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Show That "Manly stand." Dcmociatlc newspapers under the necessity of making the best of a bad case, defend Judge Parker for the telegram tele-gram which he sent to the Democratic convention and speak of it as "Judge Parker's Manly Stand," saj-s the Seattle Post-Intelligencer. According Accord-ing to thesu papers, the fact of sending send-ing this telegram proves that the Judge "is a man of the highest sense of honor, who would not stoop to the slightest deception, even to win the presidency of the gieatest nation on j earth." Now, how docs this squaic with the ' record? In his letter to Elliott Dan-forth, Dan-forth, Judge Parker says that lie voted vot-ed for the free silver cause in 18l)(i and 1900. His spokesman at St. Louis avowed his willingness to stand on any platfoim which might be named, lie refused to bicak the seal of silence set on Ills lips, and this was excused by his representatives on the ground that Judge Parker would not attempt to dictate to the convention, but would take its expressions as binding upon him, as they were In 189(1 and 1900. A gold standard plank was defeated de-feated in the platform committee, the convention unanimously appioving. Tills fact was known to Judge Paikcr sixteen liouis before he sent his telegram tele-gram to the convention. What occurred oc-curred In the Interval? Eveiy newspaper In Gteatcr New York which was friendly to Judge Parker called upon him to declaic himself. The world asked: "Dothey want to give Mr. Roosevelt a walk over in the election?" The Sun suggested sug-gested that Paikcr witlidiaw. The Times threatened that It, "for one, would do the utmost that lay in its power to make the defeat of the ticket tick-et exemplary and niemoiable." The Post and the Ihooklyn Kagle joined in thechoiiis with similar cxpievslous, as did a number of Wall stieet llnan-j ciers, who weie backing the Paikei candidacy. The intimation was couvejed to Judge Paikcr fiom these vailous soi i ices, every one of which he idled upon to aid his candidacy and the opposition op-position to which would have been ceitainly fatal lo even thu lemotest chance of carrying New Yoik, that If lie did not want to be beaten out of his boots, he would have to do something some-thing and do it (puck. Judge Parker followed this advice, which may have been sound or may not. He did it under un-der a piessuie which might have moved mov-ed a stiouger man than he Is. To call this a manly act, or showing him lobe a man of thu highest sense of pcisoual honor, Is ildlculously absuid. He did what he did because he had to; be cause he could not lesist the pressure brought to bear upon him; because he was persuaded that to do otherwise was to foifelt the slight possible chance which there was for him to cury New Yoik. Ten woids fiom Judge Parker might have Instiled the Insertion of :i plank in the Dcmociatlc platform, along pieciscly the lines laid down lit his telegram. His friends controlled the convention, had over two-thirds of the necessary votes. Rut he did not speak those words. Thu platform remained re-mained absolutely as It came from the committee. He deferred saying a woid until after the nomination had been made and for sixteen hours after the platform was bofotu him, and then declared himself because lie was foic-cd. |