Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1904-04-21
PARKER FOR PEACE
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DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE FOR
PRESIDENT is A GREAT
HARMONIZER.
Draws His Friends to Him in Closer
Bonds Of Love and Always
Hacates.
TO DAVID B. HILL.


Albany. April 21.-Alton B. Parker.
The probable Democratic candidate fol
president is a great harm@aiz 7. lie
is man of peace. He hates rows.
He loves to have cnly pleasaat-spoken
men and smiling faces around HIM
H. is much like Mckinley. He pla-
Gates end placates, draws his friesds
10 him in closer bonds Of love and
constantly strives to reduce the mum.
her of his enemies He is in large
part the antith esis of his rival Tor the
presidency, NJ. Roosevelt, though Mr..
Roosevelt is more of placater and
harmCnizer where mere persons anu
not principles are at stake than most
sunnose he is. If a direct and alb
solut)6> antithesis to Parker IS wanted
as an example, take his chief manager,
David B. Hill. They are opposite as
the poles. They are strongly as
sorted pair. 1t is difficult to see how
they are going to get cn peaceably
together. A man who has known
Judee Parker all his life gave this
glimpse of his character:
"If a number Of men meet in room
to talk over their differences the judge
is the one who is sure to take the
lead in arranging compromise and IN
getting all the other fellows to shake
khands on it. If some one is to act
jas fierce or pass hat for the votes
&and count them up and announce the
result, Parker is the man everybody
selects to do it. He is man whom
Ihis assistants instinctively trust to
Ibe fair and square.
Judge Parker may nct be able TO
hrrange a compromise between him.
self' and Tammany but he is likely
&o meet with success in his efforts
lo hold the balance pretty level be,
ween them. He may not make them
ood friends, but he probably will be
$ble to induce them to stop fighting
bng enough at least to see that lie
ets what ne wants and that the
arty is sot jeopardized.
Judge Parker is more. He is for
armony, peace and compromise, as
all practicalities and selfishness.
M ether or not this quality of char
ter extends also to principles re-
Inns to be developed. SO far as
appeared from anything he has
er said. or from the platitudlns"s
form which he approved and which
~ adopted here, his principles are
so clearly defined or firmly held
Sto involve him in serious difficult
1t may not be as bad as Bourke
2kran intimated, that he is can
te who could "stand on anything
cthing," but man who could
ort Organism and subscribe to the
e without believing in it may
aim be said to have a most conven
H capacity for elasticity.
Inasmuch as the great and crying
"a of the Democratic party today is
hony and compromise, and getting
ground on a platform which, as
irman Raines said in his
ech Monday, "every man who Is
las been a Democrat can support
party doubtless is taking up the
man in making Judge Parker its
Pdard bearer
he judges friends here already re
him as good as nominated fol
ident. They say he will harmo
the national Democracy and give
sevelt the fight of his life. They
Sc the cleverness with which he
dled the Tammany parrot and the
monkey in this little affair o.
day. They even go so far as tc
he will bring Cleveland and Bryan
kthHr before the campaign is over