The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1904-11-02
FIRST PREDICTION
Made By Judgs Parker In En- Address
to Farmers.

Made By Judge Parker In En- Address
to Farmers
TAKES REPUBLICANS TO TASK
Parker Says the Trust o fl cials
Are Active in Behalf Of His
Opponent. Those Expen.
stve Cablegrams.
Judge Parker Friday made his first
public prediction as to the outcome OF
the election. Ia his speech at E opus,
N. Y, where he lives to delegations
composed largely Of fa:me:s from
Orange and Roekla1d counties, New
York, he interpnlated toe following:
Before takirg up the subject [
wish to discuss l want to assure you
that If we work hard enough. if we
each do our part, we can win t4is
fight. I have oct felt like s;ying SO
until lately but We are growing 50
rapidly tnat if our pecp'e do their
best do believe victory Will be ours. y
Judge Parker said:
No more satisfactory evidence OF
the widespread puolic interest in tie
attempt to control the election by
moneys OF great corporations and
trusts need be looked FOR than that
furnished by the president and his
late attorney general, Kuox. Knox
was bidden to the presence Of tie
president for a consultation. About
what? About the .ioiquitY OF the
large contributions? Con ributions
being made by gigantic corporations
and trusts? Mt at all. But rather
to devise means by which the TO ce of
the statement OF this com monty &C
cepted fact could be parriel. Tae
outcome was an interview b. Senator
Knox.
Now this long statement Of Sena-
tor Knox has a. thing whatever to do
with the question uppelmoSt in the
public mind.
Shall the creations Of government,
many Of which pursue illegal methods
control our elections, coatrol them
by moneys belonging to their stock.
holders not given in the
open, and charged upon the books as
moneys paid for political purposes,
but hidden away by false bookkeep.
ing.
A CLOUD OF DUST.
This interview was intended to
create cloud Of dust behind which
he hoped to hi6s the charge he did moi
answer, and could not answer. That
charge is that vast sums Of money
have been contributed for the control
OF this election In aid Of the admins
tration by corporations and trusts. d
Ju6ge Parker said trust officials were
active in behalf of his opponent and
continues: THAT activity m; ~ per.
haps account in no small measure TO:
the ability OF both the PApulist an6
Socialist a ties to prosecute pen.
sive campaigus-caupaig; that ap
pear to be prosecuted largely in aio
OF the Repu olican party.
Toe administration also pits out
cablegram fro n Gov. Wright, Of tbs
Philippine commission, in reply tC
some quotations made by me in q
speech delivered on the 18th aSy q
October. The words quoted were ths
careful utterances OF a man who has
spent four months in the Philippine
studying the cvnditious there. He j.
voucned for by Charles Fracc
Adams, Carl Scburz, EiW;n Bucritt
Smith, Herbert Welsh and Mo rhsld
Storey. I ask you, and through you
the American people, to examine Gov.
Wright's cablegram in connection
with that report and then ans gel
these questions:
"Do you believe the man thus
vouched for by six Of the best cit'z.rs
in this country? WHICH is likely to be
prejudiced-the man having no mo.
tive but to learn the truth, or the go:-
ernor who may be in some measure re-
sponsible for unfortunate c ndi.it Us?
Is the governors repo!t of such
character as to justify an expenditure
by the government Of several hundred
dollars to csble part OF ny speech to
Manila and to receive his reply by
cable? 1t was not government busi-
ness. 1t was political business.
TEE PEOPLES MONEY.
If a few hundred dollars nay be
t.ken out from the public funds to as.
sist the prosecution Of political cam
paign why may not the money in the
treasury b. employed for any purpose
that will help the campaign? How d.
we know but it is?
This is one Of the evidences Of the
growth OF imperialism.
"The head OF the government can
do no wrong
"An assault upon this policy is an
assault upon the people aad hence the
peoples money can be legitimately
used for its vindication.
my speech charging adninistra.
tive extravaganza seems also to have
created some excitement At this uime