The Cairo bulletin., 1908-07-03
PARkER'S PROPOSED
RESOLUTION WOULD
CAUSE D|SSENT|0N

ing to Jefferson and Ti.den, with the
dead body of Cleveland stretched upon
the d!ssecting table. is disgraceful
Cleveland's Old Enemies.
1T is not only disgraceful, but its
motive is transpafently obvious. The
wing cf the Democratic party in the
state Of New York to which Parker
and the group with which he is now
acting belonged, were the David Pen
nett Hil wing They were the inyet-
crate. impracable enemies of Grover
Cleveland They hated him and he
hated them Although amid the gloom
of defeat a kind of truce Washgeached
there was never real amnesty or Ob,iy
ion on either side, so that the scheme
to recall the shade of Cleveland and to
set this up as a death-head in the
comedy Of a mock funeral would be
too dastardly and CHASTITY for belief,
it It were not the last desperate play
Of a clique of discredited politicians,
seeking to rule or ruin at any cost
To Conjure Dissention.
Standing about the open grave of
Cleveland, those of us who knew him
but did not approve OF him In all ways
or agree with him, We're not only
willing that by-gones should be by
cones, but that the good alone should
live after him He is dead. He sleeps
with these that went before, from
jefferson and Tilden. 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 fire brand, and
fire. brand is the sole initiatiye and
purpose of the body snatchers who
.prnadse 10 use il 10 ooa3ure Aisaefl
tion, whilst they try to corrupt tha
delegates
Means Par<er's Ruin.
"In Bryan and the reunited party
the Democrats saw hope of victory.
On none other side was there the
smallest hope Of union. That rea.
son 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, Parker is put
forward to deliver the final stroke OF
the brave, and under the pretense of
hOnoring the memory of Cleveland. to
plunge a blade, reeking with poison,
artfully prepared, into the heart OF
Democracy. That he should lend
himself to such villainy will engulf
him in the scorn of honorable men
and the detestatlon of thoughtful
Democrats.
Why Signaize Cleveland?
There Is no more reason why the
Democratic national convention should
go out Of its way to signaIize one
former Democratic president than an
other Why should it rush upon
Cleveland with a frenzy of words any
more than with hysterical grief :;
should rush upon Buchanan, each hav-
ing had the misfortune to divide the
party? The spectacle in the case of
Buchanan would lack common sense.
In the case of Cleveland 1t lacks both
common sense and common decenCy.
Will Be Thrown Out.
"As well dig up the will of Tilden.
which Judge Parker decided against
instructions, and the wishes OF the
sage of Greystone. and make it the
subject of an eulogy for the sake OF a
controversy. As well invoke the
spirits of the warning Democrats CT
1860, and seek to force the Douglas
men to pay tribute to the Breckin
ridge men, Under any condition, and
from any quarter, a proposal to re-
yitalize old quarrels by a preamble
and resolution on the threshold OF the
national convention, would be thrown
out as insane. Coming from Connors
and Murphy. from Belmont and Ryan
from Parker and Sheehan, il will be
thrown out as infamous. They may
defeat us, but they cannot debauch
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