New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-07-13
PUBLIC VIEUS OF PARKER.
THE WISE JUDGE AND HIS FOOL
FRIENDS.
A Question for Sober Men to Consider.
To the Editor OF The Tribune.


To the Editor OF The Tribune
Sir; 1 want 10 thank you for your editorials
on The action of the Democratic convention
and Its candidate, and for your refresh
ing freedom from sentimental gush and flap
doodle You have treated Judge Parker. per
sonaIly. with fairness and courtesy and also
VILE great generosity; and yet your dissection
o. the Claims set up for him by his ridiculous
boomers like The Evening Post" has been
nerciless in its accuracy
That paper has not only lost its head but il
evidently imagines its readers have lost their
memories. Here it is going into Mysteries over
the heaven-born leadership the nnasterful will
and the wisdom and power of a ruler Of men
VINO has electrified the world and revolutionizei
the Democratic party by seventy-fve words
about gold. And this is the same man who
was carefully set up candidate by his own
party in his own State for the purpose Of so
lclInS delegates from other States on u plat
form Thich did nor mention gold! Then this
same Evening Post boosted that that plat
FORM had Judge Parker's approval that he
cut all or Hills bats and lodges out of it." and
that 1t gave "a Trustworthy lane on his political
coHrictiORS." Then he must have had no con-
victions on gold. Is The Post" so deIirious that
II torgets its own solemn assurances of only two
months and half ago? It is very complimentary
10 you mat such paper should next show how
your articles have reached the raw" in its
Vt'uperative outbursts tonight. in which cal
uInhy and folly are evidently mixed. Your
readers viii recognize both: and so I beg you to
let me quote it:
Why should The Tribune fall into such d rage
at being thought capable, even rnomentarly of
d generous sentiment? on Sunday It Joined the
rest OF the applaudlng world in haiing Judge
Fa!ker as strong and brave man. Since then
II has been making itself both ludicrous and
contemptible by calling him a conspirator and
trlckster. It's garbling and Misrepresentation
go well with this afterthoUght defamation
Even that not enough to express its feel
!ags, and It rushed 10 its dictionary Of quota
tons,
This writhing IN vicious words merely shows
ITS anger at the detection Of the trick by which
its friend had proited. The truth is, there
never was 4 confidence game played on so gtgan-
tic scale as at St. Louis: or IN so spectacular
a manner, or with such astounding success. The
bucoHc statesmen from the South. the hayseeds
from the Middle West and the experienced
miners from the mountains have joined in buy
ing a gold brick.
To every question TO his political views
Judge Parker replied that he had nothing TO
say. His conddauts consulted with him. and
then set machinery at work to capture dele
gates FOR him throughout the country. They
pointed to the New-York platform as giving an
exact line on his position. Meanwhile to every
inquiry addressed to himself on disputed points
he still replied. II have nothing to say"
That threw inQUirers back on mis- political
record. II was short. He had once been elected
surrogate. he had managed campaigns FOR
David B. Hi after which Hin had appointed
him Judge. and he had twice voted for William
J. Bryan
What more natural than that the guiIeless
West and South should accept the assurance
made for him IN the nominating speech from
New-YorE. 10 the effect that he didn't believe
in debating the policies or hts party. but was
ready 10 accept the policy laid down In the
platform OF his party Moses. in The Vicar
Of Wakefield" was not more neatly taken in
with the green goggles. That. and the New
York platform. We're ample assurances rs to his
position, until the nomination was secured be-
yond possibility OF recall.
Now. the only practical thing in this whole
spectacular farce for sober men 70 consider is
this: Does the smart practice By which these
people were buncoed into nominating man who
having never given a sign Of such a view be-
fore. now comes out for gold-does the trick thus
played on those men make them safe party
20 which 10 entrust the financial interests II
the country Would be safer with a con
gross Of these men. now that they have been
successfully cheated. than We were nefore2 II
not, how is the country helped
NeT-York. July y. 1904. VEKITAS.