Hopkinsville Kentuckian. [volume] (Hopkinsville, Ky.) 1889-1918, 1904-08-12

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Parker responded
Mr.. Chairman and Gentlemen OF the
Committee:
| have resigned the Office of chief
judge of the court of appeals of this
state in order that l may accept the
responsibility that the great conven-
ton 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 a private citizen
am justly proud.
At the very threshold of this re-
Spouse 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 COM
municatiOn declaring that | regarded
the gold standard as firmly and ire
vocably established. a matter concern
ing which | felt it incumbent upon me
to make known my attitude so that
hereafter no man could justly say that
his support had been secured through
indirection 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 | shall
ever esteem as the highest honor that
could be conferred upon mean honor
that whatever may be the fate of 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 we're so
well condensed in the first inaugural
address Of President Jefferson, and
points out with force and directness
the course to be pursued through their
proper application in order to insure
needed reforms in both the legislative
and administrative departments of the
government. While unhesitating in
it's promise to correct abuses and to
right wrongs wherever they appear or
however caused; to investigate the
several administrative departments OF
the government, the conduct of whose
officials has created scandals, and to
punish those who have been guilty of
breach of their trust; to oppose the
granting Of special privileges by which
the few may profit at the expense of
the many; to practice economy in the
expenditure of the moneys of the peo-
pie, and to that end to return once
more to the methods of the founders
of the republic by observing in dis
bursting the public funds the care and
caution a prudent individual observes
with respect to his own: still the
spirit of the platform assures con
sentative, instead Of rash action the
protection of the innocent as well as
the punishment of the guilty; the en-
/ cOuragement of industry, economy and
thrift; the protection of property and
a guarantee of the enforcement for
/ the benefit of all of mans inalienable
! A1AN9t dAhOuS MulClls do octlN III lAlI
/ Declaration of independence, are
life, liberty and the pursuit of hap
piness." Liberty, as understood in
this country means not only the right
Of freedom from actual seryitude, inn
1 prisonment or restraint, but the right
of one to use his faculties in all law
ful ways, to live and work where he
will and to pursue any lawful trade
or business. These essential rights
| of life, liberty and property are not
only guaranteed to the citizen by the
constitution of each of the several
states. but the states are by the
fourteenth amendment to the consti-
tuition of the United States forbidden
to deprive any person of any one of
them without due process of law.
Occasionally, by reason of unneces-
sary or impatient'agitation for reforms,
or because the limitations placed upon
the departments Of government by the