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Show ROOT VS. PARKER. Ex-Secretary Rqot's dissection of Judge Parker's Park-er's speech was more than an answer; It was close to annihilation. It was really the unlimbering of a Howitzer to fire at a gray goose. It is almost inconceivable that a candidate for President of the United States should accept a statement, evidently prepared for him, by some bitter partisan, and pro ounce it as j a thoughtful man's conclusion, based on unerirng truth. The castigatlon which Mr. Root gave him was awful, but it was richly deserved. The worst feature of it was that the question was one of facts that can easily be ascertained and Mr. Root showed conclusively that this Democratic candidate can-didate for President is a man who will proclaim what purports to be facts on altogether unsupported unsup-ported testimony, and that, too, when the Indictment In-dictment is aimed at the President of the United States. Judge Parker does not fill the measure of a President. |