The Caucasian. (Clinton, N.C.) 188?-1913, 1904-08-18
PARKER IS NOTIFIED
Committee Waits Upon the Democratic
Nominee For President
THE NOTIFICATION ADDRESSES
Utterances OF the Democratic Candi-
date on the Issues Before the Coun-
try in the Present Campaign.

The formal notification Of Judge
Parker was held on Wednesday. The
speech in behalf of the committee
was made by Hon. Chanp Clark, OF
Missouri. Judge Parker responded at
Issues OF the campaign.
In accepting the nomination Judge
Parker spoke as follows:
JUDGE PARKER'S. ACCEPTANCE.
Mr., Chairman and Gentlemen of the
COMMITTEES:
Il have resigned the 1ifice of Chief
Judge of the Court of Appeals, of this
State, in order that | may accept the
responsibility that the great conven-
uon that you represent has put upon
me. without possible prejudice to the
court to which had the honor to be.
long, or to the eminent members of
the Judiciary Of this State, Of whom
may now say as a private citizen that
I am justly proud
"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 profuond appreciation OF
the confidence reposed in me by the
and subsequently receiving com
munication declaring that l regarded
the gold standard as firmly and ire
vocably established, a matter which
I 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 in
direction or mistake, the convention
reiterated it's determination that
should be the standard-bearer of the
party in the present contest. This
mark of trust and confidence l 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 platform is highly satisfactory
to Mr.. Parker, and he eulogizes the
Democratic position on the tariff,
trusts and other issues.
b. "Impatience of tn restraints Of
law, as we'll as of its delays, is be-
coming more and more manifest from
day to day. Within the past few
years many instances have been
brought to our attention, where in
different parts of our beloved country
supposed criminals have been seized
and punished by mob, nOtwithstand-
ing the fact that the constitution of
each State guarantees to every per-
son within it's jurisdiction that his
life, his liberty or his property shall
not be taken from him without due
process of law.
On the subject of the Philippines
he says:
ut is difficult to understand how any
citizen of the United States much less
descendant of Revolutionary stock,
can tolerate the thought of permanent
ly denying the right of government
to the Filipinos. Can we hope to in
still into the minds of our descendants
reverence and devotion for a govern
ment by the people, while denying ulti-
mately that right to the inhabitants
Of distant countries, whose territory
we have acquired either by purchase or
by force? Can we say to the Filipinos,
Your lives. your liberty and your prop
| erty may be taken from you without
due process of law for all time and
expect we will long glory in that fea-
ture of Magma Charta, which has be-
come incorporated, in substance, and
effect, into the constitution Of every
State, as we'll as into the fourteenth
amendment to the constitution of the
United States? Can we hope for the
| respect of the civilized world, while
| proudly guaranteeing to every citizen
| of the United States that no law shall
| be made Or enforced which shall
| abridge the privileges or immunities oil
| citizens Of the United States, or deny
| to any person the equal protection OF
the laws, and at the same time not only
| deny similar rights to the inhabitant:
of the Philippines. but take away from
| them the right of trial by jury, ant
| place their lives and the disposition o.
their property In the keeping OF those
| whom we sent to them to be their gov
ernors? We shall certainly rue it a:
a nation if we make any such attempt
Viewing the question even from th'
standpoint of national selfishEess, there
is no prospect that the twenty millions
Of dollars expended in the purchase o
the islands and the six hundred ant
fifty millions said to have been sine
| Cisbursed will ever come back to US
The accident of war brought the Phil
ippines into our possession and We ar
not at liberty to disregard the respon
sibility which thus came to us, but tha
responsibility will be best subserve
by preparing the islanders as RAPID
as possible for self-government an
giving to them the assurances that
will come as soon as they are reason
ably prepared for it. There need b
no fear that the assertion so ofte
made of late, that we have now becom
a world power, will then be withor
support Ours is world power. an
as such it must be maintained, but
deny that it is at all recently that th
United States has attained that emir
| cnce. Our country became world pow
. er over a century ago, when, havin
; thrown off foreign domination, the pet
; ple established free government, II
, source of whose authority sprung. at
was continuously to proceed, from {!
will of the people themselves. 1t gre
as a wcrld power as lus sturdy citizen
to whose natural increase were adds
= immigrants from the Old World see
ing to obtain here the liberty and pro
: perity denied them in their own cor
d tries, spread over the face of the Ian
reduced the prairies and forests to Gu
[ ! tivation, built cities, constructed his
ways and railroads. till now a matte
q which at the formation OF the COVER
ment. numbered only three millions
: population. has become eighty miilio-
$ and from ocean to ocean and the lax
9 to the gulf, the country is the abode
: a free and proseprous people. advane
Ia the highest degree in the learni'