Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1908-07-03
Parker Arraigned
By Col. Waterson.


today upon the report from New York
last night that Judge Alton B. Parker
had been selected to present resoiu-
lions at the Denver convention upon
Former President Cleveland's death,
Col WaterSOn said:
"rhe attempt to drag the dead body
of Grover Cleveland from it's new made
grave into the tumult of national
convention will deceive no one. An in
vasiOn of the grief of the noble lady
who weeps amid the silence and the
solitude Of the granite hills, blow at
party concord it is the act of shame
less hyprocricy. Never was professional
ghoul inspired by a more mercenary
purpose because the sole aim and end
of the Murphy-Conners crowd aided
by Judge Parker is the perpetuation
of the aScendancy of the BelmOnt-Ry-
an combination to which Democracy
owes its last ignominious and well-de-
served defeat 1t was Belmont-Ryan
money that financied Judge Parker's
campaign for the nomination in 1904;
it w3s Bemont-Ryan money that
nominated him; and it was the Bel
mont Ryan tag that made an anti
trust government under such brand
absurd and impossible.
1T seemed fitting that, having made
sacrifices for predatory wealth, Judge
Parker should have his recompense in
a rich law practice in the city of New.
York. He has had it and with it he
should rest content. That he should
emerge from this highly paid obscurity
to make trouble is despicabe indeed
but that he should appear backed by
money Of the trust magnates and trac-
ton thieves appealing to Jefferson and
Tilden the dead body of Cleveland
stretched upon the dissecting table is
dirgraceful.
1T is not only disgraceful but it's
motive is grotesquely and transparent
ly obvious. The wing Of the Democratic
party in the state of New York to
which Judge Parker and the group
with which he is now acting belonged,
was the David Bennett Hill Wing
They. We're the invetcrate, the i'm
pl;tcable enemies of Grover Cleveland.
They hated him and he hated them
Although amid the gloom of defeat a
kind of truce was reached, there was
never a real amnesty on either side,
so that the scheme to recall the shade
of Cleveland and to set this up as a
deaths head in the comedy of a mock
funeral, would be too dastardly and
too CHASTITY for belief if it were not the
last desperate move of a clique of de-
serted politicians, seeking to rule or
ruin at any cost
Standing about the open grave of
Mr.. Cleveland those of us who knew
him but did not always approve him,
or agree with him, were not only will
ing that by-gones be by-gones, but
that the good alone should live after
him. He is dead. He sleeps with those
that went before, from jefferson to
Tildcn and history can be trusted to
do him no injuries. Resurrccted at
Princeton and proclaimed at Denver
his name spells 1irebrand and only fire
brand, and fircbrand is the sole initia-
tive and purpose of the body snatchers,
who propose to use it to conjur dis
scnsion. whilst they try to corrupt
delegates.
In Mr.. Bryan and Il Reunited
party, Democrats saw hope of victory.
on none ether was there the smallest
nope of Union. That they reason truly
has been shown by the fact, that, with
and its agents flying about in every
direction, state after state refusing to
be tempered with or tainted, has de-
clared for the Nebraskan Seeing this,
Judge Parker is put forward to deliver
the final stroke of the brave, and, I'M
der the rretense of honoring the MEM
DRY of Cleveland, to plunge knife
rocking with poison, artfully prepared,
into the heart of the Democracy. That
he should lend himself to such vile
plot will engulf him in the scorn of
honorable men and the detestation of
the thoughtful Democrats. Under any
condition and from any quarter the
proposal to re-vitalize old quarrels
by preamble and resolution on the
threshold of national movement
would be thrown out as insane. Com
ing from Connors and Murphy. from
Belmont and Ryan, it would be thrown
out as infamous.
They may defeat us but they cannot
debauch us"