Saint Mary's beacon. [volume] (Leonard Town, Md.) 1867-1983, 1904-10-06

took Corfelyou out Of the Cabinet
and gave him the job Of holding up
the trusts2
Did he stand for honest govern
ment when he hadsa 500, 600 yacht
assigned 10 his personal use. and
some minor vessels of the navy
devoted TO the purpose Of amusing
the Roosevelt kids7
Did he stand for reform when he
recaBted all his utterances ia favor
Of tariff reyision2
Did he stand for constitutional
government when he made war on
Colombia, dishonored the treaty Of
1886 and violated international law?
Did he stand for law and order
when he put a pistol in his hip
pocket and conducted himself as
any ordinary pistol toter?
Did he stand for reform when he
took the pith out of a Civil Service
rule he had himself recommended
in order to get rid Of Miss Rebecca
Taylor, who had exposed the fallacy
Of one Of his great orations2
Did he stand for stable, constitu-
tional government when he indica-
ted that o failure on the part Of
South American governments to pay
thoir debts and preserve order
would lead to interference on the
part Of this country?
When they have answered these
questions ! have a few more to pro-
pound.
The talk of official Washington is
the letter of Judge Parker accepting
the democratic nomination for Pre-
sident.
Universally it is acknowledge
that it is the strongest document
that has emanated from the pen of a
statesman for many years. It rings
clear and true in every sentence.
IL has vim, vigor and vitriol in it.
Vim and vigor OF expression for
honest democratic sentiments, the
rights OF the people, liberty, equal
justice to all and special privilege
to none, anti-imperialism, true con-
stitutionalism and honest, economi-
cal administration of the affairs OF
government.
1t has vitriol in it for the head OF
this Administration, owned and con-
trolled as it is by the plutocracy
and the trusts of the country, and
without saying one word in personal
abuse.
It is the cleanest skinuing ever
administered to any man on earth
without calling his name. tits this,
10 men who have been here for years
and watched the game, as ] have.
l know how rotten and rank are the
departments aud how badly they
need the ventilation of honest dem
ocracy.
know how full of cant and hypo-
crisy are the Presidents preten-
sions and promises.
Judge Parker has sized up the
whole game admirably. He has
looked through the lens and has seen
it all just as it is. What power. ex-
cept that Of honest, patriotic citizen
ship, ever gave him the prescience
to grasp so correctly the sore spots
of a rapidly rotting Administration
l cant conceive. He has called
the turn" and he ought to get -four
for one."
Those Of US who have caviled at
Judge Parker's so-called silence
and ultra conservatism should now
60 away back and sit down. I"
Those who have clamored for more
ginger" in the campaign, now are
for ever hushed. He has hit the
enemy a smash in the nose that
sounds like bay mule taking a fall
out of stable door with both hind
feet. He has made Roosevelt look
like thirty cents worth OF dog meat.
He has belled the buzzard and ham,
mered the immortal ichor out of the
republican party and all it stands
for.
He has written q message toevery
conservative, independent, patriotic,
thinking voter Of the land thatought
to make his blood Jingle and make
him glad TO vote for a man who pro-
misses q return of the kind of free
government under which he wants
his sons and daughters to live and
rear families. He has written a
message to the masses of mankind
that win live in history as a new
Declaration of Independencefrom the
thralldom of plutocracy, pelf, graft,
spectacular Imperialism and false
pretense.
Hon. Bob" Broussard, of Louis
lana, who recently returned from a
visit 10 st. Louis as a Congressional
member of entertainment TO the In
terparIiamentary Peace Confaranoa