Tazewell Republican. [volume] (Tazewell, Va.) 1892-1919, 1904-08-11
Judge Parker's Friends.
New York Tribune.

Judge Parker's Friends.
New York Tribune.
Some Of the fasudous of Judge Parker's
supporters seem to be dissatisfied With the
company he keeps. They think that Hill
and Sheehan McCarren aud Belmont are
all we'll enough for practical workers In
the subterranean department but that it
would more beft the dignity of the hero
of the bloody charge OIL the Esopus tele-
graph station to he photographed on the
Rosemount veranda in the company OF
high toned statesmen like Judge Gray, Mr..
Olney, Mr.. Carlisle, Mr.. Judson Harmon,
Mr.. Charles S. Fairchild, Mr.. William B.
Hornblower and Mr.. Edward M. Shepard.
This is a natural aspiration on the part
of high minded democrats which finds ex-
preston ia the columns of our neighbor,
"The Times" We ourselves on the morn
ing after Judge Parker's nominations,
while paying cordial tribute to the person
al character of the candid tie, pointed out
that he had trained in bad political COM
pany. We had expected that our Demo-
cratic friends, after the passing OF their
first Impotence with any reservations in
the praise of their new made hero and all
his doing, would come around to see that
something besides one telegram exactly
such as had been beforehand proclaimed
by the Democratic press to be the only es-
cape from disgraceful defeat was needed
to make good enough" saint to last
until after election. We had not, however,
looked to see them quite so soon dissatls-
fed with their new idol or 80 openly
seeking to lift him out of his natural
environment. They might, indeed, have
occasion to rejoice if the pilgrims to
Esopus were not 80 predominantly OF the
peanut politicians type. But what right
have they to expect anything else? When
has Judge Parker failed to make such men
his closest political friends?
The early public life of Judge Parker
Was spent az the cloee friend and CON-
panion of David B. Hill, and he was the
manager of one of Hills campaigns. de
was nominated for his present office by
Hill. When Bryan was nominated, IN
stead of standing with the Fairchllds and
HornbIowers for honest money, he fol-
lowed Hill in supporting Bryan, whether
with Hills insincerity or because he then
believed in free silver We know not. When
he was talked of as a candidate for Presl-
dent. did he send for Statesmen such as
our Democratic friends are urging should
now be summoned to Esopus to counter
balance the unpleasant impression made
by the machine manipulators, and discuss
with them the large principles, mot from
the point of view of expediency, but from
the point of view of eternal right and
wrong, from the point of view of the peace
the security and the prosperity of the
nation and the welfare, comfort and hap
piness of its people" on which his cam
psign should be based? No He in
trusted to "Daye" Hill the work Of cor
railing delegates and closeted himself with
"Billy" Sheehan to prepare platform for
the New York convention which, by be-
ing silent on the money question should
make him the candidate of Belmonts
Wall Street friends without sntagonizing
the Bryanites.
He chose as one of his most intimate
friends Elliot Dahforth, the election thief,
and sent him south with tender messages:
"Eliot, they are a great people; they are
the countrymen Of Washington and JEFF
ferson, and Madison, and Jackson, and
Lee" Then, when the convention assem-
bled at St. Louis, did he haYe man OF
principle like Mr.. Hornblower to repre-
sent him in the committee on resolutions?
mol "Daye" Hull was there with bis
peanut politics of expediency to say that
he didn't know what thejudges principles
were. When he looked for a spokesman
in Brooklyn did he select statesman like
Mr.. Shepard to declare bis views9 No!
He picked up Martin Littleton to play to
the galleries with ,laptrap and assurance
to the delegates that Judge Parker had no
more fixed principles than they had.
For one brief moment, under the
urgency of "The World" THE Times"
and "lhe Evening POST" Judge Parker,
as an act of expedien;y emerged from his
surroundings, sent telegram and has re-
lapsed into silence and bis old companion
ships. How could anything else be ex-
pected? A nomination for the Presidency
will not change the habits of a lifetime
Roeemount may during the campaign
extend a gracious welcome to Gray, Oney,
Fairchild and the rest of the statesmen
and philosophers of Democracy, but the
real heart to heart talks will be with the
same old tried and trusted Hills, Sheehahs
Danforths and McCarrens who understand
the game of politics and who have so sue
cessfully piIoted the judge to this stage of
bis journey.