The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1908-07-09
MURDER WILL OUT
Henry Watterson Says Trusts
Financed Judge parker's
Campaign.


AN Act of Shameless Hypocrits"--
Mr.. wastersou Pays His Respects
To the Ryan Belmont combination
He says They Have Tried "a
] Buy Up the Democratic Delegates
WIN be q Hot Fight at Denver
/ This Week.
Louisville. KY. July Com
menting to-day upon the report from
New York last night that Judge Al
ton b. Parker had been selected to
Ipresent resolutions at the Denver
Convention upon former President
CIeveland's death, Col. Henry Wat
terson said:
The attempt to drag the dead
body OF Grover Cleveland from Its
new made grave ito the tumult of
a National Convention will deceive
no one. An invasion OF the grief
of the noble lady who weeps amid
the silence and the solitude of the
granite hills, a blow at party con-
cord, it is an act af shameless hy-
lpocrites. Nor was ever a profes-
sional ghoul inspired by a more
mercenary spirit, because the sole
aim and end of the Murphy-Conners
crowd, aided by Judge Parker, Is the
perpetuation of the ascendency of
the Belmont-Ryan combination. to
which Democracy owes its last igno-
minious and well deserved defeat.
1t was Belmont-Ryan money that
financed Judge Parker's campaign
for the nomination in 1904. 1t was
Belmont-Ryan money that nomi-
mated him; and it was the Belmont
Ryan tag that made an antitrust
government under such a brand alb
surd and impossible.
1T seemed fitting that, having
made sacrifices for predatory wealth,
Judge Parker should have his rec
ompense in a rich law practice in
the city of New York. He has had
it, and with it and it's enrichment,
he should rest we'll content. That
| 1S ohooio SLhCA 90 ~ oA1 tA'o hi5AiJ
paid ObScurity to make trouble
through sheer malevolence were
pitiable indeed; but that he should
appear, backed by money Of the trust
magnateS and traction thieves, ap-
pealing to Jefferson and Tilden, the
dead body of Cleveland stretched
upon the dissecting table, is dis
graceful.
''It is not only disgraceful, but
it's motive is grotesquely and trans
Iparently 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 was the David Bennett Hill
wing. They were the inveterate,
the implacable enemies of Grover
cleveland. They hated him, and he
hated them. Although amid the
gloom of defeat, kind oft rucee was
reached, there was never a real am
nesty or oblivion on either side, so
that the statement to recall the
shade of Cleveland and to set up
this as a death's-head in the comedy
of a mock funeral would be too das-
tardly and too CHASTITY for belief If
it were not the last desperate play
of clique of discredited 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 alwoys ap-
prove him, or agree with him, were
not only willing that by-gones
should 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
Tilden, and history can be trusted
to do him no injustice. Resurrected
at Princeton and proclaimed at Den
yer, his name spells frebrand and
only firebrand, and firebrand is the
sole initiative and purpose of the
body snatchers who propose to use
it to conjure dissension, whilst they
try to corrupt delegats.
''In Mr.. Bryan and reunited par
ty, Democrats saw hope of victory.
On none other was there the smallest
hope of union. That they reason
truly has been shown by the fact
that with the Ryan-Belmont barrel
on tap and it's agents flying about
in every direction, State after State,
refusing to be tampered with, or
tainted, has declared for the Nebras-
kan. Seeing this, Judge Parker is
!; put forward to deliver the final
stroke of the bravo, and, under the
pretense of honoring the memory of
: Cleveland, to plunge a blade, reek-
, ing with poison artfu1ly prepred,
, into the heart of Democracy. That
, he should lend himself to such a
/ villainy, will engulf him in the
|. scorn of honorable men and he de
| testation of the thoughtful Demo
t Gratis.
, There is no more reason why a
Democratic National Convention
should go out of its way to signalize
one former Democratic President
than another, nor why it should rush
upon Cleveland, and with a frenzy
of words, than with hysterica
, shrek it should rush upon Buchan
an, each Buchanan and CLEVELAND
: having had the misfortune to divide
r the party The spectacle in the case
of Mr.. Buchanan would lack com
| mon sense. In the case of Cleveland