The true northerner. [volume] (Paw Paw, Mich.) 1855-1920, 1904-07-22
Ed +orioI Comment.
Divided Worse Than Ever.

From the St. Louis Globe Democrat
The sneaking manner in which the
Hill faction of the democratic party
handled its strength in the national con-
vention has served to put the party in a
chaotic condition. Such an irrepressible
conflict as has long existed in the dem
ocracy must be fought out to a definite
conclusion 1t cannot be compromised,
because the elements will not mingle.
One side or the other must submit be-
fore a common basis can be reached.
The National convention tricked it
self through the skulking course of the
leader Of the majority, Hill, the chief
representative and closest friend of Par
ker. Hills record as a politician sufli-
GENTLY shows his innate, tenperamental
crookedness, and those who select him
as their party spokesman must have,
when it comes to essential qualities a
makeup of the same kind. The ridicu-
lous claim is heard that Parker spoke
out like a man" Not one word did he
utter on the subject of finance or any
thing else until after he had received the
nomination, which was the real prize in
the estimation of himself and Hill, for
the prospect of the election of any demo-
cratic candidate was small. Control of
the party machinery was the first OBJ
jective of Hill and his dummy, the can
didate who said nothing until after he
was nominated.
If the people of the United States
were without intelligence they might
be tricked by the telegram of Parker
to the convention latter he became the
nominee), and the reply of the conven-
ton prepared by the Hill side and tele-
graphed back. The statement in the
convention telegram that 1.-The platform
adopted by this convention is silent on
the question of the monetary standard
because it is not regarded by us as a
possible issue in this campaign is so
paipable an untruth that it will stand
as an amazing instance of deliberate
falsehood in public affairs. 1t defes
common sense by its cold blooded rever-
sal of the facts known to all men. The
committee on resolutions rejected a gold
plank by vote of 80 to ID, more than
two to one, and the struggle on this
point lasted almost through an entire
day and night. After the sentiment OF
the committee was fully tested the fin
ancial question was dropped out of the
platform, not because it was not an issue
but because it was too hot an issue to be
allowed to go to the convention floor.
There is no financial plank in the dem
ocratic platform of 1904. The candidate
has stated his financial position, after
the nomination and after the convention
had unanimously adopted the platform
as it came from the committee. Parker
bolted the platform, and the majority of
the convention, in view of the plight of
the party, sustained him in that post.
norton act. What will the party do?
What can it do hut align itself anew over
this widened and widening breach? The
masses of the organization will now deal
with the course pursued by their latest
national convention and will not fail to
see the trickery and falsehood attempted
upon them. Few, indeed, are the vot-
ers in any party who will back up an un-
truth, and falsehood of extraordinary
boldness marks the final phase of the
democratic national convention.