The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-08
Lays Result of Recent
Conversation Before
the Country.
TO FIGHT THE TRUSTS
Tariff Would be Modified to Prevent
Hiqh Prices at Home Sherman
Law Would be Enforced A.
gainst the Combinations
Defying the People.
(New York Times.)

(NeW Y0rk 1lmeS.)
Washington, May 5.-Elliott Dan
forth, of Chemango, N. Y, one of the
closest political advisers of David B..
Hill and intimate friend of Judge Par
ker, gave out an interview here today
which evidently is designed to put be-
fore the country Judge Parker's views
on the issues between the parties.
Mr. Danforth, in the course of his
interview, said that while recently a
visitor at Esopus, n. Y, he had had a
conversation with Judge Parker, in
which the latter had expressed opin-
IONS which briefly summarized are
as follows:
He is in favor of reducing customs
duties wherever they shelter the trusts,
and wherever they enable lawless cap
ital to wiring eXtortionate prices from
the consumer.
He insists that wherever American
manufa cturerS by means of a mono
polistic tariff are enabled to charge
at home prices higher than those ac-
cepted abroad duties should be re-
duced.
He would "smite the subsidy mon
ster wherever it might lift its head. =
He believes that the solution of the
trust problem would be facilitated by
Il wise revision of the tariff.
He would insist on the use OF
States powers to regulate the trusts
when these are within State boun-
darieS.
Wherever the Interstate law OF
antitrust law was violated he would
enforce the Federal law.
He would let the South solve its
own problems, and is in heartiest
sympathy with it.
The interview given out by Mr.
Danforth, who is on his way to Vir-
ginia with Mrs. Danforth, follows:
Judge Parker is, in the judgment
of men who understand the political
situation, the only Democrat who can
carry the State of New York, and is
the only Democrat who can be elected
President this year
THAT is the reason why New York S
seyenty-eight delegates were instruct
ed to vote for Judge Parker at st.
Louis, and that is the reason also
why Democrats of the South and
West who are willing to subordinate
personal interests and personal re-
sentiments to the success of the party,
are uniting with Democrats of the
East in a concerated and consolidated
effort to nominate the Chief Judge OF
the New York Court of Appeals as the
Parker Will Be Nominated.
sIt is now clear that Judge Parker
will be nominated d at st. Louis, and
the feeling is strong throughout the
country that Judge Parker will be the
next President.
Il have known Judge Parker init
mately for many years. | have been
in touch with him since the time
xNh n entered
upon the career which, beginning in
a. modest way in the rural districts
of New York State, has steadily adj
vanced in dignity and power until
Judge Parker now occupies the high
est judicial office in the State-an of
flee second only to seat on the
bench of the Supreme Court of the
United States.
Il knew Judge Parker when as a
political disciple of Samuel j. Tilden
he supported the great cause of re-
trenchment and reform in the later
seventies and the early eighties.
knew him during the campaign OF
1884 when the Democrats of New
York looked to him for sympathy, adj
elect vice and support in the effort
to elect the first Democratic Presi-
dent seated since the civil war.
''T knew him when as young man
in the ONCE or surrogate of Ulster
county he was laying deep and broad
the foundations of an honorable ca
reer. | knew him when he was ap-
pointed a member of the Supreme
Court and later when he was elected
Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals.
n Whole Man In Every Relation.
''I do not think | eXaggerate when
| say that Judge Parker is a whole
man i'm every relation of life-a Demo-
crat of courage, character and con-
viction and an admirable representa-
tive of the American spirit.
''It is in no sense surprising that
Democrats throughout the country.
weary of elimination and recrimina-
ton, irrespective Of past factional diff
fcrences, have turned to this com
manding figure in our political life
and have determined to bestow upon
him the highest honor within their
gift l think | am wal within tho
limits of restrained statement when
say that Judge Parker is the hope o.
the unterrified Democracy.
ParAer's Party Record.
Judge Parker's Democracy can.
not be successfully impuGned.
cannot pc even doubted. Judge Park
er recognizes that the Democratic
party is greater than any one man
He believes that the party founded
by Jefferson rests upon certain eterna
verities in government, and that tn,