The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-11-04
A Severe Araignment of
Modern Republican
Methods.
OLD WAYS ARE BEST
Tariff Restrictions Ham
DER American In
dustry.

New York. Oct 31.-Madison Square
Garden tonight rendered Alton B..
Parker. one of the greatest ovations
ever given by an audience in that fa-
nous amphitheatre. There were thous-
ands there-the mammoth auditorium
was crowded, galleries and aisles.
The crowd cheered 10 minutes when
former Secretary OF the Interior Hoke
Smith, of Georgia, mentioned the NOM
inee's name. When Judge Parker en-
tered, leaning upon the arm of former
District Attorney Delaney Nicoll and
followed by General Miles, John G..
Carlisle, former secretary of the treas
ury, District Attorney Jerome, August
and Perry Belmont, and an escort of
fifty members of the Business Mems
Parker and Davis association, the en-
thusiasm broke all bounds. Every
man and woman in the garden stood
on tiptoe and cheered. Two bands
broke out with the Star Spangled
Banner" and the audience sang. When
the bands stopped the crowd cheered
more and sang to the strains of most
all the other popular airs. They
cheered so loudly that the red, white
and blue bunting that lined the walls
quivered until it threatened TO fall.
Isador Straus, chairman of the
meeting, tried to Quell the tumult by
the raising up of his hands. He was
powerless. Hoke Smith. who was in
the middle of his address when Judge
Parker entered, arose for the same
purpose TO no avail Twenty-Five min
utes the cheering went on; then fin
ally Mr. Straus broke into the babel
with an introduction of the candidate.
Five minutes more the cheering went
on. Then Judge Parker was able to
begin his address.
The speech was an attack upon the
Republican managers conduct Of the
campaign, the contributions said to
have been levied upon the trusts by
the administration in return for their
support, and plea for the return to
the old-fashioned way of government.
Judge Parker spoke with slight ges-
lures and no oratorical effort. Once
in while. to emphasize a salient
point, he gestured with his right arm
and in the climax Of a paragraph he
struck the desk lightly.
His voice, though audible through
out the garden was in poor condition,
as he has had trouble with his throat
for several days, and it was obviously
a strain upon him, especially during
the latter part Of his address. He was
frequently interrupted by applause
when referring to Republican cam
paign corruption, and when in his per-
Grafton he declared his confidence in
a victory in New York state for both
the gubeTnatoral and national tickets,
he was cheered for five minutes.
Judge Parker said:
II have come in response to your
Invitation TO address you briefly in
what you justly term the stronghold
OF Democratic faith and of Republican
revolt.
MY views are sufficiently known to
you and all others whose suffrages the
Democratic party has asked on my be-
half My words will be little more
than greeting from candidate to
his supporters who are in accord In
believing that the Democratic party,
freed from dissensions, pledged anew
to it's old articles of faith and to its
lofty traditions. and united for VIC
tory, can better be entrusted the flu
tTe of this country than to the Re-
publican party, whose record for the
past few years has been the embodi-
ment of the idea that might makes
right and that the end iustifes the
means whatever they may be--a rec
ord which represented complete de-
parture from cherished traditions and
precedents and which has indicated
complete intolerance of legal and con-
stitutional restraints.
More and more. as this canvas has
sproceeded and the unjust stewardship
of the Republican party has been
made clear. am / convinced that In
this election we are confronted with
issues which must be determined
rightly II we are to avoid grave con-
sequences TO our country. am not
speaking, ! believe. in this-even un-
consciously-from selfish point of
view; am speaking before the coun-
try-largely In judicial way--and
the conviction has grown stronger as
the days have gone by and | have ex-
amined this record OF the Republi-
can party and even the defenses II in
ssrposes for It's justification. that TO