The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-10-28
Tho stumper in Spite Of Himself.

Tho Stumper In spite OF himself
What has lured or forced Judge PAR
KER to give over his peaceful palavers
to the surging dozens of pilgrims to
Rosemount? Excursionists we're at
tracted to Esopus by the prospect of
ian hour and halls sail on the beauti-
full Hudson" the autumnal foliage and
the Judges ever vernal eloquenoe.
Driving thsir Aoeks Of Constitutional
ists. tho Hon. IKE HOPPER Of Harlem,
the Hon. Bob DAVIS Of Jersey City and
other shepherds OF the people went up
tho river and bathed In the Judges talks.
Esopus and it's fables became tho wonder
and delight Of milliena.
The idyN is almost over. Next weak
ths Judge leaves the porch for the stump.
He vhirls the breathlsss Constitution
through three States. He comes down
from his pastoral perch and coign Of
judicial dignity.
Vulgar Republican partsans find an
easy explanation Of this change OF base.
"Oh,' they sneer, "the Democrats are
scared green arsenic and sky-blus. The
Judges managers just told him: This
is your last chance. You've got to get
. gait on, It don't make no difference
whether you can talk or not, you've
GOT to talk. Show yourself! We know
where to get the -stampers. You fur
nish the living picture Of red-headed
Jeiiersenian Democracy spurning the
Sword and dry-nursing the Constitu-
ton, and we'n do the rest Why, it's
just the last dying squeak Of the Demo-
cratic national committee
This brutal language is easily turned
into shame and silence. Defeat? The
Hon, THOMAS TAoGART and his whole
corps Of conservative mathematicians
have put Judge PARKER through the
Electoral College by estimates too nu-
merous to mention. Even il all the shee-
hanites and Tasgartites had begged him
on their bonded knees to 60 upon the
stump, he would have been as pitiless
to them % the Hyrosnian tiger to lamb
chop in the original wool. In the meas
ured words Of the Democratic ,ofiiciaI
proclamatioh given Oct. Q:
Shortly aftsr his nomination Judge PAa1sa
consulted many men Of large experience In such
matters and made IN examination OF the course Of
every successful candidate. That done he decided
- n was accessory for him to do. VIVA, his course
should b. And he caused that decision to be made
generally known. Nvss 70 the effect that he would
net % upoa the stump. that such speeches as he
dssmed n deslTabis 70 make should be made A
Rsssuount. following IN that respect the Mckinley
DrscsAsnt OF 1903. That decsisn made and IN.
aeunssd, h proceeded to work along tho lines he
had Married fsY himself Ne believed ,hsr an he
does DOW, ihss ~ decided sishuy. and NO amount
Of snIesty VII bulge hlm- Hk record durtnr all
his previous life proves that e,smor wti nos now
him aas ,ets. The incident y closed and those in
charge Of he campaign fully approve OF the deter.
,ninaaon Or JUDGE Paxxs:-. ' -. -, -. 49,, d.
No olamors and no entreaties can have
moved him. What, then, made him re-
solve 10 interrnit those Ingenious and
original Recommendations remarks that
have given 30 much happiness to 90
many? ......
Three motives can be surmised:
1. Publishers OF fairy and nursery
tales have complained to the Judge-a
kind man, II there ID one-that he 10 hurt
ing their advance Chriatmas sales.
.. Reformers from the Reform Club
and elsewhere. bullying with statistics
and apopleotio with indispensable opin-
ions, insisted on reading speeches to the
Judge. There has been such oonsputa-
tion Of tho Constitution that he had no
means but flight OF delivering himself
from cruel and unusual punishment
.. Since BOB DAVIES Jersey City fill
busters, invading the sanctity OF the
Judges henooops by fraud and force
and the INSCRIPTIONS use OF the methods
OF the imperialist and the despot, an
nexed portion Of the Republic Of Gal
lima, the Judge has sadly understood
that, even among Democrats, neither
Constitutions nor chickens are safe.
30 the Judge Is going on the New York,
New Jersey and Connecticut circuit.
There 10 NO cause to fear that the rapidity