The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-14
A Parker Cartoon in n Hearst Psper.

Parker cartoon In Hearst Paper. Macon Telegraph.
 MT. Hearst has done an extraordinary thing. At a time when the newspapers of the whole country arc discussing Judge Parkers silence and many of them are clamoring for him to speak, suddenly there appears in The New York American strikingly pointed cartoon labled The Dignity of Silence"
 The cartoon represents the age-worn Sphnix rising from the Egyptian desert eing asses and a flock of cacxling geese, all clamoring for an expression from the mysterious being that has looked in silent revery across the desert since the world was young.
 The impression Is immediately convey ed that the artist thought of Parker, of his dignlfied silence as he awaits the hour for speech, and of the clamor for his immediate utterance on the part of those whose ideas of propriety are based aon the continuous performance of the Bryan talking-machine. In fact, one looks hastily to hhd resemblance to the NebaslSan's features in the faces of : the foremost of the praying asses. The application to Parker is So complete, and the whole conception Is in every way so git, that only in the amazed after thought is 1t perceived that the real sub ject of this astonishing Hearst cartoon Is Hearst himself.
 It is then recalled that Hearst has A reputation for silence also. that he has never been sullty or puDnc utterance, and that those who have met him privately report that his conversation is of the monosyllabic variety. It is also recalled that there are silent men of two kinds--those who reflect deeply and wisely refrain from overmuch speech, and those who are silent because they have nothing to say.
 Yet clever and hIghly-salaried in- strument of one of the latter kind has daringly invented the cartoon we have described and placed beneath it the fol- lowing quotation from Carlyle:
 Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together. that at length they may emerge, Uniformed and majestic, into the daylight of life which they are henceforth to rule. Not William the Silent, only, but all the con- siderable men I have known. and the most undiplomatic and unstrategic of these, forbore to bable of what they were creating and projecting. Nay, in thy own mean perplexities, do thou myself but hold thy tongue for one day; on the morrow how much clearer are thy purposes and duties; what wreck and rub bish have these mute workmen with thee swept away. when intrusive noises were shut out! Speech is too often not, as the Frenchman defined 1t, the art of con- cealing thought but of quite stifing and suspending thought. so that there is none to conceal. Speech, too, is great, but not the greatest. As the Swiss inscrip- tion says: Sprechen ist silbern, chweigen ist golden Speech is silver, silence is golden); or, as I might rather express it, speech Is of time, silence is of eternity. Bees will not work except in darkness; thought will not work except in silence; neither will virtue work except in secrecy.
 And the accompanying editorial com ment makes 1t plain that there Is too much talking and too little, thinking among American politicians. Thus does Hearst take the risk of mortally offend ing Bryan, being convinced that he is scoring a great hit for himself. and little dreaming that Parker will reap all the benefit