The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-11-01
PARKERATNEWYORK
Candidate Reiterates His Be.
lief In Democratic Victory.
HERRICK AND HARRISON TO WIN.
Great Crowd In Madison square
Garden Cheer Judges First Big
Speech TO What He Claimed
United Party.

| Speech TO what He Claimed
"A United Party.
NEW YORK, Nov. 1.--Judge Alton
| b. Parker, at Madison Square Garden
last night, appeared for his first speech
| of the campaign before large assem-
| blage.
In anticipation of hearing speech
| from the Democratic candidate for
| president an enormous crowd filled the
| garden. The appearance Of Judge
| Parker in the inclosure was the signal
for Il great burst of enthusiasm, and
for several minutes a deafening roar
of cheers went up from the audience.
1t was the first time that the New
York public had been given a chance
to both see and hear the man who is
striving for the highest office in the
nation.
Mr.. Straus made the opening speech.
He said
ION behalf of the Business Mems
Parker and Davis association | thank
you for this splendid demonstration in
honor of our leader, which is as graft
flying as it is deserving"
After the cheering that greeted Judge
Parker had subsidized he began his
speech, talking slowly and at first in
low voice. He said:
Il have come in response to your
invitation TO address you briefly in
what you justly term the stronghold
of Democratic faith and of Republican
revolt.
My views are sufficiently known to
you and all others whose sutfrages the
Democratic party has asked on my be-
half. My words will be little more
than a greeting from candidate to his
supporters who are in accord in be-
lieving 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 intrusted 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 justites the means-whatever
they may be-a record which has rep
resented complete departure from
cherished traditions and precedents
and which has indicated complete in
tolerance Of legal and constitutional
restraints.
More and more as this canvass has
proceeded and the unjust stewardship
OF the Republican party has been made
clear am convinced that in this cleo.
ton we are confronted with issues
which must be determined rightly if
We are to avoid grave consequence to
our country. l am not speaking
in this, believe-even uncon-
sciously-from any selfish point Of
view. l am speaking with the convic-
ton of a man who has taken into re-
view the questions before the country
largely in judicial way-and the
conviction has grown stronger as the
days have gone by, and | have exam
ined this record of the Republican par
~ and even the defenses it interposes
for its justification, that TO permit
the conduct of this party to go unre-
huked is to invite the establishment
of new and dangerous principles and
standards for our guidance as people.
In an earlier utterance II have re-
ferred in detail 10 what is VIGOROUSLY
going on in the matter of the collection
of funds by the Republican party for
the campaign. Now, ! know. as YOU
know, that money is required to de-
fray the expenses of campaign. Tn
der right conditions its collection and
expenditure are equally legitimate
But the spectacle of demanding cam
paign funds now presented To this
country is. when rightly regarded, of
character TO shock the moral sense.
I'VE shall do well to pause for mo.
ment to ask whittier we are drifting
in our indifference to right standards !
and TO our old fashioned sense of |
propriety in such matters.
1T has been my fortune TO take an |
active part in three presidential cam
paigns. The first of these resulted in |
the election, in 1876, of Samuel j. Til |
den. The younger generation. which !
has come upon the scene since that |
time, can scarcely understand the |
forces which this great man had to |
meet and combat. He himself felt how |
unequal was the contest which he |
waged. He knew that he was de- |
voted TO the interests of his country |
men.
1.-THE other presidential campaign in
which took an active part was that
which. in 1884, resulted in the nominal
ton, the election and the Inauguration
of Grover Cleveland. As / look back
now upon this campaign l recall that
its one dominating feature was the
cry that the Democratic party could
not be trusted TO deal with the bust
ness interests of the country. From