The San Francisco call., 1908-07-03
WATTFRSON CALLS
PARKER A GHOUL
Denounees Him in Burning
Words for Part in Cleve-
land Resolution

upon the report from New York last
night that Alton B. Parker had been
selected to present resolutions at the
Denver convention upon ex President
Cleyeland's death, Colonel Henry wat
terson, editor Of the Louisville Courier
Journal, says:
The attempt to drag the dead body
or Grover Cleveland from its 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, a blow at
party concert. 1t is the act of shame
less hypocrite
Nor was ever a professional ghoul
inspired by more mercenary spirit,
because the sole aim and end OF the
Murphy Corners crowd aided by Judge
Parker, is the perpetuation OF the as
cendancy Of the Belmont-Ryan combl-
nation, to which democracy owes It's
last lgnomintous and well deserved de-
feat. 1t was Belmont-Ryan money tnat
flnanced Judge Parker'S campaign Tor
the nomination in 1904. 1t was Bel
mont Ryan money that nominated him
and 1t was the Belmont-Ryan tag that
made an antitrust movement under
such brand absurd and impossible.
BACKED BY MAGNATES
1t seemed fitting that, having made
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 We'll con-
tent That he should emerge from this
highly paid obscurity to make trouble
through sheer maleVolence We're pltl-
able indeed; but that he should appear,
backed by money of the trust magnates
and traction thieves, appealing TO Jet.
ferson and Tilden, the dead body OF
Cleveland stretched upon the dissecting
table, is disgraceful.
| 1t is not only disgraceful, but it's
motive is P-rnfpSnnalV and nSDArent-
! 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
enemies of Grover Cleveland. They
amid the gloom of defeat a kind of
| truce was reached, there was never a
deal amnesty on either side, SO
! that the scheme to recall the shade OF
head in comedy of a mock funeral
would be too dastardly and too CHASTITY
| for belief If it were not. the last des-
| perate play of a clique of discredited
at any cost.
PARKER AS KNIFE WIELDER
Standing about the open grave of
| Cleveland, those of US who knew
him, but did not always approve him
or agree with him, We're not only will
1 =
/ that the good alone should live after
him. He is dead. He sleeps with those
that went before from Jefferson to TIL
den, and history can be trusted to do
| him no injustice.
Resurrected at Princeton and pro-
claimed at Denver, his name spells fire.
| brand and only firebrand, and frebrand
is the sole initiative and purpose of
| the body snatchers who propose to use
it to conjure dissension whilst they try
to corrupt delegates.
In Mr.. Bryan and a 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
agents flying about in every direction,
state after state, refusing to be tam
pered with or tainted, has declared for
the Nebraskan. Seeing this; Judge
Parker is put forward to deliver the
| final stroke, and under the pretense of
| honoring the memory of Cleveland to
plunge blade reeking with poison art
fully prepared into the heart of democ-
racy. That he should lend himself to
such a villainy will engulf him in the
scorn of honorable men and the detes-
tation of thoughtful democrats.
NO CALL FOR ACTION
There is no more reason why dem
ocratic national convention should go
out of it's way to signalize a former
democratic president than another; why
it should rush upon Cleveland with a
| frenzy of words than with hysterical
| Shrek, 1t should rush upon Buchanan,
| each, Buchanan and Cleveland, having
had the misfortune to divide the party.
| The spectacle in the case of Mr.. Bu-
chanan would lack common sense. In
the case of Mr.. Cleveland 1T lacks
both common sense and common de-
cency.
AS well dig UP the will of Mr.. TIL
den, which Judge Parker decided
against the instructions and wishes of
the sage of Greystone, and make 1t
the subject of eulogy for the sake of
controversy. AS well Invoke the spir-
| its of the warning democrats of 1850
and seek to force the Douglass men
to pay tribute to the Breckenridge men.
Under any conditions and from any
quarter, the proposal to revitalize old
quarrels by preamble and resolution on
the threshold of a national movement
would be thrown out as insane. Com
ing from Connors and Murphy, from
Belmont and Ryan, from Parker and
Sheehan, It will be thrown out as in
famous. They may defeat us, but
they cannot debauch us.