Orleans County monitor. [volume] (Barton, Vt.) 1872-1953, 1904-07-18

-. tn,se Tour REASONS / feel iusti-
q III supporting the ticket. but shall
NJ misrepre>ent the situation or an
,a.I for votes for the ticket upon false
rounds. y Democratic victory will
mean very little, if any. progress ON
economic questions. so long as the
party is under tie control of the Wall
street element. On tie money CUES
ton Mr.. Parker is as thoroughly COM
mitted to the side OF the ffnauciers as
Mr. Roosevelt. Nothing good can he
expected of him on the money question.
ON the trust question the Demo
cratic platform is very much better
than the Republican platform. but the
nomination of Parker virtually utilities
the antitrust plank. Unless in his let
ter of acceptance he commits himself
to attempt antitrust legislation, we
need not expect him to pursue differ
ent course from that pursued by Roose-
welt.
so far as the labor questions are
concerned we must await Parker's let
fer before we shall know whether the
Iaboring man has anything to expect
from his election. The labor plank as
prepared by Parker's friends on the sub
committee was a straddling. meaning
less plank In the full committee
planks were adopted in favor of arbi-
tration, the eight-hour day and against
government by injunctions; also plank
on the Colorado situation. If Parker is
silent or ambiguous on these subjects
il will mean that the financial influence
back of him will not permit him to take
the labor side on these disputed cues
tons.
"On the tariff question some little
progress may be hoped for, but the Par
ker men on the committee were neces-
sarily in favor of very conservative
tariff plank and it remains to be seen
whether Parker will carry out the posi-
tive and definite plank which was sub
mitted by the full committee. This is
the situation.
Judge Parker stands for enough
things that are good to justify me in
giving him my vote, but the triumph of
the Wall street element of the party
denies to the country any hope of re-
lief on economic questions. l have
nothing to withdraw of the things l
have said against the methods pursued
to advance his candidacy. 1t was a
plain and deliberate attempt to deceive
the party. If Parker had sent to the
Albany convention the telegram that
he 70
would have had very few instructed
delegates from the south, and no pos
Sible chance for the nomination. But
he and his managers adroitly and pur-
poSely concealed his position until the
delegates had been cOrralled and the
nomination assured. The nomination
was secured by crooked and indie
feasible methods, but the Democrat
who loves his country has to make his
decision upon conditions as he finds
them, not upon conditions as he would
like to have them.
His friends attempted to secure a
gold plank, which was overwhelmingly
defeated in the committee. After the
party had rejoiced over the harmony
secured by the omission of the question,
and after he had secured the nomina-
ton, he injected his views upon the sub
| ject at time when he could not be
taken from the ticket, without great
decentralization.
while the fight on economic ques-
tons is postponed, it is not abandoned
AS soon as the election is over, l shall
with the help of those who believe as
do, undertake to organize for the
campaign of 1908, the object being to
marshal the friends of popular govern
ment within the Democratic party to
the support of a radical and progressive
| policy to make the Democratic party
an efficient means in the hands Of the
people for securing relief from the
plutocratic element that controls the
Republican party and for the time be,
ing is in control of the Democratic
party. This plan of organization will
be elaborated soon.'