The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1906-03-29
JUDGE A. B. PARKER'S SPEECH
Late Presidential Candidate Made
Significant Utterance in Char
Iotte Recently.

The Associated Press handled the
Judges Charlotte speech in it's entirety,
and probably every paper in the south
that uses the full Associated Press re-
ports published it. The significant por-
tion of Judge Parker's speech is as fol-
lows.
"The time has come when new duties
and responsibilities must be undertaken
by the democrats of the south. It is
more than two score years since the war
closed and your people find themselves
upon the threshold of what promises to
be the most remarkable business devel-
opment the world has ever known with
in the same time and space. Some OF
your men have gone forth to command
the highest success in the most honor
able way, in the greatest financial and
commercial movements of the time:
others have become the managers of
great railway interests; you have de-
velOped great manufacturing enter
prises, and most difficult of all, your peo-
pie, as whole, have so maintained and
increased their position and the domi
nance of the country in one of the
greatest products of the soil as to make
them the wonder and the admiration of
the world. In spite of your devotion to
principle and consistency, in the face Of
numerical Importance that was predom-
inant, in politics only have you stepped
aside. From the earliest days since
self-government was restored you have
sent your best men into public life.
They have beer at once modest, able,
devoted, patriotic.and honest. No Jail
or penitentiary has opened its hospit-
able doors to admit your senators, rep
resentatives or governors, nor have the
officers of the law, from detectives tC
attorney generals, been compelled tC
hale them into the criminal courts. II
the face of this record you have not on
ly permitted us of the north to presen
to you candidates for president and vice
president, but you have insisted upor
our doing SO and have therefore voteC
no other state would do so. In 1896 yol
tried Nebraska, and since that day, NJ
old democratic northern state has &C
credited one of our party to the Unitet
States senate and in none has there beel
a friendly governor. All the democrat
ic training schools of the north-ele
mentary, intermediate and higher
were closed and have remained so. Th
party paralysis as complete and almos
fatal. In 1904, hoping to cure or pail
ate it, you advised returning to Me-
York for your candidate only to NEE
the worst oefeat in our party histor!
1t is now nearly twelve years since an
man protesting devotion to our part
has been chosen in the nation or in an
northern democratic state to fill an
important executive office. At th
last election, perhaps eight out of ten I
the voters then under 80 were range
with our opponents and today the parl
organizations are lifeless, their or
time leaders are dead or have abdicate
or worse, have become republican
while in more than one state the thre
hangs over them that they may becon
the victims of the spoiler, the destru'
tive, or the corruptionist. When SUI
conditions confront you, why shou
you hesitate any longer? Unt
the democrats of Nebraska al
New York and other northern stat
have brought forth fruits meet for r
pentance-or at least SO long as they a
threatening to give themselves and t
party over to further destruction
should you not assert yourselves? Y