Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-09-27
,Judoc Parker's Letter Of Acceptance

The long waited for letter of ac-
trptance from the sage Of Esopus mas
at last been given to tn" public n
careful pcrusil If it shows that 1t Is
f,r h.Inw the standard. which might
reasonably have been expected !"
,,uauat. from a gentleman Of Judge
r,rkor's r..Iut-d abilities. 1t rc1i'
more like the. lnb"rrd brief Of an at
tnrr,ry Heading til" wrong sid" "t Il
cas-. before 4 law court. IL ~ "Nlh'ht
ira, Judrr Parker clearly recognizes
,hn rrt that h" has very s'hht
grounds In ia" way 81 issues ul""l
vhi,h To- tuild IA expression "t his
,..li,i.,L h~u.rs. Furth.rm"r" b"
do. ne, ,Iar.. a. a.. tpn explicit in any
~ ny .xt.r,.ssl"ns f"r fear h "t"nhihI
certain f.trtions 80 his party. whose
,i,ws uIr,n public questions rang aii
I'm. way around the political horizon.
Therefore. when ~ dies N"'tur" I"
STATE. sniI.thinI positively. II IL plus
l,f. 10 know that II is almost lnNaria-
blv E,tmhl.ciu dnctrinc. Thus. IL Is
rr.,tIf,iuE Ia not. that h" approves "l
the reciprocity nf Mckinley and i'l'ihe
,h.. great work Of irrigation IN
,t,.ur,tcd by President Roosevelt, ana
49,. t,u,tion Of the Isthmian canal
which has been undertaken under the
,,,sriccs Of the present administra-
tior.
Senator Frye Of this stat" VIII DE
rl,d To know that JudE" Parker sym
,,th,z.s with him III his work OF buiih-
inr NJ the American merchant marii'e'
a work winch has been so bitterly OPP
,,scd Nv Democratic members of the
United States Srn.ltc in years past.
Judge Parker is opposed 10 '"e
granting Of pensions to veterans OF the
Union. who are past the age or b. ana
H.. undertakes 10 make a somewhat
humorous distinction between thr OF
der Of President cleveland, which Ia
yorcd the law granting pensions I"
veterans WHO had passed the age OF
-. ON the ground that they bad then
become totally incapacitatcd for lah"r'
ana the ruling Of President Roosevelt
which holds them to h" half incaparl-
tatcd at e.. The judge says that he
would repeal Mr.. Rooscvelt's order II
a Ip,,Silnnt He
docs not say what he would do regard
ing Mr.. ClcNeland's order. but the
su,pnSition must he that he would re-
woke that also. He says that ne
would, however. recommend law es-
tahlishng the same thing and he feels
quite confident that Republican
Congress would promptly enact it for
him.
This sublime faith IF the Judge In
the righteousness of Republican legls-
lators is one of his most attractive
Chdra, tcriStiCS.
Judge Parker declares that he would
give the F'ilipinos independence as
soon as in his judgment, they were
fitted for it. but he doesn't make 1t
entirely clear who is to determine just
when the Filipinos are to be consid-
cred sufficiently advanced to distin-
guish between liberty and license and
to be capable of maintaining a popular
form of government. He apparently
overlooked the fact that there are more
than 400 islands in the Philippine
archipelago: that they are peopled by
81 different tribes speaking 60 different
lansua ges: that only a small minority
Of them have any practical civiliZa-
ton: that a large part of them know
nothing of any religion. while many OF
those having religion are Moham.
medans. AS matter Of fact abou,
the only civilized natives in the archi
pelago are located upon the island o.
Luzon, and even there the conception: