Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1904-10-21

Nor Sane.
Although the Republican party well
comes comparison of the character
and personality of its candidates with
chose OF the candidates of the St Louis
convention. it prefers TO urge the cleo
ton OF Roosevelt and Fairbanks as fit
ting representatives and Instruments Of
the party's policies and intentions.
IL it were true. which it is not, that
there is anything in the career Of Judge
Alton y. Parker to justify the conten
Sioa Shat he would make a 'saner and
safer President than Theodore Roose
Welt the fact would remain, that. tied
up with the Democratic party. Moses
with the modern equipment OF Glad
stone, could not insure as safe and sane
q government as the Republican party
&7as administered under President Roose-
welt
lit is not pretended that Judge Parker
possesses any superiority of statecraft,
character or experience to Grover Cleve-
land. In fact, he has been accepted by
the conservative elements OF Democracy
IS a disappointing alternative for the
ponderous oracle of Buzzards Bay. and
he has only been accepted by the radical
or Bryan element of the party. because
he had demonstrated the lack of Cleve-
lands safety and sanity by voting for
free silver in 1896 and 1900.
La these two votes the proof is conn
piete that there is nothing in Judge
Parker's convictions, character or con-
acieace to promise anything better. should
he he elected. than weak. yacllatng
and reactionary Democratic administra-
tioA.
Worse than this, whatever may be
eheught of Judge Parker's personal char
acter and ability, he stands before. the
world as the presidential creation of
David r. Hill, and his chief associates
and advisers since his nomination have
bean Hill Bill" Sheehan. pat" Me-
Carreu, Charlie" Murphy and Others
of the Manhattan brand of Tammany
statesmen for revenue only.
"Mr.-Facing- Both Ways"
Nothing in his campaign utterances
has suggested that Judge Parker pos
sesses any of the stern attributes of
leadership that bind parties to the will
of strong, conservative, conscientious
Chief On the contrary he has earned
the sobriquet. bestowed upon him by
Speaker Cannon, of "Mr.Facing Both
Ways"
Therefore vote for the safe and
sane Parker and his octogenarian mate
fs only TO be justified by trust in the
safety and sanity of the party whose
nominees they are.
For forty years-barring the two
Cleveland intervals--the Democracy has
been excluded from power, because the
American people have mistrusted its
safety. its sincerity and its sanity. Dur
ting all that period it has embraced with
I'm it's ranks nearly all the elements OF
discomfort, discord aud reaction that are
the signs and proofs of hopeless politi-
cal stagnsncy and decay.
As a party it threw every impeachment
within It's reach in the way of the ener-
Getic prosecution Of the war for the
preservation of the Union.
That the reader may understand that
Abe Democratic leopard has not changed
its spots in forty years it may be re-
called that on July . 1864. the Demo-
cratic members Of Congress put forth
an address to the people Of the United
States in which. according to George
William Curtis in Harper's Monthly,
President Lincoln was charged with the
crxr0sSiaent of power; with military in
reference in elections; with the crea-
ing troops; with unnecessary and hateful
transcription; with the payment of ex-
orbstsat bounties; with employing colored
troops on an equality with white soldiers
with setting up false and ruinous finan-
ciai system: with placing us in peril Of
Foreign interference: with endeavoring to
corrupt the race by amalgamation with
uexrocs"
Ir August of that same year August
Belmont. whose son is now pulling wires
behind the sphinx of Es6pus," as tenn
p0rarg chairman of the Democratic Ma
tisuai Convention, said that -four years
eff uaisrule BY a sectional, fanatical and
corrupt party had brought our country
60 the verge of ruin. The past and pres
emf are sufficient warnings of the dis
NstrSrs consequences which would befal
Us Is Is. Lncoln's reelection should be
made possible by our want Of patriotism
and uRity."
Seymour's Sentiments.
H0ratio Seymour. in his speech as
permanent chairman OF the same con
veution. inveighed bitterly against lin
coins administration aud the Republican
party. saying They were animated by
intolerance and fanatieism. and blinded
BY an ignorance OF the spirit of our in
atatutians, the character of our people
and the condition of our land" "Step by
step" he continued, they have marched
On to results from which at the outset
sAey would have shrunk with horror
and even now when war has desolated
orr la0d, has laid its heavy burdens upon
labor, and when bankruptcy and ruin
overriding as. they will not have the union
restored except upon conditions unknown
-. ~ 4 ] u
demanding the restoration OF the Union
Shr0agh the unconditional surrender of
the principle of national self-preserya-
Zion and ''rhe full recognition of the
Gights ef the States" demanded by the
0eop5e OF the South
These speeches OF Belmont and Sey
gn0ar-the prototypes of the Belmonts
and Hills. organs and Ben Tillmans
Hayrko (,Seisraus and Carl SchurzeS Of