The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-01

was ,npossibie to distinctly hear the bands.half way across the Garden until the leader caught the spirtt of the oc- casion and played such. seiections al There will be q hot time In the old pve got a. feelin' for you" and some of tf,e patriotic selections as we'll
 Tn these the audience joined. After sixteen minutes came a moments luil and Chsirman 6traus tried to quiet the derhonstration but failed and the band played tauntingly T was only teasing you.r Another minute passed and Judge Parker stepped to the front of the stage but this tended only to excite the audience which refused to subside. until twenty-four minutes of unbrolxen enthusiasm had passed. Mir. Smith permitted his speech to stand un- 1 finished.
 Judge Parker followed his manu- script to the letter, but delivered his | speech in forceful manner despite | the fact that it was read to his audi
 ence. His speech follows:
 Speech of Judge Parker.
 'T have come in response to your tn- vitation to address you briefly in what you justly term the stronghold of Dem | ocratic faith.
 ! My views are sufiiciently known to you and all others whose suffrages the Democratic party has asked on my be- half. My words will be little more than greeting from a candidate to his supporters, who are in accord In be- lieving that to the Democratic party, freed from dissensions. pledged anew to its old articles of faith and to its lofty traditions and united for victory can better be trusted the future of this country than to the Republican party, whose record for the past few years has been the embodiment of the idea that might makes right. and that the end justifies the means, whatever they may be-a record which has represent ed a complete departure from cherished traditions and precedents. and which has indicated complete intolerance of legal and constitutional restraints. Wrongs to Be Hlghted.
 More and more as this canvass has proceeded. and the unjust stewardship of the Republican party has been made clear, am I convinced that in this elec- ton we are confronted with Issues which must be determined rightly if we are to avoid grave consequence to our country. . I aln not speaking. be- live, in this--even uneonsciously- from any selfish point of view. I am l speaking with the conviction of man who has taken into review the ques- | tions before the country-largeiy in a I 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 do. | lenses it interposes for it's justihca- tion. that to permit the conduct of this l party to go unrebuked Is to invite the establishment of new and dangerous principles and standards for our guid- ance as a people. ss4r sis. 7s ] | cannot. in my opinion. be too precipi- tate, unless we are prepared to shut our eyes to the conseduencest that will fol- low if we proceed further along path | that Is full of danger to our future, We lneed what patriotism. devotion to prin- ciples and high moral ideAls have until Iiateiy always given up--a gpyernnnent iiof law and cnnstitutfehal rsatfaint and not of feaprtce er reekless ad dxesstsrA ts'-'s< NS New LiSkf Neeakd
 we need no new lights we need no
 new advice; we need no new theories on this subject--we need the coinage or | the invention of the brain of no man, | however intelligent, however well dis posed he may be. to devise for us what | he conceived to be for the best inter
 ests of this land. Our fathers deter | mined this for us a long time ago, and
 we have adopted 1t as a part of our political heritage. We need only to preserve that heritage and to keep our
 sacred possessions safe from attack l either from without or within, in order
 to insure our material prosperity and moral well being as nation, and any
 conception of government such as has been set up for our adoption in this
 country by the Republican party during l the past few years Is such an attack
 both from without and from within. l 'Tn an earlier utterance I have re- | ferred in detail to what is notoriously | going on the matter of collection of l funds by the Republican party for the campaign Now, know as you know
 that money is required in order to de- | fray the expense of a campaign under right conditions, it's collection and ex. penditure are equally legitimate But
 the spectacle of demanding campaign | funds now presented to this country is
 when rightly regarded, of a character
 to shock the moral sense.
 1 The Cortely0u Promotion. l Congress created a new Department
 of Commerce and Labor. Of that de. | partment the President of the United l States appointed a secretary. That secretary was his private secretary
 Within that department provision is
 made for the collection from large cor. porations, including the so-called trusts
 of information. which 1t Is to be borne
 in mind. is to be submitted to the Pres.
 ident for public or private use. as ht may direct.
 By the grace of the same executive this secretary, through whose depart
 ment this information is collected, be
 comes the chairman of the Nationa
 Republican Committee. His duty f
 has been and still Is, to collect fund.-
 for the purpose of securing the cleo
 ton of the president and 1t is nov
 notorious that there has been receivet
 from this organized importantly
 whatever may be the precise way h
 which it is made effective-an over
 flowing treasury to the committe,
 which boast is openly and continual,
 made.
 Although this may be satisfactor,
 to the conscience of the Republican
 leaders, 1t must, I firmly believe, b,
 condemned as nothing short of scan
 dalous. not alone by myself or tn,
 Democratic party, but by the American
 people as well.
 Lincoln and Roosevelt.
 'Tt is said by Mir. Hay that tn,
 character of MT. Lincoln furnishes th,
 duct as President. do not have [,
 pause to hear you laundering No, whe,
 ask would Lincoln have done or per
 mitted this to be done.
 '"The whole performance is a shame
 less exhibition of a willingness t,
 make compromise with indecency. fl | order that aums of nonav rnay h.