The daily sentinel., 1908-07-04
WATTERSON'S
STARTLING
COMMENT
Especial to The sentinel.)

ocratic leaders who have reached the
convention city and from all reports,
among Democratic leaders and masses
throughout the nation, the comment
of Henry Watterson, editor of the
Louisville Courier-Journal on the ac-
tion of Alton B. Parker regarding
the resolutions on Cleveland, is ere
ating all manner of comment. It
is the sensational political 'utterance
of the day. 1t follows:
Louisville, KY, July Comment
ing upon the report from New York
last night that Alton B. Parker has
been selected to present resolutions
at the Denver convention upon ex-
President Cleveland death, Col.
Henry Watterson says:
''The attempt to drag the dead
body of Grover Cleveland from its
newly made grave into the tumult
of 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 gran
ite hills, blow at party concord, it
Is the act of a shameless hypocrite.
Nor was ever professional ghoul
inspired by 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
combinations to which Democracy
owes it's last ignominious and we'll
deserved defeat. 1t was BELMONT
Ryan money that financed Judge
Parker's campaign for the nominal
ton in 1904. 1t was Belmont-Ryan
money that nominated him, and it
was the Belmont-Ryan tag that made
an antitrust movement under such
- oh nd mi
''It seemed fitting that having
made sacrifices for predatory wealth.
Judge Parker showed his recompense
in a rich law practice in the city of
New York He has mad 1t, and with
1t and its enrichment, he should rest
well content. That he should emerge
from this highly paid obscurity to
make trouble through sheer malevol-
ence were pitiable indeed; but that
he should appear, backed by money
of the trust magnates and traction
thieves, appealing to Jefferson and
Tilden, the dead body of Cleveland
stretched upon the dissecting table,
is disgraceful.
"It is not only disgraceful. but its
motive is grotesquely and transpar
emily obvious. The wing of the Dem
ocratic party in the state of New
York to which Judge Parker and the
group with which he is now acting
'elonged, was the David Bennett Hill
wing. They were the inveterate, the
implacable enemies of Grover Cleve-
land They hated him and he hated
them. Although amid the gloom of
defeat kind of truce was reached,
there was a deal of amesty of oblivion
on either side. so that the scheme to
recall the shade of Cleveland and to
set this up as deaths head in COM
edy of a mock funeral would be too
dastardly and too CHASTITY for belief,
If it were not the last desperate play
of a clique of discredited politicians
seeking to rule or to ruin at any cost.
standing about the open grave
of Mr.. Cleveland, those of us who
knew him, but did not always 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 be-
fore, from jefferson to Tilden, and
history can be trusted to do him no
Injustice Resurrected at Princeton
and proclaimed at Denver, his name
spells fire brand and only fire brand,
and fire brand is the sole initiative
and purpose of the body snatcher
who propose to use 1t to conjure dis
sension, whilst they try to corrupt
delegates.
.'In Mr.. Bryan and a reunited
party, Democrats saw hope of vic
tory. 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
BARI on tap and its agents flying
about in every direction. state after
state, refusing to be tampered with
or tainted, has declared for the Ne
braskan 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 blade reeking
with poison artfully prepared into
the heart of Democracy. That he
should lend himself to such a villany
will engulf him in the scorn of hon
orable men and the detestation of
thoughtful Democrats.
"There is no more reason why a
Democratic national committee should
go out of its way to signalize one
former Democratic president than an
other; why 1T should rush upon
Cleveland with frenzy of words that
with a hysterical shrek. 1t should
rush on Buchanan, each Buchanan
and Cleveland, having had the mis-
fortune to divide the party. The
spectacle In the case of Mr.. Buchanan
would lack common sense. In the
= case of Mr. Cleveland 1t lacks both
common sAense and common decency.
5 Az well dig up the will. of Mr.. Tilden,
which Judge Parker decided against
the Instructions and wishes of the
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