Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1904-09-09


The greeting of the editors to tbs
candidate was delivered by Charles w.
Knapp, editor of The ST. Louis Repub.
lie.
In reply Judge Parker sad:
Judge Parker's Speech to Editors.
''It is, indeed, pleasure to welcome
to DoaemCunt this body of representa-.
tiges Of the great American press, one
Of the mighty forces in the upbuilding
and trengthening of a sturdy Amer
lean citizenship. You have been in
conference to the end that your work
in this campaign may be as effective
as possible. Organized effort and con.
Certed action, always increase the ef
fectiyeness of the common endeavot
Of many hands. The great tribunal
Of the American people may be i'm.
plicitly relied upon to decide all ques.
tfOns, which exact justice when all the
evidence is in and deIiberation had
and those who would hold place as
leaders Of the people must be so thor
Oughly American, so discreet, so far
sighted, and so sure of the pulse of
the people as to discern the course
public opinion will take Just as
Ions as the press can discern and lead
the unhurried and we'll considered
Judgment of the people, so long will its
pog,2r grow mighty and so long will it
hold It's place in the front rank of the
unfaltcring and vigorous march of ma
tiOnal progress. There are questions
of great import to be passed upon by
the people in November, questions that
will be your duty and, therefore, I am
sure, your pleasure, as well to pre-
sent honestly and so clearly that the
people will understand them.
II shall but crave your indulgence
while I briefly refer to a simple feat
ure of the platform of the Republican
party.
'That platform opens with declar
alton of that party's many years OF
control of government, coupled with
the assertion that it "has displayed
high capacity for rule and govern.
ment, which has been made even more
conspicuous by the tncapacity and in.
frmity of purpose shown by its pppo
nents"
Fortunately, we have eight recent
years of Democratic administration OF
the executive department of the gov
ernment which we shall gladly com
pare with any similar period since
1860.
'The comparison will show that un
der Democratic control the a2mintstra.
tive purity of the fathers who observed
in the conduct of the government that
no one of its departments was per.
meated as Of late with corruption ri.
va1ing the days Of the Star Route
frauds; that successful effort was
made to check the growth of expendL
lures; that it resulted in each in.
stance in cutting down the expenses
within the control Of the executive de.
| partment of the government below that
of the preceding administrations. Dur.
erage annual expenditure was about
| two hundred and sixty-nine millions.
| For the past three years it has been
| about five hundred and nineteen mil
lions. The governmental expendi-
lures last year mounted up to five
hundred and eighty-two millions, which
Is not equalled by any year since the
civil war with the exception of the
year of the Spanish war. There is
an inevitable result to such extrava-
gance. Instead of a surplus in the
annual receipts Of about eighty mil
lions, which the present executive
found on assuming control, there Is
now a deficit to be found there Of for
ty-two millions.
Reform is necessary; aye! far more
necessary than in 1876 in the scale Of
public expenses and when convinced
| of this you will do less than your
duty if you fail to make the people
understand it. Tn echallenge Of the
Republican platform permits you to
compare the details, the every day life
so to speak, of the Democratic ad-
ministration with both predecessive
and successive administrations and
you will not shrink from it.
THE sturdy honesty, marked ability
and thorough devotion to principle OF
all those in high places during those
Democratic administrations, may, with.
out hesitation, be placed alongside OF
the qualifications Of similar officials
in any and all other administrations
Who. pray you, would hesitate to
compare the members Of the cabinet