Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1904-08-26
SUN SHINES FOR ROOSEVELT.
New York Paper. Which Has Attacked
Hell Broth Of Dish Water and Dyna-

"Hell Broth of Dish Water and Dyna-
mite"
The campaign is now on. Both parties
and both candidates have spoken
On the one side a conservative party
with a radically inclined and erstwhile
too strenuous candidate for President;
and behind him, for the vice presidency
n man Of undoubted capacity, sound opin-
ions and mental and physical promise OF
endurance.
On the other side radical party. with
an infinite capacity for mischief and a
stupendous record of mischief actually ac-
complished. presenting for President a
conservatively inclined candidate of ir-
reproachable character and attractive per-
sonal character and attractive personal
accomplishments and for vice president
one whose extreme age is the sole but
sufficient reason for apprehension in case
of his succession to the presidency.
Such is the choice before the independ-
ent voter and II is the independent voter
who will decide this election.
He cannot take Judge Parker on the
Republican platform and record. He can
not reject Mr. Roosevelt without beck
oning to the distant Huns; without
helping to open the gates of power to po-
litical forces Of unmeasured destructive
potentialty. 1t seems better to maintain
unbroken the wall of defense which the
first election OF Mckinley established.
Two things might have happened to
make the choice of 1904 a choice between
individuals rather than between parties
standing or their respective records.
Neither of the two things has happened.
The first opportunity was deliberately
avoided by the compromising tricksters
at st. Louis. The second was deliberately
thrown away at Rosemount yesterday.
Barring Judge Parker's gold telegram of
1904, offsetting in some degree his two
free silver votes for Bryan in 1896 and
1900, and barring a polite anti-second
term pledge which might have been made,
perhaps, more gracefully in an inaugural
address after election, nothing has come
from Judge Parkers lips or pen to indi-
cate that he possesses a single political
idea marking him as a statesman OF in
| dependent initiative, of courage superior
to the St Louis brand, of stature to COM
mand and lead. With the two exceptions
noted. he is an echo of the convention,
and naught beside He is yet the un-
known quantity that he was throughout
the preliminary period of silence pre-
| scribed by judicial dignity. Instead of
rising above the platform Judge Parker
| has crawled pretty ANONYMOUSLY beneath
/ II. in our reluctantly expressed opinion.
/ He himself has decreed that the choice
of the Independents shall be one Of parties
and records and principles, rather than
/ of men.
To state the SUMS position and its
| reasons therefor requires no metaphy-
sical subtlety of explanation. The main
| consideration is as broad as the Ma
| tions interests. AS the case Is now made
up, we prefer the impulsive candidate OF
! the party OF conservatism to the mildly
| conservative, temporizing opportunist rep
| resentative of the Hun vote in the back
ground. We have more faith in the dis
| tnct promises Of the Chicago platform,
not ignoring the many serious defects OF
that document than we have in the mis-
cradle hell-broth OF dishwater and dyna-
mite concocted at st. Louis a month
| ago by a party afraid to renounce its
criminal follies, and tasted yesterday at
Esopus by a respectable candidate who
declares with gusto that its flavor is ad
mirable.
We shall therefore advocate the cleo
ton of Roosevelt and Fairbanks, and ad-
wise the defeat of Parker and Davis; pre-
serving our own absolute independence OF
organic control, and our freedom OF judg-
ment as to every specific question occur
ring. And may Theodore Roosevelt S
present mood continue, and II he is elect
ed, may the discourager OF precipitancy
stand always at his elbow.
In the politics of the Empire state sc
far as they concern state matters, we
shall support the candidate whatever
may be the partisan designation of his
ticket, who seems to us the more likely tc
to give the people of New York the honest
and competent administration their pub
lie affairs so grievously need, and to wipe
out the shame and evil of existing grocery
conditions at Albany.-[New York Sun
Aug. IL.