Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1904-08-16
LIKES PARKER.
Our Washington Correspondent
Says he Is Sure Enough
Man.
Special Correspondents Of ne KrNrucKiAN.


not heard from me for the past week
is because have been away and in
the interest of the Democratic party,
and Incidentally in their own inter
est. | believed it was 10 their own
interest and to the interest of every
Democrat in the country to have a
correct pen picture of Judge Alton
Brooks Parker, my candidate and
their candidate for President of the
United States. | have been writing
and you have been reading these
letters for nearly two years now,
and feel that all the readers of
these letters feel and know that my
i Democracy is on straight. They
may have, and many no doubt did,
disagree with me concerning my
personal preferences before the
nominations were made at St. Louis,
but there is no disagreement among
real Democrats after the nominal
ton has been made and we have
lined up for the fight against the
common enemy. There should be
no disagreement among Democrats
when the fact is staring them n the
face that their liberty is being
raped, their patrimony is being
stolen from them, the very bread is
being taken from them by the ra-
paclous trusts OF the country, as
we'll as their meat, that t7ey are
adrift on the unknown sea of colon
iaism which IS foreign to the letter
and spirit of the Constitution of the
country; that the lust Of loot and
the greed of graft mas permeated
and honey combed every department
of the national government until it
reeks with rotteness of honest adj
ministration
1t is up to the people to stop this
riot of rapacity or allow their grand
republic and the greatest govern.
ment ever established by man since
the tide of time began, to fall to
pieces, to dsintegrate of its own
rotteness because owned and con-
troiied by the predatory wealth of
the country, which also owns and
controls the Republican party, Its
agent. The only way the people
can do this = to defeat the Repub-
ncan party in the campaign Just
now opening up, and the only way
to defeat the Republican party is
to vote The straight Democratic
ticket from top 10 bottom. | appeal
to the Republican voters of the
country who are honest men, re-
CARELESS of their past political affi-
iatlons, to the great and indepen-
dent voter who votes his conscience
and his honest convictions, and to
the good old straight Democrat who
votes his ticket after the nominal
tions have been made, no matter
how sorely disappointed he may
have been at the result. No man,
however, has the right to be dlsap-
pointed at the result. AS every
man knows who has read this cor
respondence for the past year and
half, did not support Judge Par
ker for the nomination. If, as
man who did not support him for
the nomin alton, rejoice now in his
nomination and honestly believe
that it was the solution of the prob
lem of getting together the warning
factions of the Democratic party,
other men who are similarly mind
ed can do the same thing with the
greatest good grace in the world.
| say to the Democrats of the coun-
try and the people in general that
the Democracy of the nation in con-
vention assembled at st. Louis
made no mistake in the nomination
Of Judge Alton B. Parker for the
presidency of the country This is
the verdict OF every leading Demo-
crat in the entire nation who has
had the pleasure and the privilege
of meeting Judge Parker and of
taking him by the hand, have
had that pleasure and that privi-
lege, and it is of that desire to say
few words concerning the Demo
cratic standard bearer n this cam
palgn to my readers.
During the meeting of the nation.
al committee IN New York City,
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