The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-11-05
ROOT AS DEFENDER
Ex-sECRETARY TAKES UP CUDs
 GELS FOR ROOSEVELT.
Says Judge Parker, With Defeat staring Him in the Face, Has Changed Tactics and Now
 is Personal.

New York. Nov. .4.-The last large Republican meeting of the present campaign in this city was held tonight
 at Durlands Riding Academy The fact that EIihu Root was to be the primer
 pal speaker, filled the hall, and hun-
 dreds were unable to gain entrance:
 The presence of Governor Odeli ana Lieutenant Governor Higgins also helped to swell the audience. when the former Secretary of War was in- troduced he was cheered for some time before he was allowed to speak Mir. Root said in part. 'I am glad to see so many men ana women in New York who dare 70 come to this riding academy tonight because | 1t shows that you are not afraid or a man on horseback. In these iast uays of the campaign the Democratic candi- date for the Presidency has aoanoone9 the course of conduct which ne nao marked out for himself. has left the dixnffied retirement of his home and taken the stump in his own oehalf' :,
 'aThe purpose which he had formed to observe the rule of propriety custo-
 mary to candidates for the hignest oI- ice in our land had been officially de- | olared. 1t seemed to be as irrevncaplv | fixed in his mind as the gold stsnnaFd after his nomination. IL mas peen completely abandoned. and these last days have seen the candidate rushing
 
 whilwind campaign. ,.. .sThe change was coincident with general public expression or oenet py ali Republicans--and by most Demo crats in private conversation-tha the Democratic cause was lost; and 1t was coincident with the return to Davio B. Hill from the West. It is impossi- bio to resist the conclusion that the change of method was the result or that belief and was an eleventh hour tn FAVtVR or TettleYG the fortunes of a fallon cause.
 Parkerss Change of Method. .'The change of method has been paralleled by a change in the supstance
 and the matter of the candidates views. He has not only departed from the sober and moderate expressions which brought him upon many points into substantial accord with the Re- | publican platform and Republican prin-
 ciples. ~ ,. | that the Philippines had come to us as | an incident of war. and we were not | at liberty to disregard the responsibili- | ty which thus came to us, but that | responsibility will be best subserved by 1 preparing the islanders as rapidly as possible for self government and giv- | ing to them the assurances that 1t will l come as soon as they are reasonably prepared for It.
 that the Republican practice. and that | the Republican promise. But now un der this new departure, Judge Parken says: When We annexed the Philip | pines, 1t was done not only with com l plete disregard of the rights and
 wishes of the people thereof. a disre- | gard of the conquests of the Roman em-
 pire or of the French empire under Na- l poleon-but also with a hardly less l absolute disregard of the spirit of our
 present institutions
 | kAN hA ua aNFa h hA IA- l lieves what he says, then 1t will be
 his duty immediately to insist upon | the abandonment of the Philippines.
 In his speech of acceptance he declares
 in favor of continuing there until we
 have fitted these people for self-gov- ernment. In his stump speeches now l he declares that we are there by viola .
 ton of their rights and our principles: and if he Is honest In what he says. | then he will immediately proceed, if l elected to the Presidency, to withdraw
 American troops and American sov-
 ereignty from the Philippines.
 Parker's Supposed Policies. "Tn this whirlwind of oratory, Par
 ker has made 1t plain that If elected
 President he will stop the up-building l of our navy; he will reduce our army
 to the point it was before the war with | Spain.
 He will stop the completion of our l coast fortlfcations and he will leave | America as helpless as China to depend | on the BOOQ nature anu the LOTDeardnce
 of the foreign powers for our protec-
 ton and defense.
 Let me read you, in contrast with
 what the present Democratic candidate
 says, the words of Mir. Tilden in let i ter to Mir. Carlisle, written on the 1st | of December. 1885 MT. Tilden said: l "'While we may afford to be deficNnt
 in means of defense. we cannot afford 1 to be defenceless. The notoriety of i the fact that we have neglected the or-
 dinary precautions nf defense invites
 want of consideration in our diplomacy, | injustice, arrogance and insult at the | hands of foreign nations. It is impos- | siblo to foresee in the recent scramble ! of the European powers for the acqui .
 sition of colonies. how soon an occa- 1 sion may arise for our putting Into | practice the Monroe doctrine. It is | clear that there ought to be some re- 1 latIon between our assertion Of that
 doctrine and our preparation to main
 ''Unless Mir Parker is wiser and ab- | Ter and a safer guard in statesman | idle declarations of his stump oratory
 must Eo down before the wise warn
 Ings of that great fellow citizen of | ours.
 l MT. Parker. in his speech of accep-
 tance roared as gently as a suckling
 dove when he came to the question of
 he said. No trust lawyers could have
 SEyIsed A scheme of more complete im- ,nunity than that. foe that meant that
 henceforth the federal government
 should be bound hand and foot to
 all trusts and combiEasions or eapi- :'on the s1st of oetOScE. in a public