The Stark County Democrat. [volume] (Canton, Ohio) 1833-1912, 1904-11-04

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has been given to you to live into q
time when your waning voice has been
raised to avert the first faint sugges-
tion that the love of martial glory and
its dangers are not absent from the
greatest republic In the worlds his
tory.
And you too gentlemen, you who
listen to me, know either by your
selves, or through your fathers, or
grandfathers what martial glory
means. II forced many of you from
home In the tender years of your
lives, when careful parental nurture
was both your need and your
duty. Within the little circle into
which fate sent you, you have seen
the natural ties that bind men to-
gether supplemented by another
scarcely less watchful and jealous.
With you, as elswhere in the world,
the father and mother fondly well
coined the newborn babe, but you al
SO saw sight, common in all military
courses, but unknown in this, your
land. From birth to 1S years Of age,
you have seen the recruiting sergeant
watch the young life of the boy child,
not to shield him from harm, not to
ward off evil, but to be certain that,
by no chance, should he go into the
great, wide, open, free world without
escaping the drill master Nobody
needs to ask whether you and yours
shrink back from the faintest shad-
ows, however distant, which may re-
veal the fatal presence of the man
on horseback.
Il ask you now in all soberness,
is it not best for the peace, well-be-
ing and happiness of our people and
for the preservation of our free insti-
tutions, to which we owe so much Of
our growth in comfort, wealth and
power, that, instead of indulging our
ambition in an adventurous policy Of
empire and dominion over foreign
countries and alien populations; in
stead of squandering our substance
in wholly unnecessary war establish
ments at immense cost; instead of sac
rificing the great conservative prin-
ciples and high ideals we inherited
from the fathers to the false glitter of
imperial greatness, which at all per-
iods of human history has marked the
decay and perdition Of republics; in.
stead of provoking the distrust of all
mankind by the display of armed
force on every possible occasion,
which raise suspicion Of vague and
hazardous schemes of restless ambi.
tion lurking in the back grounds-we
should return to the principles and
ideals which during the first century
of our national existence have proved
ernment Of the people, by the people,
and for the people, may not perish
from the earth? Should we not devote
our material as well as mental re-
sources to the building up of our great
country, which is capable of infinitely
greater development than 1t. has so
far attained and to the solution of the
political and social problems, which
surge upon us? Should we not culti-
vate peace and friendship with all
nations; scrupulously respecting their
rights as well as their legitimate
feelings, spreading our commerce all
over the world, not at the cannon's
mouth, but by intelligent and indus
trious striving for superiority in
friendly competition as to the quality
and proportionate price Of our goods
By so doing we should present to the
world the inspiring example of truly
free people, peaceabls and orderly,
self-respecting and happy in their
freedom and prosperity.
Such an example will do infinite
ly more to advance our own welfare
as well as the peace and civilization
of mankind, than any number of bat
tleships and all the splendor of i'm.
perial power"
To the mounted police squad was
added a committee of escort from the
West End Parker club, from Cooper
Union to Carnegie hall and the process
sion enroute made an imposing spec
tacle that was recognized by crowds
along the route who kept the nominee
continually bowing, from his open
carriage, hat in hand. most of the way.
At Carnegie hall the greeting he re-
ceived was still more tumultuous and
he succeeded in stilling the applause
his presence inspired only by declar-
ing that 1t must stop at once. In this
second speech Judge Parker confined
himself less closely to his manuscript,
made frequent gestures, intoned more
oratorically than at any time since he
has been on the stump, and In his
peroration, pledging himself to be a
president of the people. became almost
dramatic He was eheered again and
again as he left the rostrum.
AT Carnegie hall, he afterwards ad-
dressed large and equally enthu-
siastic audience.
At the Democratic club late tonight
Judge Parker was introduced to the
members and several hundreds Of