Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1904-09-21
Formsr Sverites and Democrats Decline to Sup
port Parker for President
ALL PREFER PROSPERITY TO PARAL YSIS
Views of D. G. TilIotson, Late Chairman Of the
National Silver Republican Party = Rea-
sons Given by Others.

Many Democrats will vote for Roose-
welt and Fairbanks this fall. A large
number have publicly announced their
change of faith, but others have sim
ply said to their friends that they pre-
fer the known and tried Roosevelt to
the hesitating, evasive and untried
Parker. The names of some of these
men, including Oscar Straus, John A.
Mccall, Major John Rryne, Patrick
Egan, Richard Price Morgan and Eu-
gene A Philbin. have already been print
ed. Among those not heretofore noted
are: Ernest Crawfort, Judge w. NJ.
Chandler, DR.. George II. Carpenter, Will
liam McLain, w. E. Williams, John
Ennis, William D. Harrison, John T.
Doyle, Charles P. Blaney and Daniel
Buchanan.
From Baxter Springs, Kas., comes
the information of wholesale assertions
on the part of Bryan Democrats, and
the forecasters predict that Cherokee,
which gave Bryan 1900 majority in
1896. will go solidly for the Republican
ticket. Prominent among the Demo
Gratis who have announced their inten-
ton of supporting President Roosevelt
are: T. II. Goodwin, mine owner; E.
w. Dow, president telephone system;
Samuel J. Crawford, former governor Of
Kansas; James II. Chubb, former mem
Der fusion legislature; j. G. Haskell,
dry goods merchant; Samuel Binns, hay
dealer; Edward Hodgkins, retired mer-
chant; D. Orr Chubb, politician; W. S.
Baxter, editor and G. E. Collins, poll
tician.
End of Silver Republican Party.
An important accession to the Repub-
ican ranks is D. C. Tillotson, of To
peka, Kas., chairman of the national
committee Of the Silver Republican party
IN 1900 In a letter to J. w. Babcock,
chairman of the Republican Congress
sional Committee, Mr.. Tillotson says
that the Silver Republicans are salts
fed that the Roosevelt administration
tried to do its duty with the people, and
for that reason he and his friends will
support it. This statement is Of i'm
portance because the Silver Republicans
voted for Bryan in 1896 and 1900, and
it is believed all will now return to the
regular party organization. In letter
to Representative Babbcock, chairman of
the Republican Congressional Commit
tee,. Mr.. Tillotson says:
Present conditions make any further
attempt to maintain a silver party or
ganization mere farce and with chang
ed conditions come changed political re-
cations.
''It appears to me that the Demo
cratic party has forfeited its claim upon
all voters except such as vote the ticket
from tradition. Indeed, the only Demo
crat who in a generation has stood for
an idea is constrained to admit that the
candidate of his party is the beneficiary
of a fraud practiced upon the convention
which nominated him.
The Democratic party, through its
attitude and the attitude Of its candi-
dates, admits that the Republican party
rs right on the money question. 1t adj
mits that the Republican party has per-
fected the legislation needed for con-
trolling the trusts and monopolies, per-
fection that the Republican party itself
has never claimed. 1t admits that, if
successful, nothing in the way of tariff
legislation can be effected except such
as may be approved by the Republican
party, yet it seeks to make tariff tink-
ering an issue.
''It condemns the acquisition Of the
right to build the Panama canal, but
says ratify the act by keeping the goods.
1t sympathizes with the Filipinos, but
fails to recognize that the acquisition of
these islands was ratified by the people
in 1900
cit presents us with candidate whose
political virtues are of the mega
tive sort. He claims that the
body polite is sick and as a remedy
proposes four years of paralysis. If
this attitude is in good faith it would
appear that there is no good reason for
supporting the party or its candidate,
if in bad faith then there is every rea-
son for not supporting them.
with no definite programme to adj
vocate and no settled policy of govern
nent to assert the opposition is devoting
its energies to an attack upon President
Roosevelt. His opponents are COMPEL
ed to admit that he is a man of virility,
of high moral purpose in both civil and
official life and one that does not eyade
official responsibility.
while there are many honest and
upright citizens among his opponents
yet the fact remains that the President S
vigorous and aggressive execution of his
office has led the manipulation of preda-
tory wealth, the professional agitator
and the political CRATER to make com
anon cause against him. These are thor
oughly convinced that the President is
not safe, but legitimate and vested rights
have no cause of complaint.
''The voter has to choose between one
or the other of the candidates of the
dominant parties or throw his vote away
as a mere protest by voting for some
third party candidate. 1t appears to
me that the President is entitled to a
vote of confidence, and above all party
considerations the election of President
Roosevelt is required as a vindication OF
moral courage and official integrity in
the government of men-a vindication
not of the candidate, but of the Ameri-
can people,
Parker's Letter a Disa ppointment.
Ernest Crawfort, of jamestown, n
Y, Democratic county committeeman
and delegate to the Democratic State
convention which instructed for Judge
Parker, has severed all connections with