New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-08
BITTER AGAINST PARKER.
Many Disguised Democrats VIII
Vote for Roosevelt.
fFRoM THE TRIBUNE BUREAU.

Washington, Nov. IA great falling off in
| Democratic enthusiasm has followed Judge
| Parkers revelation of himself to the American
| people as defamer of the President of the
United States. On every side are heard the
most bitter references by Democrats to their
candidate and the revulsion of feeling is so
strong that it is generally predicted here that
Maryland will go Republican
Yesterday the Democrats were stunned by
finding that their candidate had failed to make
good" His prompt announcement that he
would reply to the Presidents open letter had
encouraged his followers believe that he
possessed evidence on which he based his
charges of blackmail. The reaction from the
sanguine attitude of the Democrats on Saturday
TO their detection of to-day has been terrific.
Many of them declare that they viii remain
away from the polls tomorrow, while hundreds
who have become enthusiastic oyer President
Roosevelt's manly letter will vote the Repub-
Hcan ticket some for the first time in their
lives. For three days kilograms and messages
have been pouring into The White House con-
graduating the President on his letter. and the
renarka bic feature of those received to-day is
that a large proportion came from Democrats.
One says:
I will vote the Republican ticket tomorrow
for the first time in my life. i feel it is the only
amend which an honest Democrat can make for
ination against YOU.
Another says:
l shall vote for you tomorrow. and 1t will be
the first time have failed to vote for the DEM
Ocratic Presidential candidate since Grant last
ran. Parker is the limit.
THE Washington Evening Star" Gndepen-
denO. evidently expecting startling revelations
from Parker on Saturday night. said editorially
that afternoon:
The issue made up is wildly distinct
Either the Presidential candidate of party
is blackmailer for partisan purposes the
candidate of the other party is a slanderer for
partisan purposes.
This afternoon THE Star" declares in strong
editorial:
The question was settled in Brooklyn on Sat
Urday night. Judge Parker appeared before a
large audience with those present and the coun-
try at large eagerly awaiting his words, and not
a scrap Of proof had he to offer Fumbling and
stumbling with his topic. betraying in every
sentence the slanderer brought to bay he could
only shuttle and qualify, and. I'm attempts to
eNade expose himself further to ridicue and
contempt Our political annals may be searched
in vain for such catastrophe to a man of rep
utatiOn standing for the suffrages of decent
men. His worst enemy could not have led him
into a position more destructive of all that a
man should hold most dear.
The opinion of THE Star is repeated on every
side. That Parker has made pitiable spec
tacle of himself and byword of the party that
nominated him is the opinion of nine out of
every ten Democrats here. 1t is significant that
many Democrats loud in their declarations
That William j. Bryan a clean man. He
was always honest. He never convicted of
such despicable politics. and never will be-"