The Brunswick daily news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1903-1906, 1904-08-11
CEREMONIES HELD
At ROSEMOUNT
Three or Four Hundred
Prominent Democrats
were Present
MADE AN ABLE SPEECH
The Candidate Outlined His Policy
in His Speech of Acceptance and
Touched on all the Important
Issues of Campaign

Esopus. N. Y. Aug. f0-In the pres,
ence Of a large number of the leading
democrats Of the countrg. JUICE Alton
b Parker was today notified of his
nomination Tor The presidency by the
democratic party at ST. Louis
The notification committee. accom-.
panied by over three hundred other
democrats lett New York at $3.50
O'Clock on the large an. handsome
steamer sagamoress sdsase trip was made
TO Esopus without incident, the dis
tinguished passengers spending the
time on the boat discussing the situa-
ton in the coming campaign. The
delegation reached here about
O'Clock and proceeded to r semount,
tire home of Judge Parker
The beautiful lawn of the candidate.
Were the notification exercises occur
RED, had been prettIy decorated for
the occasion. but a down pour Of rain
during the forenoon almost completely
washed them away. The rain was a
very heavy one and also kept mum
her from attending the exercises, as
the roads were made almost impassa
bic.
However, the weather cleared in
tf.ns for the ceremonies and four or
fse hundred people were present when
Chairman Champ Clark began ms
speech The well known Missourian
was greeted with thunder OF ap
pi;use when he mounted the platform
elected on the lawn for the speech
n.al.ing
The notification speech Of Mr. Clark
while short, was thoroughly interest
Hg ana 10 the point. He scored the
ubliean party aud paid a neat trb-
u,e to the democratic nominee. stat
iae that he was the one man that
81 wings Of the party had agreed to
acpport and he believed that when the
election day rolled around in Novem-
Der he would receive a sufficient mum
ber of votes to safely land him in the
white house.
Parl<er's Speech.
Following Chairman Clark, Judge
Parker mounted the platform and for
a few minutes he was unable to say
word so great was the applause. The
nominee began his speech by thanking
1s,e democratic party for the high hon
or bestowed upon him.
He then went into details Of the is
sues of the campaign He only had
one short paragraph in the speech con
cerning the money question. but stat
ed that he was in favor of the gold
standard He laid particular stress
to lynchings and dwelt on this subject
f,r some time He touched on expan-
sion, trusts, Imperialism and other i'm
portant matters and demanded tariff
revision
During his entire speech the Judge
csl not criticise very severely the re
publican party, but pointed cut many
ce their wrong doings. His speech
was considered by all who heard it a
great and forceful effort.
Democrats Like the Outlook.
Nearly every state in the union
was represented at the ceremonies
here today and many Of the most prom
f4ent democrats Of the country dis
cussed the situation. The reports
frcm the doubtful states were all very
el 1eagasing. NeN YORK, Indiana,
west virginia, Maryland and Della
wa re are considered safely in the dem
oeratic column, while New Jersey,
Connecticut and Rhode Island are
counted as safe BY other leading dem
octats. The representatives from the
three last named states assured the
committee today that their respective
states would roll up a majority for
The democratic candidate in Noyem'
Der
Reports from all other doubtful sec
items were also very encouraging and
the democrats consider the outlook
for victory excellent.
No plans have yet been made for
tie ouenjng OF the campaign. This
as left entirely with the campaign
committee anaaah announcement will
be made in the course Of a few days.