New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-08-17
TIE CONSTITUTION CLUE.

4 number Of Democrats, members Of the bar
have undertaken TO further the fortunes OF
Judge Parker by forming a Parker Constitu-
ton Club That. Of course is their right, and
il they can persuade the American people that
the gentleman who twice voted for Mr.. Bryan,
free silver the income tax and the packing OF
the Supreme Court is the only safe repository
of the law. that is their privilege. When. how
ever a Democratic editor proclaims that every
zone Of these showed his independence ana
courage in the Bryan days by opposing that
candidate for the Presidency" the club comes
dangerously near depending on misrepresenta-
ton for its influence Every member OF the
club. so far as we have been able to ascertain
is n Democrat All Of them may have support
ed Mr. Mckinley in 1896. Several Of them we
know supported Mr.. Bryan I'm 1900 and 1t is TOO
late for them now TO pose as independents VINO
stood by the mild" and constitutional" Nc
KinIey and have been driven away from the
Republican party ely the 'lawlessness" Of his
successor. Some of them four years ago were
tenouncinC President Mckinley as "desPot
and emperor" and "tyrant" and none OF them
were supporting the Republican ticket except
as an unwelcome refuge from the menace OF
free silver
Now. according TO their view, the currency
question is no longer an issue The gold stand
ard having been, rs Judge Parker would say
firmly and irTeyocably established by the He-
publicans, the Democracy and its candidate
have abandoned their free silver propaganda
What more natural then, than for these Demo
cratic lawyers who left their party solely on
account of free silver, TO return TO their ale
glance? Some of them did it four years ago.
without waiting for the abandonment of free
silver believing that the Republicans had so
settled the question that the heresles of their
own party were no serious menace. Others got
back two years ago. Mr.. John G. Carlisle, we
remember, went 10 Saratoga to participate in
the nomination Of Coler and the adoption OF
the coal plank demanding that the federal gov
ernment override the sovereignty OF Pennsyl-
vania and operate the anthracite mines. His
concern for the sacred Constitution must be
very great!
We are interested in the forecast of the clubs
plans made by Mr. Howard A. Taylor, a young
gentleman who is a member of the executive
committee He says that the club will be per
fectly Just to the President but it will investl-
gate his acts, such rs his adding S12,000,0OO TO
The pension roll by his executive order his
real connection with the Panama affair and
"other matters in which he has Oyerridden the
Constitution" The young gentleman doesn't
seem 10 realize that instead Of being just, he
has already prejudged the matters in his cpl
tibet. We hope he will investigate and ind out
that the executive order was exactly paraileI
10 one issued under President Cleveland. when
his fellow member Of the Constitution Club,
John G. Carlisle, was IN the Cabinet II he
studies long enough he VIII find that the other
unconstitutional" acts are quite within the
Presidents power and would be sustained by
the Supreme Court. The whole matter comes
down merely to the fact that these Demo-
cratic gentlemen do not agree with Republican
policies, and. feeling that the Democracy Is
again safe and sane enough to be out Of a
lunatic asylum, they are giving vent TO their
anti Republican sentiments. Like Judge Par
ker they can mark out no sane specific policies
differing from those Of the Republicans. 50 they
take refuge in the cry for the Constitution.