The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-11-16

Japanese In which only an individual
is concerned. II was more running
amuck' as practiced in the Malay
peninsula. The campaign had been
one of follies and utilities. Men
posing before the nation as statesmen
stood before audiences and discussed
Roosevelt's teeth. Others declared
he had negro blood in him. Others
called him war lord at the very mo-
ment when a peace convention of the
nations of the world had placed him
at their head, and when he was try
ing to bring about peace between
Russia and Japan through The
Hague arbitration court Others de-
nounced him because he made it pos
sible to dig a canal at Panama
work that will last forever and link
his name to the future ages when the
few mongrel grafters on the isthmus,
who are now crying out against him
shall have passed from human rec
ords. Others vilified him most vul-
carly and scurrilously. The press of
the country was filled with atrocious
cartoons until the people turned from
II all in disgust. Devil as he was
and black as he was, he was still
president. Came Judge Parker.
Some of his deliverances deserve to
live. Others should be forgotten as
soon as possible. The campaign SPELL
binder took liberties and licenses, and |
il was overlooked because he was a
campaign spellbinder. When a can
didate for president charged the pres
ident Of the United States with TAX
ing a man out of his cabinet to black
mail the trusts. and when the charge
was emphatically denied the people
expected some sort Of proof. This
Judge Parker did not have. He was
forced to ungracefully crawfish out
of il. When candidate for presi-
dent charges that the Philippines
cost this country 100000 and
100000 lives. and the books show
that they cost us $500, 900 and
1000 lives. people lose faith in the
accuracy of his judgment. For these
breaks" Judge Parker
was not to blame. He spent his life
records and distractions,
md he did not know men. His cam
,aign managers are to blame. They
should have furnished him accurate
When he assailed Gov.
Wright Of the Philippines he was
lot aware that he was assailing a
gentleman who is conceded to be the {
strongest man in the south. a man
whose politics is no bar to perfer-
ment because he is bigger than par
iisanry. Being a reader of records
and a dealer in distractions he did |
not know this. When he demanded
IN abandonment of the Philippines
he did not know men or that he was
hurting himself against the national
aspiration for dominion over the sur
face of the earth. The Anglo-S Saxon
never willingly gives up real estate.
Had Judge Parker consulted himself
and asked himself what IT would take
to induce him to give up his farm at
Esopus, which is unproductive. the
truth might have dawned on him.
Had he looked about him and seen
vacant land and lots held by his fell
low citizens for half a century or
more at an expense, he might have
why the American people
refuse to surrender land for which
they have paid. When he cried out
against our growing navy he forgot |
that a democrat, Whitney, projected
1t, and that we have had a foreign
policy and the respect OF nations on
ly since we have had a navy. These
are few of the mistakes of the cam
paign. Wheat at $1.10, cotton at |
10 cents a pound, and the Missouri |
mule proudly switching its whisk-
broom tail at $175, might have de-
feated us anyway. but the mistakes |
made during the late campaign will |
defeat us at any time, and they