Idaho Springs siftings., 1904-10-22

sent Opposition IL Neither ssfs
Nor Sane.
AhhsuEh the Republican party wei
comes a comparison Of the character
and personality of ats candidates with
rlese of the candidates of the St Louis
convention, 1t prefers 70 urge the cleo
ton OF Roosevelt and Fairbanks as fit
tipg representatives and Instruments of
the party's policies and intentions.
IL IL were true. which il is not, that
there ID anything In the career of Judge
Alton Il. Parker 10 justify the conten-
sson that he would make "saner and
safer President than Theodore Roose-
veSt, the fact would remain. that. tied
sp with the Democratic party. Moses
with the modern equipment of 4 Glad
ssne. could not insure as safe and sane
q government as the Republican party
has administered under President Rcose-
velt
IL Ss not pretended that Judge Parker
possesses any superiority Of statecraft,
character or experience To Grover Cleve-
land In fact. he has been accepted by
the conservative elements OF Democracy
as q disappointing alternative for the
ponderous oracle of Buzzard's Bay, and
ne has only been accepted by the radical
or Bryan element OF the party. because
ne had demonstrated the lack OF Cleve-
lands safety and sanity by voting for
tree silver in 1896 and 1900.
In these two votes the proof is com
plete that there is nothing in Judge
Parker's convictions. character or con-
seieAes to promise anything better. should
be be elected. than weak. vseillating
sd reactionary Democratic administra-
ioa-
Verse than this, whatever may be
sbought of Judge Parker's personal char
sctcr and ability. he stands before the
world as rhe presidential creation of
David h. Hill. and his chief associates
and advisers since his nomination have
been Hill, "BiT' Sheehan. Pat" Nc
Carrea, Charlie" Murphy and others
Of the Manhattan brand of Tammany
stssesmen for revenue only.
"Mr.-Yacinx- both Ways"
Nsthing in his campaign utterances
has suggested that Judge Parker pos
sesses any OF the stern attributes Of
leadership that bind parties to the will
of q strong. conservative. conscientious
chief. On the contrary he has earned
she sobriquet. bestowed upon him hy
Speaker Cannon. OF 'Mr.-Faeing Both
Ways"
Therefore a vote for the safe sud
sane" Parker and his octogenarian mate
u only to be justified by trust in the
safety and sanity of the party whose
nominees they are.
For forty years-barring the two
Cleveland intervals--the Democracy has
been excluded from power. because the
Americas people have mistrusted its
safety. its sincerity and It's sanity. Dur
ing all that period ii has embraced with
IN its ranks nearly all the elements OF
discomfort. discord and reaction that are
the signs and proofs of hopeless politi-
cal rtagnancy aud decay.
As party il threw every impediment
within its reach in the way OF the ener-
getic prosecution OF the war for the
preservation Of the Union.
That the reader may understand that
the Democratic leopard has not changed
IN spots in forty years il may be re
called that on July =. 1864, the Demo
cratic members of Congress put forth
an address to the people of the United
States in which. according TO George
William Curtis in Iisrper's Monthly.
President Lincoln was charged with the
ensrossment OF power; with military in
reference in elections: with the crea-
tion Of bogus State: with Illegally rails
ing troops: with unnecessary and hateful
conscription. wlth the payment OF ex-
orbitant bonnties; with employing colored
troops on an equality with white soldiers,
with setting up a false and ruinous tinan-
cal system: with placing US in peril of
foreign interference: with endeavoring TO
corrupt the race by amalgamation with
negroes"
In August Of that same year August
Belmont. whose son is now pulling wires
behind the sphinx Of Esopus.' as tenn
porary chairman of the Democratic Ma
6onal Convention. said that -four years
of misrule by a sectional. fanatical and
corrupt party had brought our country
10 the verge Of ruin. The past and pres
eAt are sufficient warnings of the dis
astreRs consequences which would befall
us il Nr Lincoln's reelection should be
made possible by our want Of patriotism
sDd unity"
Seymnur's Sentiments.
Heratio Seymour. in his speech as
permanent chairman OF the same con
vention, inveighed bitterly against Lin
coins administration and the Republican
party, saying: They were animated by
intolerance and fanaticism. and blinded
by an ignorance Of the spirit Of our in
stitutions, the character of our people
and the condition Of our land. Step by
step" he continued. they have marched
on 10 results from which at the outset
they wonid have shrunk with horror;
and even now when war has desolated
cur land, has laid its heavy burdens upon
labor, and when bankruptcy and ruin
sverhang US, they will not have the union
restored except upon conditions unknown
70 the Constitution" He concluded by
demanding the restoration Of the Union
through the unconditional surrender OF
the principle OF national self-preserva-
ton and ..the full recognition OF the
rights Of the States" demanded by the
people Of the South