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Show WATTERSON ROASTS ALTOimiliEi! Plan to Present Resolutions, on Cleveland at Denver Bitterly Bit-terly Denounced. "DISGRACEFUL, ABSURD, GHOULISH, INHUMAN" Brilliant Editor Exhausts Possibilities Pos-sibilities of Language in Comments He Makes. LOUISVILLE, Ky., July 2. Commenting Comment-ing upon tho report from Nuw York last night that Alton B. Parker had been so-loctcd so-loctcd to present resolutions at the Denver Den-ver convention upon ex-Prc-sklent Cleveland's Cleve-land's death. Colonel Henry Wattcrson says: "The attempt to drag tho daad body of Grovcr Cleveland from Its newly-made grave Into the tumult of a National convention con-vention will deceive no one. An Invasion of the grief of the noble lady who weeps amid the silence and tho solitude of the granite hills, a blow at party concord, It Is the act of a shameless hypocrite. Nor was ever a professional ghoul Inspired In-spired by a more mercenary spirit, because be-cause the sole aim and end of the Murphy-Connors crowd, aided by Judge Paikcr, Is the perpetuation of the es-cendancy es-cendancy of the Bclmont-Ryan combination combina-tion to which Democracy owes Its last Ignominious and well-deserved defeat. It was Bolmont-Ryau money that financed Judge Parker's campaign for tho nomination nomi-nation in l'JO-i. It was Belmont-Ryan money that nominated him, and It was the Belmont-Ryan tag that made an antitrust anti-trust movement under such a brand absurd ab-surd and Impossible. Parker Should Bo Content. "It seemed fitting that, having made sacrifices for predatory wealth. Judge Parker should have his recompense In a rich law practice In the city of New-York, New-York, lie has had It, and with lt and Its enrichment he should rest well content. con-tent. That he should emerge from this highly-paid obscurity to make trouble through sheer malevolence were pitiable indeed; but that he should appear, backed by money of the trust magnates and traction thieves, appealing to Jefferson and TUden, the dead body of Cleveland stretched upon the dissecting table, Is disgraceful. "It is not only disgraceful, but Its mo-' tlve Is grotesquely and transparently obvious. ob-vious. The wing of the Democratic party In tne State of New i'ork to which Judge Parkor'and the group with which he is now acting belonged was the David Bennett Hill wing. They were tho Inveterate, In-veterate, tho Implacable enemies of G rover Cleveland. They hated him and ho hated them. Although amid the gloom of defeat a kind of truce was reached, there was never a deal, amnesty or oblivion on either side, so that the scheme to recall the shade of Cleveland and to set this up as a death's head In comedy of a mock funeral would be too dastardly and too ghastly for belief If It were not tho last desperate play of a clique of discredited polltllcans seeking to nilo or to ruin at any cost. Name Spells Fire-Brand. "Standing about the open grave of Mr. Cleveland, those of us who knew him, but did not always approve him or agrco with him, were not only willing that bygones by-gones should bo bygones, but that tho good alone should live after him. He is dead. He sleeps with those that went before, from Jefferson to Tllden. and history can be trusted to do him no injustice. in-justice. Resurrected at Princeton and proclaimed at Denver, his name spells firebrand, and only llrebrand, aud llro-brund llro-brund Is the sole Initiative and purposo of the body snatchers, who propose to use lt to conjure dissension whilst they try to corrupt delegates. "Iu Mr. Bryan and a reunited party Democrats saw hope of victory. On nono , other was there the smallest hopo ol j union. That they reason truly has been I shown by '(z fact that with tho Ryan-I Ryan-I Belmont 'harT on tap and Its agents living about in every dIrcctIon. state after state, refusing to be tampered with 1 or tainted, has declared for the Nebias- lean. Seeing this, Judge Parker Is put forward to deliver the final stroke of ; tho bravo, and under the pretense of honoring the memory of Cleveland, to" plunge a blade reeking with poison artfully art-fully prepared. Into the heart of Democracy. Democ-racy. That ho should lend himself to such a villainy will engulf him In the scorn of honorable men and the deles tatlon of thoughtful Democrats. Absurdity of Action. "There Is no more reason why a Democratic Demo-cratic national convention should go out of its way to signalize one former Democratic Demo-cratic President than another; why It should rush upon Cleveland with a frenzy of words than with a hysterical shriek It should rush upon Buchnnun; each, 13n-channn 13n-channn and Cleveland, having had the misfortune to divide the party. The spcctaclo In the case of Mr. Buchanan would lack common sense. In the case 1 of Mr. CIcvclnnd it kicks both common I sonso nnd common decency. As well dig j i up tho will of Mr. TIJden, which Judgo i Parker decided against the Instructions ; 1 and wishes of 'lc sago of Grcystone, ami I make It the subject of eulogy, for the 1 I sake of controversy. As well Invoke the ; spirits of the warring Democrats of 1SG0 and seek to force tho Douglas men to pay tribute to the Breckenrldgo men. Undor any condition nnd from any quarter quar-ter the proposal to revitalize old quar-rols quar-rols by proamble and resolution on the threshold of a national movement would ho thrown out as insane. Coming from Connors and Murphy, from Belmont and : Ryun. from Parker and Sheehan, It wIJI 1 be thrown out as Infamous. They may I defeat us, but they cannot debauch us." I |
