New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-04
PARKER FAILS TO EXPLAIN
He Dodges Proof or ApoiOgy oh
"UistakeS" and False Charges.

Hartford, Conn, Nov 3.-Iudge Parker made
several speeches in Connecticut to-day. He
failed to explain why he falsely and reCklessly
charged the administration with suppressing all
information about the operations of the federal
Treasury In a speech at EsOpus he charged
that since August % 1t had been impossible to
tell how far the Treasury has been running
behind" This statement was made despite the
fact that the Treasury publishes daily bulletin
showing receipts and expenditures for the day
for the current month and for the current fiscal
year. In later speech Judge Parker himself
used figures taken from this daily statement.
But he has not had the manhood TO retract or
modify his original charge.
Two weeks ago Judge Parker repeated the
equally groundless assertion that the Treasury
deficit for the fiscal year 19O4-'O5 was growing
lat the rate Of S140OOOOOO for the year" The
Treasury statement for October showed that the
deficit for the first third of the fiscal year was
only $21 ,SO9,00 -S3.000OOO less than it was on
August 81 Yet Judge Parker has so far failed
to withdraw or amend his first grossly mislead-
ing and ridiculous estimate.
Judge Parker has also accused the admins
tratiOn of suppreSsing department estimates OF
expenditures for the fiscal year 19O3-O6. Such
estimates have already been prepared and pub
lShcu ny OSluIuCe anu WAT departments.
and in other departments work on the estimates
is almost completed. Nevertheless, the Demo
cratic candidate has so far omitted to with
draw his ridiculous accusation.
Judge Parker has multiplied hy three the cost
of administration in the Philippines Gncluding
their purchase price of S2OOO0.OOOl. and has
multiplied by ten the number of lives lost in
pacifylng the islands Yet he continues to stand
by figures so eItravagantly at variance with Of
fetal records. Has he ceased 10 believe that ac-
curacy of statement and honesty Of method are
essential in dealing with the ordinary problems
of politics?
Judge Parker spoke here this evening, but he
did not explain how he came to violate his own
much heralded injunction against abuse OF
President Roosevelt and to begin a campaign of
personal vilihCatiOn. charging. without Offering
the slightest evidence, that the President was
indulging in corrupt practices to buy an election
and trying 70 sell his country to the trusts
Judge Parker undertook this campaign with
out reason, as shown by the convincing review
ty Senator Knox Of the Presidents work to
clear away trust abuses. including a recent act
effectually to prevent discrimination in rates
and rebates. Judge Parker has ignored all spe-
cfiC refutatiOns of his wholesale libels and con-
tinued to repeat them. He has lodged all de
mands for facts to support his charges. as his
supporter. The New-York Times has lodged
all demands for specification of a single con-
crete instance of wrongdoing about which it has
prOfessed TO have information.
In all his speeches dcnouncing President
Roosevelt as having sold out 10 the trusts Judge
Parker has not dared to deny his own indebted
ness TO a whole host of trust magnatps with
August Belmont at their head.
Judge Parker attacks the honor Of Mr. COrtel-
yOu but he has not dared 10 contrast the Re-
publican chairman. the irreproachable cOnffdant
Of three Presidents and one of them Mr.. Cleve-
land, with his own representative in the cam
paign, Taggart, the gambler and blowhard who
has filed the national headquarters with adver-
tisements Of his Indiana Monte Carlo.