Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1904 — HILL’S MAN PARKER [ARTICLE]

HILL’S MAN PARKER

W. J. Bryan says that the nomination of Judge Parker virtually nullifies the anti trust plank in the Democratic platform.

It is said that the Democratic candidate for vice presi ’ent is eightyone years old, but that would] make »o|diffeoence to the btioans so long as he has a barrel and is ready to tap it. Now they say it was the same coterie that nominated a man over eighth years old for the vice presidency. Suppose they should elect their ticket and the fate of McKin ’ey should come to the president.

The Chicago Inter Ocean makei a ery good point when it seminds us 4 the fact that in previous conventions concessions have been made to the minority. The only concession made to the minority in the convention at S;. Louis was immediately revoked by the candidate fcr president.

The tariff for revenue theory is to remove the duties from competitive articles and depend upon the good nature of other nations to do the same. This was Cobden’s theory, but it failed when it tried, and this is the reason Great Britian abandons the theory that Cobden advoca. ted. The Democratic platform, if it means anything on the tariff question, means to take the position that Cobden held sixty years ago the position assumed today by no other great naticn in the world,

Something About His Spokesmen and Sponsors. THEY CONSTITUTE A HEAVY LOAD Representative of the "Traitor” Element of the Democratic Party, According to the Chicago American — Democrats Will Not View With Complacency the Alliance Between Their Candidate and "Wall Street Interests. When it is remembered that the men most intimately associated with David B. Hill in his control of the St. Louis convention in behalf of Judge Parker were August Belmont, P. H. McCarren and Bourke Cockran, and that no one knows this better than does one William Randolph Hearst, an extract from the Chicago American indicates the character of She support that Democratic presidential candidate may expect from the Bryan wing of the party. The following is from the American: Three men of New York city wero In consultation with Judge Parker at the latter’a country residence last Thursday. Each of the three had a tong and separate conversation witt the Democratic nominee. Judge Parker and the three men were photographed together. The three men were August Belmont, Patrick H. McCarren and W. Bourke Cockran. It is quite certain that Judge Parker knows these three men but slightly; it is absolutely certain that he Is entirely uninformed as to what the Democrats of the nation think about these three men.

Judge Parker, we feel safe in saying, would not have as advisers and consultors Belmont, McCarren and Cockran except for the fact that his devotion to legal work has diverted his attention from the personalities of the day, and that he has been deceived as to the character of the men who have constituted themselves an advisory board about him. We can render Judge Parker no greater service than to warn him now* early In the campaign, against being associated with thbm in the mind, against allowing the. Impression to get out among Democrats that such men are to have any Influence in his campaign or in his administration after election. An Unsavory Triumvirate.

The merest outline of the character of the three, and of the estimation in which they are held by the public, and especially Democrats, will certainly cause Judge Parker to eliminate them promptly from the list of his confidential advisers. Who are the three men? August Belmont —This gentleman is the typical Wall street and racing man. As the agent of the Rothschilds it was his business to get for them from Grover Cleveland United States bonds as far below their actual value as possible. His house and his employers, the Rothschilds, profited very largely through the infamous bond deal, with the assistance of Grover Cleveland. It is not necessary to tell anybody what the public thinks of this bond deal or what effect it has had upon the Democratic party. Democrats will not view with complacency any close relationship between their candidate and a Wall street gentleman who, however estimable personally, sees in the United States president a possible seller of bonds below value.

Something About Belmont. August Belmont is a great figure in the gambling business of racing, as well as in the gambling business of Wall street. He is president of the Jockey club in New York and an owner of racetracks. Tens of thousands of mothers and wives are heart-broken every year by the losses of their sons or husbands at the tracks over which Mr. Belmont presides. Mr. Belmont is at the head of the organization which takes a hundred dollars a day from book-makers, giving them in return permission to plunder the public at the race-course. There is no objection to Mr. Belmont as a Wall street broker, a bond buyer or a racing man. On the turf and in Wall street his reputation is good—he plays the game according to the rules.

But the Democrats do not want such a man to be the adviser of their candidate or In any way intimate with him. They would look forward with apprehension to his influence in a Democratic administration. Patrick H. McCarren—lt is only necessary to mention his name in order to arouse wonder at his being received by the presidential candidate. Another Trust Advocate. Mr. McCarren is another gambling racetrack man, but of a lower stripe than Belmont. In the legislature of New York his role is notoriously that of a trust advocate. Ho is universally recognized at Albany as the spokesman and agent of the gas trust, the sugar trust and other trust wanting advice and assistance. Certainly when Judge Parker knows this he will not accept assistance or advice from that source. Mr. Lawson of Boston, a man of large means and of Intimate acquaintance with public affairs, has declared publicly that Mr. McCarren is on the Merit pay-roll of the Standard Oil

monopoly at a salary of $20,000 a year. Mr .Lawson quotes H. H. Rogers and Rockefeller, the rulers of the Standard Oil, as his authorities for the statement. He has offered to donate SIOO,000 to the national Democratic campaign fund if McCarren will prove that he is not in the pay of the Standard Oil company. These facts are of course unknown to Judge Parker. They will unquestionably cause him to drop McCarren from his list of confidential advisers. Cockran a Turncoat.

W. Bourke Cockran— Charges have been made against this gentleman by Harper’s Weekly and backed up energetically in the New York Herald recently by a statement from George Harvey, the editor and owner of Harper’s Weekly. It is unnecessary to go into these charges here, but Judge Parker will probably want to investigate them before Including Mr. Cockran in the list of those whose advice would be welcome to Democrats. Mr. Cockcan has exercised his sovereign right to be a turncoat in politics. He has denied that he was paid SI,OOO a night to talk against the Democratic party, and his denial must be accepted. There is no doubt, however, that he did use such ability as he has •gainst the Democrats. There is ne koubt that six millions of Democratsthe six millions who must elect Judge Parker —consider Bourke Cockran anl those like him as traitors. A Violent Supposition. The American feels safe la ea> teg, on behalf of Judge Parker, that the characters of these three mC were unknown to him when they occupied so much of his time last Thursday, or that day obtruded themselves upon his society and took advantage of his courtesy to give the impression that they are in his confidence. It need hardly be said that no three men in the United States would be more disliked by the Democratic party ad advisers of their candidates than would these men.

They represent the disgraceful bond deal, the racetrack, the corrupting influence ot the trusts, the traitor element in the Democratic party. Their names and their company constitute a heavier load than any man could bear, no matter how great his personal integrity or the general confidence in him.