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Show i WHICH? Judge Parker is a superb lawyer, an eminent Judge. Conceding that to the full extent claimed by his friends, conceding his ability as a lawyer, his character as a man, his perfect respectability as a citizen, and then what? We have more than one just such man In this city, so has every city of our broad country. That the honor of a nomination nom-ination for President of the United States was conferred upon him was because of what? His supposed availability, nothing else. Had he"been a citizen of "Vermont or Michigan or Tennessee, ho would never have been thought of. But a few financiers in the great Eastern money -centers made a determination that if possible President Roosevelt should be defeated next November. They determined that, if possible, the corruptible vote of enough northern states should be yir chased to defeat him, and they turned to Judge t Parker as to one against whom nothing can be urged, and carried their point so far as the nomination nom-ination was concerned. No expression of opinion has as yet been vouchsafed by Judge Parker. His managers merely told him to keep still and he obeyed them. The utmost that his friends can say of him Is that he is an incorruptable Judge. But that could be said of a thousand others. The only thing that can be urged against him is what was urged against "Old Dog Tray" his company is not of the highest. The country distrusts Hill and Belmont and the other interest-gatherers who brought out Judge Parker, but the convention shouted for Parker because he had behind him the snouts of New York and Pennsylvania and before their eyas swam the vision of unlimited millions to be expended in the campaign. The first question is, why do those interest-gatherers so muQh desire President Roosevelti's d,efetotv Why are they willing to expend so much money to compass, If possible, that defeat? Is it not because they cannot use him? Has he ever asked anything of them that was unfair? Has he in any way offended them except to demand and insist in-sist upon honesty on their part? If not, then what will be the Immediate conclusion about the one they favor? Behind him -is the vision of Hill and Belmont and the other money magnates and interest-gatherers? People can already see In fancy who would be his chief advisers were he to be leoted. We believe that the more thay study that vision, the more will they turn away from it. On the other hand, they will turn odore Roosevelt and the men behind him. ere is the man, tile scholar, the author, tlfy Sity graduate, the graduated hunter and1 cV the soldier, who when his country called, pu his way to the front against the wishes of h. superiors, who courted all that there was ol glory and of danger in the war, and who, returning, return-ing, the people of his native state honored with a governorship despite those same manipulators who are fighting him now. Who in ever? station sta-tion has been true to both duty and his oath, who stands where he has stood since boyhood in the full effulgence of the light. And. what do his enemies charge against him? Do they imneach his integrity? Do they doubt his courage? Do they question his all-embracing patriotism? He bent his energies and his . official influence to put an end to a disastrous coal strike in Pennsylvania. Penn-sylvania. For that he Is called a usurper. He refused to interfere in the contest in Colorado, where the state government is seeking to restore order and the sovereignty of the laws; for that he is called the slave of the capital crowd. When acceding to the Presidency, over the casket that held the ashes of President McKinley he pledged himself to carry forward every policy of the dead President. Has he failed? What do the officers of his official household say on that point? It is charged that ho is aggressive. Is that a bad trait when heia in restraint? That he would welcome a war. What proof ie there of that, except ex-cept as a last resort? Is not Judge Parker that way? Ift not ddes he expect the support of an aggressive people? But beyond the candidates what? Would tlie people like to see Mr. Hay lay down the portfolio of state that Mr. Hill might pick it up? Would they care to see Mr. Belmont Secretary of the Treasury? Do they want another an-other Wilson tariff bill? Do they desire to see what has been done in the Philippines undone? The Roosevelt star is still in the ascendant. |