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Show THAT GIVE-AWAY DISPATCH. The sensitiveness manifested by Judge Parker m sending the dispatch to the St. Louis convention, conven-tion, insisting that he was a gold standard man and that the convention must understand that fact and if it was not satisfactory should name another an-other candidate, established very clearly the thorough integrity of the man. Very few men would have taken the risk of losing so greatly-coveted greatly-coveted an .honor on a question ot abstract principle, princi-ple, for as the platform was worded no specific announcement of his views on the money question was required, moreover it Was thoroughly under- mKH stood all the time that he was a gold standard 11 man arid that the absence of a specific declaration HH the platform was to hold the men in the party HflH .a believe in silver, in line. 8HH But the dispatch demonstrated two other facts. Bl e was that the money power behind his nomi- flH uation knew all the time what his sentiments H were on the money question, and further that fll Judge Parker is a mere lawyer and judge, and his H mind has never been seriously engaged in the in- flH vestigation of subjects, serious in themselves, but Hl cutside the strict duties of his profession. The fl dispatch gave away the fact that he has practical- fl ly no knowledge of the money question; no flH knowledge of the significance of metallic money fl and the effect upon a country when the volume ot HH metallic money is greatly Increased or decreased; jHH that as a lawyer and strict constructionist he H has accepted as true the theory that the only safe H measure of values is a metal which by the fiction jH of the interest-gatherer is the only safe measure H because it is always the same. He has never H lifted hiseyes to see that this "changeless" H 25 8-10 grains of gold which makes a dollar H doubled in value between 1873 and 189G and since E then has shrunken 50 per cent in value as meas- H ured by every form of property. He has never 'for a moment reflected upon what the effects up- H on a people must be when the golden yard stick by which all their property must be measured ll shrinks to 18 inches or Is increased. to four feet H six inches. j He is just as obtuse on that point as Grovor I Cleveland himself, and if during the years of the fl silver agitation and the distress caused by the IH destruction of silver money, he never took enough fH interest in the question to understand it, then It H is fair to presume that he is just as obtuse on the ! ether questions which are of national concern- ,H ment. That he is merely a lawyer and a judge and that if outside of that he has any elements H of statesmanship they are as yet undeveloped ( j Chief Justice John Marshall was a great lawyer ! and judge, but withall he was a far-seeing states- ' H man. Justice Stephen J. Fields was a great law- ; H yer and jurist, but had no elemonts of statesman- ! ship in his composition. We fear that Judge ' M Parker is of the latter class. He sent his dis- ' M patch, thinking It might defeat his nomination. . , M He never thought what is vastly more prob&oty M that it would defeat his eleotion, because It re l M veals how narrow he is, notwithstanding his iii M tegrlty and his high legal attainments. M |
