The Miller sun. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 190?-19??, 1904-10-26

Although the Republican party well
comes a comparison of the character
and personality of ats candidates with
those of the candidates OF the St. Louis
convention, it prefers to urge the cleo
'tion of Roosevelt and Fairbanks as fit
ting representatives and instruments OF
the party's policies and intentions.
If it were true, which it is not, that
there as anything in the career of Judge
Alton b. Parker to justify the conten-
ton that he would make a "saner and
safer President than Theodore ROoSe-
welt, the fact would remain, that. tied
up with the Democratic party. a Moses
with the modern equipment of a Glad
stone, could not insure as safe and sane
a government rs the Republican party
mas administered under President ROOse-
welt.
1t is not pretended that Judge Parker
possesses any superiority of statecraft,
character or experience to Grover Cleve-
land. In fact, he has been accepted by
the conservative clements of Democracy
as a disappointing alternative for the
DonderOuS oracle of Buzzard's Bay, and
he has only been accepted by the radical
or Bryan element of the party, because
he had demonstrated the lack of Cleve-
lands safety and sanity by voting for
free silver in 1896 and 1900.
In these two votes the proof is COM
plete that there as nothing in Judge
Parker's convictions, character or con-
science to promise anything better, should
he be elected, than Il weak, vacillating
and re~actionary Democratic administra-
tion.
Worse than this whatever may be
thought Of Judge Parker's personal char
ncter and ability, he stands before the
world as the presidential creation of
David B.. Hill, and his chief associates
and advisers since his nomination have
been Hill, Bill" Sheehan, Pat" Nc
Carren, Charlie" Murphy and Others
of the Manhattan brand Of Tammany
statesmen for revenue only.
"Mr.-FacinS-Both- Ways"
Nothing in his campaign utterances
mas suggested that Judge Parker pos
sasSes any of the stern attributes of
leadership that bind parties to the will
OF a strong, conservative, conscientious
chief. On the contrary he has earned
the sobriquet, bestowed upon him by
Speaker Cannon, of Both
Ways"
q Therefore a vote for the safe and
SINE" Parker Inc his Octogenarian mate
~ only To Be jdStified By trust in the
xnfety and sanity of the party whose
nominees they are.
For forty years-barring the two
Cleveland intervals-the Democracy has
been excluded from power, because the
American people have mistrusted its
safety, its sincerity and its sanity. Dur
ing all that period it has embraced with
in its ranks nearly all the elements OF
discomfort, discord and reaction that are
the signs and proofs of hopeless politi-
cal stagnancy and decay.
As a party it threw every impeachment
within it's reach in the way of the ener-
getic prosecution of the war for the
preservation of the Union.
That the reader may understand that
the Democratic leopard has not changed
its spots in forty years it may be re-
called that on July 2, 1864, the Demo
cratic members Of Congress put forth
an address to the people Of the United
States in which, according to George
William Curtis in Harper's Monthly,
President Lincoln was charged with the
,engrossment of power; with military in
reference in elections; with the crea-
ton of bogus States; with illegally rails
ing troops; with unnecessary and hateful
CONSUMPTION; with the payment Of en-
~orbitant bounties; with employing colored
troops on an equality with white soldiers;
with setting up a false and ~ruinous fnan.
.cial system: with placing us in peril OF
foreign interference; with endeavoring to
corrupt the race by amalgamation with
negroes"
In August Of that same year August
Belmont. whose son is now pulling wires
behind the sphinx of Esopus," as tenn
porary chairman Of the Democratic Ma,
tional Convention, said that -four years
of misrule by a sectional. fanatical and
corrupt party had brought our country
TO the verge of ruin. The past and pres
.ent are sufficient warnings Of the DIS
astrous consequences which would befal
us il Mr.. Lincoln's reelection should be
made possible by our want Of patriotism
AND unity"
Seymour's Sentiments.
Horatio Seymour, in his speech az
permanent chairman of the same con.
v~sRtoB, aIveishsd bitterly against Ian
coins administration and the Republican
party, saying: ''They were animated by
intolerance anu fanaticism, and blinded
by an Ignorance of the spirit or our IN
situations, the character of our people
and the condition of our land" "Step by
STEP" he continued, they have marched
on to results from which at the outse'
they would have shrunk with horror
and even now when war has desolatec
our land, has laid its heavy burdens upor
SAILOR, and when bankruptcy and ruiz
overhang us, they will not have the unior
restored except upon conditions unknown
TO the Constitution He concluded b!
demanding the restoration of the Unior
through the unconditional surrender o.
the principle Of national self-preserva
tion and ''the full recognition OF tn,
rights OF the States" demanded by tn,
people OF the South.
These speeches OF Belmont and Sey
mour-the prototypes of the Belmont
and Hills, Bryans ard Ben Tillmans
Bourke Cockrans and Carl Seizures o
our day-were but the prelude TO the res