The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1904-07-23
WHAT INDEPENDENTS SAY.

The New York Evening Post. the
leading Independent newspaper in the
East if not in the entire country. PAYS
| the highest tribute. To Judge Parlic,
which has come to our notice The III
tltude oT the Post is important. for it
| undoubtedly speaks the sentiments of
| :; large number Of the Independent,
voters of the country. The Post al
ways supported Cleveland. but OPP
posed Bryan in 1896. In 1900 ii ren.
derrd faint support to Bryan on the
anti lmpcrialist issue The following
editorial leaves no doubt about whom
it will support this year:
~ real man appeared above tIta
American horizon on Sunday. judy
Parker had been represented as a
Teilcd candidate; but at an intcnscl.
dramatic moment the curtain WAS
dropped and he was revealed as a
figure of heroic proportions. Such
clear and shining courage was never
before seen in Il presidential candi-
date. In Judge Parker's person the
old joke about the man who would
rather he right than be president ex-
pires That man actually exists. TAX
ing his political life in his hands, AL
ton b. Parker put away the presi
dency unless it were offered to him
on terms squaring with his own con
victions. No wonder the country was
thrilled. No wonder that Europe
rubbed its eyes. 4 man had risen,
towering above the puny politicians.
Nothing so fine is known to our
political annals. Yet the act was sim
ply one of straightforward manhood.
AS Sumner protested that he was II
man before he was Il commissioner.
so Parker was a man before he was
a candidate. With no armor but his
honest thought no skill but simple
faith. he quietly actel'as an honorable
gentleman. But what amaze he struck
into the hearts of all the professional
politicians! An honest man saying in
plain language that lie declined pres
idential nomination already made. un-
less his convictions and his honoi
were clearcd-why. incredible! The
telegram must he a forgery. Even the
Western Union questioned it. Nobody
ut st. Louis would believe it genuine
till verified. Hills first cry was. Sup
press it," AS well try to suppress
Pixies Peak. \ man had stood forth.
\ "mystery," Senator Beveridge had
sneeringly called him; the real mys-
terry is why the expert and tortuous
politicians do not vet, any more than
in Burke's day. know their own trade.
They plot and burrow and crawl and
sneak and compromise, when along
comes an unknown man with clear
gray eye and n square jaw and, by one
honest word. skaters their machina-
tons, and leaves them covered with
modification and ridicule. 1t is BRAY
ery's simple gravitation drawing the
whole world again.
Zone courageous utterance has in
staneously and magically changed the
whole aspect of the campaign. 1t has
transformed detection into the high
est hopes. To-day, it is the Republic
can party that is thrown into confu-
sion. 1t sees it's guns spiked and its
ammunition hurled into Esopus Creek.
The plan of campaign over which it
was gloating. it already has to aban-
don. To talk one word more about
danger to the gold standard would
be to excite derision. And how about
that other fond charge that Parker is
"Hill's MANI" Who could breathe
that in the future? Look at Hill,
rolled in the dust at st. Louis, and ask
if that Liliputian will ever undertake
to bind the mighty thews of the man
who openly discounted him. Let no Re-
publican orator who does not wish to
get himself hooted dare henceforth re-
vive the SANDER that Judge Parker