The Paducah sun. [volume] (Paducah, Ky.) 1898-1906, 1904-08-10
Chairman Champ ClarkMade the
Notification Speech.
Quite a Crowd at Rosemount-Judge
Parker Makes First Public
Statement.
HIS SPEECH A DISAPPOINTMENT

Esopus, N. Y. August 1o.-The
formal notification of Judge A. b.
Parker Of his nomination a. Demo
cratic candidate for the presidency
took place this afternoon. In the
morning flags ana bunting drsped
about the low platform from which
the speeches were delivered, and seats
arranged conveniently about it on the
lawn. The steamer Sycamore brought
the notification committee from New
York Clty between / 80 and 2 p m.
With the fifty members of the COM
mittee came large number of Demo
Gratis from this and other states among
them former Senator ID. B. Hill, Sem
ator Joseph W. Bailey, of Texas, and
members of the Democratic National
Committee.
The opening speech was that Of
Chairman Champ Clark of Missouri,
who formally notified Judge Parker
of his nomination and gave to him a
certified copy Of the platform adopted
by the So. Louis convention and of the
message decided upon by the conven-
tion in reply to the judges telegram
on the gold standard sent TO william
F. sheehan.
Here are some Of the principal fes-
lures of Judge Psrker's speech of &C
oeptance:
At the very threshold Of this re-
Spouse and before dealing with other
subjects, l must, in justice to myself
and to relieve my sense Of gratitude,
express my profound appreciation of
the confidence reposed in me by the
convention. After nominating me and
subsequently receiving a communica-
ton declaring that l regarded the
gold standard as firmly and irrevoca-
bly, established, q matter concerning
which 1 felt 1t incumbent upon me to
make known my attitude, SO that here
after no man could justly say that his
support had been secured through in.
direction or mistake, the convention
reiterated its determination that I
should be the standard bearer of the
party in the present contest. This
mark of trust and confidence ! shall
ever esteem as the highest honor that
could be conferred upon mean honor
that, whatever may be the fate sf the
campaign, the future can in no degree
lessen or impair.
The admirable platform upon which
the party appeals to the country for
its confidence and support clearly
states the principles which were so
we'll condensed in the first inaugural
address of President jefferson, and
points out with force and direotDess
the course to be pursued through their
proper application in order to ins sure
needed reforms in both the Legislative
and administrative departments Of
the government.
Occasionally, by reason Of unneces-
sary or impatient agitation for re-
forms, or because the limitations
placed on the departments of govern
ment by the constitution are disre-
garded by officials desiring to accom-
plish that which to them seems good,
whether the power exists in them or
not, 1t becomes desirable to call atten-
ton to the fact that tho people, in
whom all power resides. have seen At,
through the medium Of the constitu-
ton, to limit the governmental
powers conferred and to say to de-
partments created by it: "Thus far
shalt thou go and no farther"
Il must be confessed that in the
course of our history executives have
employed powers not belonging to
them; statutes have been passed that
we're expressly forbidden by the CON
stitutiun and statutes have been set
aside as unconstitutional when ii was
difficult to point out the provisions
said to be offended against in their