Fergus County argus. [volume] (Lewistown, Mont.) 1886-1946, 1904-07-27
PARKER OR ROOSEVELT.
Questions Presented to the Citizen in
the Presidential Contest.

Questions Presented to the Citizen in
the Presidential Contest.
(Goodwin's salt Lake Weekly.)
Judge Parker is a superb lawyer,
an eminent judge. Conceding that to
the full extent claimed by his friends,
conceding his ability as a lawyer, his
character as a man, his perfect re-
spectability al a citizen, and then
what? We have more than one just
such nan in this city, so has every
city of u broad country. That the
honor of a nomination for president
OF the United states was conferred
upon him was because of what? His
supposed availability, nothing else.
Had he been a citizen of Vermont or
Michigan or Tennessee, he would
never have been thought of. But a
few ~financiers in the great eastern
money centers made a determination
that if possible President Roosevelt
should be defeated next November.
They determined that, if possible, the
corruptible vote of enough Northern
states should be purchased to defeat
him. and they TUNED to Judge Parker
as to one against whom nothing can
be urged and carried their point so
far as the nomination was concerned.
No expression of opinion has as yet
been vouchsafed by Judge Parker.
His managers merely told him to
keep still and he obeyed them. The
is that he is an in%corruptible judge.
But that could be said of a thousand
others. The only thing that can be
urged against him Is what was urged
against "Old Dog Tray'-his COM
pany is not of the highest. The coun-
try distrusts Hill and Belmont and
the other interest-gatherers who
brought out Judge Parker, but the
convention shouted for Parker be.
cause he had behind him the shouts
of New York and Pennsylvania and
before their eyes swan the vision OF
unlimited millions to be expended in
the campaign. The first question is,
why do those interest-gatherers so
much desire President R~oosevelt's
defeat? Why are they willing to eX-
pend so much money to compass, if
possible, that defeat? Is it not be.
cause they ann use him? Has he
ever asked anything of them that was
unfair? Has he in any way offended
them except to demand and insist
upon honesty on their part? III not,
then what will be the immediate con
clusion about the n they favor?
Behind him is the vision of Hill and
Belmont and the other money mag
mates and interest-gatherers. People
can already see in fancy who would
be his chief advisers were ne to be
elected. We believe that the more
they study that vision the more viii
they turn away from il.
On the other hand, they will turn
to Theodore Roosevelt and the mer
behind him. First, there is the man
the scholar. the author, the university
graduate. the graduated hunter ant
cowboy, the soldier, who when his
country called, pushed his way to the
front against the wishes of his su
periors. who courted all that there
was OF glory and of danger in the
war, and who. returning. the people
of his native state honored with
governorship despite those same ma
n~ipulators who ale fighting him now
! Who In every station has been true
to both duty and his oath, who stands
where he has stood since boyhood il
the full effulgenCe of the light. Ant
what do his enemies charge agains
him? Do they impeach his integrity
Do they doubt his courage? DO the!
question his a~il-embracing patriotism
? He bent his energies and his officia
| influence to put an end to a disas
! trous coal strike in Pennsylvania
For that he Is called a usurper. HI
refused to interfere in the contest il
l Colorado, where the state government
is seeking to restore order and thu
f sovereignty of the laws; for that h
is called the slave OF the capita
crowd. When %acceding to the presl
dency, over the casket that held thu
ashes of President Mckinley, III
pledged himself to carry forward ev
cry policy Of the dead president. Hal
he failed? What do the officers o
his official household say on tina
5 point?
| 1t is charged that he is aggressive
Is that a bad trait when held in re
straint? That he would welcome f;
; war. What proof is there of that
y except as a last resort? Is not Judg,
Parker that way? If not does he ex
, pect the support Of an aggressive
people? But beyond the candidate
what? Would the people like to Sc,
@ Mr.. Hay lay down the portfolio o
state that Mr.. Till might pick it up
n Would they care to see Mr.. Belmon
secretary of the treasury? DO the.
want another Wilson tariff bill? ID,
hey desire to sec what has been dom
g in the Philippines undone?
The Roosevelt star is still in the as
CCndant.