The Fulton County news. [volume] (McConnellsburg, Pa.) 1899-current, 1904-08-17
JUDGE PARKER ACCEPTS
Democratic Candidate for Presidency
Notified Of His Nomination.
SIMPLE CEREMONIES AT ROSEMOUNT.
The Notification Was Brought to Judge Parker
by Representative Champ Clark, Of Mis-.
souri, as Chairman Of a Committee Repre-.
seniing Every State and Territory In the
Union.

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souri, as Chairman Of a Committee Repre-.
seniing Every State and Territory In the
Union.
Esopus, N. Y, (SpeciaD. - Alton
Brooks Parker, whose home is at
Rosemont, near this village, was We'd
nesday afternoon formally notified OF
his nomination for the Presidency
by the Democratic party.
Accompanied by other prominent
Democrats, committee Of one from
each State and Territory, appointed
by the recent Convention in St. Louis,
came to Esopus on the steamboat
Sycamore, from New York, and took
part in the exercises. The party num-
bered more than 500. They were
joined by relatives and neghbors of
Judge Parker.
The programme Of notification was
simple one. Congressman Champ
Clark Of Missouri, chairman of the
committee, addressed the candidate,
and handed him a written notification
signed individually by the members
Of the committee. Judge Parker re-
sponded with speech which was the
first since his nomination, and is Of
greatest Importance, because it declar-
es his views on the great public ques-
tions before the country in this cam
paign.
Esopus, N. Y, (Specia).--When
formally notified that he had been
nominated for the Presidency by the
Democratic party, Judge Parker ad-
dressed the notification committee and
others present in part as follows:
"Mr. Chairman and Gentlement of
the Committee:
81 have resigned the Office Of Chief
Judge OF the Court Of Appeals Of this
State in order that ! may accept the
responsibility that the great Conven-
tion you represent has put upon me,
without possible prejudice to the Court
to which | had the honor to belong,
or to the eminent members Of the
judiciary of this State, of whom | may
now say as private citizen ! am just
ly proud.
Famous Message Recalled
"At the very threshold of this re-
sponse, and before dealing with other
subjects, 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 commun-
ication declaring that | regarded the
gold standard as firmly and irrevoca-
bly, established, a matter concerning
which ! felt it 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 |
should be the standard-bearer Of the |
party in the present contest. This |
mark of trust and confidence I shall |
ever esteem as the highest honor that |
could be conferred upon mean hon
or that, whatever may be the fate of |
the campaign. the future can in no |
degree lessen or impair
The Platform.
"The admirable platform upon which |
the party appeals to the country for
its confidence and support clearly |
states the principles which were so well
condensed in the first inaugual address
of President Jefferson, and points out
with force and directness the course 10
be pursued through their proper ap
pllcatlon in order to insure needed re-
forms in both the legislative and ad-
departments Of the Gov
ernment.
Executive Power Usurped. (
Occasionally. by reason OF unnec-
essary or impatient agitation for re-
forms, or because the limitations plac-
ed upon 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, it becomes desirable to call at
tention to the fact that the people,
IN whom all power resides, have seen
fit, through the medium of the Con-
stitution, TO limit the governmental
powers conferred and to say to de-
partments created by it. Thus far
shalt thou go and no farther To
secure the ends sought the people have
by the Constitution. separated and
among the three depart
ments of Government-the executive.
legislative and judicial-certain pow
ers, and it is the duty OF those admin
istering each department so TO act
as to preserve, rather than to destroy,
the potency OF the coordinate branch
es of the Government, and thus Sc
cure the exercise of all the powers
conferred by the people
Tariff Law.
The present tariff law is unjust in
rs operation, excessive in many of its
rates, and so framed in particular in
stances as to exact inordinate profits
rom the people. So well understood
mas this view become that many
prominent members of the Republican
party and at least two OF It's State Con
ventions, have dared to voice the
general sentiment on that subject.
That party seems. however, to be col
cctlvely able to harmonize only upon
! plank that admits that revision NAV
rom time to time be necessary, but
t is so phrased that it is expected 10
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