The Plymouth tribune. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1901-1911, 1904-10-20
LETTER FROM PETERSON
Why Can't Vote and Work For Judge
Parker.

Heretofore it has not been deemed
necessary To send from the state COM
mittee, literature to me, touching up
on the merits of the candidate for
president upon the national demo-
cratic ticket, for the reason that l
have always been found in line, fight
ing for the triumph of that ticket, be-
lieving that 1 was right
still claim to be a democrat in all
that the word Implies, not one OF the
"bolting" kind, but one that has
stayed by his party SO long as there was
democratic party. ! am told that 1T
seems strange, that now those who
left US in 1895 and in. 1900 have come
back to US. that should remain out
side the fold. 1 deny the allegation
in every respect. Not one has come
back, but on the contrary the would
be leaders, of the grand old democratic
party, by means Of plenty of sugar
soap-Or promises Of certain official
fat, have swallowed their crow
feathers and all,-and gone over to
the clique that bolted and defeated
the democratic party in 1896 and also
in 1900. .rees
1t cannot be successfully denied,
that had these boilers that manipulate
ed the St. Louis convention In 1904,
stayed by the party in 1896 and 1900,
there is not a shadow of doubt but
what the democratic party would have
been successful at the polls and elect
ed Mr. Bryan. The good book says:
IF they smite you on one cheek, to
turn the other" Well we got it on
both cheeks, once in 1896 and again
10 1900. followed by a "solar-plexis"
at St. Louis in 1904, at which time
these boilers delivered the Knockout
blow to the democratic party, stole
the republican platform and now have
the cheek to ask democrats to support
them. have fairly good, strong
stomach, but not strong enough to re-
tain that amount Of "crow, and just
here let me say that In travelling over
the northern part of the state lind
that there are a great many that are
feeling just the same as myself, that
among business men / have talked
with, while they are not saying any
thing that will induce the democratic
state committee to hustle lot of lit
erature to them, the same feeling is
prevalent, and, to use the expression
of one certain man, "you can kick
them out from under most any bush. :"
While we have nothing to say as re-
CARDS Mr.. Parker's attitude, we ali
feel that we cannot trust the imam
behind the gun," or "the power be-
hind the throne" The endorsement
of Judge Parker by such men as
Grover Cleveland is all that is neces-
sary to make true democrats steer
clear of the boilers candidate to say
nothing of the INSPIRED" telegram
Immediately following the nomina-
tion Of Judge Parker, wherein the In
telligence OF democrats who had sup
ported Mr.. Bryan was questioned,
even after the convention had fully
settled the money question to the en-
tire satisfaction of all democrats. l
repeat, that laying all this aside. The
letter to new voters by Grover Cleve-
land is enough to disgust a man that
wanted to be a democrat. AS it shows
too plainly the old "spider and the
fly" story, with Grover Cleveland as
one of those overgrown spiders coax
ing the innocent democratic hys into
his web.
/ shall vote and work for the success
of our local ticket, for the reason that
the men nominated on the ticket were
loyal democrats, and l shall not per-
NIT anyone to read me out of the
democratic party as party.
Respectfully,
w. E. PETERSON.
PI.yNOIrTH Inn. OCT. 26 ,O4