Virginia gazette. [volume] (Williamsburg, Va.) 1893-192?, 1904-10-29

New York, Special-Former Presi-
Gent Grover Cleveland in McClure's for
November gives his personal estimate
q Judge Parker as candidate for
President He says OF him in part:
we sometimes find features OF char
acter so prominently visible in mans
mental organization that. like the fea-
lures OF his cOuntenance. they need no
proof OF their existence. This is pre-
cminently true OF Judge Parker's in
tent deliberatiOn in reaching conclu-
/ sions and his inherent judicial conser-
vatism. These qualities Of his mind
are so distincly apparently that they
are at once seen and known by all who
gain the slightest knowledge OF tho
man. This should make it thoroughly
understood that those who love presi-
Goutial pyrotechnics must look else
where.
II have known Alton T. Parker for
more than twenty years. He impressed
me on our first acquaintance as a sin
core. honest and able man. and this i'm
ton. grown TO clear and undOubting
conviction. 7 am sure that I venture
nothing in making the positive asser-
ton that the guiding trait OF his char
aCter is his constant and uny,elding de-
votion 70 duty.
Judge parker's experience in jul
/ d!cial investigation. added 10 his nat
ural aptitude in the same direction.
] ought TO satisfy the most cautious ana
.f..r. nN."fH 10 lr
cover in the light OF constitutional re-
Quircments. and in the atmosphere or
enlightened but conservative Amcri-
canism. the manner in which Prcsi-
dcnt should best serve his country
men.
Il am persuaded tina: the American
I ieople will make no mistake ~ they
llace implicit reliance in Alton B.
parker's devotion 10 duty. in his clear
/ perception OF the path OF duty, IN his
/ sgeadfast persistency against all temp
tation 10 leave the way where duty
leads. and in his safe and conservative
conceptions OF presidential response
!, lilties."
, In McClure's for November. Senar
tor Henry Cabot Lodge gives n
glimpse OF President Roosevelt as he
soes him. He says of him
! NO man has lived the life OF his
time so amply as he: no one has
shown humanity in so many phases,
3 no one has wider sympathies or SO
many interests. IL would be worse
G than idle for anyone. no matter how
;. Intimate his knowledge, 70 fancy that
Z he could depict a character so many
n sided so tried and tested IN such
g multiform experiences. within the
: space allowed me here. His daily
life does not differ in any respect
Il from that Of any other very busy man
s. Of great energy. who finds rest ano
relief not only in active outof-dool
life but in wide and constant read
ing OF books-a habit, by the way
IN quite as characteristic as an yother
n but OF which the newspaper critic
As and humorists tell US little.
b. Theodore Roosevelt apprehend
Df very quickly. When he has thought
s. subject out thoroughly and know
in \, hat he means 20 do. he acts prompt
le IN. When, after full consideration, ID
has made up his mind as 10 what
right he Is unbending; but no ma
49, has been in the White House 10
many years who is so ready TO tax
advice. who has made Cp his min
at more slowly, more deliberately. an
10 after more consultation than Thee
IN dore Roosevelt
Every nation, or rather every hl'
toric race. has certain attributes
- addition TO the great and more ol
-. vious virtues which IL believes TO b
- peculiarly its own. and in which
-, takes an esDeclal pride. We OF I'll
United States like TO think OF the ~
=, zeal American as brave man an
20 an honest man, very human. with I
'N1 vain pretensc 10 infaiiibility. w
would nave him simple In his hon
)l- life democratic In his ways. with I
lys highest education that the world ca
it, give. kind TO the weak. tender ar
loyal and true. never quarrelsome. b
never afraid TO fight. with stron
't sane sense OF humor. and with
~ strain OF adventure in the bloc
VI" which We shall nveer cease 20 To-
until those ancestors OF ours WI
vas | conquered a continent have drifted
ill good deal further into the past Uni
md is the case today. These are q
in qualities which all men admire al
respect, and which, thus combine
@, we like 10 think peculiarly America
,n AS / enumerate them desert
Theodore Roosevelt"
en- TeIeeraphie Briefs.
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