The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1904-07-28
From The Hagerstown Herald

/ From The HagerstOwn Herald
Mr.. George Alfred Townsend being
i'll Hagerstowu yesterday, as it is his
habit to attend market here, the Her.
0Id took his views. which were unre-
served and pungent. He has now in
habited this district nearly twenty
years.
what did you think of the st.
Louis convention?
Perhaps the most irresponsible
body ever met to oppose coherent
events. Hardly a Northern man had
anything to say. 1t petrifed even
| Burke Cochran. Its only platform
was avowed to be to win.' Its candi-
date delivered a charge from the
bench against it and it adjourned
without expressing in any official way
his demands, so that no member of
that convention or that party, is
bound to Mr. Parker's dictum and Mr.
Bryan, who twice occupied Mr.. Par
ker's place, has already repudiated
his views Oh behalf of the several mil
lions of Mr.. Bryan's double distilled
voters. The Democracy never has
penitence for anything, because its
sincere situation is to be wrong. 1t
is now a loose currency party as it
has been since it began with repudi-
ton, and initiation and silver are only
combinations. The man who called
1t to order, Jones, and the president,
Williams, both come from Mississippi
which repudiated its solemn bonds in
1871. The Democratic convention.
says the State historian, Lowry, sis
silent as the grave on the bond cues
ton" and Mississippi has no credit
with any part of the world. The other
presiding officer, Clark, comes out of
the hospitable train-robbing society
of Missouri, which turned down its
Governor, Crittenden, for taking off
Jesse James. Yet these heirs of
shame abused the President of the
United States with extended vehem-
ence as if such as they could destroy
a great man with curses. We obser-
yed that Mr.. Bryan said no evil word
OF the President. The Presidential
office is not worth holding at the will
otsuch men. Yet a chief justice of
New York accepts it from them, es-
corted by Hill and Sheehan."
HAS there been another instance
OF chief justice nominated for Presi-
dent?"
Not one. Neither party, no party,
has tampered:with the sacred fire of
the judiciary. Chief Justice Ambrose
Spencer, of New York, wrote to Hen
ry Clay, in 1888, when Justice John
Mclean was wooing the Presidential
nomination, it will be a strong obiec-
ton to him that he enters the arena
with robes of office on No Republi-
can President has been Judge; no
Democrat who ran for President had
ever been even State Judge except
Douglas, who was long retired. This
chief justice, Parker, has no docu-
ments to run upon except his de-
cisions, as he has kept silence and to
quote decisions of the bench as cam
, pa1gn documents willl.be a crime.
But men who would use the North
for reputation, imitation aud Lhalf
price silver, for panic, income tax
and instruction, have no respect for
the bench. Judge Gray denounces
the attempt to pull his frock into
that convention.
'Do you think Parker saw that the
gold issue would be dodged?"
HE never asked it to be mention.
ed. Hill, who created him fudge,
was in the platform committed, and
, assented to silence. So did Shehan.
By 30 to 10 the platform passed the
committee, silent upon the subject
for penitence ON which two Demo
, cratic campaigns had been fought by
Bryan. After the New York Demo-
cratic newspapers spoke out1Mr. Par
I ker sent a private message. 1t was
privately answered. That is all
which commits the raging Democracy
to sure money. So has the judiciary
marked its decadence already A
member of Judge Parker's bench de-
nounced his descent into politics a
year ago. Brave and manly he is
called. Yes, after the battle is over
Suppose Lincoln in 1860 had accepted
his nomination upon a platform
silent upon the one subject of slavery
in the territories, and after his nom