The morning journal-courier., 1908-07-03
Brands Parker's Resolution of
Tribute to Cleveland as
Exhibition of Sheer
Malevolence.
ITS MOTIVE DISGRACEFUL.
Last Desperate Rally of Discredited
Politicians Whose Ignominlous
Defeat In 1904 Was Well
Deserved.


ing to-day upon the report from New
York last night that Judge Alton D.
Parker has been selected to present
resolutions at the Denver convention
upon former President Cleveland's
death, Col. Henry Watterson said:
"The attempt to drag the dead body
Of Grover Cleveland from its new
made grave into the tumult Of a ma
tional convention will deceive no one
An invasion Of the grief of the noble
lady who weeps amid the silence and
the solitude of the granite hills,
blow at party concord 1t is the act OF
shameless hypocrltes. Nor was ever
professional ghoul inspired by a
more mercenary spirit, because the
sole aim and end of the Murphy
Conners crowd aided by Judge Par
ker, is the perpetuation of the ascend
ancy of the Belmont-Ryan combina-
ZION TO which democracy owes its last
ignominious and well-deserved defeat.
1t was Belmont Ryan money that fin
anced Judge Parker's campaign for
the nomination in 1904. II was Bel
mont-Ryan money that nominated
him. and 1t was the Belmont Ryan tag
that made an antitrust government
under such brand absurd and impos-
sible.
ut 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,
he should rest content. That he
should emerge from this highly paid
obscurity to make trouble through
sheer malevolence were pitiable. in
deed: but that he should appear, back
ed by money of the trust magnates
and traction thieves appealing to
Jefferson and Tllden. the dead body Of
Cleveland stretched upon The dissect-
ing table is disgraceful,
~ Is not only disgraceful, but It's
motive is grotesquely and transparent
~ obvious, The wing of the demo-
cratic party ir 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 were tho inveterate, implacabe
enemies Of Grover Cleveland They
hated him and he hated them. Al
though amid the gloom of defeat, a
kind Of truce was reached, there was
never a real amnesty or oblivion on
either side, so that tho scheme to re-
call the shade of Cleveland and to set
this up at a deaths head in the com
edy of a mock funeral would be too
dastardlv and too CHASTITY for belief
II It were not the last desperate play
OF clique Of discredited politicians,
seeking 10 rule or ruin at any cost
Standing about the open grave of
Mr., Cleveland, those of MS who knew
him but did not always approve him,
or agree with him, were not only will
Ing that bygones be bygones. but that
the good alone should live after him.
He Is dead He sleeps with those who
went before from Jefferson 10 lin.
coin and history can be trusted TO
do him no injustice. Resurreeted at
Princeton and proclaimed at Denver,
his name spells frebrand and only
initiative and purpose Of the body
snatchers who propose to use It TO
coniure dissension, whilst they try to
corrupt delegates.
I'm 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 Ryan Belmont barrel" on
top and its agents flying about In
every direction. state after state re
= fusing to be tampered with. or taint-
ed, has declared for the Nebraskan
Seeing this, Judge Parker is put for
ward to deliver the final stroke Of the
bravo, and under the pretense Of hon
orlng the memory Of Cleveland, ia
plunge a blade reeking with poison
artfully prepared, into the heart Of
democracy. That he should lend him
self to such ylllainy viii engulf him In
the scorn Of honorable men and the
detestaton Of the thoughtful demo.
Gratis