Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1905-04-19
TWO NOTEWORTHY ADDRESSES
Former Nominee Parker, Mayor-Mc-
{ Cielland, Senator Newlands and 9th
ers Address 700 Democrats at the
Waldorf-Asseria, Parker Receiving
an Enthusiastic Hearing.

Es NEW IOEh, SncCla!.-SeVen nunQreQ
Democrats attended the Jefferson. day
Z banquet Of the Democratic Club o.
New T or;i at the Waldorf-Astoria
: Thursday night. There were many
there CT national reputation. and chief
among these were JUDGE Alton 3. Par
keI, Democratic nominee for President
last November.
II the banquet room portraits OF
Jefferson we're conspicuous In addi-
5 ton to Mr. Parker, the speakers were
United States Senator Newlands, of
Nebraska. Mayor Mcclellan. of New
YORK, Congressman Henry T. Rainey,
OF Illinois, and J. ]. Willett, Of Ala
bama. Senator Carmack, of Tennessee,
was the only one OF those expected to
spesx-who- could not attend
Mr.. Parker was the first speaker,
and he. was enthusically received
Frequently he was interrupted by ap-
plause. The speech was on the future
) of the Democratic party and was re-
plete with suggestions for harmony
and urgent appeals against sectional
ism. John Fox, president OF the club,
presided, and his brief speech intro
ducing Judge Parker was applauded.
Mr.. Parker said:
/ do not come here to make excuse
or explanation about the past, to pro-
mote any personal purpose or ambition
for the future, or to further the ends
/. OF any section, faction or interest. l
am moved solely by desire to COM
mune freely with my countrymen who
believe that the time-honored doctrines
of the Democratic party, as deduced
I from the great policies defined by the
man whose birth we here commemor-
!, ate, and established by the founders
. are still true, still alive, still worthy
of acceptance and devotion, and still
necessary, if our. institutions are to be
maintained in their early sYigor and
4 spnri - -.
.sSssI may be conceded that they are
mot new-fangled orsshysterical.S We
9 eans also justify theScIaim that they
ssaIs notsdsstructiyeSt Ito any legitimate.
l,shial 5nt nterestsS or sub.
tbegtg
e -.
sfafheTs uHeiss hey have appFsssl!
siW peace and war. Undcri
their sway, our people increased IN
number, wealth and power, the poor.
sand oppressed sfrom other lands found
refuge and swels come. populati IN spread
Rradually oven territories peacefully
acquired, and Industry vas free while, tiI.,
taxes were 1eW and so distributed as
to discourage monopoly. When these
principles dominated our policies there
was no thought of conquest, or Of
protectorates over distant, alien, and
turbulent peoples; there was no talk
OF alliance with the great; no question
OF making ourselves collectors Of
debts, good, bad, just OF fraudulent;
and no suspicion that anywhere in The
lexicon OF free government there was
to be found the word subject"
SOME ELEMENTS IN RECENT
POLITICS.
We meet after defeat which was
easy to foresee and predicted. 1t was
preceded by division and faction in our
ranks over period Of eight years and
they have done their worst. 1t was
emphacized by the use Of governmental
power for partisan purposes, by the
reckless and unprecedented expendi-
ture Of money and by demagogic ap-
meals 10 interests as wide apart as the