Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-05-25
OUT OF THE EAST.

During tho campaign which imne-
diately preceded the recording Of the
record breaking Roosevelt vote last
November. Judge Alton Brooks Par
ker steadfastly refused to leave the
east and come to the "enemy's coun-
try" He refused to come "out of the
east" in spite Of the assurances Of
Tom Taggart that Indiana was sure to
go democratic and of John P. Hopkins
that Illinois was just as good as
counted for the< successor to Bryan.
He was content to remain In Esopus,
with q visit now and then to New
York. and to go swimmin' receive del
egations Of visitors, and reflect upon
his popularity. But now that the fairy
story Is ended and the returns are in
from the counties of Posey and Cook
and other parts of the enemy's coun-
try, the Judge Is going to make a visit
to Chicago. It will be, friend in
New York says, professional and po-
litical visit-profe from choice
and political because he can't help it.
A man who has been the candidate for
president on any ticket whatsoever,
must pay the penalty OF, being paid
considerable attention by local COM
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: So it is that Judge Parker, who Is
about to journey to the city Of strikes
and democrats, will not be able to es-
cape the members of the party he rep
resented SO disastrously last fall. He
has agreed to deliver an address on
May 26, before the Illinois Bar asso-
citation, but a reception is to be held
In his honor over and above the ban
quet of the Illinois lawyers. Invita-
tions ito meet Judge Parker are be-
ing sent to every democratic leader in
the state, without any query as to how
he voted last November and whether
he swung his precinct into line or al
lowed the old love for the Nebraska
editor-ora tor executor-farmer to make
him only lukewarm supporter Of the
silent sage of Esopus. In fact, too
many questions could not be asked
along this line without bringing some
meaning looks toward a few men who
will be very prominent among the en-:
tertainers at the reception. On the
committee which has the arrange
ments in charge are Mayor Dunno,
State Chairman Boeschenstein, Ma
tional Committeeman Roger G. Sulli-
van, the inevitable John P Hopkins
and few others. These men, with-the
assistance Of the down state democrats
will welcome the whilholm candidate
and considering the painful circum-
stances, will make him as comfort
able in the city as possible.
Painful circumstances? Well, rather
1t has not been so long since Judge
Parker was cherishing fond hopes of
being president but that he can re
member how Illinois fell off from 503,-
061, when Bryan ran for president in
1900, to 327,606, when the judge him
self occupied the front seat on the
democratic wagon 1t is very prob.
able, too, that the New Yorker can
remember that Cook county gave him
103,162 votes and Bryan 1S6.193. But
the judges hosts will not bring up the
subject during his, stay in Chicago
They will find plenty to talk about
without It, There are the Masonic
Temple, Lincoln Park and its Zoo .
the lake front, the strike, the cigarette
law in Indiana, the Wisconsin anti-tip
ping law, the divorce question and the
state census. Such harmless subjects
as these ought to keep the ball of con
versaticn rolling merrily enough with
out embarrassing any Of the rollers
No doubt the Chicagoans will wonder
how such nice looking. healthy
farmer boy Judge could have been
seized upon by Tom Taggart. Pat nc
Carren, August Belmont and few
other old fashioned democrats and Of
fered up as q sacrifice on the same flu
neral pyre that has claimed SO many
good men and one-initials w. j. B.
80 many times. Representatives of the
Bryan wing Of the democracy. who