The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, October 13, 1904, Page 8

er SUPPLEMENT TO THE ee PARKER AND LABOR. SISTLER, - - - - - - MISSOL RI | Thursday, Oct. 13, 1904. GHATS BY THE WAY. Governor McMillin, of Tennessee: “My tpformation leads me to believe thatJudge Parker will be elected Pres- ‘dent of the United States by a good, safe majority ef the Electoral College: To my mind there is no question as to how the Empire State will go. It looks to me as if this State was as cer- tain to go Democratic as is Maryland. New Jersey, Connecticut, IMinois and Tudiana are ali, so far as I cau learn, more than reasonably certain to cast their votes for Parker and Davis.” eee Republican “prosperity” talk, or what shall be said of the increase un- der Democratic rule in our export of agricultural products from $25,000,000 tn 1800 to $256,000,000 In 1860, to $835,- 000,000 in 1900, an average of only fifty-six per cent. per decade?—Edward M. Shepard, President Roosevelt delivered an ad- drese at the Auditorium, in Chicago, HL, In the y use of inflammatory and extreme lan- guage, that strikers should be shot, as follows’ “Any man who engages in a strike, or any man who goes where a strike is on should be shot.” se ¢ How. Harry Rusk, Chairman of the Democratic City Committee, of Batti- more? “Phe State of Maryland will just as surely cast her electoral vote for Parker and Davis as will Texas. I have also received the most cl news from West Virginia and several of the smaller States in the Far West. The first uamed State, Tam told by leading Democrats there, will unques- | De tle ly be redeemed for Den racy and constitutional government, Friends | bimse teH me that Colorado and Montana! will surely go Democratic, and we also lave a good fighting chance in Wash- | ingtow and Utah.” ee n Who congratulates an as Roosevelt did ¢ vernor ° tor, of Kentucky, the day after Gov-} tror Goebel. was assassinated, at the} Kentucky State capital, is aot a fit) aubjeet to be President of free Amori- cu, *e@# bert B. Meekin, of Chica rity of Chicago will be ker and Davis by from ‘MH inajority. 1 lool Minois to go Democratic by a good, | sufe majority. [also hear the most Mattering reports from Indiana,” oe Te police the world wili be rather a suff jub for even Uncle Sam to under- take, and yet that seems to be the hope of President Roosevelt if the proposed Hague Poace Congress will give him the appointment of Chief Police Com- missioner, eee former Senator Henry G, Davis finds that the expenses of the Government have grown from $5.29 per capita in 1892 to $7.14 in 1904, an addition of sl a year for each average family, These figures a faithful index of Republican extravagances, sre When the Republicans last year hetd | hack the investigation of hls. 5 postal affairs, the Democrats of the touse clamored for opening the be Judge Herrick challenges the York Republicans to open the boo It is the only possible way effectively to answer charges affecting the integ- vw | Tity of a business administration, 0 © Ear Where is the administration going to} get money to defray expenses and meet an inevitable recurrence of a deticit? Will it sell bonds? Will it impose wore taxes? It might do both, ee Carl Schurz only reflects sound, pop- ular judgment when he says there are “Two Roosevelts, the ideal, the legend- ary Roosevelt, as he once appeared, se the real Roosevelt.” The real Koosevelt is the man who wants to Se President for an indefinite indul- gence of his ambition, e 4-6 The people—all the people—pay the bills of imperialism and a constantly increasing military establishment. see dTudge Herrick said in his speech of acceptance: “My election as Governor ‘will mean the restoration to their ap- propriate sphere of all the different powers of the government, instead of all being centralized in the hands of the Executive.” And that, too, is what the election of Judge Parker as Presi- dent will mean for the Federal Goy- ernment. eee Republican campaign managers are assessing both parties in Alabama who are represented in Federal offices. ere are a few Democrats in under the civil service, They are asked to ake “as liberal contributions as pos sible.” sees Senater,Isador Rayner, of Maryland: “Take Maryland out of the doubtful column. Our State is certain to go Democratic. 1 believe the same of New York and West Virginia. The general outlook is all that any Demo- crat could wish for.” Like Lodge Also. There is something in the Roosevelt letter of acceptance which, with all its rough rider” attributes, suggests the rancous bumptiousness of Henry Cabot Lodge. The junior Massachu- setts Senator was among the first of the stand-patters. He had a way of answering Democratic inquiries in the Senate with insolent mannerisms with which he asserted “we shall do what we please in our own good time.” He took the posi:ion that the mafority alone was feéponsible for legislatton, aid interference was brazen impérti- nénce. The letter is almost as like ar 1894, in which he made! ing | | boast th JUDGE PARKER'S LABOR RECORD SPEAKS FOR TESELF. His Decisions Have Been of inestimable Value to the Cause of Labor Throughout the Union. Should Judge Parker be elected Pres- ident of the United States, he could be safely trusted to uphold the interests of labor as against those who would oppress and degrade the American workingman. His record on this sub- ject is clear and straightforward. There is no duplicity about it; no beating around the bush; no carrying water on both shoulders—the favorite method by which Mr. Roosevelt evades personal responsibility, ana seeks to conciliate the trusts, while trying at the same time “to catch the labor vote.” Judge Parker made his record on j the labor issue long before he was | thought of for any other than judicial | Office, Doubtless his sympathy with | labor and his keen sense of the rights } of those who have to toil for a living } are rooted in the fact that from the first he had to earn a living for hin- self, and worked for years at humble j compensation while building up the | reputation which helped to raise htm to the highest judicial office in the State of New York, In Republican mpaign literature it is stated oi Theodore Roosevelt, as something to v of, that “he never necded to do a day's work.” This cannot be sald ot Ju day, work for a @ Parker. Le is a poor lo and from boyhood he has had to living, The Republican their party has nominated for Pre ent a im who “never needed to do a day's work,” while the yerats have nominated a man who ays had to work to main ha difference between the partie: as the men; . bet aristocracy and 0 hy, which has i ml Roosevelt for head of the Na ti und the party of Jiberty and equal- vith Parker for st ard bearer, ssevelt, the aristocrat, who, a Re- publican campaign document s ceded to do a day's we nev able to speak of workinginen Without a sneer, as when he said in his book, “Ranch Life,” that “they ! cowboys) are much better fellows and companions than small ricultural laborers; nor breath, How different the tone which runs through the numerous decisions of Judge Parker in cases before him atf- fecting the rights of labor—the rights of his fellow-citizens, whom, unlike Roosevelt, he does not regard as in- feriors, but as equals in every respect to himself! Labor, in the State of New York and in the United States, owes a large debt to the broad-minded decisions of Judge Parker, who has steadfastly re- fused to be swayed or warped from his consistent maintenance of every measure tending to secure to the work- ingman the rights of which men of the Roosevelt stamp who, as boasted in Republican campaign literature, “never | needed to doa day's work,” would like to deprive hi But for this attitude of Judge Parker, as a member and Chief Justice of the Court of Appeals, laws intended to promote the interests of labor would have become dead let- ters, and the workingman striving to better his condition with the aid of wholesome _ le; , would have been at a grav: dvantage, It is not nee ry, therefore, to guess at Judge Parker's course toward labor, should he be elected President. It is also certain that, with his strong regard for the Constitution, and the rights which it guarantees to every citizen, Judge Parker, as President, would not be inactive, as Roosevelt has been, while the Republican Gov- ernor of Colorado, or any other State, used the military, at the will of un- scrupulous employers, to deprive citi- zens of their constitutional rights, and to deport them from their places of residence. Roosevelt has by silence and inaction tolerated these outrages, and given encouragement to Republi- can Governor Peabody and Republican militia General Bell, of Colorado, to persist in their course of violence, op- pression and persecution of labor, al- though his sworn obligation as Presi- dent leaves no doubt of his duty to in- terfere. With Parker in the Presi- dential chair Peabody and Bell would never have dared to deport miners from the State because they belonged to a labor union. Judge Parker's vigorous advocacy of the rights and dignity of labor is il- lustrated in his whole judicial career. In a strong dissenting opinion, case ot Rodgers v. Coler, 166 N. Y. 1, Judge Parker argued in defense of the right of the Legislature to requtre that pre- vailing wages be paid to those em- ployed upon State and municipal work. Never has a Judge used language clear- er, or more direct and earnest than Judge Parker used in this case, which, in a great State like New York, paying out in the behalf of the State and its municipal divisions millions of dollars yearly to workingmen, was of the ut- most importance and value to labor throughout the Union. The New York State“law providing that “all stone used in State and mu- nicipal works, except paving blocks and crushed stone, shall be worked, dressed and carved within the State,” Judge Parker took the side of labor, and delivered an opinion in favor of the law, which was needed to prerent the cheap, unorganized labor of Ver- mont, where Senator Proctor, one of Roosevelt’s right hand men, controls the quarries, from driving the union stonecutters of New York out of their special field. Judge Parker, in the case of the Peo- ple v. Hawkins, upheld the law requir- ing that goods made in any penal insti- tution be marked “convict made.” so that such goods should not be sold on an-equality with goods made by honest Lodge as Roosevelt. It bas the arro-} labor. gapce and cortempt of opposition of doth. It,is easy to surmise a collabor- ation between these two illustrious Judge Parker delivered the opinion of the Court of Appeals sustaining the law, which provides that “no employe shall be required or permitted to work in a biscuit, bread or cake bakery or confectionery establishment more than sixty hours in any one week, or more than ten hours in one day.” Before this law bakers sometimes worked nearly twenty hours a day, and slept in the bakeries, with results that can be imagined, One of the most important, and per- haps the most important, of Judge Par- ker's decisions, was that of the Na- tional Protective Association of Steam- fitters and Helpers et al. vs, James M. Cumming, ‘The lower court had given judgment virtually forbidding , the strikers to interfere In any way with the business of the employer, or to do any of the things which workingmen consider they have a right to do in or- der to make a strike effective, Judge Parker delivered the opinion of the Court of Appeals, strongly upholding the rights of workingmen on strike or about to strike, and laying a solid foundation for labor to stand on in all such matters in the future, These are but examples of the atti- tude of Judge Parker toward labor from the very beginning of his career. They show him to be labor’s friend in a real and practical sense. His decis- ions speak for themselves. They breathe that spirit of justice, impartial- ity and fairness which is all that labor asks for in the advocacy of its rights, and they prove Judge Parker to be en- tirely fearless in his opposition to those grasping employers who, if they were not restrained by such decisions as those of Judge Parker, would seek to grind the very soul out of the working- man. With Judge Parker in the White House American labor would have there a true and tried friend, pot one, like President Roosevelt, who talks and vapors and then when an issue like that of the deported union miners in Colorado is presented to him shirks his duty for fear of displeasing the rich Republican corporations that own the mines, Judge Parker’s record as a friend of labor speaks for itself. Every true friend of labor will vote for Parker. “WARNING TO HEED, Rough Rider President Now Speak- ing Soft But Holding Fast to His Big Stick, Speaking of Roosevelt's quiescent state in the campaign, and of his sup- pressed volubility and inaction, the Houston (Tex.) Post shouts a note of warning when it says: “The country is not to be deceived. If Mr. Roosevelt be elected he wil! then have the whip handle and the party managers and the people will be the cattle he will drive. We have seen how he smashed all precedent, rode down all conservative opposition and scorned all advice in his first term, de- spite the fact that he was seeking the nomination, “There is no reason to doubt that, with a lease of four years in his own elective right, he will follow his bent more impulsively and ruthlessly than he has done for the last three years. “All the fire he is now smothering will break loose then, and woe to the man, the race, the State, the section a “ nation that brooks his imperious will! Fall of Wind, The Pullman Car Works closed Thursday, throwing 7000 men out of work. The Jeffersonville car works are fast coming to the same point, and nearly al] the cement mills in Clark are idle. J. Kern is getting higher and higher, and the full dinner pail is get- ting full of wind.—Jeffergonville (ind.) News, ~— NEGRO ON NEGRO, Conservative Advice by Thrifty, Re- putable Colored Citizen, ~ Of all the speeches made during the recent session of the American Bank- ers’ Association, none has attracted greater attention than that of Mr. John Mitchell, Jr., a negro, a respected cit- izen and successful bank president, of Richmond, Va, He discussed the color line in the South from a point of view which gained for him the respect and hearty applause of the thousand or more financiers who heard his re marks, The sum and substance of Mr. Mit- chell’s speech was that the industrious whites and blacks of the South are friends, and that there would be no such thing as a serious race question in the South, but for the good for noth- ing loafers, of which he said each race has its share. “It is primarily the black loafers who cause the trou- bles which beset our race,” said Mr. Mitchell, “and we negroes who are striving to bettes our condition and add to the moral and material welfare of our people despise them as thor- oughly as do the whites.” Continuing, Mr, Mitchell said; “I am a product of Southern soil, was educated in Southern schools, have been a member of the City Council of Richmond, and have had the generous aid of leading white citizens df that city in building up the business of the savings bank of which I am the President. Speak- ing for myself, I can honestly say I have never been discriminated against lecause of my color, A bank man- aged by negroes could not exist in the South without the encouragement of the ‘white business men, In Virginia alone negroes are operating banks having an aggregate capital of $250,- 000 and deposits of $300,000. Our Vir- ginia negroes own property valued at $18,000,000, and the crops raised by negroes throughout the South have an average value of $172,000,000 a year. When you hear a reputable Southern white man denounce the negro, you may in almost very case be certain that he means the loafer, not the worker of our race. “In conclusion let me say, that if I have created a different impression from the one which some of you have received from other sources, I have fulfilled my mission.” Mr, Mitchell's speech was roundly applauded, and Col. Lowry, President of one of the na- tional banks of Atlanta, Ga., made a felicitous speech in response, confirm- ing all that his fellow brother had said as to the prime cause of whatever an- tagonism exists between whites and Diacks. Mr. Bigelow, President of the American Bankers’ Association, complimented the negro financier upon his speech and assured him that the association had listened to it with pleasure. TO BE REDEEMED, Assuring Outlook For Election Re. sults io Maryland. The Baltimore Herald, an independ- ent newspaper of Democratic proclivi- ties, but which supported the Republi- can party in 1896 and 1900, has been investigating the political situation in Maryland and finds ample ground for the belief that five of the six ional districts will be carried by the Democrats. The sixth district has a very large negro vote and will probab- ly re-elect the Republican incumbent. The Herald says there is no more doubt about Maryland as to Presiden- tial preference than there is as to Vir-| sition ginia, It looksfor.a majority for Par- ker considerably in excees of that giv- en for Clevelaud In 1892, > es tate tht that nt hhh hhh iha hh aoa ban an cao aanann ean ana een eh CUBA AND THE PHILIPPINES - THE LOGIC OF JUDGE PARKER'S POSITION. Consequences of the War With Spaia Involve th: Grave Question Wicther We Shall Remain a Ropublic, Was not the experiment of turning the Cubans loose to govern themselves good enough. Has not even a little time proved that they were capable of self-government? And how is it with the Filipinos? In those 2000 islands there is a saving proportion of intelligent people sensi- ble enough to govern the rest of them. They were our allies in the struggle with Spain, whom they bad fought for nearly 200 years. Cuba's battle had been very much briefer, The Demo- cratic party started fn te force the wat with Spain on the high ground of hu- manity. The existing Republican Ad- ministration, for one Teason and an- other, held off the war as long as it possibly could in the face of over whelming public opinion. To the credit of some Republican patriots, but not of the party, there was a body of members of the House of that party who joined cheerfully with the Demo- crats who were clamoring for some- thing of a definite and positive policy which should justify the olden boast for this Republic that It was the home f the brave and the land.of ibe free, Mel that the harbors of all its long extending shores afforded haven for thé oppressed of all nations, For this the Democracy of Congress, Indorsed Dy the Democrats of the United States and the patriotic, sympathetic people. of this country, forced, drove and goaded the Republican Administration to go into the war with Spain, It was not to oppress anybody; it was not fn any spirit of bravado, The American neople have ever been a peace-loving population. They had their wars enough and a plenty. They had fought each other to the bloody finish of better and happier mutual understanding, They went into that little fight with Snain, united and determined to win, They did win, and the glory, scant as It was, was enough to go all around to be shared by our common country, Cuba was freed and put where she could govern herself, Exactly the same con- ditions obtained and prevailed as to the Philippines. It was early an- nounced to them that there would be no conquest for territory. (See Me- Kinley’s papers.) By all the truth of the history of this Republic they had every reason for faith in the sincerity of American professions, Their tead- ers of thought—not the miserable Mo- ros Wood has been killing—but right- eously ambitious human beings, home- loving, home-preserving people, had read, with thrills of delight the story of America, the Republic of the United States; read the words of the Declara- tion of Independence, studied the meaning of our Constitution, and were satisfied. And how are they feeling now? What security, what hope is held ont to them in the professions and promises and pretenses of our Chief Executive, who has belittled and abused the statesmen who have made @or Republic the boast of the highest attainment of human government? Definite promise of self-government was made to the Cubans and was kept. They have justified our confidence in them. A like promise was made to the Filipinos. It has not been kept. It will not be kept with Theodore Roose- velt still President of the United States, and ambitious longer and in- definitely to rule this country as he has recently been dominating his own party. The last analysis of it all fs, shall we remain a Republic or embark upon empire, which would mean our cer- tain destruction? ae “The people of the United States,” as Judge Parker says in his letter of acceptance, “stand at the parting of the ways.” To return to the old right way of the Republic he has mace a noble ap- peal. He has met all the boastfut challenges of the Republican President bravely, unshrinkingly, The people of the United States will endorse Judge Parker in November, SUN-SHINE, Republican Newspapers Never Weaker in Support of Their Ticket, If any one doubts that Republican harmony in New York should this year be spelled with a small “hb,” let him glance over the editorial columns of the Republican newspapers of New York City, The Sun, while it shines feebly for Bruce, who is running for second place on the State ticket, declares in the most cold-blooded way that “Higgins has neither the character nor the abil- ity to qualify him for the Governor- ship, but he will serve as well as any one to point the way to overwhelming and deserved disaster.” Just think of that for a paper “that shines for all.” The Press throws fragrant bouquets to Higgins, but says, “An otherwise excellent ticket has probably been dan- gerously injured by the nomination of Bruce for Lieutenant-Governor, and whether Republicans can _ reconcile themselves to supporting him in suf- ficient numbers to elect him will re- main in doubt.” Think of that for a paper that boasts of its regularity in swallowing any sort of a ticket which the Republican bosses dare put up. To round out this impressive display of harmony and brotherly love, the Wall Street Journal, in a double headed ed- itorial, pelts the whole ticket with brickbats and decayed vegetables. This able exponent of Republicanism de- clares in so many words that the jig is up. “Under the incubus of Odell and Odelism,” it says. “the Republican State ticket is doomed to defeat.” The poor old Tribune will evidently be the sole supporter in New York City of what the Sun is. fond of calling “The Grocery Shop Ticket.” Thinking people are disgusted with the clap-trap about “Roosevelt's vig- orous and qgurageous handling of the trusts.” If Roosevelt be really the her- cules who is clubbing the life out of the trusts, why are all the trust mag- nates in favor of his election, and why, in heaven’s name, should they be the chief contributors to his campaign fund? Mr. Morgan and his co-workers are not fools. INDEPENDENTS ENTHUSIASTIC Gratification Over the Strength of State and National Tickets, A surprising and gratifying fact it is that almost without exceptions the prominent independents in New York Are quite as enthusiastic over the nomination of Judge Herrick for Gov- ernor as over that of Judge Parker for President. John B. Parsons, Everett P, Wheeler, John G, Milburn, Fran- cis Lynde Stetson and a host of others who have supported the Republican ticket for some years past have pub- lely expressed their intention to vote and work for the overthrow of Odell- ism as well as Rooseveltism, The Democrats of New York, being of like mind, it is considered a certainty that the Empire State will give a large ma- jority for both State and National tickets. Shy of the Subsidies. Mr. Fairbanks bemoans the fact that Americans are compelled to pay $150,- 000,000 a year to foreign ship owners for the transportation of American GREAT DOMINANT ISSUE Is Cause of the People Against the Trusts. W. E. Jenkins, of Baltimore, Prest- dent Maryland Division Travelers’ Protective Association, says: “Talk about leading issues, there is no issue so dominant to-day among business men as the anti-trust Issue. Compara- tively few men I meet on the road talk imperialism, or any other prominent question, The all-prevailing topic with all classes of people is the greed of the trusts as so forcibly illustrated in the case of the coal trust and the beef trust, both of which appeal di- rectly to every householder. Every, woman who markets and shops appre clates the importance of the trust question. There is none other so vital or that appeals so directly to the vot- Parker's great de- tional, made the boys all happy. We are in a condition to throw off our coats and go to work for him with vim, He has thousands of champions in the field, and new recruits are added daily, It will be a red hot fight from now out.” iene Stress of the Trusts Frank Streat, of Filnt, Mich, ex- President United Commercial Travel- ers, says: “There is no class of citizens hurt more by the trusts than the re- tai] storekeepers, First and foremost, trusts squeeze wages down to a point where the customers of these stores have not the means to purchase any- Z cargoes, but he.seems afraid to come} thing more than bare mnecenaities out flat-footed for subsidies as a rem-|of life, and in tens of thousands of edy for the evil. \Why afraid. | cases not even these. Only the very Mr, Fairbanks? balk at @ propo- | clea goods Dery of the people than is eRe Fes clothed, The trasts an is sa : The are and carried out under many schedulea} hideous offspring of oi the Dingley tartf!? = Party.” _