The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-05
JUDGE PARKER's HERo1ssr- FROM THE NoN-PARTIsAN VIEWPOINT.

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 FROM THE NoN-PARTIsAN 1 VIEWPOINT.
 If the act Of Judge Parker in sending This gold-plated telegram to the St. Lou Iis convention after Hin and Belmont
 had clinched the nomination for him
 were one-tenth so courageous as the
 Parker organs would have the people
 believe, the independent press of the
 country, if not the republican press.
 would have been demanding special
 session of the Carnegie Hero Fund to
 vote the democratic candidate a medal.
 This movement. however. has not
 taken shape. Most of the independent
 papers refuse to accept the version of
 the incident given by the democratic or-
 gans The Review of Reviews speaks i of the action of the Parker papers in
 extolling the telegram 'ias raising him to unequaled heights of courage and he- roism" as absurd"
 The Independent. while it would not minimize the merit of this act," signi-
 ficantly suggests that 'it Is not impos- sible for man like Judge Parker to have some knowledge of current poli- tics." and recalls in this connection that the press of his party in New
 York had been saying that the cause of his party would be hopeless if neither It's platform nor It's candidate should say a word for the gold standard" Here is the inference to be drawn just |as the general public has drawn it-- that Judge Parker well knew what the convention would do with the money question a long time before he sent his telegram, but that he did not decide to send it until after he had clinched the nomination.
 A still more disinterested authority in this matter of Parker heroism or Par ker cowardice is Golfers Weekly. Tn the same issue that 1t, prints avowal of absolute freedom from party trammel in it's opinions and refuses to call itself republican or democratic, because it is neither, Golfers comments on the abIl- ity of New York to color the news that goes over America from this news cen ter. Judge Parker's telegram is mem toned as "a. case in point of. distortion of the truth.
 Delegates to the convention, says Golfers, no matter where they came from, were enraged over the message; yet the leaders. for the sake of not weakening the party. took in public an- other tone. The very politicians who in private treat the letter as weak ness or trick rush into print with the assertion that 1t is the bravest act since David" Those who were at St. Louis remember hearing language from southerners, in denunclation of Judge Parker's act as a trick and as iictation to the convention that would not bear reprtnting. Some of these men were forced by circumstances and party ne- cessity to go upon the platform and 1 swallow their own words. The nomina- ton had been made! It was too late, without making the party the laughing l stock of the country for all time, to do what a large majority of, the delegates wished to do throw Judge Parker off the ticket and get a man willing to stand on the unanimous | platform of the convention. Golfers goes on: 3r
 Judge Parker is trained old poll tician. For months he refused to speak, on the money question. MT. Hill told MrlsBryan thatghe did not know what MT Parker thought on the money question. Judge Parker could | not have been nominated had he insist Il d on the gold plank before he secured l he nomination. He had every oppor- unity to know about the long, hard | contest that preceded. the final cornpro- N mise on the piatforrn. He has spent lis life in such political atmosphere, Ind he knew exactly the forces that we're at work. Yet the legend that he | lcted from motives entirely beyond re- ,roach will probably be successfully established by the eastern newspapers"
 This authority, of whose tlisinteres- edness there can be no question, un- loubtedly speaks the fact when it says hat Judge Parker, from his training as he manager of David B. Hills cam