The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1904-09-11
The Cry Of the Sages.

The Democratic sages- at headquar-
tiers and elsewhere, including some of
the stern sitters on the editorial tripod,
look with a face of entreaty toward
Esopus. Something, much, is the mat
ter with the Democratic canvass. Cen
eral debility, vertigo, irritability, want
of coordination, &C symptoms of To-.
comotor ataxia, hot head and cold feet:'
the doctors disagree and the patient may
have more diseases than he knows.
Things are in bad way; that's sure.
The people refuse to rise. They grin
contemptuously at HENRY WATTERsoN's
Man on Horseback and all the other
figgers in the Bourbon museum. In the
most unfeeling manner they keep on
playing golf while the republic is tot
tering and militarism, with TARQbIN's
ravishing strides, stalks along the Demo-
cratic stereopticon. The grave and
reverend signiors of the Parker Con-
stitution Club are taking their usual
amount of aliment. To speak after the
fashion of the great Eighth Avenue tri-
bune of the people, there's @nothin'
doin' and the campaign is ION the
blink"
The vocal hair of SULzER means in
agony. Tickled TOM TAGGART's once
full fat set of smiles dies into wan and
nervous Singer
What's to be done and who's to do it?
Is the grand old tableau of Judge PAR
KER, majestic, silent his Foot upon a
a-L -I uon nd ho
ton bound in full law sheep, to be turned
wallward? Must the veil of neglect
cover that fine Rosemount group, sculp-
tured in butter, of judicial Dignity Para
Lying Unconstitutional Cowboyism? Do
even the sweet bleatings Of Mary Jane
fail to lure the Aagriculturalists, as
that callous-fisted juvenal the Hon.
HENRY GAssAwAY DAVIS calls them?
Yes and alas The summer is past,
the idyl is ended. The Still Strong Man
in a Blatant Land doesn't draw. The
Democratic sages are crying, Speech!l
Speech! They yell to the Judge, remote
in Rosemount:
Come down. dear Judge. from yondcr mountain
height.
Come town and take a brace and stump oh, come. I
More specifically: Come and make
a dozen or fifteen campaign speeches in
the leading cities In the States which are
strong fighting ground All aboard
for Baltimore, Parkersburg, Indianapo-,
lis, Chicago, Milwaukee, st. Louis, Kan.
sas City, Denver. For, as a Reporter
Sage in the Times says, the one thing
more than anything else that the people
of the country want to gee is the candi-
date and hear him speak on the issues
We are not surprised at this wild de-
sire to hear Judge PARKER pour forth.
the music and the magic that as yet
have been mostly prisoned in him. Who
that reads, can help hearing, rever-
berated from the sounding boards OF
memory, these strong and dear words,
from the speech to the itinerant editors? .
Il shall not take up your time. however. with /,
any reference TO the great issues upon which our
party, through Its platform and candidates, con.
ndenuy appeals to the people for Endorsement"
Judge PARKER may prefer the delights;
Of home to the rowing commission which.
the sages wish him to accept; but he must !.
be touched by the new proof of Demo-
cratic wisdom. In 1895 and 1900 Mr..
BRYAN filled the world with wind and
was heard by crowds innumerable.
Yet these sages yearn for more Demo-
cratic eloquenoo. Judge PARKER was
nominated as a great silent man. The
sages howl that he must talk.
The Democratic party grows more and
more like the Hon. .ARTEMus WARDS
Kangaroo.