New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-06

NEF
that Judge Parker can sustain his allegations
ana Tor any reason refuse to do so.
what is the reputation of the accusing witness
Tor careless and unwarranted statement
cannot more concisely answer this question
than in the words of editorial in The New
York Tribune of November !. wherein Judge
Parkers attention is called to the fact
That ne has monstrousIy exaggerated the
amount OF money spent and the number of lives
lost IN governing the Philippines.
nat he has sraveiy rlisrepressnted the
facts as to the national expenditures and the
deficit
THAT when he accused the administration of
supPressins department estimates and declared
IT was impossible to ascertain how the revenues
were being expended he densey and
THAT when he quoted Mckinley on reciprocal
trade arrangements he earbIed and distorted
the Buffalo speech of September g. 1901
THAT in the effort to sustain his oriainal
blunder in respect to the common law and the
trusts he snartiy cited decision of the Su-
Prene Court which at once proved 70 be irrele-
want.
THAT the Presidents pension order which
he condemned as an encroachment on the euis-
lstiVe power and therefore unwarranted by tho
Constitution, was strictly within the law and
amply supported by presidents, both Repub
That the statement for which he made him.
self responsible, describing the condition OF
things in the Philippines as hideous and dis
graceful 20 this country. has been r,futed on
the highest authority, and that in snstchng at
the testimony Of single witness, whose claims
ious the moment his name known, the late
chief Judge of the Court of Appeals caricstured
the principle by which he is supposed to have
been guided the bench"
METHODS OF DEMOCRATIC LEADERS.
It is matter Of common notoriety that the
chairman Of the Democratic National Commit
tee was chosen because it hoped to carry
Indiana for Judge Parker by the very methods
he now affects to deploTe. It is likewise a mat
ter OF common notoriety that Messrs. Hill, Bel
mont, Ryan, Sheehan and McCarTen, who are
Judge Parker's chief hackers, can only be such
in the very way which Judge Parker now
processes TO attack. II is also a legitimate de-
Guction from the facts that Judge Parker Is
making this false appeal TO cover the fact that
he and his people are gathering in money which
they expect 10 unstintingly in New-York,
Indiana, West Virginia. NeW-JeTsey and Con-
necticut
As Judge Parker is not above such methods
and has personally been party thereto, I quote
from THE New-York Evening Post OF his
most enthusiastic organs, the following from its
issue Of February 6, 1892:
IN 1885 the scandals about the doings Of the
AQueduct Commission became so great that an
investigation was ordered by the Senate. II
was shown by unirnpeachabIe testimony that in
the campaign for his own reelection in 1855
Governor Hill had drawn two notes. one for
$4,000 and the other for 5000 the proceeds of
which had been used TO defray campaign ex-
penses. The first drawn to the order Of
William L Muller, and was Endorsed by Muller
and by John OBrien and Heman Clark, the two
heaviest contractors for squeduct work The
note was cashed by O'Brien and charged to him
on the books of the firm The second note was
HQOTSeQ Dy MuiIer and Alton b. Parker and
was cashed by John Keenan, the alleged Doodle
holder in the Broadway Railway scandal Kee-
nan was afterward repaid by John OBrien Mr.
O Brien contributed $500. Alton B. Parker $500
and other friends Of the Governor similar
amounts. It to pay these notes that the
contract was awarded TO Clark & O'Brien.
though their bid was $4,000 above the lowest
for Mayor Grace and Squire Commissioner Of
Public Works. testified that they were asked
70 vote IN favor Of that bid order that the
Governors notes might be paid. The testimony
also showed that both notes Were finally paid bv
O Brien & Clark, presumably out OF the $50 600
profit made on that bid"
Attacking Theodore Roosevelt as friend of
the trusts, che only President who ACCOMPLISHED
anything along rational lines of regulation ard
who graPpied with them in the days OF their
greatest prosperity and power, is like attacking
Abraham Lincoln as the friend of human
slavery
Let me repeat an expression Of President
Roosevelt made in my presence while the
Northern Securities case was pending in the
Supreme Court He said:
when ! contemplate the possibility of few
men gathering into their hands all the power
and influence that would attsnd the unifica-
ton OF the railroads and industries of the cour-
cry through devices such the Northern Sc
curities Company, say 70 you that IL compelled
20 CHOOSE between victory in that case and the
nomination and election 10 the Presidency
would unhestatingIy choose a decision in
have the great satisfaction of knowing that
Sant matter"