Bisbee daily review., 1905-05-16


 Judge Alton B. Parker in bis Jener- son day speech in New York said in part:
 We meet after a defeat which was easy to foresee and predict. It was preceded by division and faction in our ranks over a period of eight years, and they have done their worst It was emphasized by the use of govern mental power for partisan purposes, by the reckless and unprecedented eX- Penditure of money and by demagogic appeals to interests as wide apart as the poles. We have left to Us only the smallest measure of power in either house of congress. we have lost states whose confidence we had long com manded, and the number of governors and state legislatures under our con trol is surprisingly small"
 Mir Parker then sketched the revival of the party after other defeats. its strength when out of power, and re called the great men who had main tained its principles. In spite of all its losses he said the Democracy had been able from 1868 to 1885 to keep at bay the enemies of good will. This led the speaker to the question of the solid south, of which he said:
 Surprise is sometimes expressed that the south has remained solid, and yet no student. whatever his prej- udices. could overlook the fact that in politics there Is q sense of grati- tude not for fnvors expected. but for unselfish and commanding services to humanity. Indeed. nothing in all the recorded history of mankind has been more pathetic, more heroic. more de serving of admiration and sympathy than the attitude of the south since 1865.
 As fate would have it. its defeat in war was the smallest of Its woes, because it could neither threaten nor bring dishonor But the new con- test-with partisan rancor, with mili- tary power, with theft and robbery with poverty and the enforced domi- nation of race lately in slavery forced as 1t was without time for re covery, and that, too. In its own homes, INQuliCh q NOuA AAANAt iNoo lhdAA perhuman.
 If any man is so foolish as to ask why the Democratic party has been true to the south in its time of trial and why this attachment has been re- quilted it must be because he knows lit tle of history and less of human na- ture."
 Foehfnn r,Av-a6o~1 ATr Do said, was for new ways; the old were not sufficiently striking. and so had come the theory that the proper way for a government to do things was by interference and meddling. These things the Democratic party resented, he said, not because they were new, but because they were o!d-as old as tyranny Itself MT. Parker continued:
 Much is said about the peaceable settlement of differences; but, after ali by keeping out of quarrels we may be able to avoid arbitration as well as war Perhaps the most encouraging visible sign In respect to this persistent policy of interference Is that in spite of outward appearances, in spite of 
 spite of the truculence manifested from time to time in so many quarters. In spite of messengers bearing royal congratulat tions from thrones, ours Is still a popular. not an imperial, system of society and government.
 Tt will not only be our duty to re- sist these strange tendencies. so clear f<. et,o I,n f,.. i, in, fhnu, but we have more work to do, more far reaching reforms to promote. more moral issues to meet, than we can know or realize until we begin to look the situation fairly in the face.
 'In spite of the hypocritical claims so freely induiged. the prostitution of our free civil service to a degree never before known; the use of money in elections, whether presidential or state; the belittling or the misuse of the judiciary, the interference with the duties and powers of the states, the appeal to the military spirit. the main tenance ef a vicious and unfair taxing system. the raising again of the race issue in its worst form and from the DdStSl Ol par LuOlAfco o-<1AA lncSc must be understood, and when under stood they must be met with firmness and perseverance until the abuses which surround them find popular rec cgnition and then reformation" On the question of corporations and trusts Mir Parker said that his recent experience in politics did not incline him to favor overmuch the manage ment of some of the great corpora tions. The great majority of them, he said, were, however, managed with as much honesty as we were accustomed to see in mundane affairs This led | up to the discussion of trusts, which he defined as corporations of corpora tions" and said there was no doubt that some of them had taken advsn- tage of the partial and negotiable laws, while others had either secretly or openly violated statutes in order to oppress the community.
 Some attehipt has been made even in high places to distinguish between these trusts" said Mir. Parker. "As an election was coming on at the time, it