The Cecil Whig. [volume] (Elkton, Md.) 1841-current, 1904-10-01
PARKER TO THE PEOPLE.

Ders, is quite Il lengthy document and is,
in effect, Il fairly full comment upon and
enlargement of most of the planks OF the
Democratic platform. In style it is emf
nently judicial and reads much like one
of the Judges decisions. There is moth
| ing in the letter in the shape of ringing
utterance and he who looks for key
notes. will find none from start to finish.
The Judge, of necessity, traverses the
main positions of his rival, President
Roosevelt, but there is little in the way
OF argument in any of the pleas which
he makes for his own preferment.
Most of Judge Pnrker's argument is
bald and dry statement of undi$puted.
uccepted and accomplished facts set off
here and there with sheer assumption of
purposes had in view by President
Roosevelt which neither his acts or ut
lteranceS warrant.
or all our Presidents Andrew Jackson
land Grover Cleveland were the most
lautocratic and yet, they were all but
leifed by their followers, and Cleye-
lands eclipse was due not to AN excess
lof his self-sufiiciency but to his inability
to fall in with the view of the majority
of his party and their temporary allies,
the Populists, upon the feasibility of Il
double monetary standard.
There can be no doubt that had Cleve-
land been II convinced Silvcrite, Judge
Parker could not now regard the gold
Isytan,lard as firmly and irreyocHbly es-
tablished' Nothing more autocratic
was ever done by any occupant of the
White House than the squclching of
the summer of "a by the last Demo-
lcrltic President.
His dispatch, too, Of Paramount
Blunt" to Hawaii to haul down the
American flag raised by the then de facto
authorities was quite as arbitrary II Use
OF Executive authority asa President
Roosevelt displayed in recognizing the
Republic of Panama.
Entertainments of executives are large
ly matters of temperament. and it is quite
possible that Judge Parker would work
the high office of resident for the profit
Of his party as effectively us President
Roosevelt may have done in the past or
may do in the future.
The Judge repeats the old arguments
for ''Revenue Reform and seeks to pla-
cate at once the friends and foes of pro-
lection. Here he follows Cleveland, who
taught by his l,llty's drubbing in SS,
after his famous dictatOrial messu &c,
wtls free in his promises that business
should not he disturbed But business
was disturbed from the day of his cleo
ton in 1892 down to the day of William
McKinley's in 1896. There are few who
dnuht that should Judge Parker win on
November 3, a like period of depression
would at once set in unless the fact that
the Republican control of the Senate is
likely to last for four Years longer at
least. should uphold public confidence.
This fact is the strongest plea which
the Judge advances for his election. and
is a practical admission of the unsound-
ness of the Democratic position upon the
tariff. For. if protection be unwisr. or
robbery of the MASSES for the benefit
of the classes" or if it be true. as the
Judge maintains, that the tariff IT, the
mother of trusts the sooner the one
he abandoned and the latter reduced to
a purely revenue basis the better for the
people. But the Judge knows that he
can't win on any radical attitude upon
either the tariff or the trusts. and =,
he seeks to please all hands.
He fav0rS Independence for the Fill
EiHos when they are ready for it. and 50
docs every other American. but when
will they lie ready for its h,Stowal?
As to the scale of Government eXppn-
Ses. which the Judge invcighS against. it
lHrs' come t0 stay and is likely to increase
and he fails To- show where and how far
they cam he reduced. Our people will
not tolerate waStcfulncSS nor will they
stand for chccsc-paring.
The Judge premises to revoke Prcsi-
dent RooSevelt's much decried pension
order aS to disabilities of veterans of 81
and 10 years hut promises grso as com
} rensation TO secure. if possible. service
: PENSIONS for veterans after satisfying the
. stickcrS for Constitutional proplicticS.
Altogether, the Judge has made the
best of the job lot of timber of which
his party's platform is built and has
built Il more prescntable structure but
, his uttcmnccS do not and will not
{ strengthen popular conviction that he is
the man for the hour. So far gls the mass
Of the people view the situation Prcsi-
, dent Roosevelt should properly succeed
, himself
Just what the independent or uncal-
culAhlr vote thinks is the problem upon
. which party managers on both sides