn and hogs; Providence
gets no credit; wheat is boosted to ST.
a bushel by speculators after the
farmers have reaped and sold their
harvests. Judge Parker's speech of
acceptance "was fiat and insipid,"
and John Kern's aspirations for the
governorship have already gone to
the demnition bow-wows, but all the
credit goes to the Republican party.
God, bountiful crops, native Ameri-
can thrift, wars and famines abroad
are not elements in the equasion. ac-
cording to Hemenway; but he did
not say one word of the broken
pledges and bad faith of his party,
and particularly that solemn pledge
to give the territories Statehood,
which the Republican Beveridge, of
Indiana, killed in the Senate when
that great man and leader, Senator
Quay, of Pennsylvania, was straining
every nerve to have his party execute
said pledge. Did the Republican
party of Roosevelt and Beveridge
and Hemenway, Bynum, Pat Eagan,
Sibley ct al, pledge Statehood to the
territories at Chicago? No; not a
line; and Quay is dead. So is Mark
Hanna. It's up to Roosevelt and
Cortelyou.
Spooner and Elkins, Ode)l and
Platt, Lowden and Dineen, McOomas
and Lodge, say all, all is harmony.
Wellington, who insulted McKin-
ley's memory, is back in Republican
ranks, and the Roosevelt goose, un-
der the auspices of the Brobdingna-
gian Cortolloo, as Mr.. Dooley saws
Shades of Mark Hanna, Matt QUAY.
save the mark), will hang high.
Yes, very high; and if this modern
oracle and political genious is not
careful, the Republican goose will
be so completely plucked and hung
80 high that even the youthful but
attenuated Fairbanks will not he
able to reach it.
Every Democrat should drop on
his knees and thank our Heavenly
Father because the San and Chronicle
have fiopped-these sheets that have
for the past several years had only
obloquy and ridicule for the gentle
man who has been rattling around
In McKinley's chair since '.the deep
damnation of bis taking off," Roose-
velt must retire to his sanctum eyery
day and cry out when he thinks of
the supporter these despicable sheets;
80 Lord! deliver me from the bod y
of this DEATH"
This same Roosevelt who dimes
with an African at the White House
has another second his nomination,
and closes postoffices in Mississippi
in violation of lawI sanctions the
secession of Panama and declares
war against Colombia; denounces
and ridicules every President of the
United States, from Thomas Jeffer-
son to William Mckinley, with few
exceptions, and places their portraits
in the White House cellar; declares
for the "open shop" at the Govern
ment Printing Office, but ignores it
in the War College controversy; in
suits Dewey, Miles, and Schley, and
promotes one Leonard Wood over the