Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1904-04-21
THE PARKER BOOM.
CANDIDATE LAUDED AT IRo.
QUoIS BANQUET.
New Workers Declare He Can Win
for Democrats-Is Endorsed
by Leaders of the
Party.

The Iroquois banquet at the Audi.
torium hotel, Chicago, was the scene
Of an enthusiastic democratic demon.
stration, Wednesday night, April Is.
Foremost among the speakers was Mar
tin w. Littleton, president of the
borough of Brooklyn, New York city,
who officially launched the presidential
boom of Judge Alton B. Parker. of New
York. Mr.. Littleton reviewed the JET
~'ersonian principles and their influence
On the nation and continuing said:
Before the summer sets in full we will
De face to face with our old antagonist, a
rslrty whose full and fruitful years ended
with the end of President Mckinley and
Senator Hanna and whose irresponsible
conduct began with President Roosevelt;
a party committed now to a policy of de-
struction of the coordinate branch of the
government; a party planted firmly upon
the plan to eXalt the executive and humil-
late all other branches of government; a
party not content with natural extension
Of territory, but treating that as authority
for a departure from a proper constitutional
balance of its three great powers; a party
guilty in the judgment of the country OF
"a eANoN SPo
dow with corruption and fraud, a party
providing shelter for great monopolies
through tariff; a party of executive usurpa-
ton, administrative corruption and IN
creasing e~Xtravagance. At the head OF
this party We have as a candidate against
us a man whose strenuous radicalism mas
shaken the confidence of the country In
his stability and safety. He has strayed
far from the constructive and conservative
N{L -r1 @t- To- Tho nrn ~ n 1nIny
and Hanna; his politics and practices are a
genuine source of danger to constitutional
and republican government.
within our own party we have another
hanger to the sound politics Of the nation
"a danger growing out of an effort to d.
vide the American people In such a way as
o array all the rich and comfortable on
one side against all the poor and the needy
on the other; a danger set on foot by a
coalition between the idle rich and the idle
poor and meant to pull apart the natural
union of the Industrious rich and the Indus
trious poor. Mr.. Bryce said that in Europe
the line of cleavage in politics was hori-
zontal-that is, with all the powerful and
rich above and all the poor and helpless
~below-while in this country it was vertical
that is, with the rich and poor on the
one side and the rich and poor on the other.
We, as democrats, must resist, not only as
a danger to our party but as a peril to the
nation, the effort being made to shift the
vertical line of division to a horizontal one.
We must not permit our party to be used
as a means to set the faces of the poor
against the fortunes of the rich.
You ask me what Of the empire state?
What of the hope of democracy? Speaking
solely on my own responsibility, tell you
that the democracy of New York demands
a return to constitutions government and
an obedience of constitutional authority;
it demands that the shelter of the tariff
shall be withdrawn from those who do not
need it; it demands that extravaganza shall
give way to economy and that corruption
shall be cut out root and branch.
And you say to me: What of the man
who shall lead US in the contests" The an
swer from my state is a cry from farm to
factory, from banker to laborer, from cap
italist to the toiler, from merchant to man
ufacturer, from every class to every class,
for Judge Alton b. Parker. Holding the
government in perfect balance under the
constitution, with the clearest sense of ali
its sensitive powers viewing with un-
dimmed vision the advancing civilization
of our race, friendly alike to the laborer
and to the capitalist, and fearing neither
if they transgress the law; having a per-
feet faith that commerce and the consti-
tuition go land in hand and holding wisely
that one must not be used to impair the
other, he would impart to the public life
" the nation all of the democratic faith
Of Jefferson, all of the fine intellectual
force of Tilden, all of the patriotic fervor
of Bryan and all Of the unfailing courage
and conscience of Cleveland"