Staunton spectator and vindicator. [volume] (Staunton, Va.) 1896-1916, 1908-07-10
PARKER FLAYED BY
HENRY WATTERSON.
Terrific Arrangement of the Former
Democratic Candidate.

Terrific Arrangement of the Former
Democratic Candidate.
STRETCHES THE DEAD BODY OF CLEVE-
| LAND UPON THE DISsECTING TABLE
PURPOSE TO CONJURE DISsENsION
IN THE DEMOCRATIC CONVENTION
AT DENVER.
Writing on the report that Judge
Alton 3. Parker had been selected to
present resolutions at the Denver con-
vention upon ex-President Cleveland's
death, Colonel Henry Watterson says
in Fridays Courier-Journal:
1.-THE attempt to drag the dead body
of Grover Cleveland from its newmade
grave into the tumult of a national con-
vention will deceive no one. An inva-
sion of the grief ofthe noble lady who
weeps amid the silence and the solitude
of the granite hills, a blow at party
concord, it is an act of shameless n.y.
pOcrisy. q
"Nor was ever professional ghoul
inspired by a more mercenary spirit,
because the sole aim and end Of the
Murphy Corners crowd, aided by
Judge Parker, is the perpetuation of
the ascendancy of the Belmont Ryan
combination, to which Democracy
owes its last ignominious and well-de-
served defeat. 1t was Belmont Ryan
money that financed Judge Parker's
cam paign for the nomination in 1904.
1t was Belmont-Ryan money that
nominated him, and it was the Bel
mont Ryan tag that made an antitrust
government under such brand absurd
and impossible.
"BACKED BY TRACTION THIEVES.
at seemed fitting that, having made
sacrifices for predatory wealth, Judge
Parker should have his recompense in
rich law practice in the city of New
York. He has had it, and with it and
its enrichment he should rest well con-
tent. That he should emerge from this
highly paid obscurity to make trouble
through sheer malevolence were pltia-
BILE, indeed, but that he should appear,
backed by money of the trust magnates
and traction thieves, appealing to JEFF
ferson and Tilden, with the dead body
of Cleveland stretched upon the dissect-
ing table, is disgraceful.
at is not only disgraceful, but its
motive is grotesquely and transparent
ly obvious. The wing of the Demo-
cratic party in the State of New York
to which Judge Parker and the group
with which he is now acting belongs
was the David Bennett Hill wing.
They were the inveterate, the implaca-
BILE enemies of Grover Cleveland. They
hated him and he hated them. AL
though amid the gloom of defeat kind
of truce was reached, there was never a
real amnesty or oblivion on either side,
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of Cleveland, and to set this up as
deaths head in the comedy of mock
funeral, would be too dastardly and too
CHASTITY for belief if il were not the last
desperate play of a clique of discredited
politicians, seeking to rule or ruin at
any cost.
HIS NAME SPELLS "FIREBAND."
''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 bygones should be bygones,
but that the good alone should live af-
ter 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 Denver,
his name spells firebrand, and only
firebrand, and firebrand in the sole mi
tiative and propose of the body snatch
ers, who propose to use it to cOnjure
dissensions, whilst they try to corrupt
delegates
SIN Mr.. Bryan and reunited party
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 its
agents flying about in every direction,
State after State, refusing to be lamp
cred with, or tainted, have declared
for the Nebraskan. 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 villainy will in
gulf him in the scorn of honorable men
and the detestation of the thoughtful
Democrats.
| "LACKS SENSE AND DECENCY."
"There is nOmore reason why DEM
ocratic National Convention should go
out of its way to signalize one former
Democratic President than another,
nor why it should rush upon Cleveland
with frenzy of words than, with a
hysterical shrek, it should rush upon
Buchanan, each, Buchanan and Cleve-
land, having had the misfortune to di-
vide the party. The spectacle in case
of Mr.. Buchanan would lack common
sense. In the case of Cleveland it lacks
both common sense and common de-
cency.
"As well dig up the will of MI.
Tilden, which Judge Parker decided
against the instructions and wishes of
the stage of Greystone, and make it the
subject of eulogy for the sake of con-
trOversy. AS well invoke the spirit of