The Elbert County tribune., 1904-10-20


Although the Republican party wei
comes a comparison of the character
and personally of its candidates with
those of the candidates of the st Louis
convention. 1t prefers to urge the cleo
ton OF Roosevelt and FAIRBANKS as fir
ting Representatives and Instruments of
the party's policies and intentions.
II it were true, which it is not. that
there as anything in the career of Judge
Alton B. Parker to Justify the conten-
eion that he would make a ..saner and
enfer'' President than Theodore Roose-
welt, the fact would remain. that. ried
up with the Democratic party. n Moses
with the modern equipment of a Glad
stone, could not insure safe and sane
n government as the Republican party
has administered under President Roose
Welt
1t is not pretended that Judge Parker
possesses any superiority of statecraft.
character or experience to Grover Cleye-
land In fact he has been accepted by
the conservative elements of Democracy
as disappointing alternative for the
Fonderous oracle of Buzzard's Bay, and
he has only been accepted by the radical
or Bryan element of the party. because
me had demonstrated the lack of Cleve-
lands safety and sanity by voting for
free 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-
science to promise anything better, should
he be elected, than a weak, vacillating
end reactionary Democratic administra-
ton
Worse than this, whatever may be
thought OF Judge Parker's personal char
scter and ability, he stands before the
world as the presidential creation of
David b. Hill, and his chief associates
and advisers since his nominal ton have
been Hill, "Billn Sheehan, Pat" Nc
Carren, "Charle" Murphy and others
OF the Manhattan brand of Tammany
statesmen for revenue only.
"Mr-Faciuy- Hoth. w.x.v
Nothing in his campairn utteronces
has .npqested that Judge Parker nos
srsse- anv az tbe stern attributes Of
leax3.rsb;n tho, hind ortias 10 tho will
OF a strong conservatives conscientious
f-hief On the contrnrv he hos a,rned
the sohriop.t bestowed nnon him Inv
Sneaker Cannon Of Nr-Fscine-Roth-
wax',
Th.r.tor. vote for III. "s.fs and
sane, PARKER and his octogenar;an mate
Is only to he justified by trust in the
safety and sanity Of the marty whose
uou,inees they are
For forty years-barrinp the two
Cleveland intervals-the Democracy has
been excluded from power. because the
Arnerican neonle have mistrusted IT'S
xafety it's sincerity and its SANITY. Dur-
ing ali that period it In. embraced with
in it's ranks nearly all the elements of
discomfort. discord and reaction that are
the signs and proofs of hopeless politi-
cal sta xnancv and decay.
As a party il threw every impediment
within it's reach in the way of the ener-
xetic prosecution of the war for the
preservation Of the Union.
That the reader NAV understand that
the Democratic leopard has not changed
it's spots in forty years it may be re-
called that on July 2. 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 Harper's Monthly
President Lincoln was charged with the
engrossment of power; with military in
conference in elections; with the crea-
ton of bogus States with Illegally rails
ing troops; with unnecessary and hateful
conscription; with the payment of ex-
orbitant bounties; with employing colored
troops on an equality with white soldiers;
with setting up a false and ruinous finan-
ciaI system; with placing us in peril Of
foreign interference; with endenvoring 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 Democra tic Ma
tionaI Convention, said that -four years
of nisrule by a sectional, fanatical and
corrupt party had brought our country
TO the verge of ruin. The past and pres