Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-10-26
KNOX SCORES PARKER
Says Judge Parker Is Part
of Hills Corrupt
Machine
DEFENDS THE TRUST SUITS
Former Attorney General Points Out
Parker's Inconsistency In Demanding
That the President Run Amuck
Among the Business Interests of the
Country.

Country.
| Washington, Oct Ex-senator +. e
Knox, former attorney general in a
statement issued last night in the form
of a reply to Mr.. Parkers speech on
| trusts and ex-President Cleveland
remarks on the same topic, assalls Tor
mer Senator d. B. Hill and his political
methods In no uncertain tones ana
does not overlook the fact that Judge
Parker prior to his election TO the
bench was one of the main supports
| of the Hill machine.
HE was a cog in the Hill machine
saws Mr.. Knox in speaking of Parker,
'.There never have been in our poll
tical history" he says, methods more
| debasing and corrupt than those Of the
Hill machine in New York, and they
eliminated in the steal of the state by
the Maynard frauds and the overthrow
of the Hill machine in consequence"
Mr. Knox says this was the machine
Parker ran until he received his re-
ward, place on the bench. He says
Judge Parker is seeking to be the ben
eficiary of the very methods which he
affects to denounce.
"In the early part of this campaign"
Mr.. Knox says, Judge Parker stated:
The common law as developed affords
complete legal remedy against mon
nd
in commenting upon the decision in the
Northern Securities case, said: There
is a distinct difference drawn between
railroad and purely producing corpor-
ations. 1t could not be said that the
sugar trust or the beef trust or the
Standard Oil Company was directly en-
gagged in interstate transportation.
They were engaged in the manufacture
and sale Of products.
within the past few days Mr.. Cleve-
land in public speech criticised the
republican administration for not rum
ming amuck' in the business interests
of the country, which SO eminent a
pfilologist as he knows means that he
citicises the president for not dashing
wildly at everything in sight, and de-
stroying the guilty and innocent alike;
while Judge Parker. only yesterday,
bewails the fact that corporations are
permitted to violate the law and that
they are contributing to the repub-
lican cause.
CIeveIand's Change.
What can be the reason for this
change of front? Mr.. Cleveland on
March II, 1904, Notwithstanding the
decree of the circuit court. pronounc-
ing the beef trust unlawful, says it
was not within the probition of the
law, thus throwing the weight OF his
opinion in favor of the beef trust and
against the United States at time
when the case was pending and unde-
cided in the highest courts; while on
Oct. 81, 1904, he inferentially demand
ed that all incorporated business should
be wantonly assailed.
us there any connection between
Judge Parker's abandonment of his
futile common law panacea, which
meant immunity to the trusts, and the
fact, as he alleges, that the trusts
contribute to the success of the res
publican party? Do the principles Of
law which Mr.. Cleveland thought last
March protected manufacturing mon
opolies change in October, and. If so,
does the change affect the Belmont
trusts or only those which the sus-
pected of seeing in the perpetuation Of
administration the contin-
ued general prosperity Of the coun-
try?
Parker's Machine.
Judge Parker, in his speech on Mon
day, also said: Many years have
passed since my active participation
in politics. In the meantime startling
change has taken place in the method
of conducting campaigns; change not
for the better, but for the worse-a
change that has introduced debasing
and corrupt methods which threaten
the integrity Of our government
ut is astonishing that Judge Parker
should be willing to challenge the COM
parison which this statement inevitab-
ly calls out. When Judge Parker last
activity participated in politics off the
bench he was chairman of the New
York state democratic committee which
elected David B. Hill as governor. He
was a cog in the Hill machine. There
never have been in our political his
tory methods more debasing and corr
rupt than those of the Hill machine
In New York, and they eliminated in
The steal of the state by the Maynard
frauds and the overthrow Of the Hill
in consequence. This was
the machine which Parker ran, until
az a reward for running 1t, he was
made a Judge by Hill, and these are
the methods he deplores.
again Judge Parker speaks Of the
campaign contributions by great cor
porations and describes precisely and
exactly the sources which give Tam
many hall it's strength and cutting off
which in the present election would
remove everv chance of his carrying
New York state, Judge Parker is now
to be the beneficiary of the
very methods which he affects to de-
nounce"
Iowa at Washington.
Washington, Oct. 25.-Postmasters
appointed:
At Clarkdale, Appanoose county =
Charles L. Berry, vice David Lodwick,
Diamond, Appanoose county-Alfred
j. Carter, vice Reece T. Rhyrs remov-
ed.