New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-09-05
THE PARTY or NULLIFICATIoN

The Evening Post" has plucked up courage
to deprecate mildly the notification programme
of Mr. Edward NJ Shepard and the negro bait
ing campaign of Senator German in behalf of
Judge Parker. 1t is easy TO understand its dis
may al The course of the Democratic leaders in
obedience 10 their platform, expressed in tho
declaration: The simple truth IS that there is
no issue so full of dynamite for the Democrats
as this of the negro ana his rights
The simple truth is that there is no issue So
full of dynamite for The Evening Post in its
capacity as a supporter of Judge Parker as this
one Of the negro and his rights. Naturally it
does not want its friends TO make the inconsist-
eucies of its position any more humiating than
they are at present. The Evening Post has
declared, with special reference to Judge
Parker, that any man who could consent to the
local notification of national laws was mot fit
''to be President next year. or any year" Judge
Parker went 10 Georgia and made q speech on
the Fourteenth Amendment which clearly
showed by its characteristic silonces and signifi
cant evasions that he consented to the nuIlifca-
ton IN question, and The Evening Post
thought so al the time and frankly expressed its
disgust. 1t has since professed not to know
that he consented TO the notification. Yet he
pronounces admirable the Democratic plat
form which demands such notification. and
The Evening Post" though repeatedly urged
has not dared to say that IN view of that
action he was not under the ban Of its condcm-
nation as a man mot fit to be President next
year, or any year" Not only does he stand on
the notification platform, but the principal ar
gument of his campaign in States from which
he expects more than half the electoral votes
needed for an election is based on a truculent
demand for liberty to nulify the Constitution Of
the United States. His most ardent advocates in
this State are also nullifiers. Senator Bailey
opens his campaign here with adhesion to the
notification doctrine and Mr.. Shepard follows
in Vermont. His associate the ticket, Mr..
Davis. frankly avows himself a nulIifier but for
polite reasons suppressed notification plank
from the West Virginia platform Does The
Evening Post" think it put itself right by
a mild dissent from the acts Of Mr.. Shepard and
a few other individuals?
The whole Democratic party. platform, lead
ers and candidates are committed to nullilica-
ton more firmly than they are to any other one
doctrine. AS to what Democracy means CON
corning the tariff, the Philippines. or the
trusts, even the party organs are in dispute,
but there is no difference of opinion about multi
ficatiOn of the Constitution There its position
is unequiyocal in the maintenance Of doctrines
which THE Evening Post" says render man
who holds them unfit TO be President next
year, or any year" What inconsistency.
amounting to ehrontery, then, IS it for 1.-THE
Evening Post" any Democrat to advo-
cate Democratic victory and the election Of
Judge Parker under pretence Of special concern
for the preservation of the Constitution! What
utter premeditated humbug is it's hierophantic
enthusiasm for constitution clubs! Under cover
of a devoted campaign against ''lawlessness' it
stands for party of notification, and It does
not dare deny that it considers its candidate,
because of his adherence to the notification
platform. mot fit to be President next year. or