The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-29
CONFIDENT
 OF ELECTION Parker Says Hard Work
 Is Needed. CANDIDATE MAKES SPEECH Vigorous Arraignment of the
 Administration. The Wright Cabiesram and the Knox Interview Torn to Pieces by the
 Judge in Address to
 Farmers.

<SOPuS, Ee x., 0CS. Ao.--JuuBd EdE hSt today made his first prediction as to the outcome of the election. In his speech to delegations composed largely ot farmers from Orange and Rockland Counties. New York, he interpolated the following:
 Before taking up the subject I wish to discuss, l want to assure you that if we work hard enough, if we each do our part, we can win this fight. have not felt like saying so until lately, but we are growing so rapidly that if our people do their best, I do believe victory will be ours"
 Judge Parker addressed a large dele- gation composed chiefly of farmers from Orange and Rockland Counties, and counties near. Judge Parker said:
 NO more satisfactory evidence of the widespread public interest in the attempt to control the election by mon- eys of great corporations and trusts need be looked for than that furnished by the President and his late Attorney General, Mir. Knox. Mir. Knox was bid- den to the presence of the President for a consultation. About what? About the iniquity of the large contributionsf Contributions being made by gigantic corporations and trusts? Not at all. But rather to devise means by which the force of the statement of this com moniy accepted fact could be parried. The outcome was an interview by Sen- ator Knox.
 The Interview OfIicinl.
 Care was taken to preface the in- terview with the statement that it met the approval of the President. It may be treated, therefore, as administra- tive. There are many of them these days. To two or three of them l shall make reference today.
 '.Now this long statement of Senator Knox has nothing whatever to do with the question uppermost in the public mind
 shall the creations of government many of which pursue Illegal methods -ysesntFoi osfr elections, control them by moneys belonging to their stockhold- CTS, moneys not given in the open and charged in the books as moneys paid for political purposes. but hidden away by false bookkeeping?
 Senator Knox has been at some pains hitherto to prove that with all his learning, he does not know all about the common law It hardly seems pos- sible, however, that he does not know the rule that allegations of the com plaint not denied by the answer are thereby admitted. He does not deny nor could he-that these contributions were made. If he could have done so. of course he would. If he can do so now. he Is invited.
 The interview was intended to cre- ate a cloud of dust behind which he hoped to hide the charge he did not answer and could not answer. That charge is that vast sums of money have been contributed for the control of this election in aid of the adminfs- tration by corporations and trusts.
 Tn passing 1t should be said that Senator Knox, on this occasion-as on others-referred to the fact. I am of the opinion-and have said so--that existing law affords an adequate rem edy against illegal combinations. He says the law is insufficient and argues that therefore I am not in favor Of breaking up Illegal combinations.
 The Senator is not ingenious. Had he been, he would have said that in every instance in which I have ex- pressed the belief that the law as 1t stands Is sufficient to protect the peo- pie and that nothing is lacking except public officials willing to enforce the law I have added-in terms or in substance-that If my view in that re- spect is a mistaken one, then I favor such further legislation with constitu- tional limitations as will give the peo- ple q just and full measure of protec- tion.
 Understood by the Trusts.
 What the few plain. unambigious sentences uttered by me on the subject of Illegal combinations mean and what they are understood to mean by those who control the combinations. Is evi- denced in part by the great activity of their leading officers in favor of the election of my opponent. That activ- ity may perhaps account in no small measure for the ability of both the Populist and Socialist parties to prose- cute expensive campaigns-campaig that appear to be prosecuted largely in aid of the Republican party.
 The administration also puts out a cablegram from Governor Wright of the Philippine commission in reply to some quotations made by me in a speech delivered on the 18th of Octo- Der. The words were the careful ut terances of a man who has spent four months in the Philippines studying the conditions there. The evidence upon which conclusions were based will be found, I am informed, in The Evening Post of today and probably in other papers.
 ''The article Is too long to be quoted from in this brief address but I ask you and through you the American people. to examine Governor wrights cablegram in connection with that re- port and answer these questions:
 Do you believe the man thus vouch- ed for by six of the best citizens in this country? Which is likely to be prejudiced? The man having no mo- tive but to learn the truth or the Gov ernor who may be in some measures responsible for unfortunate condi- tions?
 'Is the Governors report of such a character as to justify an expenditure of several hundred dollars to cable a part of my speech to Manila and to re- ceive his reply by cable?
 Tt was not Government business. It was political business. The cablegram to Governor Wright and his reply were intended to aid the Republican cam paign. The message to him began:
 The Democratic candidate for President on the 18th of the present month in a public address said:
 If few hundred dollars may be taken out of the public funds to thus assist the prosecution of a political campaign, why may not the money In the Treasury be employed for any pur-