The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-07-16
SAvoyard's View
 of the Situation
Washington Post.

Judge Parker was a long time siient, but when he did talk 1t was u,as a trumpet call, the language ana she inspiration of a leader. It reQuireo . strong. positive, stalwart. brave oratian . to send that message to the convensiiohh at St. Louis. It was as CleVelahuiSn as Cleveland himself. On Saturoay morning millions of our people awoKe from their slumbers to whom Alton 10. Parker was a stranger; but when tney knew the man and were well pleased MAmericanism." and the gentlemen tEs', an who Is now President of the the on'tSa of tSa article. Can he show finer specimen of 1t than this manly avowal or ms competitor? In comparison with !. how tame and how bizarre is the latest emanation from the storehouse Of Americah diplomacy--"Perdica aHVe or Raisouli dead"
 Judge Parkr's manifesto has the true ring. The spirit that dictates 1t will not submit to master. It win not grovel :for approval. It will nor cringe for thrift. All good Democrats are under obligation. to MT. Bryan for the opportunity to measure the man they have intrusted with more than the fortunes of Caesar. Where Is the man who would vote for Cleveland, who county looked on in astonishment and admiration as the candidate proclaim ed his sentimnts touching matter his party had lodged in convention. They candid man.. Is he as brave and as candid as Parker? Time will tell. What does he think of the things his party has dodged in convention? Is l dead. or does 1t merly sleep? How about reciprocity? Is he for the Dal. zell sort, or the Kasson sort? How about closer trade relations with Can od do ttA tion that nominated Colonel Roosevelt lodged. They present issues as acute as right and wrong. Will President Roosevelt dodge them. or will he be as brave as his competitor and face them" We shall see.
 The Democratic convention perform ed its labors admirably, and the very | in the Democratic creed it is no longer crime to be right. Even Champ Clark walked the tightrope of sagacity without falling off and breaking his neck. Sane and safe-such again is Democracy! Saturday morning the smile on the Republican countenance was as broad as the Atlantic Ocean: Sunday morning the face of the c. O. P. was as long as the Mississippi River. And thus the issues are what they should be-all they could possibly be. Is the Republican candidate fit. and | are the Republican policies best? Shall the President of the United States be | bound by the law of the land? Shall 1 the tariff be moderated in any particu- | lar? Shall there be honesty in Federal administration and economy in Con- gressional appropriations? Shall Con- | gress investigate notorious and con- fessed rascality in executive depart | ments? Shall we tell what we intend to do with the country and the peoples we have bought on the other side of the globe? These are burning issues. but chief and paramount among them are these two-Rooseve1t's individuali- ties and tariff robberies.
 On these issues the Democratic party, sane and safe, goes to the country and makes it's appeal in confidence of the result. after full. fair, frank discussion of them. We have seen that the Dem ocratic candidate will not dodge nor let his party dodge. We have seen tho thing possible, and make a platform | of insincerity and mendacity, and they pride themselves on the insolence and blasphemy of their pretense that they junior partner. The hand of Lodge
 traced it. but the spirit of Blifl in
 spired 1t. This platform will never be
 complete till Theodore Roosevelt tells
 When we come to think all about it.
 1t was a great deal to expect from tn
 Democratic National Convention Of | lSU4, straight SOlO pldnK m the plat
 form. Perhaps MT. Bryan wis the only
 man there who did not know that 1t
 to 1 is as dead as secession as a politi-
 cal issue If the North were to secede
 from the Union next winter. secession
 would be alive and triumphant. If
 Congress were to enact and the Presl-
 dent approve 16 to 1, 1t. too, would bt
 alive and triumphant. One of these Is
 just as liable to happen as the other
 Both are practically impossible.
 Nobody supposes that South Caro- lima or Mississippi has the remotest idoa
 of seeding from the Union; but I doubt
 very much if you could get South Car
 ollna or Mississippi to condemn seces'
 sion by solemn resolution. It would
 reflect too much on those who led tn,
 South in days of trial. And 1t was tha
 that interposed at St. Louis to prevent
 the formal recognition of a fact as sc
 curely established ani as inexorabl'
 as any in political economy. But Judg'
 Parker cured 1t.
 The heart of the old Confederate vet eran swells with pride and his eye:
 suffuse with tears when he behold. the tattered old battle flag he followed
 to glory and defeat. but 1t would be :
 churl who would deny him the melan
 choly pleasure of contemplating tn, emblem that stands for what is to hin
 so much sacrifice and what is to all st much valor. Doubtless our brethren the 16 to 1-ers. feel something lik, that. and they should be let down eas! l rom the IOllleS or lS9b ana lHOO. Eng land had no more loyal sons than thos
 irreconcilable old squires who filled tn
 October Club and drank bumpers t.
 the king over the water. The ques tion is not what our brothers wer
 eight years ago, or four years ago, bu are they sane and safe now?
 Thanks to a Democratic President tn . public credit Is established on d ba s } of gold-saved from the cruel and felol assaults dealt It by the Republican
 party in the Republican Fifty-firs Congress. The Sherman silver law
 for which no Democrat voted in eithe
 House. put the Treasury on the silve , basis and precipitated a disastrous
 money panic. Practically 1t demone 5 tized gold. Actually 1t impaired tn 3 public credit, and It would have com pletely Mexicanized our finances Grover Cleveland had not interpose, to undo what the Republican party ha, done. It was heroic statesmanship- that extra session of the Fifty-thr
 Congress-when Grover Clevelan
 forced John Sherman, Nelson w. Al 7 drich. William B. Allison, William F , Chandler, Matthew s. Quay. Williai P. Frye. and Henry Cabot Lodge, in tn
 Dlngley, Julius C. Burrows. John Dai zell, W. Peter Hepburn Serene F. t Payne, Charles II. Grosvenor, and Jo l seph G. Cannon In the House. to wal
 up to the desk and expunge the repu
 diation they had writ large in the laN
 of the land in 1890.
 Y No wonder they hate him. It is til hatred of fear. and will not be as E erable and mendacious reference to tn
 sales of bonds in the Republican plat