The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-02-17
BOOMING JUDGE
PARKER HARD
New Workers Determined Up
on the Silent yurist's
Nomination.

Special to The Globe.

Special to The Globe.
NEW YORK, Feb. 16.-There are
many conferences being held behind
closed doors, and with each succeeding
day evidences accumulate that Dem
ocrattc party leaders are studying the
writing on the wall which is written
In hand so round and free Alat all
VINO run may read. The letteN5 I'M
doubtedly spell: P-A-R-K-E-R The
determination of the Democratic party
in many Southern states to advocate
Judge Alton B. Parker as it's presiden-
ual candidate, has kindled the enthu-
s1asm of younger men and met with
the approval Of the older. It is letting
the wind out of private booms and
blasting private hopes. The senti-
ment in favor of Judge Parker is broad
and deep and increases day by day. It
could be easily turned into a boom, if
the judge would say the word. Clubs
and distinguished citizens have en-
deaVored to start a boom by having
the judge present as a guest. To all
invitations Judge Parker makes cour-
teous refusal. After the fashion of
true Jeffersonian Democrats, the peo-
pie will seek the man for the office, if
Justice Parker becomes the candidate
James w. Gerard, a we'll known
Democrat in this city, one of the Tam
many Hall campaign committee, to
whose energies may be properly
In Greater New York for Bird S. Coler,
is enthusiastic for Judge Parker. He
is a strong, capable, vigorous man; a
lawyer who has attained distinction in
MS profession; member of a family
identified with the history and devel-
opment of the city for over century,
and wealthy. He introduced Francis
Burton Harrison to politics and man
aged his congressional campaign. Mr..
Harris was elected in the one dis
trlct in New York city which the Re-
publ1cans believed they had secured
for themselves by skillful "gerryman-
dering." Mr.. Gerard has a following
that is influential by reason of wealth
and position, and it is said to be the
determination Of Mr.. Gerard and his
friends to press the cause Of Judge
Parker in the interest of the party.
A few days ago reporter put the
question up to Mr.: Gerard: "Are you
for Judge Parker?"
Without doubt" he answered, IT
am sorry to see that the South has
the start of us in naming Judge Park
er. He possesses the thirty-seven
qualifications the people and the party
demand, and these qualifications are
from one to thirty seven-honesty No
mere political trickster, however skill
full his tactics, can win the nomination
OF the Democratic party, because the
great mass of the people demand a
candidate of sterling honesty and will
reject the political mountebank whose
twists and turns are made only for his
own advantage.
Judge Parker has the dignity and
the intellectual powers that ought to
be necessary to a president, and if
party managers must be considered, he
has always been a regular member of
the Democratic organization and has
never either attacked his own party or
lodged any Of It's issues.
1T is fortunate that he possesses Ie-
gal attachments of a high order How
to deal with the great aggregations of
capital is the most important problem
the next president will have to face.
On the one hand the president must
pc fearless in enforcing the law,
through his cabinet, and preventing
the great corporations from obtaining
the slightest business advantage over
the humbleSt trader or obtaining a
monopoly in the necessities of life; and
on the other hand, there must be no
invasion Of constitutional rights-no
destruction of the right of property
because some have abused it's privi-
leges; no yielding to a cry for confisca-
uon because few property owners
have yielded to corruption and found
in unusual circumstances the chance to
take an unholy tribute from the con-
sumner.
determined enforcement of existing
laws They will not be fooled by those
who complain of their tools and who
beg to be excused from the fight until
constitutional conventions shall have
forged for them new and unnecessary
weapons. The enforcement of the
common law as it stood in Blackstone's
day would instantly wipe every mo-
nopoly off the roll of trusts; and man
OF Judge Parker's stamp, learned in
law, alone can cope with the willy in
tr1guerS of the senate lobby.
Politicians may oppose him, but the
people demand him and will force his
nomination. His honesty, ability.
courage and conservatism make him
the logical candidate of the Democracy
and In the end all factions will unite
to favor his nomination. No state in
the Union is more doubtful than New
York with her thirty-six electoral
votes. Her majorities swing from one
side to the other. She swung far one
way in favor of Cleveland and far the
other way in favor Of Mckinley. In
no state do the votes so often change
from one party to another 1t is not
unlikely that voters will turn to one
of their own state, to one they have
already elected to a high office and
whose private and political character
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