The Teton peak. [volume] (St. Anthony, Idaho) 1899-1904, 1904-10-20


can or Democratic naturalization
Shall Conduct the Affairs Of Govern.
mont - Opposition IL Neither safe
Nor Sane.
Ahhous1 the Republican party vel.
,omes comparison OF the character
and personality of its candidates with
those OF the candidates OF the st. Louis
convention, 1t prefers to urge the cleo
ron Of Roosevelt and Fairbanks a. fit
ting representatives and instruments Of
the partys policies and intentions.
IL it were true, which it is not, that
there is anything in the career Of Judge
Alton b. Parker to justify the conten-
zion that he would make a 'saner and
infer" President than Theodore Roose-
welt. the fact would remain, that. tied
up with the Democratic party, Moses
wit the modern equipment OF a Glad
stone, could not insure as safe and sane
a government as the Republican party
has administered under President Roose-
welt.
1t is not pretended that Judge Parker
possesses any superiority of statecraft
character or experience to Grover Cleve-
land. In fact, he has been accepted by
the conservative elements Of Democracy
As disappointing alternative for the
ponderous oracle of Buzzard's Bay, and
De has only been accepted by the radical
or Bryan element of the party, because
be had demonstrated the lack of Cleve-
lands safety and sanity by voting for
free silver in 1896 and 1900
In these two votes the proof is COM
plete that there is nothing in Judge
Parker's convictions, character or con
science to promise anything better, should
he be elected, than weak, vacillating
and reactionary Democratic adniinistra-
ton
Worse than this, whatever may be
Thought OF Judge Parker's personal char
scter and ability, he stands before the
world as the presidential creation of
David B. Hill. and his chief associates
and advisers since his nomination have
been Hill. bill" Sheehan, Pat" Nc
Carren, Charlie" Murphy and others
Of the Manhattan brand OF Tammany
statesmen for revenue only
"Mr.-Facing- both Ways"
Nothing in his campaign utterances
has suggested that Judge Parker pos
sesses any of the stern attributes of
leadership that bind parties to the will
Of strong. conservative, conscientious
chief. On the contrary he has earned
the sobriquet, bestowed upon him by
Speaker Cannon, of "Mr.-Facing- Both
Ways"
Therefore a vote for the safe and
zane Parker and his octogenarian mate
is only to be justified by trust in the
safety and sanity Of the party whose
nominees they are.
For forty years-barring the two
cleveland intervals-the Democracy has
been excluded from power. because the
American people have mistrusted its
SAT- y, its sincerity and it's sanity. Dur
ing I'll that period it has embraced with
IN its ranks nearly all the elements OF
discomfort discord and reaction that are
the signs and proofs of hopeless polti-
cal stagnancy and decay.
AS party it threw every impediment
within its reach in the way of the ener-
getlc prosecution of the war for the
preservation of the Union.
mat the reader may understand that
She Democratic leopard has not changed
us spots in forty years it may be re-
called that on July 2, 1864, the Demo-
cratic members of Congress put forth
an address to the people of the United
states states IN which. according to George
william Curtis in Harper's Monthly,
PRESIDENT Lincoln was charged with the
enerossment Of power; with military In
Verlerence in elections; with the crea-
uoh OF bogus States; with illegally rails
'ns troops; with unnecessary and hateful
sohscrption; with the payment of ex-
'feifant bounties; with employing colored
troops on an equality with white soldiers;
silh setting up false and ruinous linan-
ga system; with placing us in peril of
tcfeisn interference; with endeavoring to
corrupt the race by amalgamation with
negroes"
IN August of that same year August
oelhont, whose son is now pulling wires
uehind the Sphinx of Esopus," as tenn
porary chairman Of the Democratic Ma
uohai Convention, said that -four years
'. niisrule by sectional, fanatcal and
corrupt party had brought our country
" 'he verge Of ruin. The past and pres
en' are sufficient warnings Of the dis
9tous consequences which would befal
US II M Mncoln's reelection should be
nude possible by our want of patriotism
and unity"
Seymour's Sentiments.
nOratio Seymour, in his speech as
..rmahent chairman of the same con-
e,nuon, snveighed bitterly against Lin.
WI administration and the Republican !
safy' saying: They were animated by |
'oierance and fanaticism, and blinded |
anNagnorance Of the spirit Of our in
usuIons, the character of our people
u the condition of our land" "Step by
ep' ne continued, "they have marched |
70 results from which ut the outset
would have shrunk with horror;
NM even now when war has desolated
ds @hd, has laid it's heavy burdens upon
WI, and when bankruptcy and ruin
..nang us, they will not have the union
~ except upon conditions unknown
me constitution" He concluded by
hlanding the restoration Of the Union
Nousn the unconditional surrender of
Il" principle of national self-preserva-
ga. ana the full recognition of the
49, ~. OF the States" demanded by the
speeches OF Belmont and Sey-
Al. |