New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1906-03-17
TELLS SOUTH TO LEAD.
ET-Judge Parker Intimates North
ern Democrats Haze Groom Efete.

Charlotte n. C. March 16-Ex-Judge Alton
B Parker. of New-York. tonight in an address
before the Manufacturers Club Of this city
urged Southern Democrats TO take the leadership
Of the party. Judge Parker spent few hours
here on his way home from Mississippi and his
speech Was delivered at a reception given in his
honor by the Manufacturers Club His speech,
IN part, follows:
In an address before the Legislature Of the
state OF Mississippi few days ago had occa-
sion TO insist that never before IL less pos
sible 10 ignore the growing tendency to look TO
the government or the state for support, assist
snce or special favor. which viii relieve the re-
cipient from that effort and those obligations
hitherto deemed incumbent upon all our people
Whether IL takes the form OF direct subsidies
the cost OF which may be estimated, or is HID
away in those more costly and demoralizing sys-
tens. under which some favored indiVldual or
class n-ay levy a relentless toll upon the earn
ings % nc income OF all our people the erect
upon institutions and character is the same
II We support a dozen paupers in poorhouse
We can calculate the cost: but the beneficiary
Of a vicious system Of corruption or bosslsm IN
his own purposes the earnings of his neishbors,
but he 50 breaks all the precepts Of the moral
law that he becomes at once menace 10 society
and an evil example 10 all our people.
During all its history the Democratic party
has denounced the Judgment of undue power IN
the government, has opposed its logical outcome:
the granting Of special privileges in the levy OF
taxes. and has insisted upon economy in ex-
pendlture
While this conscientious devotion To an idea
has commended itself 10 the Democrats OF the
whole country and has thus made and kept the
party national during recent years the people of
the South. without variabeness or SHADOW OF
turning nave been its manstay.
But he time has come when new duties ana
RESPONSIBILITIES must be undertaken by the Dem
ocrats Of the South In spite OF your devotion
principle and consistency, in the face or a
numerical importance that was prepondeTaht
IN politics only have YOU stepped aside From
the earliest days you have sent your best men
into public life They have been at once modest,
8 honest. y
penitentiary has opened its hospitable doors to
admit your senators, representatives, or gov
ernors nor have the officers OF the law. from de-
tectves 10 attorney general. been compelled 10
hale them into the criminal courts.
In the face Of this record You have not only
permitted Us Of the North 10 present TO you can
didates for President and Vice President. but
YOU have insisted upon our doing SO. and have
then voted for them. and that. too. when some
times other states did
Tn 1895 YOU tried Nebraska. and since that
dav no old Democratic Northern state has a.
credited one Of our party TO the United States
Senate. and I'm none has there been friendly
Governor. All the Democratic training schools I
# the North-eleuentary. intermediate ana /
j igheT-Vere closed and have remained SO. The |
party paralysis was complete and almost fatal
In 1904. hoping TO cure palliate 1t, you
advised returning again to New-Nork Tor your |
candidate. only to meet the worst defeat IN our
party history. 1t is nearly twelve years
since any man processing devotion TO your party
has been chosen in nation or in any Northern |
Democratic state to ill important executive |
Office At the last election perhaps eight out Of
ten Of The voters then under thirty were ranged |
"ith cur opponents. and to-day the party organ |
iZarious are lineless. their one time leaders are
dead or have abdcated, or, worse, have become /
Republicans while I'm more than one state the |
threat hangs over them that they may become |
the victims Of the spoiler, the destructive, the
corruptionist
When such conditions confront you. why |
should YOU hesitate any longer? Until the DEM |
ocrats Of Nebraska and NeW-York and other !
Northern states have brought forth fruits meet \
for repentanCe-or at least so long as they are /
threatening give themselves and the party (
over 70 further OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES you not as |
sert vourselyeS2
/. myself placed at the front for time. have
every reason 10 be grateful to Democrats every !
where, especially TO those of the South APP
rDreciate the honor thus conferred upon rle, ana
have no regrets for the past; but no one think,
can know better than I how futile our effort has
been IN the past and how unpromising the
outlook IS for the future unless we throw aside
fsnls and grasp the great moral issue now so
clearly perceived by the people.
II We are honest with ourselves, earnest and
vigilant in the recognition Of those popular
needs which are both safe and democratic, and
regardful Of our ideas and traditions, We
shall again be intrusted with power, and we
shall be ready for it. When this time comes the
South ought TO be- and indeed. 1t must be- the
one great effective force in bringing about such
q happy consunmation-sorely needed II our In
stitutions are to endure inViolate."