The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-04-28
BUCK TRIES TO
BOOST HEARST
CHAIRMAN DEMOCRATIC STATE
COMMITTEE WRITES LETTER.
Says He Can't Discover Where Judge
Parker Stands Politically, But Init
mates That He Isn't Democrat
He Speaks of the Good "WiIie'
Hearst Has Done.

In line with the policy the Hearst
other parts Of the country, H. L.
Buck, chairman of the democratic
state committee and Hearst sup
porter, has written to Major j. M.
Bowler, Of Minneapolis, an open let
ter in which he belittles the candidacy
Of Judge Parker Of New York because
that gentleman has not declared him
self. He leads off with the following:
For several months have been honest-
ly trying to get at the true condition of
things. The declarations, some weeks
ago, Of Messrs. Lind, Rosing and OBrien
in favor Of Parker's nomination, which
declarations, coming together, seemed to
have been designed for the purpose Of
stampeding the party in this state to
Parker, I have not been able to under
stand.
I have been trying to learn something
about Mr.. Parker and what he stands for
It has not seemed to me that the great
mass Of honest, sincere democrats, who
are not seeking the flesh pots Of Egypt"
should be asked to blindly take up and
support man whose views on public
questions are unknown. Recent develop
ments appear to have disclosed the cloven
hoof Of the creature that is back Of the
Parker movement
When the democrats Of this state come
to know that all the newspapers repre-
senting the Wall street interests, all the
Cleveland followers and all the men who
bolted the ticket and twice defeated U.S.
are now suddenly to be found promoting
and advocating the nomination Of Judge
Parker, they cannot help but look with
distrust upon his democracy.
His promoters make the claim that he
voted the ticket in go and 1900, but one
swallow does not make a summer, and
voting for a democrat does not make a
democrat. He is probably an able lawyer
and jurist, but that Is not enough. Why
has he not expressed himself in clear
terms upon the vital principles in which
the great mass Of the voters are inter-
ested? His friends defend his silence by
saying that 1t is not compatible with the
dignity Of the bench for Mr.. Parker to
talk politics, but I am suspicious Of this
plea in view of the fact that many east
ern papers that are supporting him are
printing statements of which the follow
ing Is a sample: s.G
Judge Parker, SO 1t is learned here, from men
financial and business world. has thru appro-
pirate channels, given assurances that II nom
will be A', Conservative. The judges attitude on
many Of the questions before the public, is not
well known, but none the less, business men in
high places are being acquainted authenticity
with his views In outline .s
| 1t would seem, if it is not beneath the
dignity of the bench to inform the "finan-
cial and business world" Of his position:
1t certainly is not beneath that dignity
to inform the six million democrats thru
| out the country whose suffrage he asks.
| AS study the support that is going
| to Mr.. Parker, am becoming more and
more convinced that his boom is solely in
| the interests of the financial and bust
ness world, and not in the interests Of tbs
masses Of the common people.
Mr.. Buck then alludes to the friend
ship alleged to exist between William
j. Bryan and William r. Hearst, and
says that "the Bryan democracy has
been and is too much in earnest now
to be led into the camp of the enemy
and there Slaughtered to make a Ro-
man holiday" He continues:
Now, as to Mr.. Hearst. I have beer
trying to find out from the Parker mer
just why they are SO bitter against Mr.
Hearst's candidacy.
He has done some splendid things, in
fact, has done more to check the trusts
as a private citizen and at his own ex-
pense, than this whole trust busting ad-
ministra ton.
His opponents talk about his being 6
moral impossibility, but do not give any
/ facts. They say again that he is the
proprietor Of yellow journals, but have
not found any one yet to define thai
term, so that 1t applies to his Journals
alone. i
I have not as yet advocated the nomi-
nation of either Mr.. Parker or Mr.
Hearst, but I must confess that as be-
tween the two, the latter seems much
more representative Of democracy thar
the former.
,, Mr.. Buck closes with the declara.
ton that he has mo axe to grind,
but is simply wishing for the best good
for the democratic party and hence
for the country