The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-01
Leading Speaker at Dem
ocratic Mass Meeting
in New York.
THRONG OF NOTABLES
Among Them Are SchIey, Carl Schurz,
General Miles, Daniel Lamont, Ed
ward Sheppard and Many Others
Who Names Are Daily on the Lips
of People All Over the United States.
(By the Associated Press.


New York, Oct. 31.-Judga Alton 3.
Parker was the leading speaker at q
Democratic mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden tonight. The great
hall was crowded and $50 policemen
were required to keep back the people
who surged through Madison Square
and adjacent streets. The meeting was
held under the auspices of the Park er
and Davis Business Mems Association.
and representatives of the leading .x-
changes and clubs of the city We're IN
the audience. Most of the people IN
the garden carried small American
flags which they waved energetically
when enthusiasm was manifest.
JUDGE Parker was escorted to the
garden by a committee of one hun
dred consisting of the most prominent
Democrats in the city. Heading the
escort were Mayor George i. Nc
Clellan and Isdor StraUs. the latter
the presid' officer of the evening ana
among the others were Admiral w. :.
Schley, General Nelson A. Miles. Wn
liam B. Hornblower, August Belmont.
Carl Cchurz, Lewis Cass Ledyard'
Thomas p Ryan, John G. Carlisle VIII
liam r. Jerome, John B. Mcdonald
Perry Belmont, William McAdoo, JAR
rv PAYNE Whitney. Daniel S. Laniont
Herman r. Ridder. and Edward M
Shenard.
Judge Parker spoke as follows:
Parlxer's Speech.
eNore and more, as this canvass
has nroceeded and the unjust steward
shin of the Republican party mas DeeI
made clear, am / convinced tnaC II
this election we are confronted VIII
issues which must be deteriniileo
rightly if we are to avoid grave con-
sequence to our country. Aue IN,
viction has grown stronger as the DAYS
have gone by and have examined the
record of the Republican party anc
even the defenses it interposes Tor lIs
justification, that to permit the col!
duct of this party to go unrepukeu
TO invite the establishment OF new dilo
dangerous principles ana staloarus s
for our guidance as a people. oui
return to old fashioned ways cannot
i'm nv opinion. be too precipitate, un-
loss we are prepared to shut our eyes
10 the consequences that Will folloW
if we proceed further aong pain
that is full of danger to our 1uture
We need what patriotism, deVotloh u
principle and high moral Ideals nave
until late always given us-a govern
lnent of law and constituuonal re-
etr,int and not of caDric or reckless
adventure
"Un an earlier utterance 1 have re-
fe-ed In detail to what is nOtorlouSly
going on i'm the matter OF the coiIec-
tion of funds by the Republican party
for the campaign. Now, [ know, as
YOU know that money is required III
order to defray the expenses OF a
campaign. Under right condltlons ~
collection and expenditure are equally
legitimate. But the spectacle of de-
manding campaign funds now present
ed to this country is, when rightly re-
carded. of a character to shock the
moral sense.
1--WE shall do we'll to pause for a
n,omcnt to ask whittier we are dflLt-
ing, in our indifference to right
standard and to our old fashloned
sense of propriety in such matters.
Double Duty of Nanky Panliy Pou.
Congress creates a new department
of commerce and labor. OF that de-
partment the President of the Unlted
states appoints a secretary. mat
secretary was his private secretary.
Within the department provision is
made for the collection from large
corporations, including the so-called
trusts, of information, which, it is to
be borne in mind, is to be submitted
to the President for public or private
use as he may direct. BY grace of the
same executive this secretary, through
whose department this information is
collected, becomes the chairman of
the National Republican Committee,
his chief duty is to stand still and col
lect funds for the purpose of securing
the election of the President. And it
is now notorious that there has re-
suited from this organized impor-
tunity-whatever may be the PRACTISE
way in which it is made effectiye-an
overfiowing treasury to the commit
tee, of which boast is openly and
continually made.
Although this may be satisfactory
To the conscience of Republican lead
ers, it must, / firmly believe. be con-
demned as nothing short of scanda-
lous, not alone by myself or the Dem
ecratic party, but by the American
people as well.
1T is said by Mr.. Hay that the char
acter of Mr.. Lincoln, furnishes the