The Lambertville record., 1904-10-19
GROVER FOR BUCHANAN
He Was Early Impressed by the
"Mature, Undramatic and
Experienced" Man.
Judge Parker Calls For the Votes of
Young Men, Just as the Ante
war President Did.

[From the Philadelphia Pressl
ExPresident Grover Cleveland tss
contributed an article to the Saturday
Evening Post urging young men cast
ing their first vote to give it to Judge
Parker, because when Cleveland was
young and enthusiastic he was i'm
pressed and stimulated as a boy by
the canvass of that mature, undra-
matte and experienced Buchanan"
1t is a good reason. We thank Mr.
Cleveland for it. He evidently looks
on Parker as a sort of mature, undra-
matte, experienced Buchanan" We
would not have liked to say as bitter
thing as this of the Democratic can
didate, but we accept It,
Judge Parker calls for young
mans vote exactly as In 1856 did the
mature, undramatic, experienced
Buchanan" The two men are similar
Mr.. Cleveland is right. What Buchan-
an. the weakest of American presi-
dents. was, Judge Parker doubtless
would be, as Mr.. Cleveland acutely
and accurately suggests.
Like Buchanan, Judge Parker al
ways yields to party pressure. Just as
Buchanan was reticent on the great is
sues of his day, but could always be
trusted to vote for any man nominat-
ed, so Judge Parker has been silent
and voted for Bryan twice. Buchanan
was deep through many years in party
politics. So was Judge Parker. He
suits the South. Judge Parker is the
southern candidate. Judge Parker is
silent on the wrongs of the negro. So
was Buchanan. Both were nominated
because they had no record. Buchanan
was called the Pennsylvania Sphinx"
SO with Judge Parker. Both have been
irreyerently called mummies.
A mature. undramatic. experienced
Buchanan" is a very close definition OF
Judge Parker. He is, as his strong
supporter and early sponsor suggests,
that kind of man and makes the ap-
peal now Buchanan did then. Any
young man who wants a Buchanan
kind of president ought to vote for
Parker.
He will see as Grover Cleveland
saw. when In all the flush, hope and
enthusiasm of youth he went wholly,
woefully wrong in his choice of a
president Mt the very moment of the
nations crisis, at the instant and hour
of awlng fate, Il president who. to ac-
cept Grover Cleveland's parallel, will
be mature, undramatic and expert
eneed Buchanan"
What was Buchanan A president
weak. yacillating and timid-silent
because he had nothing to say, and
deemed by some "dignifed" because
he dared say nothing. His weakness
led him into straits where he was only
saved from being held n traitor be-
cause instead men held him irreso-
lutte, incapable and without principle.
No great cause appealed to him. No
great crisis aroused. He, too the ma
ture, nndramatic and experienced
Buchanan" was always talking of the
constitution" and lodging issues that
called trumpet tongued for decision by
prating about the rights and powers
of the states.
Solemnly we say to any young man
meditatlng his first vote, accepting
Grover Cleveland's definition and par
allel. not ours: If you want the next
president to be another mature, un-
dramatic experienced Buchanan" with
all that Buchanan was, vote for Judge
Parker! He is that kind of a man,
and. being so, he may be trusted to
make that kind of president.