The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-09-02
pARKER,s SURRENDER.

cuOuSlf EuIOSlZtu DN ltIE VI SIf1Ao "a -
Democratic party of the United States
< 1t was in fact a judicial review of tn
= national situation, which might hav
. been delivered-in fact in its essence ha
been delivered-by Mr.. Roosevelt l
substantially endorsed the Republican
| Administration. It caustfcally antag
s onized every leading feature in the an
: nounced program of w. ]. Bryan ant
e made the line of demarcation between
: American Democracy and Europeaniz
t ed or Socialized Democracy SO cleai
2 and so distinct that no intelligent citi-
f zen can fail to perceive that the only
5 vital political controversy now pending
: in the United States is within the
Democratic organization aud that con-
servative or American Democrats and
the Republican masses are in complete
! accord.
. Judge Parker's speech ought to be
generally read and studied and should
be printed and circulated as a Repub-
lican campaign document, side by side
with Mr.. Bryan's program and the
/ Chicago and Kansas City platforms
If needed. which it is not, this COM
parison alone would settle the pre-. idsn-
Itial election. 1t is in order, in proof
of these propositions, briefly and fairly,
to present the address of acceptance,
point by point. Judge Parker begins
| by strongly enforcing the mixed inter-
dependence and independence of the
three departments of the government
and the Necessity of upholding the con-
stitution and the laws. The recognition
of this necessity has beer the keynote
! to Mr.. Roosevelt's administration. The
chief reason for his amazing strength
among the people, which cannot be af-
fected by party defamation, is his
stern and practicalized determination
to disregard threatened political conse-
'quences and to secure real as distin-
guished from euphemistic equality be-
fore the law. His action in respect to
the official delinquencies and FRAUDS in
the Postoffice and in the Land Depart
ment, and in various other directions,
too numerous to repeat, has been so
definite and so upwaxering that it has
identified him irrevocably with the
highest moral attitude known in Ameri-
can history.
Judge Parker does not claim that
there has been any intrusion by one
department of the government into the
specialized functions of either of the
other departments, but he vigorously
condemns all usurpation, whether Off
cial ''or by a body of men acting with
out a commission from the people,
This is a direct ailusion to the trusts
or to capitalistic combinations which
has been uniformly enforced by Mr..
Roosevelt, not merely in speech but by
his acts, embalmed in the history of
the count y. and, perhaps most def
torney- General Knox, with the Presi-
dents hearty cooperation, upon the
great railroad merger.
Judge Parker repudiates proleta-
rianism, which is one OF the principal
elements in Mr.. Bryan's conception of
democracy, pointedly rebukes rioters,
for the use of dynamite by unionized la
Dor demands the most vigorous pun
ishment'' known to the law, and de-
clares that every citizen has 1.-The right
to labor, to acquire and to enjoy prop
erty.' Here he obviously refers to the
labor struggle in Colorado, and, as Re-
publican journals through ouc the coun-
try have done, he condemns the coun
Reinforcement, in which tde state and
municipal authorities We're used in the
Illegal deportation of obstreperous
wage-earners. once more, by necessary
implication, he endorses President
Roosevelt, VINO has equally refused to
support the violent demagogism of
walking delegates or the arbitrary
exactions and expressions of capital,
both of which were manifested in the
anthracite coal strike in Pennsylvania.
Judge Parker comedies that the al
legged inequalities in the existing tariff
are acknowledged by leading Repub-
licans. and thatbthey could not be adj
justed, in the impossible case of his
own election, except through Repub-
lican aid, because the Democratic par
ty could not secure control OF the Fed
eral Senate during the four years of
his administration. In this connection
also, he pledges himself unnecessarily
not to be his own successor. The adj
mission is apparent that the tariff,
as statesmen and political economists
have insisted for years, cannot be con-
verted into a political issue. There are
Democratic as well as Republican pro-