The Appeal. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. ;) 1889-19??, 1904-10-15
MAIN ISSUE AT STAKE.
IT'S NOT THE PERSONALITY OF
THE CANDIDATES.

It'll NOT THE PERSONALITY OF
= THE CANDIDATES. =
Great Question Is Whether Repub1i
can or Democratic Admins ation
Shall Conduct the Affairsof Govern
ment - Opposition, IL Neither Safe
Nor Sane. ~ -
Although the Republican party vel
comes a comparison of the character
and personality of its candidates with
those of the candidates of the St. Louis
convention. it prefers to urge the cleo
tion Of Roosevelt and Fairbanks as fit
ting representatives and instruments Of
the party's policies sand intentions. L..
If it were true, which. It is not, that
there is anything in the career of Judge
Alton B. Parker to justify the conten-
ton that he would make ''saner and
safer President than Theodore Roose-
welt, the fact would remain, that. tied
up with the Democratic party, Moses
with the modern equipment of 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 Cleye-
land In fact lie has been accepted by
the conservative clements Of Democracy
as a disappointing alternative for the
ponderous oracle of Buzzarls Bay, and
"
or Bryan element of the party, because
he 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
pletc that there is nothing in Judge
Parker's convictions, character or con
science to promise anything better. should
he be elected, than Il weak, vaclllatlng
and reactionary Democratic adnfnlstra-
ton.
Worse than this, whatever may be
thought of Judge Parker's personal char
acter 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, ''Biil' 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-Bo Both
Ways" :.
Therefore vote for the ''safe and
sane 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 Democracy has
been excluded from power. because the
American people have nlistrusted its
safety, it's sincerity and its sanity. Dur
ing all that period it has embraced with
in it's ranks nearly all the elements, OF
discomfort, discord and reaction that are
the signs and proofs of hopeless politi-
cal stagnancy and decay.
As party it threw every impeachment
within it's reach in the way of the ener-
setic prosecution of the war for the
preservation of the Union.
That the reader may understand that
the Democratic leopard has not changed
its spots in forty years it may be re-
called that on July ,, 1864, the Demo-
cratic members of Congress put forth
an address to the people Of the United
States in WHICH. according to George
William Curtis in Harper'se Monthly,
. President Lincoln was charged with the
engrossment of power; with military in
reference in elections; with the crea-
ton of bogus States; with illegally rails
ing troops; with unnecessary and hateful
CONSUMPTION; with the payment Of ex-
orbitant bounties; with employing colored
troops on an equality with white soldiers;
with setting up a false and ruinous sfinan-
cial system; with placing us in peril of
foreign interference; with endeavoring to
corrupt the race by amalgamations with
negroes"
IN August Of that same year August
Belmont. whose son is now pulling wires
behind the "Sphinx Of Esopus,'', as tenn
'porary chairman Of the Democratic Ma
tional Convention. said that -four years
of misrule by sectional. fanaticalS and
corrupt party had brought our country
to the verge of ruin. The past and pres
ent are sufficient warnings Of. the dis
astrous consequences which would befall
US if Mr.. Lincoln's reelection should be
made possible by our want Of patriotism
and unity .-.. =
Seymour's Sentiments.
Horatio Seymour, in his speech as
permanent, chairman of the same con-
rention. inveighed bitterly against LIN,
coins administration and the Republican
party. saying: They were animated by
intolerance and fanaticisn, and blinded
by AN jgnorance of the spirit of our IN
situations, the character of our people
and the condition of our land = "Step by
step,'' he continued, ''they have marched
on to results from which at the outset
they would have shrunk with horror;
and even now when war has desolated
our land, has laid its heavy burdens upon
labor. and when bankruptcy and rulnt
overhang us, they will not have the union
: restored except upon conditions unknown
to the Constitution" He concluded by
demanding the restoration Of the Union
through the unconditional surrender of
the principle OF national self-preserya-
ton and the full recognition Of the
rights of the States demanded by the
people of the South. .e& .S.
These speeches of Belmont and, Sey-
mour-the prototypes of the Belmonts
and Hills, organs and Ben Tllmans,
Bourke Cockrans and Carl Schurzess of
our day-were but the prelude to the res
elutions of the convention in which Lin
coins administration was denounced
from every traditional point OF view with
in the voca bulary of PARTISAN vitupera-