Clarke courier. [volume] (Berryville, Va.) 1869-1997, 1904-10-19

ne Salu IN MS latest issue, Is not
in the campaign" but they are
said as recognizing in him clear
intellect, a brave heart, and
direct way of fighting.
To sum up the whole matter:
When Mr.. Bryan was the candi-
date of the party in 1896. Judge
Parker, who differed with him on
the money question, supported him
cordially because he preferred
democratic to republican rule.
When Mr.. Bryan was the candi-
date again in 1900, Judge Parker
again cordially supported him.
Now that Judge Parker is the can
didate of the party, Mr.. Bryan,
who differs with him on the money
question, cordially supports him
because he, too, prefers democratic
to republican rule. Both are dem
ocrats and both submit TO the &C
ton of democratic national conven-
tons.
If Parker and Davis are elected
all democrats will share the honor
of the victory. If Parker is defeat
ed let it not be said that it was be-
cause of the treachery of Bryan
democrats who refused to follow
their leader in support of the ticket
The united action of democrats
can elect Parker.
1t undoubtedly is true that peo-
pie ought to hesitate to say any
thing but good about the President,
whoever he may be. But when
man occupies that position who
has not hesitated to disturb the
bones of the dead in order to find
some one to Witty. it is a debatable
question whether he deserves that
immunity. The hyena is the most
deSpiSed of all animals, for among
them it is the only one which will
prey upon the dead. And so it
would seem that that sort of men
who are capable of SANDER so base
as that pronounced against Jeffer-
son by Roosevelt, when he called
him a plain liar in the more eupho-
Nous language He had consti-
tutional inability to put proper
value on truthfulnesS, ought TO be
put in a class all by themselves.
In other words Theodore Roose-
welt. now a candidate in his own
right for the highest Office within
the gift Of the people, says that
Thomas Jefferson, the author of the
great Charter of American Liber-
ties, was 4 liar, and worse than
that. liar who was mentally and
morally irresponsible, constitution
ally so. Isthe living President any
more sacred than the memory of
one of the greatest of those gone
before!
But Mr.. Roosevelt has not been
content TO disturb the sacred MEM
cries of such men as jefferson and
Monroe, but in going about as the
Bible tells us "as roaring lion.
seeking whom he may devour" he
has even attacked those good peo-
pie, the best people it may be in
all our land. the Dunkards. the
MennOnites and the Friends. There
is no people in all the world who
live out the will of their Master
more than they; and vet Mr..
Roosevelt says that their doctrines
are worse than ruffianism, that
they may be more undesirable
citizens than the outlaw duelist.
and that they cannot show good
reason why they should be permit
ted to live in this country. 1t is a
hard-hearted man that is capable
of uttering such things, and as it
Is brought to the attention of these
good people they are showing TO
the world that they are sincere in
their espOusal of the peace princi-
pie, by resolving that no man
holding such opinions of them and
their faith shall be elected by their
votes. And that is as it should be.
Should this fact have been brought
to their attention, and they have
supported the man who uttered
them, In the event of war they
would have had little to hope for
IN the way of friendly exemption.
and further than that they would
have left on the world the unpleas-
ant impression that they were
blind partisans first and professors
of the peace principle afterward.
But happily they are iustifying
the good opinion of those who