The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-11-28
CLEVELAy/ %. OUys.sfRACE
 ~ WOr' Ss < Not Accept a Nomination. DECLARATION IS FINAL .-. Writes a Letter to Editor St
 Clair McKelway.
  The Brookly- Eagle Proclaims Judge Alton B. Parker as the Proper
 Man for the Democrats
 to Name.

New York, Nov. N.-(Speciai. .)-Grover Cleveland today declared that. under DO circumstances would he accept<a Presi- dential nomination. This declaration was made in 6 letter to St. Clair McKelway. editor of The Brooklyn Eagle. Accom- panying the letter in The Eagle is an ed.- torial in which MT. McKelway says that the deciination of Mir. Cleveland makes Judge Alton B. Parker the logical and sane candidate for the Presidency on the Democratic ticket. The letter of MT. Cleveland follows 'r f"ll .,
 Letter of Cleveland.
 Princeton. ~. d.. NOV. 25, 1903 My Dear Mir. McKelway:
 T have waited for a long time to say something which think should be said to you before others. You can never know how grateful I am for the mani festations of kindly feeling towards me on the part of my countrymen, which your initiation has brought out. Your advo- cacy in The Eagle of my nomination for the Pre- .dency came to me as a great surprise. and it has been seconded in such. manner by Democratic, sentiment that conflicting thoughts of gratitude and duty have caused me to hesitate as to the time and manner of a. declaration on my part. concerning the subject-if such dec laration should seem necessary or proper
 
 every consideration, I have not for e moment been able. nor am now able, to open my mind to the thought that In any consideration should ever again become the nominee of my party for the Presi- dency .- ,. --9 ., ..t v.
 Determination Unalterable.
 My de,ei minatt0n not to 'do su IS un- alterable and conclusive. This you,, at least, ought to know from me, and 1~ .-in UN.- the medium of its conveyance to the public. Very sincerely yours, Grover Cleveland"
 The Brooklyn Eagle tonight publishes the following editorial under the caption, "For President, Alton B. Parker
 'Thefes'is anotber man who. while Mr. Cleveland is the first choice of this paper has always been the second choice for the Presidential nomination..
 ''The other man is Alton, Brooks Par ker. Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals of New York, the highest judicial body in this State. ,Ez .-a'
 "The character of the man is of the highest excellence, >and the Democracy of the man is so manifest that 1t is.nowhere questioned just as it is so absolutely and so honorable as to be nowhere at. tackled. and nowhere capable of attack or doubt by any Democrat in the world.
 ~ A0 ''ANAA@A SAAC pOWOAs eltluB WG IcA6 it, should be the determination, of the Democracy of New York. unanimously to insist upon the nomination of Judge Parker. He can carry New York State. In carrying 1t, he can so quicken the hope and so stimulate the effort of the Democrats of other great Northern s ates, that. with him as the nominee, with a colleague for the Vice-Presidency in his intellectual and moral likeness and with platform alike progressive and wise, the Democracy can command enough Northern commonwealths to assure the national success of its candidate and principles. with the aid of the Southern States. fin which the preservation of civ iilSation itself depends upon their ad- herence to Democratic principles and ticket.
 Judge Parker, it is The Eagles opin- ion. should and can be nominated. His nomination would secure a unifying, in- teligent. progressive and aggressive cam paign. which would be followed by an absolute victory"