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Show PARKER REBUKED ! Dniincnitlc Nt.t llnp the "MUtti-eraUlts' "MUtti-eraUlts' of It I'urty. The hardest ship jot rdmlulstcicd to Parker was from the lisind of :m Ultra-Democratic editor, iheie I In the southland no tiii)K rabidly Democratic Demo-cratic newspaper thiiti tin- Memphis Commercial Appeal, jot nti oilltotlnl loiulor In that paper tends: "Thoe distinguished bl.ithoiskllos who have been ablathciiiig iiliout Fill- Plllo Independence 1111(1 corollary lltllll lies claim to bt helping to elect .Indue I Parker. ! "(iovernor Wright, who I on the ground mid who knows, lufnunod this government that all these declarations were being translated nud published In Tit Kill newspapers nnd that they were liming n deluding and deleterious effect ef-fect on the natives. "Now (.Miiiie the report thai the old AKltutors nnd professional palilot who lme heen In enforced rctliement and whose henchmen are the head hunter nnd bandits from the mountain, and the holo men from the liamlioo thickets In the alley have come foith mill purpose pur-pose holding puhllc 'Independence' meetings In Manila "If these ller.v ehoileis nioue their half-tamed fellows to (INouler and rapine by their perfervld iitteiance. and If the task of governing the Islands Isl-ands Is rendered more dilllcult and expensive, ex-pensive, our home-hied ThkiiI American Ameri-can will II ml that they tire support lug Judge I'lirker with a knife "This country Is iikiiki1 In the solu j tlou of one of the most dilllcult pmb. I loins that ever confronted a olvllled i people anil It Is bending eery cnoigy I to solve It wisely. Every word uttered calculated to einlinrras It will he te-Rented te-Rented liy the splilt of the nation which stands tor 'right or wrong, our I country.' " I In tlie Democratic phitforiu and In Parker's letter of acceptance will bo found that "ahlatherhiK ahout I lllplim Independence nnd corollnr.t Inanities, of which the Memphis Appeal com plain. Mr Parker emphasized his de Hire to lime It known that lie demands the giving of an Immediate promise of Independence to the Filipinos |