The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-07-10
SUNDAY, JULY 10, 1904.
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JUDGE PARKER SPEAKS

u Never before has national conven-
ton been treated to such a sensation
as that created at ST. Louis yesterday
by the receipt of a telegram from
Judge Parker, announcing his position
in these unequivocal terms:
I regard the gold standard as firmly
and irrevecably established, and shall
act accordingly if the action of the
convention today is ratified by the peo-
pie. lnasmuch as the platform is silent
on the subject, deem it necessary to
make this communication to the con-
Nention for its consideration, as |
should feel it my duty to decline the
nomination except with that under
standing.
At ons bound the Democratic noni-
nee passed into the full light of ma
tional publicity. In these brief SEN
fences he revealed to the country his
character, as months of campaigning
and volumes of speeches and inter-
views. could never have disclosed it.
Here is the man of immutable convic-
ton and of indomitable courage. Here
is the man who will accept nothing
under false pretenses; the man who
boldly throws down the gauntlet to
public opinion, manfully declares him.
self, and desires no high honor that
does not find him with a clean con-
science in the eyes of God and man.
The country has been pestered for
many weeks with whining cries for an
uttenance from Judge Parker, with
silly-slapapoons and base innuendoes
against the man who dared to preserve
a dignified silence when silence only
was BETTING. This clamor is an
swered in way that those who
raised 1t 'flittIe dreamed of or de-
sired.Ss'Jadge Parker has spoken. In
that%sinsle utterance he has found a
comprehension in the minds and
place in the hearts of the people that
he can never lose. In a few moments
he has advanced his cause more than
by -tffeseloquent periods of his sup
porterss~. The people know him now,
and nothing can make them forget the
daring. and the nobility of an act al
most without precedent.
We say these words and we would
pay to him the high tribute that the
American people always render to fear
less manhood and honor that can brook
no blot. without in the least rejecting
upon the action of the convention. For
reasons that We have stated and that
we repeat this morning, it was neither
necessary nor wise that the convention
shoud-~ineorporate in the platform a
plant1Eelating to an issue that has
been l.s: settled by the course OF events
and the firm determination of. the peo-
pie. But that course, wise as it was
laid aAuuty upon. Judge Parker.
Where's the. platform spoke, it spoke
for hinA as the candidate. Accepfins
the offered honor he would accept II
under the expressed conditions. But
where II was silent, there was need
that he should speak, need that he
sholfr keep his honor unimpugned;
need~that no one should ever say that
he hads skulked, that he had sought
Office under false pretenses, that the
country could not rest with mistaken
faith upon his future action. The in
slant that the duty appeared, it was
performed with disregard of conse-
queI,ees' no less than heroic. The reo-
pie haze had ilashlight glimpse into
the soul of an absolutely sincere. up
right, honest and conscientious man.
How many men are there IN the coun-