Lawrence democrat. (Lawrenceburg, Tenn.) 1884-1925, 1904-04-22
NUMBER 49,.
THE PARKER BOOM.
CANDIDATE LAUDED AT IRo-
QUoIs BANQUET.
New Yorkers Declare He Can Win
for Democrats-Is Endorsed
by Leaders of the
Party.

The lroquois banquet at the Audi
torum hotel, Chicago, was the scene
of an enthusiastic democratic demon
stration, Wednesday night, April 1S.
Foremost among the speakers was Mar
tin w. Littleton, president of the
borough of Brooklyn, New York city,
who officially launched the presidential
boom of Judge Alton B. Parker, of New
York. Mr.. Littleton reviewed the JEFF
fersonian principles and their influence
on the nation and continuing said:
Before the summer sets in full we will
be face to face with our old antagonist, a
party whose full and fruitful years ended
with the end of President Mckinley and
Senator Hanna and whose irresponsible
conduct began with President Roosevelt
a party committed now to policy OF de-
struction of the coordinate branch OF the
government; party planted firmly upon
the plan to exalt the executive and humil-
late all other branches of government;
party not content with natural extension
of territory, but treating that as authority
for departure from a proper constitutional
balance OF its three great powers; party
guilty in the judgment of the country OF
u
down with corruption and fraud, party
providing shelter for great monopolies
through tariff; party of executive usurpa-
ton, administrative corruption and in-
| creasing extravaganza. At the head OF
| this party we have as candidate against
| us man whose strenuous radicalism has
| shaken the confidence of the country Ill
his stability and safety. He has strayed
| far from the constructive and conservative
path marked out in the era of Mckinley
and Hanna his politics and practices are q
genuine source of danger to constitutional
and republican government.
within our own party we have another
danger to the sound politics Of the nation
"a danger growing out of an effort to d.
vide the American people in such a way as
array all the rich and comfortable on
one side against all the poor and the needy
on the other; danger set on foot by a
| coalition between the idle rich and the idle
poor and meant to pull apart the natural
| union of the industrious rich and the Indus
trious poor. Mr.. Bryce said that in Europe
the line of cleavage in politics was hori-
zontal-that Is, with all the powerful and
| rich above and all the poor and helpless
below-while in this country 1t was>rerfIca1
that is, with the rich. .aad-poor on the
one side and the rich and poor on the other.
! we, as democrats must resist, not only as
a danger to our party but as a peril to the
nation, the effort being made to shift the
! vertical line of division to a horizontal one
| We must not permit our party to be use d
as a means to set the faces of the poor
against the fortunes OF the rich. ,e2
"You ask me what of the empire stgs1h
What of the hope OF democracy? Speaking
solely on my own responsibility, tell you
that the democracy of New York demands
a return TO constitutional government and
an obedience of constitutional authority
| 1t demands that the shelter of the tariff
shall be withdrawn from those who do not
need it; 1t demands that extravaganza shall
give way to economy and that corruption
shall be cut out root and branch.
And you say to me: What of the man
who shall lead us in the contestg The an
swer from my state Is a cry from farm to
| factory, from banker to laborer, from cap
italst to the toiler, from merchant TO man.
ufacturer, from every class TO every class,
for Judge Alton B. Parker. Holding the
government in perfect balance under the
constitution, with the cearest sense Of all
its sensitive powers, viewing with un-
dimmed vision the advancing civilization
of our race. friendly alike to the laborer
and to the capitalist, and fearing neither
il they transgress the law; having per-
feet faith that commerce and the consti-
tuition go hand in hand and holding Wisely
that one must not be used to impair the
other, he would impart TO the public life
M the nation all of the democratic faith
of Jefferson, all Of the fine intellectual
force of Tilden. all of the patriotic fervor
of Bryan and all of the unfailing courage
and conscience of Cleveland.