Democratic messenger. [volume] (Snow Hill, Md.) 1869-1973, 1904-08-20
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
WHY THE HERALD WILL sup.
PORT THE DEMOCRATIC
TICKET.

Hundreds of the great daily
newspapers that refused to
support the Democratic ticket
four years ago are now out for
Parker and Roosevelt. This
week the Baltimore Morning
Herald, an independent journal,
falls into line. The Herald gives
the following reasons for its
action:
can independent newspaper
cannot be neutral in a presi-
Dental contest. During the
last two campaigns the Hearii
supported the Republican tick
ct. So long as the silver ques-
ton remained there was no
other course. This year that
fantasy which once afflicted
both parties-has been happily
eliminated by the bold and en-
lightened action of the Demo-
cratic candidate. There is no
longer any doubt as to the
money standard of the United
States, and he is a simpleton
who pretends a Democratic
victory in November means
any serious difference in the
financial policy of the nation.
Both parties have out-grown
the silver folly. The Republi-
cans were fortunate enough to
be first. and Mckinley, who
voted and talked for silver, be-
came the gold standard bearer.
Even the always delightful
"Joe" Cannon, who used to
prate of silver in Illinois and
who favored it in and out of
Congress, has become so thor
oughly converted that he talks
of gold as though his country
men had forgotten his record
and the record of his fellow
Republicans. Silver as an issue
has passed just as other
chimeras have passed.
With this question out of the
way every newspaper as well
as every voter with a mind and
able to use it must carefully
examine the merits and prom
Uses of the two parties which
ask for the public confidence
and support. Almost without
exception the independent
newspapers in the country
which have done this have de-
cided to favor the ele ction of
Parker and Davis. There is, in
fact, no alternative if judgment
and conscience be followed.
We are entirely willing to con-
cede to President Roosevelt
we need not count Mr.. Fair
banks, of Indiana-all that his
friends claim for him; we have
for the man firm respect, and
we believe he is honest and
sincere, but we prefer for the
presidency of this great nation
a steady, strong man of judicial
qualities who in calm and
storm will guide the ship of
state by the chart of the consti
tuition insteap of changing his
course with every stiff breeze
for the exhilaration of "doing
things" Judge Parker has
kept his head in every emer-
gency of his public life; has
President Roosevelt done the
same? With Judge Parker in
command there will be no fears
of such melodrama as the ad-
ministration's dispatch. eve
want Perdicaris living or
Raisouli dead" repeated to a
national convention for a round
of applause at the expense of
the national pride.
We waited for Judge Parker's
speech of acceptance, and we
have read and reread it with
increasing satisfaction. Those
persons who are writing or say
ing slurring things about it
either have not read it or are
purposely misrepresenting it.
We invite our readers to re-
move any doubts they may
have by another diligent pc
rusal of this most excellent
document. They will find there
not only sound thought but
high thought, not only common
sense but uncommon judgment.
There is q line i'm an old essay
which says: Judgment, for
the most part, ripens very slow
ly, fancy often expands her