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Show THE TRUST CANDIDATE. The halo is, rapidly wearing away from the brow of Judge Parker. Waea a-squab is hatched, all the neighboring pigeons gather around, and, despite their experience, the verdict Is that the squab will make a Jumbo when fully matured. But he never meets expectations. He turns out to be just a common pigeon. It is so, sometimes, with men. Judge Parker was presented to the American people as a second John Marshall, we mean the old, original John; he of the all-comprehensive mind; the soldier, the sage, the matchless jurist, who took the rough frame of the Constitution and so braced and embellished it that it became a world's wonder; who had no sectional prejudices, but stood by Hamilton as against Jefferson, because be-cause Hamilton was right and Jefferson was playing play-ing to the galleries; because Hamilton was always al-ways brave and candid and true, and because Jefferson, while anxious to win hollly, was always al-ways bound, if possible, to win, and to be in a position po-sition when anything sinister appeared, to say, "Thou canst not say I did it." But the truth is growing more clear, day by day. Under the ermine of the bench Judge Parker Par-ker always wears the sweater of the politician. Twenty years ago Senator HW, who knows all that 'is crooked in politics, had faith enough In the then young lawyer Parker to entrust the management of his campaign for Governor in I Parker's hands. He never would have done thau with jQhn Marshall. He wanted a man who could beguile the honest voters of the State of New York and at the same time go down Into the Tammany lair and show the tigers that he had been a lion-tamer all his life, even, if necessary, neces-sary, to the point of ohloroforming them. A little recent history wjjl be sufficient to show how different Judge Parker is from what Chief Justice I Marshall was. I On April 15th of this year, three days prior to I the meeting of the Democratic convention of the State of New York, Judge Parker slipped down I from Blsopua to New York City. The object of I that meeting was frankly stated by the New York Times, a warm advocate of Judge Parker. Here are a few extracts from the Times: "Judge Alton B. Parker spent several hours In this city yesterday in consultation with William F. Sheehan and others, discussing principally the draft of the platform which has been prepared by ex-Sfcnator David B. Hill for adoption at next Monday's Democratic State convention. "Judge Parker, Mr. Sheehan and August Belmont Bel-mont lunched together, and late in the afternoon Judge Parker, accompanied by Mr. Sheehan, left for his home at Esopus, where hf will remain until after the State convention. Mr. Sheehan will remain at Judge Parker's home until some time today, when he will go to Albany to take the approved draft of the platform back to Senator Sena-tor Hill. "As it stands tho platform is understood to have the full approval of Judge Parker, all of the propositions advanced by Senator Hill as being be-ing likely to attract the radical vote having been eliminated at the wish of the prospective candidate candi-date for the Presidency. "The platform which has been approved, and which will bo presented to the convention on Monday, Mon-day, Is understood to be drawn on ultra-conservative lines, and to avoid all references to tho rocks on which the party split In the last two national campaigns." That convention Instructed the Democratic delegation del-egation to St. Louis to vote as a unit for Judge Parker, and ex-Senator Hill wont with Belmont to St. Louis to cany out tho programme. When Hill told Mr. Bryan In St. Louis that he had never conversed with Judge Parker and did not know his sentiments on certain questions, he had at that moment a platform, prepared under the eye of Judge Parker, to present to the convention. Bryan had an anti-trust plank Inserted In the platform but In the one prepared by Judge Parker and which the New York convention adopted, the plank on trusts reads as follows: "Corporations chartered by the state must be subject to just regulations by the state, In the Interest of the people." That Is, if Jim Hill gets a charter In the State of Now Jersey for the purpose of placing restriction restric-tion over the trade of Minnesota and all the states Vest of Minnesota, there can be1 no power to check him. The object was to make the Sherman antitrust anti-trust law a dead letter. That It was not Incorporated Incorpor-ated in tho St. Louis platform was due, not to Hill and Belmont and Judge Parker, but to William Wil-liam J. Bryan. What do our anti-trust Democratic friends think of it? When later (April 30) the question of who should be chairman of the New York Democratic state committee came up, through Judge Parker's influence, caused the placo to be given to Cord Meyer, and through the same Influence the chairmanship chair-manship of the executive committee was given to Pat McCarren, strangely, too, both Meyer and McCarren were the moving agents that organized the Sugar Trust in 1897, that put In their assets amounting to a few thousand dollars and capitalized capital-ized them at millions, unloaded their watered securities se-curities on the public and have since, by smashing smash-ing smaller enterprises, caused all that water to pay 12 per cent dividends. The trusts do not like President Roosevelt because he has all the time insisted that they must do business on the square. It was the trusts and the great national banks that caused the nomina- flH tlon of Judge Parker, and they did It because they Hfl know their man. j H What Will Democratic orators on the stumJT 1 In Utah this year, have to say In opposition to ; trusts? Certain it is that every word spoken i flH against them will be an Indirect but pertinent ; arraignment of their candidate. H |
