Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-11-01
That a Presidential Can
didate Of a Great Party
Cannot Refrain from the Bad
Habit Of Throwing Mud.
Mr.. Parker BeIittles Himself by His
Latest Campaign Speech.

New York. Oct. "l.-Judge Alton Il.
Parker was the leading speaker at a
Democratic mass meeting in Madison
Square Garden. tonight. The great
hall was crowded and $50 policemen
We're required to keep back the crowds
which surged through Madison Square
and adjacent streets. The meeting was
held under the auspices of the Parker
and Davis Business Mems Association
and representatives of many of the
leading exchanges and clubs of the
city We're in the audience. Most or
he people in the Garden carried small
American flags. which they waved en-
nrgetically when enthusiasm was
manifest.
Judge Parker was escorted to the
Garden by committee of 100. con-
sisting of the most prominent Demo-
Gratis in the city. Heading the escort
were Mayor George b. Mcclellan and
'sdor Straus. the latter the presiding
officer of the evening and among the
others were Admiral w. $ Schley. Gen.
Nelson A. Miles. Carl Schurz John G.
carlisle. William T. Jerome Perry Bel
mont and Edward NJ Shepard.
Judge Parker said:
vitation, to address you briefly in what
YOU justly term the stronghold OF
Democratic faith and of Republican re-
volt. My views are sufficiently known
to you and all others whose suffrayes
the Democratic party has asked on my
behalf My words will be little more
ban Il greeting from Il candidate to
his supporters who are in accord in be-
'lcvinS that to the Democratic party.
freed from discussions. pledged anew
to its old articles Of faith. and to its
lofty traditions and united for victory
can better be entrusted the future of
this country. than to the Republican
party. whose record for the past few
wears has been the embodiment of the
id"o that might makes right, and that
the end JuStifieS the means whatever
they may be-a record which has rep
resented a complete departure from
cherished traditions and preCedents
and which has indicated complete in
tolerance of Legislative and cOnstitu-
:ional restraint.
More ana more as this canvass has
proceeded and the unjust stewardship
Of the republican party has been made
cle'tr, am convinced that in this cleo
ton we are confronted with issues
which must De determined rightly. if
We are to avoid grave consequences to
our country. / am not speaking, ] be-
lieve, in this. even unconsciously from
any selfish point of view: l am speak
ing with the conviction of a man who
has taken into review the que stions be-
tore the cOuntry-largely in a judicial
way-and the conviction has grown
stronger as the days have gone by and
have examined this record Of the
Republican party and even the de-
fences it interposes for its justifica-
ton. that to permit the conduct Of this
party to go unrebuked is to invite the
establishment of new and dangerous
principles and standards for our guild
ance as a people Our return to old
fashioned ways cannot. in my opinion,
be too prccipitate. unless we are pre-
rared 10 shut our eyes to the conse-
quenCs that will follow. if we proceed
further along path that is full Of dam !
scr to our future.
eve need what patriotism. 6evO- !
ton to principle ana high moral ideals !
have until late always given us-a
government of law ard constitutional /
less adventure. We need no new adj !;
vice: we need 30 new theories upon
this subject: we need the coinage or
the invention of brain Of no man. how
ever intelligent. however well disposed
he may be. to devise for us what he
conceived to be for the best interests
Of this land. our fathers determined
this for us ~ long time ago. and We
have adopted il as IA part of our poll
tical heritage. We need only to pre-
serve that heritage and to keep our
sacred possessions safe from attack.
either from without or from within.
in or Ter to jnsur. our material pros
perity and moral well being as a ma
ton.
I'm an earlier utterance | have re-
ferrei In detail TO what is nOtoriously
going on in the matter of the COLLEGE
ton of funds by the Reput lican party.
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