The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-08-18
JUDGE PARkER's SPEECH OF &C
GRrTANCE
| He did not Commit Himself os any sab.
ject OF Vital Importance TO yot~rs

ing everything he has stood ff
u for many years? The Judge say.
We must make a reasonable r,
if ductioD Of the tariff, (how much
A. that:) and fix time far enough /
the future for ii TO go into effect. 8
that it will not disturb the bushes
&c Of the country as was formerly tn
re case-meaning 1893 and 81; tina
IL the Republicans will have
a majority in the Senate for the mex
four years, and we cannot revise TIL
tariff unless We do il to suit them
He cites twice in his speech the pro
+ visions of the Fourts enth Amend
ment 10 the Constitution Of tn.
u s.; once against lynehings ant
other forms Of violence, and again
$ in favor of the the Philippines HI
G knows that amendment was adopted
q on account Of nine millions OF
negroe@; that is perfectly odious tc
the Democrats who will furnish Isl
IF his electoral votes if he get
them, and that it has long been re-
pudiated by them, that they are
now indignant because the Republi-
q can party is demanding that repre-
sentation be reduced in Congress
and the electoral college in the
same proportion as the number of
Southern voters has been reduced
as required by said fourteenth
amendment, yet the only law the
Judge sees fit to cite is the four.
teenth amendment, which he cites
twice.
His Northern supper ers claim
that his speech is Cons ism
against Roose.eli's Militarism, but
the clause he quotes so glibiy is the
one his Southern supporters despise.
He says trusts are largely the
creatures of the tariff; but that the
old English common law is good
enough to make them behave, if the
| officers will enforce it. Now the
States enforce the common law and
the federal courts the federal
statutes; and tho the Democratic
platforms in the States and nation
In 1892 on which Cleveland sswept
the country" were loud and empha-
tic against trusts, nobody heard of
their breaking up any trusts or
furnishing any either under the
common law or Sherman Anti
Trust law. Glenn and Aycock were
U. s. District Attorneys then in
North Carolina, and sixteen Demo- |
cratic solicitors prosecute common
law crimes here now. Yet it is
commonly said that the trusts are
against Roosevelt and for Parker
this year? Why? Because Roose-
welt has had some of the biggest
trusts prosecuted. A Democratic
national committeeman said last
Monday and it was published in
Tuesdays New York Times, the
most reliable Democratic neWspa per
in the country, that James J. Hill.
the head of a big trust that Presi-
dent Roosevelt had cause to be
prosecuted and broken up, would
give four hundred thousand dollars
to the Parker campaign fund, and
he would add at least another hun
dred thousand dollars if he should
be permitted to name Daniel S,
Lamont, Cleveland's old secretary.
tor Governor of New York It's
the fashion for Democrats to speak
Of Roosevelt as unsafe. Asked what s
he had done indicating his unsafe
ness, they admit his past acts have 4!
oeen safe AID many Of them great; l
out they are afraid he will do some {
hing dangerous. It's the trusts that
started that talk. Trusts are against +
hose who are against them and for '
hose who are for them. 1t is COM Q
non talk in the papers that they d
Will furnish the Democratic mana L
,ers all the campaign funds they g
iced this year. The antitrust plank
It st. Louis was adopted in COM t
nlttee by a vote Of % to 20. Mr.. t.
5ryan's Western delegates forced it a
n, much to the disgust of Eastern a
members. The Republican plat. L
orm while emphatic is mild by
COMPARISON, with the Democratic
'latform on trusts, but Parker says
be common law is bad enough for
rusts and that the trusts are for =,
i'm and against Roosevelt. A trust
common law court would feel ,
Ike Brer Rabbit in the briar patch.
trusts know Democratic statesmen
nd platform don't mean them anv y
arm. ial
Judge Parker did not mention the IL
egrO question except to refer twice B
18th approval to the fourteenth N
mendment. The New York Herald
tor Parker. It printed much of v,
is speech and Roosevelt's in tt
arallel columns, and suggested that fo
1ere was little difference between hi
ne two. The first thing in Judge lie
arker's speech was repetition of er
is Gold Standard telegram, in til
'hich he said the Gold Standard il &C
lrrevocably settled" The Demo-
attic platform of 1896 and 1900 de-
AIRED 1--WE are unalterably opposed I
the Gold Standard" and as the
3O4 platform, which Judge Parker i
Ills admirable, is silent on that .
lDIoCt we have tho r;phf @o