Arizona republican., 1903-07-09
Two Solemn Candidates.

Cleveland and Judge Alton B. Parker may be considered candidates for the presidency. Each of them has formal ly put up a lightning rod within the past few days.
 If Grover Cleveland is not an aspi- rant for the democratic nomination next year his sudden conversion to belief in the high and holy mission of Tanmany must be accounted for on grounds too abstruse for the Arizona understanding. During his two terms in the White House MT. Cleveland had about as much use for Tammany as the average Tammany politician has for prayer book On each of the three oc- casions when ha was made the demo- cratic nominee for the presidency he found Tammany and all Of Tammany's influence arrayed against him. Since he retired to the shades of Princeton he has learned nothing from the news papers or other contemporary history to lead him to have greater confidence in or respect for the most corrupt po- litical organization cn the planet. But we find him writing these stately phrases in praise of Tammsny in fur therance of Tammany's celebration of the Fourth of July:
 "Tammany Society. as a political or ganization of vast influence, cannot es- cape the responsibility which its pow CTS and it's glorious traditions create. As in the past, 1t should continue to advocate the rights of the people, and as it celebrates Independence day again it should renew it's determination to serve the people well by contributing all its power and influence to the cause of good government.
 Were the silver question a live issue now, 1t would not surprise us to find Mir. Cleveland praising in ponderous periods the virtues of "cheap" money.
 Judge Parker's entry into the lists Of democratic aspirants was much more creditable and, we think. made with better judgment. albeit the judge did not choose a very live tissue" for the occasion While Mir. Cleveland was flirting with Tammany. with a view to securing the votes of the New York delegation in the convention next year, Judge Parker was looking after the solid south-in properly judicial man ner. The judge appeared before the bar association of Georgia at Tallulah Falls and talked solemnly-quite as solemnly and ponderously as Mir. Cleveland at his best-of the Due Pro- cess of Law" His learned discourse became interesting only when lie ap- preached its closing paragraphs, which were shrewdly intended to catch the south on the race question These paragraphs dealt with the fourteenth amendment to the constitution. AS the average reader of The Republican has probably neglected to read the consti- tuition since school days, it is worth while to quote here the sections which the south most fears in its scheme of disfranchising the negro:
 Section l. All persons born or na- turalized in the United States, and subject to the Jurisdiction thereof. are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty. or property without due process of law. nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
 "Section 2. Representatives shall be appointed among the several states ac, cording to their respective numbers counting the whole number of persons in each. state, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote al any election for the choice of electors for president and vice-president of the United States, representatives in con- gress. executive or judicial officers of the state, or the members of the legis- lature thereof, Is denied to the male inhabitants of such state. being 21 years of age. and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the propor- tion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens 21 years of age in such state"
 Having disfranchised the negroes in several of the southern states. the dem- ocrats know that they have violated the first section of the fourteenth amendment and have subjected them selves to the penalty provided in the second section-the loss of a large pro- portion of the southern representation in congress. There is. of course, nc extensive sentiment In the north just now in favor of enforcing this penalty, but evidently Judge Parker considers the question of sufficient importance to justify him in offering himself as the champion of southern democracy. Tc be sure, he deals with the subject ir