Los Angeles herald., 1908-08-04
JUDGE PARKER
SEES CERTAIN
VICTORY AHEAD
DEMOCRATS HAVE PLATFORM,
CANDIDATE AND CAUSE
PARTY WAS NEVER BEFORE so
THOROUGHLY UNITED
Tariff Leading Issue, for on II Trusts
Depend, and Republicans Posing
as Woud-Be Revisionlsts
Are Absurd

Judge Alton B. Parker, former Dem
ocratic candidate for president, tanned
by two weeks camping in the Yellow
stone and horseback riding under des-
ert suns, apologized for his negligee
costume when seen at the Alexandria
hotel I'VE have just reached Los An
geles after having the free life of the
American hobo for a few weeks, and
what we need most is that luxury of
civilization, a BATH
Then, with smiling good humor and
supplemented occasionally by De Lam
sey Nieoll, with whom the Judge is
travelling, he told the story of his trip
through the Yellowstone.
Judge Parker appears to have lost
some superhuous flesh, but otherwise
looks exactly as he did in 1904. His
hair is bit gray, but his mustache
is of the same golden bronze hue as of
yore. AS he leaned back comfortably
in his chair smoking a black cigar,
the judge warmed to his recital of the
adventures he and his friend expert
enced on their trip.
After 1 left the Denver conven-
tion," he said, "Mr. Nicoll joined me
and we started for the widest spot we
could ind in Wyoming. We took seven
horses, a guide, a cook and our per-
sonal servants. Our guide was Frank
Sebastian, we'll known among campers
about Yellowstone park. l guess we
saw about everything there is to see at
YELLOWSTONE We usually arose at 5
a. m, saddled our horses and rode
thirty or forty miles every day ex-
cept the one or two we spent climbing
Mount Washburn. 1t was our custom
to ride till we were so hungry we
could stand 1t no longer, then we
W0I1l6 1nr nd i
provide hot breakfast that would
tickle the palate of a god After
breakfast we would ride some more
till we came upon a stream that
looked like trout. Then we got out our
tackle and. whipped for trout.
I'VE rode all over Yellowstone and
down into the Jackson lake district, to
get look at the Teton range, $4,000
feet high, the highest mountains in that
country. Altogether we Travelled over
300 miles on horseback"
II would like to say" put in Mr.
Nicoll, that the judge is one of the
best horsemen I ever saw. I yield the
palm to him."
Il keep in training and you don't"
laughed the judge. when I am home
I ride in the park every morning before
"Oh, I don't know, I ride little my
self" said Mr.. Nicoll.
After two weeks of camp life, Sleep
Ing every night in the open or under
canvas, they rode forty-five miles to the
nearest station on the Union Pacific
and took train for Salt Lake City, where
they arrived last Sunday They spent
one day In the Mormon city and then
came to Los Angeles.
Neither of us has been west before,
strange as that may seem, and we are
enjoying every moment" said Mr..
Nicoll. THE judge and I will attend
the meetings of the National Bar asso-
citation. which convenes in Seattle the
last week of August. Further than
that we have no plans, except that we
are going to loaf around the country.
We may go to Catalina and try our
luck with the big fish. That would be
a new sensation to us who have never
fished for anything bigger than bass"
Il think a few automobile trips down
to San Diego or perhaps up the coast
would add to the gayety of the occa-
sion," added Judge Parker.
Judge Parker on Politics
"The Democratic party must win,"
said Judge Parker to a representative
Of The Herald, with whom he talked
about the political situation. 'It has
he winning cause, the winning plat
'orm. and the winning man. 1t pre-
;ents to the enemy a united front |
have heard here and there of some |
'ther organization-tel me, is there
called an independence
1arty here? Yes, that's what 1 mean.
Oh, you call it the Hearst party, do |
you? I suppose it is not independent
# Hearst?
"Well, you see what a lot I know
bout the Independence party. 1 don't
lnow where it is going to receive the
mn nNf N % k.,II
bout. 1 see no evidences of support
or it; nay, more, 1 see no evidences
f the Independence party. The Hearst
'apers say 1t exists. 1 suppose we
must believe them, for they always
ell the truth,
81 am certain of this; we are en-
ering on a very brisk and lively cam
aign, the briskest and liveliest the
ountry has seen in years. The Demo-
rats are alive and very much alive
heir position. is defined with great
learness and excellence in the plat
orm of the national convention.
ope every Democrat has committed
hat platform to heart, and If we can
ersuade the Republican voters to read ]
well, they won't remain Republican ]
oters.
1.-THE Republican platform is a thing
{ shreds and patches. 1t is cobbled !
Tork, and fimsily cobbled at that.
ontrast, for example, the Democratic {
ttitude on the tariff with that of the
epublican party. Tariff reform is an {
sue before the country, and 1t is a {
We issue. Every thinking man knows
lat many of the abuses from which {
he country has been suffering, social {
:, financially and commercially, spring /
lrectly or Indirectly from the Re- 1
lblican tariff {
at is amusing to note that the Re- I
1blicans are talking of tariff 'reyjs- e
n What strange phrase is tariff | !
vision when uttered by a Republic Z
In! How much it sounds like some- s
ling, and yet it leaves you asking |
What is it?' The Republicans have /
1t told us whether they intend to I
wise the tariff up or down, and I '
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